Mennies How much have I saved? Monthly Diary 30 July 2009 at 8:44AM in How much have you saved? 4 replies 1.9K views

mennie

A little history to begin...........................

I used to be an avid memeber of this and every survey, cashback and PTC site going. I used to be the voucher, freebie queen and ebay queen. At the time I work shifts and had the whole morning at home to do all this. Now I work more hours and have a long commute I dont have as much time. Last week I was off work and logged on to here for the first time in a while and applied for a few freebies and changed a few suppliers and I am hooked once more. It is vital my husband and I save some money as he is just starting his own business and we want to get as much behind us a possible to give him the best chance.

so.....................................

I have decided, to keep me from falling from the money saving wagon one more I am going to keep a total of everything that I have saved and made in addition to my normal salary and will update on here at the end of every month to keep me spurred on.

I will break it down in categories like vouchers, ebay, bogofs, csahback, PTC, Mystery Shopping, survey payment, comp wins, loyalty points, freebies etc

With Comp wins and freebies I will put a cash value if it is something I would have bought anyway and if not I will list it on ebay and put down much much it earnt me. I am going to be really pedantic and include eveything from money I find on the street to unfranked stamps on my mail.

I will update again tomorrow with Julys total, which is looking like being around £700 even though I only started on the 24th of this MOnth. That is around £100 a day so far!!

mennie

Julys Totals

Savings
Pet Insurance 67.12
Contents and Buildings insurance 254.75
Gas and Electric 129.12
Total 450.99

EBay and Cashback
Cashinco Payment £10.00
Ebay £28.98
Total £38.98

Vouchers
Morrisons Voucher £10.00
National Rail Voucher £ 4.00
Proctor and Gamble Voucher £13.00
Andrex Voucher £ 2.00
Complaint Cheques £ 7.00
Nivea Vouchers £3.00
Love to Shop £3.00
Cathedral Cheese £2.56
Total £44.56



Freebies
Bottle of Liqueur £20.00
4 Glasses £20.00
Citrus Press £10.00
Stirrers £ 1.00
3 Notebooks £ 1.00
T Shirt £ 4.00
WKD Keyring Bottle opener £4.00
Dog Food £1.20
Tea Bags £2.75
Coffee £3.75
Postcards £1.00
Hot Chocolate £ .50
Herbal Essences Shamp&Cond £1.00
6 Pens £ .50
Neals Yard Sample £ .10
Graze box £3.00
Total £73.80

Miscellaneous
Boots Points spent £ 2.60
See a penny pick it up £ .07
Unfranked Stamps £13.69
Free Starbucks £ 1.99
Total £18.35

Grand Total £626.68


No monetary value to me will list them on ebay next month
3 x Miller Harris perfume Vial
1 x Impulse Body Spray Vial
1 x sachet of Clinique Moisturiser
1 x Sachet of Palmer Coca Butter
1 x 30p off Kallo
1 x Cosmo Voucher Book
1 X Lipcote Sample
3 x Barefoot Botanicals samples
3 x Cocktail Recipe Books
1x Set of Quorn recipe cards
1 x 60p off Quorn
1 x 50p off Oxy
1 x 50p off Felix
1 x sachet of Nivea Q10
1 small tube of Oxy
2 x Jo Malone Samples
3 x 50p off Caf! Direct
£5 off anti wrinkle cream at Boots

I know I wont do this well everymonth as I have some cracking freebies and changed suppliers

The_Saver_2

Hi Mennie,

What a great list! I wish you the best of luck. I've decided to do some personal "offsetting" in my life - ditching old spending habits to save more, and to afford the luxuries that I enjoy.

Seeing the amount you've saved, I think I'll keep a track of these too, to spur me on. I'll offset the savings I achieve and either put the money into my savings, or use it for a specific treat.

Thanks

TS

mennie

Thanks The SAver I have just done my totals for the last 7 days and I have made £86.17 so far.

I think I am going to start the make £10 a day challenge

jojitsui

WOW!!!! fairplay i am very impressed.
Have only joined today but am going to do something similar myself :0
Cheers Jo x