Tasty money saving tip (UK)

[Jumper Geo]

No I'm not Martin Lewis, I was shopping online at Tesco's and I noticed the tins of chocolates, Quality Street, Celebrations, Roses and Hero's being sold for £4.00 a tin, every year without fail I am in and out of the supermarkets and I always see them advertised for £4.00 and leave it until December to buy them and they are either sold out or cost me £5.00 a tin, but this year I thought I would take advantage of the Halloween special and buy them for Christmas. I have stored them out of sight in the garden shed to stop me nibbling on them, lol.

Anyway with the way the UK is going, if we end up in lock down again and the supermarkets ration us at least I can survive on chocolate, haha. Only joking, please don't panic buy there warehouses are fully stocked.

Anyway people that's my tasty money saving tip for 2020, .

Cheers

Geo

 

[BPD Barbie]

Honestly chocolate is the only thing I'd be panic buying lmao. In all honesty though, it's a good tip. Sweets and chocolate go really cheap right after Halloween has ended as well as they try and shift remaining stock. I imagine there will be loads this year as trick or treating surely is off the cards. Its the same around Easter, the prices absolutely plummet in the days after.

 

[marcusuk63]

Don't mention chocolate , i have no food in and i`m usually stocked to the brim with sweets , cakes , buns, crisps , biscuits , I`m a chocolate addict i think and its been 2 weeks since i last had some.

this is my 1st aid tin , they certainly have got smaller since then lol

 

[Jumper Geo]

Honestly chocolate is the only thing I'd be panic buying lmao. In all honesty though, it's a good tip. Sweets and chocolate go really cheap right after Halloween has ended as well as they try and shift remaining stock. I imagine there will be loads this year as trick or treating surely is off the cards. Its the same around Easter, the prices absolutely plummet in the days after.

I get stung every year I buy everything in November and get tied up in the silly season partying and boozing and end up missing out as they increase there prices and end up sold out, so I saw them I thought this year I'm not messing around they are bought and stored safely, I'm fine I could wait until Jan to eat a chocolate but I have no discipline, so as soon as I eat one that's it, game over, lol.

Don't mention chocolate , i have no food in and i`m usually stocked to the brim with sweets , cakes , buns, crisps , biscuits , I`m a chocolate addict i think and its been 2 weeks since i last had some.

this is my 1st aid tin , they certainly have got smaller since then lol

I thought I would treat everyone my mum, brothers and sisters to a 2kg tin of Quality street they were huge and pack a lot of sweets in and not bloody one of my family offered me a sweet, lol but we have the tins so I will just fill them up, but it's like the wagon wheel when i was young i swear it was the size of my head and now it's this tiny little round biscuit, lol.

Cheers

Geo

 

[marcusuk63]

They are sneaky now when making things smaller , a few weeks ago i had a fry`s chocolate cream , not had one for years and although the picture on the front still has a flat base the actual bar in now curved so less filling and chocolate .

I think KitKats think they are carbon fiber as you can see the weave of the wafer under the chocolate now too .


wagon wheel when i was young i swear it was the size of my head and now it's this tiny little round biscuit, lol.

Cheers

Geo
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[Jumper Geo]

Hahaha yeah they are all at it reduce the size and increase the price, I tell you everything has shrunk since I was a kid and they done it gradually so no one noticed but now in the UK they are doing it for our health, sugar is bad for for you.

Sugar puffs just taste like puffs of wheat now, lol.

Cheers

Geo

 

[Deleted member 1465]

No I'm not Martin Lewis, I was shopping online at Tesco's and I noticed the tins of chocolates, Quality Street, Celebrations, Roses and Hero's being sold for £4.00 a tin, every year without fail I am in and out of the supermarkets and I always see them advertised for £4.00 and leave it until December to buy them and they are either sold out or cost me £5.00 a tin, but this year I thought I would take advantage of the Halloween special and buy them for Christmas. I have stored them out of sight in the garden shed to stop me nibbling on them, lol.

Anyway with the way the UK is going, if we end up in lock down again and the supermarkets ration us at least I can survive on chocolate, haha. Only joking, please don't panic buy there warehouses are fully stocked.

Anyway people that's my tasty money saving tip for 2020, .

Cheers

Geo

You sound like my sister. She buys wrapping paper and cards just after Christmas when they are surplus stock. I always used to get whatever was in the cheap isle. Really, with internet shopping, they should have a going cheap section too.

 

[Jumper Geo]

I'm not really an extreme bargain hunter it's just something I've noticed for years I kept missing out on as I was working and I wouldn't buy them as I would eat them but have them stored out of sight so they will last, buy wrapping paper and cards after Christmas, lol see you can save £'s with just a bit of communication,

Cheers

Geo

 

[Deleted member 1465]

I'm not really an extreme bargain hunter it's just something I've noticed for years I kept missing out on as I was working and I wouldn't buy them as I would eat them but have them stored out of sight so they will last, buy wrapping paper and cards after Christmas, lol see you can save £'s with just a bit of communication,

Cheers

Geo

I'm always grateful that money grabbing insurance companies hoik the prices up at every renewal and only give cheap prices to new customers. It gives me the chance to call them and swear at their automatic robot systems until I get through to some poor individual who I can bully into giving me an even cheaper price than the old one and not feel bad about it.

 

[Brick In The Wall]

Money saving and chocolate hoarding tips!? That's a win on so many levels

 

[Jumper Geo]

I'm always grateful that money grabbing insurance companies hoik the prices up at every renewal and only give cheap prices to new customers. It gives me the chance to call them and swear at their automatic robot systems until I get through to some poor individual who I can bully into giving me an even cheaper price than the old one and not feel bad about it.

Well you could, even though I hate this advert.

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Cheers

Geo

 

[marcusuk63]

I'm always grateful that money grabbing insurance companies hoik the prices up at every renewal and only give cheap prices to new customers. It gives me the chance to call them and swear at their automatic robot systems until I get through to some poor individual who I can bully into giving me an even cheaper price than the old one and not feel bad about it.

Buy a reliable classic , a few restriction on classic car insurance but nothing too bad , you dont get no claims bonus and i` limited to 6k miles a year but you can increase that , i did less than 400 miles last year as everything is on my doorstep , but i`ve had mine 9 years and it`s a 4.0ltr
and the insurance is £145 a year and has been every year ,
My previous cars which i had 2 of where the same age , make , engine and model but one was a 5 door Fastback and the other a Coupe , the Coupe was £200 a year to insure because ,"it`s only got 2 doors" , which was the only answer i could get out of them ... my car doesn't do many mpg but i have saved £5k in insurance since owning it

 

[Deleted member 1465]

All insurance is a scam IMO. They've never helped me when I've needed them and then the prices goes up even if you don't make a claim. I once was the victim of a hit and run and the 'accident' was deemed my fault, because I didn't stop to take the number of the truck that sideswiped me then did a runner. I was too busy trying to prevent a motorway pile up.
With car insurance, I just always went with the cheapest to cover legal stuff alone. Never make a claim, cheaper to fix stuff myself or settle it the gentlemanly way, privately. I don't drive now, however.
I'm sure house insurance is also a scam. It goes up every year and you have to shop around for new customer deals, but that means if you had a company that you dealt well with before, you lose that to keep the price down. I also tried brokers, but they just go with companies that you can get on comparison sites anyway.
Insurance companies always try and wriggle out of it. They are eager to take your money, whilst asking you as few questions as possible, so that they have plausible deniability when they say you are not covered. They hike the prices and give you optional extras that you didn't ask for.
Nah, they are all c*nts if you ask me. I only do what is legal and cover the basics that I need to just in case, hoping that if I do need them...well, I guess i hope that I'm wrong lol.
I once went to the ombudsman with the simple question:
"Is it common practice for insurance companies to lowball (ie. give an unrealistically low offer) quotes to see whether customers accept or challenge it?"
They refused to answer, which I think is answer enough.
Con artists, the lot of them.
/rant over, sorry.

 

[marcusuk63]

insurance is a scam.

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when i wrote my car off , not my fault a woman decide to just go across a junction without giving way or slowing down so i rammed her into a transit van waiting on the other junction , i reversed out the wreckage and rang my appointment to say i would be late lol
My car was quite rare and only had 60k miles on it , Rover Sterling Cope in rare manual .
Insurance was a total nightmare and i gave up in the end , their advice was "you are better off not claiming" , so i said well cancel my £45 a month insurance then seeing i have been paying you for nothing and her reply was "that will be a £180 cancelation fee" I said good luck trying to get that and she said we will be forced to get a debt collector to collect it !
Debt collector got in touch and i told him the situation , he said leave it with me and i never heard back from them .
Cost me less than £300 to repair my car as good as new , wings , bonnet , head lights , rad , bumper , washer bottle , fogs , brackets , crush cans etc .
I did work in a garage so no labour and managed to get a full mint front end in the same colour for £100 even though i had already bought them in the wrong colour lol
last pic is it all finished , panel gaps were better than Rover did lol

 

[Caspers]

RIP no Tesco near me

 

[Jumper Geo]

RIP no Tesco near me

Never fear ASDA is here,

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Shop online at ASDA Groceries. The same great prices as in store, delivered to your door or click and collect from store.

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Cheers

Geo

 

[Deleted member 1465]

when i wrote my car off , not my fault a woman decide to just go across a junction without giving way or slowing down so i rammed her into a transit van waiting on the other junction , i reversed out the wreckage and rang my appointment to say i would be late lol
My car was quite rare and only had 60k miles on it , Rover Sterling Cope in rare manual .
Insurance was a total nightmare and i gave up in the end , their advice was "you are better off not claiming" , so i said well cancel my £45 a month insurance then seeing i have been paying you for nothing and her reply was "that will be a £180 cancelation fee" I said good luck trying to get that and she said we will be forced to get a debt collector to collect it !
Debt collector got in touch and i told him the situation , he said leave it with me and i never heard back from them .
Cost me less than £300 to repair my car as good as new , wings , bonnet , head lights , rad , bumper , washer bottle , fogs , brackets , crush cans etc .
I did work in a garage so no labour and managed to get a full mint front end in the same colour for £100 even though i had already bought them in the wrong colour lol
last pic is it all finished , panel gaps were better than Rover did lol

Similar experience. I didn't put in a claim, but my premiums went up simply because i called them, then up again because they had no one else to blame. I got junk parts and bribed my local garage to put me at the front of the queue. I had been going to see my mum who was in care towards the end of her life. I told the garage this and they knew me and trusted me - I told them I'd pay whatever they asked if they'd just put me at the front of the queue just this once.
They fitted the new body work and I was back on the road within a week with car of three different colours. LOL looked like something out of Mad Max. Cost me £1,000 all in for parts, labour and having the car towed 100 miles back home. £300 that cost which was also a rip off because i had 'accident cover' on my beakdown AND insurance, neither of which covered towing FFS.
I returned to the garage and thanked them profusely. I also bought them a huge crate of beer.

 

[Soulless Angel]

damn where's the whiskey/rum/alcohol offers?!

I'm always grateful that money grabbing insurance companies hoik the prices up at every renewal and only give cheap prices to new customers. It gives me the chance to call them and swear at their automatic robot systems until I get through to some poor individual who I can bully into giving me an even cheaper price than the old one and not feel bad about it.

I hate car insurance, I have a huge car, (7 seater tank) I was paying nearly £90 a month on insurance, randomly last night, I did a google and managed to find another company for £60 a month, I instantly swapped over and am owed money from the previous company, but doubt I will see it, as they are screwing me over, I won't name the company but its a 3 letter word that's initals, bunch of rip off assholes!! that £30 saved is my car tax done! it all adds up

 

[Deleted member 1465]

Oh and they get you with 'cancellation fees' if you cancel and with 'optional extras' if you don't. Whatever you do you are screwed, then when you need them they pike out.
I swear there are so many things that area giant con. Everyone knows it but it still happens because it maintains the status quo for the middleman companies that generate revenue for certain shareholders who are important to the government. It's farcical and TBH I'd like to tear it all down. Rawr!

 

[Jumper Geo]

OK back to my money saving tips, with car and motorbike insurance we live in central London and my older sister lives more rural not that far away about 50 minute drive from London Tower Bridge so anyway we discussed car insurance and her insurance no word of a lie was £400 cheaper than ours so we had all our cars registered from her house, the cars are parked in an alarmed garage when not in use.

We had to keep her sweet when we went to Sunday dinner as she did like a moan,

Cheers

Geo


Someone reminded me of my thread below, how much do you really like chocolate, well what do you think,

The chocolate bomb,

https://sanctioned-suicide.net/thre...-papers-chocolate-flavoured.37698/post-702642

Cheers

Geo

 

[Jumper Geo]

OK my last money saving tip for the UK , this one I nicked of the money saving expert, Martin Lewis I only watched it because there was a warning about PayPal which I use, but this isn't a bad deal, this is similar to a Christmas saving club but if you have the money you can put a lump sum in before Tuesday 20th October 2020 and Tesco will add 6% in November 2020, you will only receive vouchers/not CASH, you can spend in store or online at Tesco's so it will be handy for Christmas.

The website lists all the supermarkets Christmas Saving schemes.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/savings/extra-christmas-cash/

Cheers

Geo

Ps,

I was paying silly money for Viagra from a online chemist and I spoke to my doctor and she prescibed me them and saved me hundreds of £'s.

 

[Deleted member 1465]

And another thing...!

LOL sorry Geo, not finished derailing with rants...

Bloody companies trying to get you to invest money in a plan to PAY FOR YOUR OWN FUCKING FUNERAL. I mean come on, they gits want your money even after you are dead FFS. And what is the most common word in all these adverts? "GUARANTEED."
Well, yeah, it's not like you are going to ask for your money back!
But...it's helping protect your family when you are gone.
Yeah, right. Sounds like another insurance scam to me.
I studied funerary practice throughout history and prehistory. An important part of the process for the family is how they deal with the death by way of remembrance. And that's their concern as those that remain, not yours as the deceased. When you die, you sacrifice all rights to how you wish to be remembered. Why the fuck should you pay for that privileged? Each to their own.
The adverts just fucking irritate me, they are sooooo condescending. They clearly prey on the old, ill and vulnerable.

 

[Jumper Geo]

No worries, I am quite looking forward to death, in the knowledge I will have an 18 year blonde student jumping my bones, OK poking me, all free of charge, mind you I have to wait until I'm dead,

Body donation | Human Tissue Authority

www.hta.gov.uk

Cheers

Geo

 

[Deleted member 1465]

No worries, I am quite looking forward to death, in the knowledge I will have an 18 year blonde student jumping my bones, OK poking me, all free of charge, mind you I have to wait until I'm dead,

Body donation | Human Tissue Authority

www.hta.gov.uk

Cheers

Geo

er...slightly off topic, but I kind of had that happen and it was...weird. LOL

 

[Jumper Geo]

er...slightly off topic, but I kind of had that happen and it was...weird. LOL

It's a free service so you go to the hospital and of to med school so no funeral or fee's.

Cheers

Geo

 

[Jumper Geo]

I have found another money saving tip I rely on justeat and my favorite chinese is only a 10 minute slow walk away but I am so lazy and i'm used to clicking justeat I decided to compare prices and wow was there a difference, the chinese does a free deliverry service for order over £10.00 so I compared prices and I saved £12.00 ordering direct with them, Amazing and had it delivered.

Cheers

Geo

 

[K-O]

I have found another money saving tip I rely on justeat and my favorite chinese is only a 10 minute slow walk away but I am so lazy and i'm used to clicking justeat I decided to compare prices and wow was there a difference, the chinese does a free deliverry service for order over £10.00 so I compared prices and I saved £12.00 ordering direct with them, Amazing and had it delivered.

Cheers

Geo

bon appetit mon cheri

 

[x~Sophia~x]

No I'm not Martin Lewis, I was shopping online at Tesco's and I noticed the tins of chocolates, Quality Street, Celebrations, Roses and Hero's being sold for £4.00 a tin, every year without fail I am in and out of the supermarkets and I always see them advertised for £4.00 and leave it until December to buy them and they are either sold out or cost me £5.00 a tin, but this year I thought I would take advantage of the Halloween special and buy them for Christmas. I have stored them out of sight in the garden shed to stop me nibbling on them, lol.

Anyway with the way the UK is going, if we end up in lock down again and the supermarkets ration us at least I can survive on chocolate, haha. Only joking, please don't panic buy there warehouses are fully stocked.

Anyway people that's my tasty money saving tip for 2020, .

Cheers

Geo

 

[Jumper Geo]

The UK is heading for another full lockdown, stock pile while you can,

Amazon product ASIN B07PB8PW7K
Cheers

Geo

 

[x~Sophia~x]

The UK is heading for another full lockdown, stock pile while you can,

Amazon product ASIN B07PB8PW7K
Cheers

Geo

I've still got loads left from the last lockdown... wanna buy some?