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How far can YOU make £1 stretch?

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  • jenjade
    jenjade Posts: 8,418 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    if you go to tesco sunday afternoon at about 3.45 because it closes at 4 you can get bread for 10p a loaf!! 10 loaves of bread lots of toast!
    :j Proud mum to Jade age 10 years and Baby Ellie born Christmas Day:eek: with a broke heart :( Proven to be a little fighter and battling on with her heart condition :j
  • redrabbit29
    redrabbit29 Posts: 1,074 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper
    BAILIFFCHASER wrote: »
    About 15 years ago £1 could reel in 1k if you played your cards right. How ? Guess(no not by gambling)


    1000 in a different currency? Like lire?
    Amo L'Italia
  • brightonman123
    brightonman123 Posts: 8,535 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    21p bread?? 9p noodles? where??
    Long time away from MSE, been dealing real life stuff..
    Sometimes seen lurking on the compers forum :-)
  • tallyhoh
    tallyhoh Posts: 2,307 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    brightonman123 wrote: »
    21p bread?? 9p noodles? where??


    Asda I believe, also large jars curry sauce for 8p & packets instant custard 6p.
    Tallyhoh! Stopped Smoking October 2000. Saved £29382.50 so far!
  • BAILIFFCHASER
    BAILIFFCHASER Posts: 936 Forumite
    redrabbit29 wrote: »
    1000 in a different currency? Like lire?

    No But it did work in those days.
    ONLY COPY WHAT I AM DOING IF YOU ARE 100% SURE AND YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THE END RESULT MAY BE. ALWAYS CONSULT A PROFESSIONAL BEFORE FOLLOWING MY ADVICE. I AM NOT LEGALLY TRAINED . IF WHAT I AM DOING HELPS YOU IN ANY WAY CLICK THE THANKS BUTTON
  • excel1
    excel1 Posts: 95 Forumite
    I made £1 stretch to over £7000 thanks to a CCA request to Lowells:beer:
  • Debt_Free_Dreamer
    Debt_Free_Dreamer Posts: 1,257 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    £1 buys me a cup of soup at work. They only do it on cold days, so on hot days you have to shell out £3 for a sandwich or go hungry. I tend to look at the sandwiches, think twice and walk away.

    I just wish I could gain the motivation to make lunch for work!
    I want to be credit card and loan free by Christmas 2010
  • Herewegoagain
    Herewegoagain Posts: 2,370 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    Going carefully at present and not doing tooooo bad, it's fun to keep trying to improve in this thread isn't it:cool:
    lost 3stin 4mnths GC nov£90/£51.65 July£100/£97.67 Aug£90/£18.59
    LBM Nov05 Loan £4910.65 Paid April07 sealed pot challenge#256
    Nov06 CC £2,590.56 Paid aug07 + Savings07/08 Night Owl 22#
    Mortgage £87,000/£84,000/ £82,261.00/£81,785.30 £80,268/£75402.00/£71229.15 DFW NERD 987 Long Haul member 125 debt free 24th aug 07
  • warwickroadroad23
    warwickroadroad23 Posts: 81 Forumite
    Ha ha what a fantastic thread
    Snaggles wrote: »
    10 packets of pickled onion Space Raiders! :D

    When I was a student I used to live on space raider and salad cream sandwiches on cheap white 9p bread from Kwik Save. My insides must have been crying out for help!
  • JPizzle
    JPizzle Posts: 143 Forumite
    Snaggles wrote: »
    Ooooh, 100 cola bottles....I used to LOVE those!!!

    sugarfree%20cola.jpg

    And from somewhere like Costco, you'd get 200+ cola bottles, as the big boxes mean the sweets are often worth less then half a penny.
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