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  • By: Miss Thrifty
  • Comments: 32
  • Posted: November 22, 2011
  • Category: Food

Why “extreme couponing” ISN’T taking off in the UK

“Families are reducing their weekly shopping bills by more than a third after the American craze of ‘extreme couponing’ crossed the Atlantic” – The Sunday Times. “American craze for ‘extreme couponing’ hits Britain… and it could slash the cost of … Continue reading

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  • By: Miss Thrifty
  • Comments: 5
  • Posted: November 10, 2010
  • Category: Food

Half price champagne at Morrisons

Morrisons is running half price deals on champagne from now until stock runs out. Handy if your tastes run to bubbly (even if your wallet doesn’t), or if you’re stocking up for Christmas. Taittinger Brut. Reduced from £33.82 to £16.91 … Continue reading

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  • By: Miss Thrifty
  • Comments: 2
  • Posted: February 19, 2010
  • Category: Holidays

Planning to leave the house at any point? This post is for you.

South of the Watford Gap? If you are in or around London at 6:30 pm on Thursday 24 February, stylist Hannah J is running a Make Do and Mend workshop on Brick Lane. The tickets are £25 each, which I … Continue reading

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  • By: Miss Thrifty
  • Comments: 0
  • Posted: December 8, 2009
  • Category: Christmas

Thrifty Christmas Fairy: all the best deals & discounts

Hello! I’m your Thrifty Christmas Fairy, 2009 model. Struggling to keep track of all those slashed prices ahead of Christmas? Rest assured that this lil’ thrifty blog is at your service! You’ll find a list of all the current sales … Continue reading

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A lorra lorra links

Here are some of the interesting links I have been sent recently: Refer Me Happy – This UK site pools all those “refer a friend” deals, for products ranging from contact lenses to mortgages. Finance Dreams – a new UK … Continue reading

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HotUKDeals on Twitter

If you are on Twitter, you are based in the UK and you are on the lookout for bargains and discounts, have you come across the HotUKDeals feed? I hadn’t until the other day, but I’m really pleased to have … Continue reading

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  • By: Miss Thrifty
  • Comments: 1
  • Posted: January 2, 2009
  • Category: Christmas, Food

FRIDAY BARGAINS: In for a Pound

Christmas was a dizzying whirl of visits to relatives and friends in various parts of the South East, and I’m still disorientated. Seriously; I spent this afternoon working while feeling ever so virtuous for beavering away on a Saturday. It … Continue reading

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The 157th Festival of Frugality: The Queen’s Speech Edition

Welcome to The 157th Festival of Frugality: The Queen’s Speech Edition!  And a special welcome to all first-time visitors to the Miss Thrifty blog. If you would like to stick around, please feel free to put your feet up: some of the … Continue reading

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  • By: Miss Thrifty
  • Comments: 1
  • Posted: December 19, 2008
  • Category: Christmas

FRIDAY BARGAINS: Christmas sale hotlist

Despite my avowed intention to keep up with all the UK Christmas bargains, sales, deals and discounts, I’ll admit that it has been hard going. Right now is there any store that is still selling its wares at full price? … Continue reading

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CheapTweet

One of my newest followers on Twitter, Jenn Davis of CheapTweet, found the Miss Thrifty blog via my Favourite Frugal Twitterers post and dropped me an e-mail with some info about the new CheapTweet site. CheapTweet – http://cheaptweet.com – is a … Continue reading

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