*NEW* Thrifty Gifty - Money Making for Christmas & Occasions 2010

jamtart6

Hi Saucy and welcome to these threads

Well folks on this months challenges:

Ink Cartridges: worth 1600 tesco points (in deals)

Mobile: £55 + £7

Save £20 somehow: £4.80 by not buying earrings that I wanted.

Dooyoo: £30 in total to cash in £10 from this month


Mini challenge for all those needing a push with eBay (i.e. Me!!) : List 5 items by Wednesday

rufusdog52

Well I must have saved a fortune as hadnt been shopping for over a week lol till Saturday. I do the Royal Mail surveys as well and had my £6 Love To Shop vouchers Saturday so we went to Wilkinsons and I bought some cheap stationery bits for my sister for Christmas.

Have claimed £25 from Cashback Rewards and as its before the 15th I should get it end of this month. Only thing is my sewing machine isnt working properly so have to take that in on Weds to get an estimate for repairing it. I am hoping OH will pay and I can pay him back when I get some money through.

Up to 3050 on Dooyoo again over the top of the 20000 that I am waiting to claim. So thats £40 since beginning of Jan which I am really pleased about.

elysia2003

Printer has decided it will work only when it wants again. So DD1 and I have gone half on a new wireless printer:eek: but that does now mean I will have some ink cartridges to recycle (her printer and mine) Will checkout tesco now. I'm up to £9 on dooyoo ( that's just this month - have £4.49 left from last month too)

ScattyStudent1

I finally decided I had to something about having no ink in my printer for about 2 years :rotfl:
I was looking at ink and the cheapest I could find was £17, so I dug out an old refill kit I bought about a year ago in the £1 shop and was to scared/confused to use.
Have now refilled my ink (black only) so am well chuffed, thats £17 towards my saving total :T it only took about 2 minutes to refill it as well.

(Oh also bought my first 2 christmas presents, a book and a star globe for my son, got them as part of "buy 2 get 3rd free" in Waterstones AND I paid using some of the vouchers I got for Christmas)

Ddraig

Im having one of those overwhelming days today.Blame my hormones,I do,lol.I nearly had to ask for my tesco deal rewards for park resorts to be refunded and was not looking forward to the parping about.As when I exchanged them for £150 worth of deals,I did not know I was pregnant.
Anyway,vut long ,short,if I wait for beginning of may I can book for 2011 instead,phew.The deal rewwards dont run out til july.So all is good.
Im overwhelmed because in the past we havent had a penny to scratch our a$^$ with,even though we have never holidayed abroad or had expensive cars.The regular "oh great a car ,vet or etc bill" used to screw us up.Week by week we could manage but then Christmas would do us up.
MSe has shown me how to earn for Christmas ,and sort my vouchers for holidays.Eventually these two occassions being paid for will pull us in front,and I could just cry.Plus you guys are amazing,and I find myself logging in to see how you all are.
Dont ask where this burst of emotion has come from,Im not usually sloppy lol.

hlcarroll

I know how you feel ddraig, before I found MSE I had nothing, and really struggled at any big occasions, now thank god you have all made me see that it is possible to live a good life without spending a fortune on every little thing! That is brilliant that you can use the vouchers in 2011! Hope that you are feeling ok hun, and that the morning sickness/afternoon sickness/night sickness is getting better, and the hormones calm down for you! xxx

mum2one

Ddraig wrote: »

Im having one of those overwhelming days today.Blame my hormones,I do,lol.I nearly had to ask for my tesco deal rewards for park resorts to be refunded and was not looking forward to the parping about.As when I exchanged them for £150 worth of deals,I did not know I was pregnant.
Anyway,vut long ,short,if I wait for beginning of may I can book for 2011 instead,phew.The deal rewwards dont run out til july.So all is good.
Im overwhelmed because in the past we havent had a penny to scratch our a$^$ with,even though we have never holidayed abroad or had expensive cars.The regular "oh great a car ,vet or etc bill" used to screw us up.Week by week we could manage but then Christmas would do us up.
MSe has shown me how to earn for Christmas ,and sort my vouchers for holidays.Eventually these two occassions being paid for will pull us in front,and I could just cry.Plus you guys are amazing,and I find myself logging in to see how you all are.
Dont ask where this burst of emotion has come from,Im not usually sloppy lol.

Thats brilliant news re the vouchers, gd to have to something to look forward to, don't forget thats theres another batch of vouchers due Feb, if you havn't booked the Park resorts you could change those to..

Last yr we had 2 weeks in Blackpool that was when they did Haven vouchers, summer school hols, we only had to pay £100, this yr it was Park resorts so were off ot Ty Mawr site (North Wales by Rhyl) think again we've only got £100 to pay. The double points have made a massive difference.

We all have those hormonal moments, glad ur ok thou, dare we ask how the morning sickness is xx

Ddraig

It is dissappearing thankyou Mum2one and hlcarroll.
I got my other tesco vouchers thismorning.£32.50.
I am gutted I missed out on the extra 1000 deal on mobile phones.As I needed one too,and a cheapo one is all I need.Its an sos line,that is it.
Oh an found this on another thread I know You ladies will like.I just did it,no details required apart from your clubcard number.
Here it is
http://www.florahearts.co.uk/Consumer/Home.aspx

Right off to school,see you in a bit friends.xx

jamtart6

ahh bless you ddraig! i just love mse it is such a friendly forum, im lucky to have found it and you guys

welshkaz

i totally agree with you lot its amazing what good company this forum becomes and that in its self helps you stop spending i had a serious problem before xmas spending for the sake of it and still have a desperate urge from time to time but now i get more joy saving money and earning vouchers etc is so easy i cant believe more people dont do it so now paying off my debts this year doesnt seem so daunting especially as most of my presents will be covered by vouchers and bargains lol my hubby thinks im completely bonkers but even hes tightened his belt and watches the pennies contagious mse is lol have a nice evening x