I am Sarahjayjay #8 She has the self-awareness of leftover bolognese

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She bought 20 bags of crisps for £2.99, but nobody likes cheese and onion so it actually cost her £2.99 for 15 bags of crisps.

In the same shop, she could have bought 3 x 6 packs of flavours they do like for 99p a packet. That’s £2.97 for 18 bags of crisps.

1/10 for budgeting effort. 11/10 for being a total embarrassment.

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Side tangent, does it taste like real coke? I tend to dislike the off brand versions but need my fix for cheaper!
ahkrin said:
I'd say it's more likely 6 cans of tango for 2.50. Nearer 2 a bottle for a 2l. Much thrift. Sarah, squash is much cheaper than radnor splash whatever that is, and branded fizzy. If you've not been banned, lidl maxx cola is the best supermarket cola I've tried and about 50p for 2L
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ahkrin said:
I'd say it's more likely 6 cans of tango for 2.50. Nearer 2 a bottle for a 2l. Much thrift. Sarah, squash is much cheaper than radnor splash whatever that is, and branded fizzy. If you've not been banned, lidl maxx cola is the best supermarket cola I've tried and about 50p for 2L
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I buy loads of Tesco own brand lemonade for 39p a (2L) bottle (it's gone up a lot recently, it was 23p for ages), plus the extra strength squash, which lasts me ages because I live on my own.
 
byefeliciax said:
#thrift #moneysaving #buyingflavouredbottledwater and #fizzypop because it’s #essential.

Nearly a tenner on sweet stuff to piss out! Very thrifty that!

DRINK SOME bleeping COUNCIL POP YOU DUMB, WASTEFUL HAG.
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Like I said the other day Asda steaks are 2 for £8 - cut out the diet coke and use the money to buy the steaks, might see an improvement on the old "anaemia". Or treat yourself to some multi vitamins.
 
Wouldn't Sarah be eligible to use food banks? She's unemployable not working. There must be one nearby? Most churches here offer a once a month grocery parcel and weekly fruit, veg and bread top ups plus prescriptions and travel tickets if you're really hard up.

I'm lucky enough to have two a few kms away, I take my bag for life and my nana trolley and get at least the staples for a couple of meals and even snacks. She'd probably think it was either too much effort or beneath her.
 
MaineCoonMama said:
Wouldn't Sarah be eligible to use food banks? She's unemployable not working. There must be one nearby? Most churches here offer a once a month grocery parcel and weekly fruit, veg and bread top ups plus prescriptions and travel tickets if you're really hard up.

I'm lucky enough to have two a few kms away, I take my bag for life and my nana trolley and get at least the staples for a couple of meals and even snacks. She'd probably think it was either too much effort or beneath her.
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She won’t use the food bank because “food banks make social services referrals”. That’s what she said.

I mean, even if that were true, if my kids needed food and I had nothing to hide, I wouldn’t give a tit. In fact, social services might even be able to signpost to additional funding resources and charity initiatives so win-win!
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MistyWindows said:
Why is she buying multipacks of drinks when it’s so much cheaper to just get a big bottle?
Are her ‘babies’ not trusted with glasses? Will Lee the destroyer of chairs Hulk smash them all?
Thick as a Boxing Day tit this one.
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Bet you she buys cans of drink and bottled water because it saves on washing up. She probably hasn’t washed up a cup since 2015. She’s been thinking about it though!
 
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Witchfinder Sargeant said:
Sarah, the short term boost you get from the sugar/artificial sweeteners/caffeine/chemical crap in this will be doing you no good at all. No wonder your sleep is fucked. Put the Pepsi back on the shelf and drink plain water and herbal tea, and take a multivitamin.

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I'm always telling the kids in work you're better off on the smack than those things when I see their fizzy drinks lined up on desk. OK so I exaggerate. But not that much. They literally leach calcium from your bones. Pour it down a skiddy bog if you wanna see how it strips your gut.

This thrift pivot is like chickens telling you how great KFC is. Why is a 50 quid video game controller listed alongside new trousers like an essential? The hard faced gall of a woman who gets taxis the shops instead of shopping daily when she has no other commitments and nothing else to do trying to pull out a pulpit on money saving. Get a trolley for your heavy stuff and walk. Even bus fare is an unnecessary expense, not like she's pushed for time. This always waiting for evening is well weird too. It shows a woman trying to get away from her kids. I know they're off school atm but it's a pattern that says daytime is for her to lounge about napping having the house to herself and chores start once they're around. I was a skint single mum for 4 years but we did something everyday in the hols. Going to a friends house where we all brought some food to share. Swimming at council baths. Events at the local library. Parks. They seem like such an isolated family unit. All cos of the rank personality of their mother who probably shoved her begging bowl under the nose of anyone who tried to include them.
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MaineCoonMama said:
Wouldn't Sarah be eligible to use food banks? She's unemployable not working. There must be one nearby? Most churches here offer a once a month grocery parcel and weekly fruit, veg and bread top ups plus prescriptions and travel tickets if you're really hard up.

I'm lucky enough to have two a few kms away, I take my bag for life and my nana trolley and get at least the staples for a couple of meals and even snacks. She'd probably think it was either too much effort or beneath her.
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By my area you have to be referred by health centres, schools or council etc after agreement that your money can't stretch. Sarahs clearly can. And they tend to have the basics not the branded stuff or junk she lives on. She certainly doesn't avoid them out of any misplaced pride. She'd take the crusts from ducks.

Salvation army and community centres are always doing free hot meals no questions asked. She'd get the kids out their hovel and meet new people including mums in actual need but that might interfere with her busy twitter spamming schedule trying to chase money she hasn't got instead of looking after what she has.
 
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I’m sure the boys have plenty of old games/ consoles/gaming accessories that they don’t play much any more. She could be saying to them, “Look, I know you want a new Xbox controller but I’m having to tighten my purse strings, but I’ve had an idea! You rifle through all your stuff, find the games and accessories that you don’t play with anymore, and we’ll go and trade them in at CEX and you can get your Xbox controller that way. Then I’ll treat you both to a fiver each to spend on tit snacks in Poundland to last you the rest of the holidays, how about that?”

In my mind, that then gives them a day out of the house, feeds their materialism but it teaches them some money sense, and gets them thinking outside the (X)box and teaches them the value of budgeting and sacrifice. If she thinks they would kick off about the idea, it’s not because they’re “SEN”, it’s because she’s raised them to be spoilt and entitled shits.

This school holiday so far my kids have been helping me cook, declutter, clean, touch up paintwork, sow seeds for the garden, we’ve dug out the airbeds so they can have mates over to stay, and now we’re borrowing a dog for a few nights so there will be lots of lovely dog walks and deep chats and picnics!

We don’t have the sort of income that allows “holidays” in the holidays that aren’t staying with friends and family in other towns and cities once in a while, but we do have local friends who can afford holidays so we volunteer to look after their pets! My kids love it, because we can’t afford a pet of our own. They’re also old enough and sensible enough now to walk the dogs when I’m not able. I always feel a bit iffy about taking cash to look after people’s pets, mostly because it actually feels to me like they are doing us a favour, but our friends always put vouchers in a card or buy us tonnes of goodies or treat us to a meal out to say thank you which is nice.
 
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