I got paid to take food out of the supermarket (sort of).

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Following a pretty unsatisfactory meeting at the Jobcentre this morning, I wasn't expecting much out of the rest of the day. But I did need to do my weekly big shop, so I toddled off down to Morrisons, which is my main supermarket. I've just adopted a system where I do my shopping in two parts. First, the actual main shop, I got everything I needed and paid at a manned till. Business as usual. Once I'd dumped the main shop into the boot of my car, I picked up a pound bag of 2p coins that I keep in there and headed back into the supermarket to do the second part. No need for a trolley or basket, I just walked in and took one item - a packet of instant noodles, 30p marked down from 35p. Yes, I do eat fancy, don't I? So this time I took the packet of noodles to one of the self-checkouts, scanned my More card as usual, scanned the packet, then paid with some of those 2p coins. The reasons I've started doing this are primarily to get rid of a pile of old coins that I've got at home, but also to supply myself with a second receipt - so then I've got two receipts to run through the various receipt scanning apps that I've got on the phone. Plus two chances to do the survey and enter the £500 prize draw that's advertised on Morrisons receipts. Every little helps. But there was one difference to this particular transaction - whoever used that self-checkout before me must have been distracted, because they left £3.50 in the change tray. Which I took, obvously. So I ended up with more money after buying that packet of instant noodles than before. Life isn't easy, and I'll take any small victories that come my way!