The Thrifty Gifty Girls 2009 (Organised & Money Neutral for All Occasions) #3

mum2one

Shelley3774 wrote: »

Purplegirluk I will join you on being more thrifty with pressies
Does anyone have any advice for me on using Quidco etc as I haven't got a clue and as I am being very money conscious these days I've cut right back on spending and don't tend to buy much online these days ?

Its amazing really how much I used to waste on non essentials. I'm lucky we have quite a good income but we also have a big outgoings so we are trying our hardest not to be wasteful.

Last year I made lots of hampers and homemade gifts but really need inspiration this year:o

Hi
Got a list of the sites to staert off with on Quidco, I'll hunt it out and put it on the thread, most prob be 2mor
x

Shelley3774

Thank you mum2one x:D

rainmac

Hi all, I've spent most of today at my mum and dad's with my boy monsters as OH is at work... AGAIN!!! Had dinner at theirs so no cooking - yay! Gave my mum her Mother's Day exploding box and album card and we had lots of tears and hugs. I know it's 2 weeks early but she needed a bit of cheering up and my bits seemed to help.

Scatty - I absolutely love your memory jar, what a lovely lovely thing to do, something to keep forever and add to if you want to.

Rusty - love your DD in her angel outfit, hope you're at work by now...!

Shelley - your little man looks well chuffed with his new bike, how cute!

That's all from me, off to try and make personalised wrappers for kitkats for DS1's impending Star Wars party. I will be some time...

Hope you all have a good rest of the weekend x

mum2one

We had one of those mad baking days - what was meant to be a batch of scones turned into=
Cup of tea loaf
Cherry Scones
Fruit Scones
Australian Crunch - they are gorgeous and nearly gone
2 x boiled fruit cakes - big one split between 2 neighbours, both widows in their 70s, love cake, the other going to Uncle and Aunt
2 x cherry and coconut cakes - 1 split - neighbours + uncle + aunt, we kepy 2nd - lovely, nearly gone.

then dd - we ironed on her transfers from Hannah Montana set (used Asda smart price tshirts 75p each - would say buyy a size larger - small fit)

then dd decided she wanted to sew - got this set - 2 ducks in felt all cut out sew + stuff - 1st time shes sown, (kit was only £1.00 got from QS - were in emergency birthday presents -), she had so much fun she wants to do the other set tomorrow, star fish.

Me I'm absolutely shattered, but we had a free day, she really enjoyed herself and thats all that matters.

The neighbours were over the moon with the cake, as they say if they buy cake from the supermarket, by the time they get round to eating the rest it goes dry, so I do one normal size cake and cut in half.

Delievering Aunt + Uncles 2mor, bless them they took over the roll of 2nd grandparents when dd was born, and my Aunty lost her mum 2 weeks ago (she was 90), and the furneral was yesterday, just thought that by taking homemade cake down, its a were thinking of you - but knowing my Uncle the cake be gone by the end of the day. xx

mum2one

Me again - Quidco quick checklist, had a quick flick through and think there all on there.

Gives you all a head start

ONE OFF CLICKS
MyPixMania 30p
Maximuscle 25p
PhotoBox £5.00
Secret Sales 25p
Lands End 15p
IBOOD.com 40P
Trueprint
Alliance + leicester Current account£ 50.00
Snapfish £3.50
GM1 £1.30
Vente Privee UK £1.00
Emailinform 85p
Flatmate 85p
Plum offers 80p
UK prize draw 75p
Get me a ticket 70p
Instant win for now 50p
Voice in a crowd 50p
Pampers 54p
COMPARETHEMARKET.COM 50p
Get me a quiz 50p
Microsoft Office Live 50p
SpeedDater Online 50p
Avis Holiday Competition 45p
Secret Sales 25p
02 free sim 60p

PART 2 - ADDITIONAL CLICKS
MORE THAN ONE CLICK - ie 5 a year, 2 a month
GoCompare.com £2.00
Confused.com £1.00
Orange Sim 60p
LloydsTSB Compare - £1.00 – 5 searches a year


DAILY CLICKS
The High Street Web 4p

When I do daily clicks, I find it easier to search for simpler items, such as whisky / ds lite/ ds - as that way you have more chance of getting a site up to click. x

hayley11

Aww bless you mum2one, that's so nice I wish I had a neighbour like you

Sounds like you and your DD had a really lovely day

Well I am going to watch The Unborn now and I am already laughing my head off because my OH is so scared :rotfl: He doesn't do scary films and we never watch them but i'm making him watch this, mwah hahahaha (that's my evil laugh )

Night night ladies :wave:

mum2one

hayley11 wrote: »

Aww bless you mum2one, that's so nice I wish I had a neighbour like you

Sounds like you and your DD had a really lovely day

Well I am going to watch The Unborn now and I am already laughing my head off because my OH is so scared :rotfl: He doesn't do scary films and we never watch them but i'm making him watch this, mwah hahahaha (that's my evil laugh )

Night night ladies :wave:

Thank you, gd for you hope u enjoy the film, next one is Marley and Me, thou knowing me may need to take a packet of tissues........ xx

pig_let_cool

furrypig wrote: »

Sorry I think I should have said piggy person as porky is implying I think u are fat!! Sorry I was just excited to see another pig here!!!

Hey!

And no offence taken, porky is probably fairly accurate!

Ive just spent the evening drawing on canvas bags with fabric crayons lol its such fun
I should really go to bed instead of being on forums lol, maybe sleeping would sort the huge bags under my eyes!
Though i have JUST found out that i was a runner up in the festive fivers comp with my vinyl record bowls :rotfl:think its a bit late now to claim a prize? lol, i didnt even know winners had been announced!


mum2one thanks for the quidco list!:o

xo

RustyFlange

Evening all

Shelley he looks so adorable I love his hair and he looks so happy with his new bike bless him

Rainmac, I was indeed at work, although it has been really dead tonight so have been having a laugh with the customers bit boring though good luck with the wrappers

Mum2one, thankyou for the quidco list

Piglet, well done on being a runner up I think you should still claim your prize go for it, you don't know if you don't try

Hope everyone has had a good evening, and hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend

xxx

rainmac

mum2one - thanks loads for the Quidco list, I'm a Quidco newbie but do try and remember to use it if I'm buying something, have a grand total of £6 or something so far since signing up at the start of the year :T

Sounds like you had a fantastic day baking, my DS1 likes to decorate cupcakes - he makes so much mess :rolleyes: but has lots of fun . Wish I was a neighbour of yours, would love someone knocking on my door and handing over some cake - yum yum

Rusty, glad you made it to work, OH was working and didn't get back till midnight so while he was away I managed to book a cheapie holiday (Haven, used Quidco too ) and ordered some more Basic Grey papers . We went on a Haven holiday last year using Tesco vouchers so in effect it was free but you can't use Tesco vouchers there any more so booked it on the Haven website and got a half price holiday (taking DS1 out of school for a week in June so prices are much cheaper) and will get 6% cashback from Quidco. We had a great time last year so hoping for more of the same this year

Have a great day everyone :T