Thrifty Gifty - Money Making for Christmas & All Ocassions 2009

Ddraig

Well done everyone
Just got 15 quid on BB on bingo and mini slots ,wass able to cashout an leave 10p in yipee.xx
Have a great day all of you x.

jamtart6

I will add to this as I visit a site and update my totals for the year. Also will add to this post when I have calculated how much I have spent out. If you remember, after the disasterous year I've had, I decided to just try and be "neutral" for Christmas (not birthdays as well).


Quidco- £153.11

Cashback Rewards - £21.39 (£8.50 pending so I can clear it out and not use again! only used to use for Amazon - now not on there)

eBay - approx. £140 - think it was more but do not have accurate figures.

Topcashback - £52.93

Play.com vouchers - £35.00

Amazon vouchers - £30 (for Christmas, had about £80 in total)

Nectar: £12ish

Tesco: £7 - £28 in deals

Boots - £87.14 (for the sale )

Total earnings to cover Christmas: £480.93

Cost of Christmas will be updated later on...

Partner: £5 + £2.83 + £32 + £15 = £54.83

Mum: £40

Dad: £30

Friends: £20

Mum and Dad: £170

Total spent £314

Real cost: Approx. £600

Total savings: £286

Cost of Christmas = fully covered!

rufusdog52

All ok with the Drs, it was a routine thing due to my having a blood test a few weeks ago. The Dr I saw then should have done something on the computer so it wasnt flagged up that I hadnt been in.

Received £12 from Get Pounds Back this morning. Went in WH Smiths and their annuals were BOGOF so I bought one each for two of my Grandsons for their birthdays to go with the bits I already have. (One is January and other is March).

I now have all presents up to ExMil's which is end of March.

rufusdog52

Back again, had two more payments in the bank this morning, one from Rpoints and one from Cashback Kings, they totalled about £13 between them.

As I said I dont really have anything else to buy for Xmas so will be waiting till the sales to see if I can get anything for next years gifts.

mum2one

rufusd!!!2 wrote: »

Back again, had two more payments in the bank this morning, one from Rpoints and one from Cashback Kings, they totalled about £13 between them.

As I said I dont really have anything else to buy for Xmas so will be waiting till the sales to see if I can get anything for next years gifts.

Thats a good idea for the sales, thats what I tend to do with the Boots vouchers (from survey sites), hold fire to 75% sale, then bulk buy, the plan this yr is to have a list of xx women, xx men as this yr just went in blind, but touch wood did ok.

The points they get saved for xmas and then get spent on dd.. x

sarahf191979

Got another £5 of BP this morning so had £20 oddish to spend in amazon, just order OH a segal film and DS1 a Dr Who Box Set and 2 other Classic Dr who dvd came in at £20.10 so just had enough to not pay anything:j extra pennies and costing nothing, I'm loving this type of shopping it really is the best

sarahf191979

Just claimed another £5 Voucher from Lightspeed so will wait for that to come in and order another DVD me thinks

sarahf191979

sarahf191979 wrote: »

Just claimed another £5 Voucher from Lightspeed so will wait for that to come in and order another DVD me thinks

OMG the DVD I ordered last night with this voucher has just come through the door.... how good is that for service:T:T:T

jamtart6

That is excellent sarah!!!

I have FINALLY had my dooyoo points cleared and am waiting on a £30 voucher!

mum2one

I've posted the same on the other thread, more incase anyone doesn't see it on the other.

Its the FCUK overnight bag, reduced from £45 to £20, unfortuntaly its not 3 4 2, (we can't have everything, but thats not the point!!)

Boots No 7 (posh one)
Spend over £22.00 you get a free gift set worth £26.00, sparkly make up bag, with sample sizes and full size nail varnish - give 10/10)
The spend can be on make up as single products or as part of the 3 4 2 gift sets, but one quick point, the spend has to be £22.00 after the 3 4 2....
I brought 3 of the face kits £10.00 each, 3 4 2 £20, then had to grab a nail polish £6.25 to make up the spend


Boots 17 (mid range)
Spend over £6.00 - any items
Get a free set - mascara, purple nail polish, silver eyeshadow - boxed set 9/10 - lost a point as its a very dark purple - maybe teenager

Rimmel
Spend over £10 any items -
You get a boxed make up set, full size items, lipstick, eyeshadows, blusher, est to be worth £15 or £20 quid - 10/10 - as its boxed set, its a gift that could be used for all ages.

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not Boots but Body Shop

Instore - spend over £25.00 and get a free coconut shimmer - body butter - worth £12.50 - good point you can buy what you want, and if you have Love your body loyalty card - get 10% off - 10/10

Online - Body Shop
Spend over £50.00, get a set of make up brushes worth £39.00
Personally rate the offer as 3/10, yes the brushes are lovely, but you do get the 10% discount, if you enter your bodyshop love your body card.. but you don't get your loyalty stamp, and

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EARLIER IN THE WEEK THE BRUSHES WERE COMING UP FREE WHEN BROUGHT AS PART OF 3 4 2. Whether it was a glitch, don't know, as the basket was automatically knocking the brushes to zer0.

Unless you really want to spend £50, and would prefer the brushes then the body dutter in store. I'd personally take a wide berth....

xx