Thrifty Gifty - Money Making for Christmas & All Ocassions 2009

cyclingyorkie

bought hubby a book with my latest Lightspeed voucher - so that's another present bought!

We were sat watching House last night with the Christmas cake cooling in the kitchen and he suddenly made a comment about sorting Christmas early this year!

Coming from the original Scrooge thats a result!

sarahf191979

Managed to get my mum £30 of vouchers from Argos yesterday on there offer, Grandma bought DS1 his camcoder (she spoils the kids rotten but one less pressie I need to find the money for) and she bought herself a printer we had to spilt the 2 so we got 2 lots of voucher but everyone else was doing it too. Nearly got enough to redeem another 2 £5 amazon vouchers so they will go towards more pressies.

jamtart6

well done mum2one sounds like a great deal! well done sarah that is brilliant! id love one of those mini camcorders.love watching home videos!

well ive been cleaning out room, and found that there are 6 empty ink cartrtidges that I have here to recycle, which is 100pts each from tesco = £6 or £24 in deals so very happy about that! wine for Mum for christmas again I think. Not sure I'll beat last year's £2.60 for 18 bottles but can try!

rufusdog52

Had two payments come through this morning, £5 from Top Cashback and £13 fro Fat Cheese, thought they were taking the £5 fee but didnt so may be next time, I'm not complaining though. Ordered the blank rulers from Ebay. 1600 on Dooyoo.

ellionic

I have had another £4.00 luncheon voucher come this morning :-) and also £20 play voucher this morning off my play credit card really happy with this one i only use it to get my shopping from asda every week and collect ipoints by going through mysupermarket plus earn points for play vouchers.
new total £123.79/£200 :j i am getting there slowly
My challenge for today is i MUST put three unwanted ds games on ebay

cyclingyorkie

grrr!!!

i was about three quarters of the way through a lightspeed survey when the page had no continue button on - and it would have taken me to the next payout level.GRRRRRR!

sylphraven

Get in touch with them Cyclingyorkie, I had this happen with a LONG toluna survey yesteday & sent them an email explaining what had happened. Received one back today saying they have passed my error onto the right people and I will definately get my points in about 4 weeks time. This is great news as I've been working hard over the past week to try & get from 50000 to 60000 and this will definately take me over that, even if I dont do anything.

I have also made £40 on ebay, though its all gone straight back out to buy scents for the bath goodies & candles I want to have a go at making for pressies.

paddingtondoo

Sold a birthday card today for £5 but not done much more getting there slowly though

rufusdog52

Received £10 Amazon vouchers from Lightspeed today so have been on Amazon and added them to my account, ordered some dvds for OH, 48 hrs, Another 48hrs, Road to Perdition and two box sets of Arnold Swarzenegger and it was adding up to nearly the amount I had on there in vouchers (£13), went through checkout and it came up and said payment was only £9.97 so used the vouchers and still have £3 towards next ones.

Well happy with that lot for under a tenner.

Have been having a sneaky look at how my daughters fav bag is made as I am thinking of making one out of the rest of my fabrics I have left over. Have made up a pattern on sorts in my notebook.

Received one of the iron on Twilight transfers this morning. She is going out in a bit so might have a go at ironing it on to the white fabric and cutting out the cushion pieces and see if I got enough over for the bag too.

mum2one

Made another £5.00 from last bit of supermarket vouchers, but alas the great Tesco you can redeem the money off vouchers without buying the goods has been stopped.

Had a free £25.00 goodwill gesture from LLoydsTSB, nipped into town with dad, went to cashpoint - went through the saga £20 cash, returned the card no money, luckly dad was with me, went in the branch, they didn't want to know as it was my Hlaifax account, me being me - said theres no sign to say LloydsTSB customers only!!, was bit worried, with card cloning and at all that, the woman said it could be the cash draw, might be because its got a note jammed I'll check, you need to check ur bank, I couldn't walk across, was in agony with back, so rang the Halifax, they checked the account, no money had gone out, but the risk is as my card gone in + pin, strong chance of card being cloned. Could either put a hold on card for 28 days, no transactions be allowed, as debit, but could be used for cheques, or cancel the card, and wait 7 -10 days replacement, + new pin. we decided that way, safer, but if I needed money would have to bring in 2 forms of ID + max £50 quid a day.

Left stranded in LLoydsTSB, as the woman had told me to wait well she sorted it, after asking 3 times still waiting, asked to sit down, they told me to sit at the desk - while a customer was discussing her account with another staff member, quickly pointed out, there was no way I would want a complete stranger sat by me, while discussing my account......

Found the original member of staff, 45 mins later, she'd gone 4 a break and 4got about me, and she hadn't even been + checked the machine, what made it worse, was there was 2 strips flapping by the where u put the card. In the end demanded the branch manager, he then went and checked the machine and said don't worry about the flapping bit, we took a bit off........ why the heck didn't they tell me that nearly an hr ago, we'd wasted an hr, cancelled a card, panic in case my card could be cloned, all for nought. So he gave me £25 as a goodwill gesture, and give him his due he rang the Halifax and overrode the ID system.

So thats going in xmas fund -