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

mum2one

Found 2 ink cartridges need to send off
No phones-

Got 10 Love to shop voucher -

Got a nice suprise this morning cheque for £30 from my car insurance company, as a loyalty bonus for staying with them, only changed in Dec and pd in full......but never one to turn down free money. (got to add that to Febs money).

Took dd shopping, the plan was to get swimwear, went into Peacocks hit the sale rale, 2 big bags clothes - skirts reduced from £6 to £1, the dearest thing was 2 prs of crop leggings £6.00. Altogether spent £33........ the savings from original price was £50..... (not generous enough to put £50 in the pot!!)

xx

mum2one

Don't know if its any use for anyone, but when we were in Rhyl yesterday, we went to Store21 (same as QS), they have a promotion on for every £5 you spend you get a stamp, on your card,

10 stamps - £5
20 stamps - £10
30 stamps - £15

The promotion runs to end June. xx

welshkaz

just been mooching on hukd and come across a site ive never heard of greenmetropolis.com its a book site where all books are £3.75 or less but you can also sell books on there where you can get £3.00 per book + postage premium if their hardback etc you sell but you pay 2nd class postage on books well it works out on an average book you could be making nearly 2 pound a book meanwhile your decluttering im going to definetely look into it as i only ever give the books away and the pennies could be topping up xmas fund plus i know a nifty little charity shop that sells all their books for 50p and are as new hope it could be of interest to the readers in the bunch x

foxy219

I was going to send off my phone, but none of the amounts I was being offered were very inspiring so I decided to risk it on ebay instead. Listed at 2pm on Sat, within 2 hours it had sold buy it now £50. I am well chuffed as made my monthly target in one hit. Had quite a lot of sales this month and have used the money to pay off the balance of our Sun holiday!
Got lots of items still to list and hope to take advantage of the free listing day tomorrow if the kids will let me!
Haven't done any Christmas shopping for a while, need to build up the funds again, got my brother's birthday on Friday and have given him cash (which I won at bingo) and some aftershave rrp £45 which I won in a silent auction for £15 so quite mse and he will think I've spoiled him. Hopefully he will return the favour on my birthday (11 days and counting to 35:eek:)

elysia2003

susan42 wrote: »

you doing well on doohoo elysia wish I was as focused

Thanks Susan, I'm really trying. Have got to put the christmas money I borrowed back.

Well done with those bargains Mum2one - we have a Peacocks by us, I'm off for a look tomorrow.

Still need to recycle my ink cartridges - will look into that too. Trouble is if I recycle them through Tesco's the money doesn't go towards Christmas, it goes towards vouchers for day trips while we're on holiday - oh well, still a special occasion I suppose. :cool:

Need to list on ebay (didn't get around to it) but will wait until the free listing day is over now.

Managing Dooyoo - but I'll have one of those kicks up the bum if anyone's got one going spare, I can't seem to get myself into gear at the moment.

jamtart6

*kick up the bum* for elysia! it's hard to keep motivated don't worry

If anyone has any inspired challenges for March please PM me, I don't want you to get bored, but there are only limited avenues for making pennies

Just saved £3 by not buying the JLS album that I didn't need.

elysia2003

You did better than me! I bought 3. :eek:

Thanks for the kick Jam tart. I needed that.

Ddraig

Thanks for all the birthday wishes friends.Feeling a bit more alive for now,lol.
I have found this on another thread.I have just qualified for a full size trial bottle of Ariel.There are 10,000 spaces.Heres the linky for the thread.Found it on mse.Its been found on the supersavvy me site.Im sure you will all be interested.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2284941&page=0&pp=0

pammyj74

I have an idea for next months challenge. A smaller version of £100 into £10k

howabout turn £10 into £30. this could be getting something on a great deal, in a sale or from a charity shop etc It cant be something you already have.


I have just got my last lot off quanti £14 :T
I am up to £10 on freebie scratchie
Am 2k off my next dooyoo cheque

pammyj74

that ariel thing has stopped already