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I know nothing about automatics, but I would wager that even in overdrive yours has higher fuel consumption than [a manual] in neutral?

I find that pulse & glide (gentle acceleration up to, say, 65 and then coast in neutral to, say, 55 or 50) uses quite a bit less fuel than a steady accelerator setting to maintain, say, 60. Except, as already said, that it seems to make almost no difference now in modern Eco Cars than it did back 10 years ago. I can, without utmost concentration, get the Blue Motion to 70mpg ... whereas if I just drive normally, even with a heavy foot, it will do 60 mpg.

 

Thanks @shiney, but I was only really referring to their Curry Kits, rather than their accessories ... although ... I do buy a dozen or so Eddoes from them each year and plant them as Colocasia!!

 

With respect ...I think you will find Victoria and i'm sure you know...that that is life....things pop up when you least expect it... as in children....planned or otherwise things can be challenging even for the most 'intelligent'... these days everyone 'muddles ' through to the best of their abilities and for the most part a damn good job they do of it too....there are the exceptions but hey 'that's life'....

Re 'Trunky' i do believe you may be mistaken and may be referring to another but IMHO I find him very wise and there is many a lesson to be learnt from being frugal and not be robbed by the 'system' which i often am

 

Erm, think you've got me mixed up with someone else @Victoria.

Shopping is definitely not my forte. Mrs Trunky takes care of that, she doesn't trust me with such an important task.

 

Some more uses for mySupermarket:

3) When there's downloadable or printable coupons, checking to see if anywhere has the product on special offer. For example there's a printable £1 online voucher for £1 off any E45 product and Morrisons have E45 on special offer (last day today) at £1.10 per tube, getting the cost down to only 10p. We have stocked up. Sometimes the voucher value exceeds the special offer cost so you get the product free + money off your shopping. Very often these vouchers are one per email address - we have 50 email addresses.

4) Calculating 'Price Promises' (Tesco), Brand Match (Sainsburys) & Price Guarantee (Asda - online). The idea is that you buy all the stuff that's cheaper elsewhere in a separate shop to the stuff that's cheaper where you're shopping and get a printed voucher at the till (online @ Asda) for the difference between what you've been charged and what it would've cost elsewhere (without having travel to the next town to visit the particular store that you don't have in your home town, and finding the shelf empty when you get there!). This also helps when if you have a £5 off a £30 spend & save voucher (17% off) as you can spend £30 on stuff that's cheaper elsewhere, get that £5 off plus get up to £10 price match back (the calculation is before deductions for vouchers, coupons, etc.) effectively turning the spend & save voucher into £5 off £20 (25% off).

Sometimes there's glitches in how the supermarkets calculate price promises resulting in some extremely cheap/free/paid to take away prices and these get posted on money saving websites.

5) Finding where a 'Try me Free' product is the most expensive, then buying it from there together some other stuff with it to get a money back price promise, then get the full price back from the manufacturer. It's a free product plus money off your shopping and costs a stamp at most (sometimes freepost).

6) Combinations of 3,4 & 5.

 

I have every respect for those who face their financial tight spots head on rather than the "head in the sand" approach. I also admire anyone who makes the "offers" from the major supermarkets work for themselves.

I think it's shocking that £1 in every £6 in this country, is spent in Tesco....... Anyone up for a game of Monopoly ?

 

Oh, goodness sake, I do apologise Trunky .. I meant Scrungee and he is now doing my head in with the above explanations ...

Loli, I agree with you in principle ... but children can be planned to fit in with your finances and lifestyle ... ie, as much as you love kids you don't have them if you can't afford them and I don't need to tell anyone how this can be achieved!

 

I agree with you about Tesco Yvonne and I begrudge my weekly bills there. Unfortunately it would cost me a fortune driving all over the island to shop elsewhere. For instance, we only have one greengrocer left here now and that's fifteen miles away, the independent shops aren't always cheaper either. To give Tesco's their due, they do stock a fair amount of Manx products and I buy local grown whenever possible.

 

Again with complete respect Victoria...try telling that to my parents and many others....i'm sorry but I actually do see where you are coming from ,there's another but....have we honestly come to the regimented way of whether folk should have children or not down to money?....i'm fully aware that you need to provide for the young ones and be responsible in doing so but there are lifes hiccups on the way which we all have to deal with.....nothing is straight forward no matter how easy you think you can make it ....and any way you can make it easier has to be a bonus

 

Clue, in reply to your first post, yes, you can shop for 4 on 50 quid a week, I do just that!

I refuse to give my hard earned cash now to supermarkets like sainsburys. About 7 years ago, I did a yearly total of what we spent when we used to go to sainsburys, and it averaged £160 a week! That was just the wife and myself!! Ok, booze was included, so was the fags, but now I don't smoke, don't drink and challenge myself every week to spend no more than £50, and that's with a 4 1/2 year old and 18 month old. I use home bargains for household cleaners, cooking foil, deodorant, loo and kitchen roll, and use morrisons and Aldi for everything else. Sometimes, I do go above the £50 when I need coffee, nappies, and the more expensive stuff, but some weeks I spend less than £40! I cook fresh every night, curries, pasta, chicken, meatballs, everything. If we need stuff in the week to replace like milk mrs al picks that up, but everything else I shop for with my £50 quid budget.

Challenge yourself next time you go shopping, I get a buzz out of it now and most times I think back to what we used to spend and I shudder! Never ever again.......

 

Thanks for noting that I'm an intelligent person. I have always believed that the one personality trait that makes me intelligent is my willingness to listen to others, whose experience will inevitably differ from mine, thus I gain some of their insights and intelligence to add to my own. In return, I offer my insights and experiences in the hope that they will help others to learn from me. Its called 'communication and collaboration', and its what successfully society is based on. Are you suggesting that I should not have started this thread? If I offend you, or if you are 'not a fan', than by all means, just feel free to ignore me. I wont be offended.

With all due respect, my wife's and my family planning is absolutely none of your business, but for the record, both my kids were planned, and the timing was planned when work and finances appeared to be stable. Both my kids get everything the need both in terms of material needs, and emotional needs, and that will not change just because I'm tightening my belt a bit.

 

Seriously don't bother with the patches I've just given up using vapourlites if u compare them with cigs and smoke 20 it's £1.75 a day versus £7.99. Better for the kids too