Frugal Living Challenge 2011 - part 1

Oooh hiyas cheryl

here I have chosen the top one... http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=39711066&postcount=360 I do have a later version as there is a pop up that says " this was created in an other version , this updates with a pop up I click "ok"

Hi can someone explain quido to me please? I know you shop "through it" and earn cashback. How do you get the cash? Do you have to build up a certain amount or wait a certain time? Thank you. I'm off to walk to school to pick up DS2, catch u later x

Brill, thank you x

I'd join TopCashBack too. No fee, sometimes they have a higher rate on certain retailers too. They also do top ups, the more you use them the higher the top up. I used to favour Quidco, now it seems to be TopCashBack. Also quidco has denied a few payments or simply delayed them recently, despite following their rules.

Make sure if it is a big cash back and not a few pennies that you clear your cookies and go to the company via the cashback site. If you went to say TheBodyShop, via a link on MSE, had a look at the deal and then logged into quidco, you may find the cashback goes to MSE through their referal.

lynzpower wrote: »

good news:
I got a 50 quid gift card from Very after they couldnt fulfil a lot of our orders so very happy with this :j

I don't do Very but could you Ebay the card and use that to set against some of the outgoings? Is that allowed?

SandraScarlett wrote: »

Failure to prepare is to prepare for failure

If you don't try, you can't improve

If you don't improve, you can't succeed

If you don't succeed, you can't achieve your best

Your best is proof that you've tried

So try, try, TRY!!!!!

You are all trying so hard, and eventually it will all become second nature to you, and, without realising it, you will find that you're making a big difference. If your day's been lousy, there's no disgrace in admitting it. Everyone's here to support each other, and the person who has 47 NSDs in a row, and has never had money problems, is telling porkies!! :grouphug: xx

The advice about Try, Try, Try is right on the nail. There is a lovely Chinese proverb,'Even after a bad harvest, there has to be sowing' which always comforts me when things don't look all that promising. It's realistic too - put like that, what else are we going to do?

I read the '47 NSDs in a row' as being about an imaginary person with impossible achievements, definitely not aimed at anyone on this thread (we haven't had 47 days yet!). If anyone has had 100% NSDs so far, will you please come out of lurkdom and tell us how you did it?

natnat13 wrote: »

Hi can someone explain quido to me please? I know you shop "through it" and earn cashback. How do you get the cash? Do you have to build up a certain amount or wait a certain time? Thank you. I'm off to walk to school to pick up DS2, catch u later x

There's a tool for comparing cashback somewhere on this site. Also worth looking at is the Nectar site if you have a Nectar card. It's not as generous as cashback but has some outlets you don't see on cashback sites, for example Amazon.

Minnie - hold on! Going on the figures, you've done amazingly well. :T

Had a bit of a culinary disaster this morning. I now know that if you put noodles into a soup you're slow-cooking overnight, they dissolve and you end up with something like savoury porridge....