As I have sat in a house looking much like an episode of hoarders special this week (and squashed in one corner), I have enjoyed catching up on a few episodes of a programme I love – “Shop Well For Less”! Have you seen it? It makes me laugh and I find it fascinating to see how people choose things, the psychology behind marketing and people’s purchasing behaviours. It’s really interesting to see other peoples homes and their thoughts into spending money. I just love to see why people opt for pricey products and cringe at bargains, but mainly I feel like if I ever had a TV show it would be something like that! I love it!
This week has been a super busy one with the move, but of course we always have time to make a few savvy choices along the way and squeeze in the odd barg!
Legoland Free Tickets
No joke here you can get 2 FREE Legoland tickets when you collect tokens from The Sun newspaper. You need 10 tokens, and then you send them off with some possible dates, then they send you 2 FREE tickets for one of those dates. I am hoping we can go somewhere around Ethan’s Birthday in October … we currently have 6 or 7 tokens and it runs until next week.
Moving ourselves
Moving house is unavoidably a very expensive affair! We have chosen to save money by doing it all ourselves. We hired a van for 2 days at a cost of £48/day, and then used a mix of free boxes from friends and good ol Morrison’s banana boxes. Then with the help of friends from church and family, we managed to load and unload all of our stuff.
It was obviously way more demanding, tiring, and at times very stressful compared to if someone did it all for us, but for that price it was well worth it!
A 15p Yorkie?
Finally I saved 50p on a sneaky chocolate bar this afternoon when I nipped into Asda for our lunch! Being exhausted from 2 days of cleaning and moving, I felt in need of a little choccie pick me up. As I reached for the Wispa’s I noticed that the Yorkies were reduced to 15p each… a chocolate fix for 50p less – what a barg!
Right now I am so done in, rather achy, but so very relieved that our move/sale went smoothly. I expect that come Monday when I realise that this is my new life I will suddenly go into panic mode that I am now homeless and living with family for a few weeks out of a handful of bags! I will then realise all that is still to be done, and be busy sorting the kids new school and planning our new life here. But for now I shall soak up the view, eat more chocolate, enjoy listening to the birds, and just pretend I am away for the weekend at Grandma’s!!
