The Thrifty Gifty Girls 'n' Guys 2009 (Organised & Money Neutral for All Occasions)

mum2one

paddingtondoo wrote: »

Hi sylphraven & crazychatter - I thought it was just my OH who goes :rolleyes: when I'm saving money.

He was watching Martin on GMTV this morning when he mentioned a site that sells cheap food (sorry can't remember what it was called) and said he was surprised that we hadn't had huge deliveries from there as yet :rotfl:.

He also mentioned my craft stuff being ditched to store jars of mayo and bottles of squash - as if :rotfl:.

Don't expect he'll be whinging when he has loads of birthday pressies to open next Saturday rather than the usual 2 or 3 :A

The food shop could be
www.approvedfood.co.uk
Thou some are of the items are close to or past sell by date, but others are well in date, had a quick peep at site last night, looked good xx

aurora_14

sarahf191979 wrote: »

Just ordered some Free Bulbs of the Freebies site, hopefully they will be here by easter will give them to my mum as part of her easter pressy, I might even split them up and do little spring baskets not sure yet, the idea has only just come to me after reading scattymams easter idea.

Sarah - I'm glad you mentioned this. I googled the Freebies site - lots of different free stuff sites came up. So I did some reading and I found the website - for anyone interested (I was!!! - I loooooooooove flowers) - here it is:
http://www.jparkers.co.uk/Index.cfm?fuseaction=discount.form
and the promotion code is FR11 - all this information came from the magic freebies uk website.

Apparently, my order is being processed so fingers crossed I will receive my free bulbs (free delivery, too). THANK YOU - SARAH - loooove youuuu :T:T:T
Also, as I am trying to make some extra dosh - I searched and found a website that lists the "get paid for surveys" sites, here it is:
http://www.freestuff.co.uk/paid-online-surveys.html
So my next job is to get signed up and do the work!!! Thanks to everyone who mentioned about the paid surveys sites. And apologies if you all already know all this info and this is not helpful - in that case - please ignore me. :-)

sarahf191979

aurora_14 wrote: »

Just ordered some Free Bulbs of the Freebies site, hopefully they will be here by easter will give them to my mum as part of her easter pressy, I might even split them up and do little spring baskets not sure yet, the idea has only just come to me after reading scattymams easter idea.

Sarah - I'm glad you mentioned this. I googled the Freebies site - lots of different free stuff sites came up. So I did some reading and I found the website - for anyone interested (I was!!! - I loooooooooove flowers) - here it is:
http://www.jparkers.co.uk/Index.cfm?fuseaction=discount.form
and the promotion code is FR11 - all this information came from the magic freebies uk website.

Apparently, my order is being processed so fingers crossed I will receive my free bulbs (free delivery, too). THANK YOU - SARAH - loooove youuuu :T:T:T
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I found this on the Freebies Forum of martins site here


Link to the FREE Bulbs
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1453215

Loads of free stuff is listed if youv'e not already looked.

Link to Freebies
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.html?f=37

Sarah
x

mum2one

sarahf191979 wrote: »

aurora_14 wrote: »

Just ordered some Free Bulbs of the Freebies site, hopefully they will be here by easter will give them to my mum as part of her easter pressy, I might even split them up and do little spring baskets not sure yet, the idea has only just come to me after reading scattymams easter idea.

Sarah - I'm glad you mentioned this. I googled the Freebies site - lots of different free stuff sites came up. So I did some reading and I found the website - for anyone interested (I was!!! - I loooooooooove flowers) - here it is:
http://www.jparkers.co.uk/Index.cfm?fuseaction=discount.form
and the promotion code is FR11 - all this information came from the magic freebies uk website.

Apparently, my order is being processed so fingers crossed I will receive my free bulbs (free delivery, too). THANK YOU - SARAH - loooove youuuu :T:T:T
quote]

I found this on the Freebies Forum of martins site here


Link to the FREE Bulbs
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1453215

Loads of free stuff is listed if youv'e not already looked.

Link to Freebies
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.html?f=37

Sarah
x

The free bulbs offer is now finished - due to expectional demand. x

aurora_14

mum2one wrote: »

sarahf191979 wrote: »

The free bulbs offer is now finished - due to expectional demand. x

mum2one - I put my order in approx. 30 minutes ago and it is being processed. So I am hopeful. Fingers crossed.

Update: I just got an email from enquire@jparkers.co.uk saying: "Thank you for your order, it has been forwarded for processing." So hopefully my order was accepted.

aurora_14

sarahf191979 wrote: »

I found this on the Freebies Forum of martins site here

Loads of free stuff is listed if youv'e not already looked.

Link to Freebies
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.html?f=37

Sarah
x

The freebies forum is a new one to me - i am quite new to this site and haven't had the time to check it all out yet but thank you for pointing it out. Every little helps :-)
:T:T:T

Clairealo

Hiya everyone,

Hope ur all doing well? Ooo I really want a lush grab it bag now.... guess i better not tho.

Got a £50 cheque from yougov today so im very very happy!! thats another £50 towards my money neutral target. If anyones not a member ill add my referrel link to it, if thats ok then if anyone wants to sign up i get a bonus for the referrel:
the link is:
http://my.yougov.com/go.aspx?id=c27ee9cb-0e2d-4cbd-8919-c5477ea75532

the site is ok, there arent that many surveys but sum of the ones ive had hae been for 50p or a pound and i think you get some money for signing up 2.

Well just so uall know igave my brother in law the birthday prezzies (home made pot of gold and lemon sherbert vodka) and he loved them! so i ws really proud just glad he likd em.

x x

sarahf191979

mum2one wrote: »

sarahf191979 wrote: »

The free bulbs offer is now finished - due to expectional demand. x

Oh... what a shame, never mind.

sarahf191979

Morning Everyone

Hope your all ok? No one posted last night hope you were all having a FUN FUN filled Friday night.

((((((((((((((((HUGS to EVERYONE)))))))))))))))))))))))

Got a few bits to do today, and I've got to take FIL for an eye test at Tescos this afternoon, but I'm gonna try and get all the pressies sorted and try and get some sort of spread sheet done to log them all in. I did make sure I had all the Xmas stuff listed and got the last 2 bags up in the loft yesterday. Got a few birthday pressies to wrap for the year, then I want to start on the Easter stuff.

Got a couple of bits to pick up next week for Valentines day and a few extra pressies, then that should be me done for the year, bar the kids & OH birthdays and the same again for Xmas. :j

I can't believe I have nearly finished, gives me more time to concentrate on finding bargins for the kids and OH and a bit more money to save up for other things.

OK better go and get another coffee, still shaking from yesterday morning after running out and then I better get stuck in and tidy up a bit before friends come round in a bit.

Catch you all later

Sarah
xx

Clairealo

Wow Sarah u are so organised. I wish i had all my prezzies sorted, not that i have any where 2 keep em like lol!! Living wiv parents at the mo and i hve a tiny bedroom, plus im a trainee teacher so have a million n one things for that all over my room never mind tho shud b moving out sum time this year...
x x x