The 2008 Money Neutral Gift Challenge

jamtart6 · 17 November 2008 at 12:05PM

thanks for that Lynne!! I have just registered!! Do they have to be a certain length to get the voucher? trustedplaces had to be 100 words minimum. I can't find the terms and conditions for this!

Skint_Lynne · 17 November 2008 at 12:09PM

It's about the same for this one jamtart, around 100 words so 4 or 5 lines should do it. Just make it interesting and to the point.

mum2one · 17 November 2008 at 7:43PM

Hows everyone getting on with the qype, I've got the 500 points and the 2nd set of rewards, just aiming for the 50 rewards for Amazon voucher, but for the ipod, although its 1,000 you still need to have a minimum of 60 reviews.x

jamtart6 · 17 November 2008 at 8:14PM

Guess I should make a start - maybe one an hour and I'll get there by the end of the week. Reckon I'll die of boredom?!

mum2one · 17 November 2008 at 8:18PM

Its driving me batty already, Ive done the 60 reviews, but havent got the 1000 points, so Im trawling around for reviews that havent been done as there worth 20 points, compared to 8 for a normal review.

mum2one · 17 November 2008 at 9:41PM

gd news is I am now a ninja, I have 1001 points, and done 65 reviews. So fingers crossed get all my goodies!
x

jamtart6 · 2 December 2008 at 9:04PM

So long....farewell...auf wiedersehen....:D

Basically I started this thread 2nd December 2007, nice and early for 2008 as most people have got their gifts sorted, all review vouchers spent etc. and eBaying is done and dusted as it is so close to Christmas.

So...here is a summary of how I did this year (and how I ended up spending £66 hard cash). This includes all birthdays, christmas, weddings, births, get well flowers...the lot!!

Original Cost: A staggering £1431.76 is what all my goodies would have cost me if I had paid full price, but due to BOGOF's, 342's, sales, vouchers, loyalty points and the fact I would never have paid full price....then I obviously managed to reduce this cost to the....

...Actual Price paid which was £639.60 which was 54% less than the original cost :T this was how much cold hard cash I spent NOT the vouchers, online voucher codes, loyalty points etc. Literally just actual cash....then I needed some way to cover the cost of this cash so what did I do?

I calculated the.....

...Total Cash Fund available.... which came to a super duper £572.89 from surveys on onepoll (£23.00), recycling 2 old mobile phones with Envirophone (£5.00 referral and £19.72 in Argos vouchers which an relative exchanged for cash), Quidco brough in £180 this year (opened a bank account got £20 etc.) - don't own a house so none of this is from insurances, £20.99 from cashbackrewards, £12.06 from Top cashback but the winner of all of this was [strike]de-junking[/strike] clearing out the house and putting things on eBay managed to make me £267.12.
So ....

..the TOTAL LEFT TO PAY for ALL OCCASIONS in 2008 is £66.07...which I might still be able to cover but won't worry if I don't

90% money neutral overall, MUCH better than I thought. Have a £50 amazon voucher and £136 Boots points for the sale left for next years shopping too

and a very happy purse

jamtart6 · 2 December 2008 at 9:08PM

So... who's with me for 2009???? A lot of people who chat on here are also on the Organised Christmas thread, so we thought we might join the threads for 2009 as we ended up posting a lot of the info twice on this and that thread... what do people think??

jamtart6 · 2 December 2008 at 9:43PM

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shelovestobuystuff · 8 December 2008 at 1:51PM

Have not had time to get anything on ebay yet so am a bit behind my £800 target but I have made £550 this weekend at a craft fairs and got £111.38 quidco cashback paid out at end Nov which just landed in my bank account today.I have been putting my pennies and any change in my piggy bank as part of the save £1 a day for christmas challenge and have £100 already so not far off my goal even without ebay.
I will have to spend the next 2 weeks finishing off my christmas organising and getting the house ready for family staying with us so apart from perhaps one more fayre or that big car boot sale this saturday(doubt I will be organised enough to get to either) I am done earning and spending for this christmas.
Not entirely cost neutral as I have spent too much on the grown ups having spent an average of double my £20 per person budget.I have managed to be over 80% spend neutral which is pretty good.

The 2008 Money Neutral Gift Challenge

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