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mum2one

Miss Hoodie has the 24th circled off on her calender, when I asked her y?, having the headless chick mode, have I forgetten an appointment, a school trip.... NO

I got " Don't you know the 24th is Santas day, and I'm getting my ideas ready!!"........she won't tell me any to the 24th as that will spoil the surprise!!

Prewarned is pre-armed!!! x

scuzz

Hello Ladies

It's been a very long time since I've posted on MSE. I like to follow things like this thread though. Some very inspiring ideas:T

I too am trying to save as much money for Christmas. Being self employed with my line of work drying up quickly, it's all a bit too scary. But I won't bore you all with my problems!

I was just wondering what the atmosphere's like on dooyoo these days? I see some of you say you write a few reviews a day. I remember when I posted two in a day once I got snotty comments from people saying I was "churning" and it wasn't a nice place to be. Have things changed?

Is ciao still in existance for review writing? Again, I stopped on there owing to nasty comments.

Thank you

Janebo12

mum2one wrote: »

Miss Hoodie has the 24th circled off on her calender, when I asked her y?, having the headless chick mode, have I forgetten an appointment, a school trip.... NO

I got " Don't you know the 24th is Santas day, and I'm getting my ideas ready!!"........she won't tell me any to the 24th as that will spoil the surprise!!

Prewarned is pre-armed!!! x

Thanks for the warning Mum2One! At least we know Miss Hoodie has got something planned for us...(goes into a corner and weeps :rotfl:)

rufusdog52

elysia2003 wrote: »

Rufus - I totally recommend the Sun Newspaper holidays. You can have a 3 night stay (weekend) or 4 night (Mon to Fri). There is even the possibility to upgrade to a full week (which we're doing). It only costed about £200 for 3 adults, 1 child and the dog.

You just have to save about 7 vouchers. The only downfall is that you have to provide upto five dates and five places. Once you've taken the holiday though, you get a priority booking form and you get to book online before the postal applications, then 90% of the time you get where and when you want.

I hope that if you do't get away, that you get some nice days out. You know what they say - a change is as good as a rest (ooooh I saound like my Mum:rotfl:).

Thanks Elysia, I doubt whether we will get away this year but will definitely try to get some good days out. Our trouble is one moody teenage daughter at the moment who doesnt want to do "anything" with oldies like us lol so family days out have been put on hold, its just me and OH. She only wants to go out with her friends or my eldest daughter. Funny how they can change practically overnight isnt it, I am sure I was just as bad to my parents at her age if not worse.

As for Ciao reviews, I copied some of mine over from Dooyoo a while ago to see how they would do on there and so far have earned the princely sum of 6p so have given that idea up and will stick to Dooyoo.

Hope you have all managed to get some sun time in today, I spent the afternoon out in the garden with the dog doing some sewing and reading a book (not at the same time).

elysia2003

Rufus you did better than me on Ciao - last time I looked I'd got 2p. Woo Hoo. LOL

Moody Teenagers - don't tell me about them. I'm sure I grew out of paddywhacks by 3 or 4 - but DD1 (19) is still having them. :eek:

Hiya Scuzz - best thing to do is just ignore the comments. As long as you are rating fairly I can't see why anyone should have a problem. It's a shame how some people can spoil it.

Mum2one - can you ask Miss Hoodie to please be gentle.

mum2one

elysia2003 wrote: »

Rufus you did better than me on Ciao - last time I looked I'd got 2p. Woo Hoo. LOL

Moody Teenagers - don't tell me about them. I'm sure I grew out of paddywhacks by 3 or 4 - but DD1 (19) is still having them. :eek:

Hiya Scuzz - best thing to do is just ignore the comments. As long as you are rating fairly I can't see why anyone should have a problem. It's a shame how some people can spoil it.

Mum2one - can you ask Miss Hoodie to please be gentle.

I'll ask her to be gentle...... but this is Miss Hoodie..... took the brochere again 2ngt to bed....HELP........ I've got some nice ideas so your all be safe.

Very money saving 2ngt, the couple that live opposiate us, there lovely, its the girls 30th bday on Monday, and thier one of those coulples that would do anything for anyone.

So with a major rush, got 6 hr tutorial.....managed to raid my spares box of odds and ends and for 30 items, its just cost nowt......
Raided all my stock bags
Got a mixture of toilettries, handbag mirror, eyeshadow, couple of pens, pencils, notebooks etc. More a fun gift. Thats off Miss Hoodie

We've got her a coconut toilettry set from Body Shop, should have been £10, but redeemed full card, and then we've got a silver and cubic zirconia necklace from Argos, in all honestly it was brought as a spare, reduced from £30 to £5, and we used a gift voucher, so one totally money free present.:T

rufusdog52

Have done the daily clicks today, started at the bottom and worked my way up just to be a bit different, didnt seem to take so long lol.

Claimed £15 from Get Pounds Back and £11 from Crunch Cashback.

Tried doing Its Your View through Top CashBack, not sure if it went right though as I did a whole survey right through to the end, took over half hour to complete it then it went back to the original page and said you didnt qualify. Was gutted so will have to see if it appears on my statement.

elysia2003

I get the odd one that's like that, but in the main they are ok - just a bit long. I hope it tracks for you now.

Skiergirl

elysia2003 wrote: »

Have you tried Valued Opinions, GFK and New Vista?

You can also do It's your view surveys on quidco (and the partner surveys) and get 70p each one. If you don't qualify you still get 1p. Well, it mounts up I suppose.

Hi I'm more of a lurker than poster on here

Do you have a link to the GFK surveys please?. I've had a look but can only find info about mystery shopping ?
TIA

pammyj74

whats GFK surveys?
I do VO, GTM, Ipsos, Lightspeed, New vista (had a £3 one this morning) and onepoll.

got £30 coming from quidco this month which is the most I have had in ages from them.
sent off for my dooyoo check a few days ago :j and these two will go towards the kids passport renewals :mad: but at least its extra money I wont miss and I wont have to dig into my savings. Just realised that the cheque book I have been using is on the last one and I am sure I have another one somewhere but cannot find it for the life of me. Can you go into the bank and they do you a cheque there and then?

wow its hot today, just come in for some cooling as being good and weeding the garden (a pet hate of mine!)

Had our day out in London yesterday for the first time ever, we had a really good time, especially as the weather was kind to us.