If the budget is £50 and you get a bargain for £30

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Do you buy another gift or save the saving. Ive managed to get some good offers and brought more gifts. So spent the budget not in effect saved any money.

Funny isn't it ..... I just bought a £20 book, reduced to £10. It's for a group secret Santa, with a £10 budget. I'll obviously removed the "reduced" sticker! Anyone sharp enough to look at the inside cover for the RRP could do the sums and probably assume I've got a bargain, rather than having blown the budget. But we're all happy ..... I've spent £10 and will (hopefully!!) get a gift of roughly the same value in return.

If however it had been a £20 secret Santa budget ....... recipient could still look at RRP and acknowledge the £19.99 it was supposed to cost, and be none the wiser. I could either stay quiet and be smug about my bargain ..... more likely I'd throw in a box of chocolates so I'd come out at £15 all-in .... still a bargain 😂

I bought something for a family member, that sells for around £35 , in a sale for less than half that price. The saving means I Vancouver the slight overspend on a couple of much younger family members. Everybody gets something they will love = everybody happy.

For me it depends if its worth the original price or not.

If I would have paid full price, I either bank the savings myself or I'd get something else if I had a good idea.

If it's something where it's not really worth the full price, or sales happen regularly enough that its unlikely I'd ever have paid full price, then I'd get something else too.

My friend and I always suggest something our kids would like, based on an agreed limit, we usually send a weblink so we know it's the right thing. The day before yesterday I bought the present, and yesterday it was reduced by 1/3. So, my dilemma, do I return and re-buy, or buy something else to top up the value of the reduction (putting me over budget), or do I just leave it as is, as I have actually spent the agreed limit?

Return and rebuy, but don't top up.

Or even better- ring / email them and say can they refund the 1/3, cheaper for them than the return/rebuy option!

Depends on my finances tbh. If I’m skint and need the saving