***New*** Thrifty Gifty Money Making for Christmas and all occasions 2011***

sambamamba

Just joined Bingoport & it is a bit double dutch still but go to "Get more Port Points" & there is a bit to complete surveys for 250 points each. About 8 of them & literally 1 question. I was honest & said I hadn't played, not seen etc when asked & still got all points.

Not sure about the forums yet though.

Edit - Sorry Elysia you've already said that bit!

sambamamba

Has anyone signed up to the sites that offer "free" bingo with no deposits via Bingoport? Really don't want to be giving out my email to so many sites if it means entering a world of pain & spam. Any advice?

mum2one

twinklekat wrote: »

Hello everyone,

Long time lurker, and have bucked up the courage to post here and introduce myself

Little about me, I work FT as a fundraiser for a charity and my OH is in the armed forces. He has a boy aged 7 and we have two boxer dogs. We're hoping to get married this year and have a small low key thing costing about £5-7k ish , move to married quarters and start properly saving for a house. Although we both work we are terrible at saving (I think I have about £2.30 in my ISA...).

I've been doing surveys for the past year or so and this went towards about 50% of the present expenditure this year which is better than nothing! I'm a member of OnePoll, GTM, Valued Opinions, Toluna, the one you get luncheon vouchers for, MySurvey, IAP and Beverage Insiders.

I have also got my own business which I started in October selling soley on eBay at the moment but hoping to have my own online shop soon. It's never going to make me millions but it meant that we didn't have to fork out to put the dogs in kennels for the weekend to go see my parents or to get him the snip (dog not OH).

All in all very busy, but looking forward to getting to know you all over the next year

a big hi, your from my favourite part of the country, I love Dawlish warren, don't know far your away.
Your job sounds fab, I'm going to be cheeky, can I rack your brains in the future, I got the short straw on PTA of being the secetary, come begging letters for prizes - open to any ideas.

Goos luck with the ebay shop, and hopefully your soon have urs up and running.
don't know if you use them at all, but if you go throught topcashback (get £5.00 cashback) then use Vistaprint - can order upto 4 free things a time - inc business cards, etc - they also send emails with special offers - just pay postage - may be handy for the business.

I stocked up dad with 6 tshirts (just paid postage), we all 3 mugs each, the head, the teacher, ta - they all had mug, pen, etc on the offers.
Last night I did an order - tshirt, mug, small banner (quite big size - friends 40th, and 100 postcards (upload photos - did Miss hoodie) thought they would come in useful for thank you notes, etc - they were all free, just paid about £6 postage.

Literally from end Oct to mid Dec, our poor postman must of hated us, on average 2 vistaprint parcels a week.xx

mum2one

2004Alona wrote: »

Has anyone signed up to the sites that offer "free" bingo with no deposits via Bingoport? Really don't want to be giving out my email to so many sites if it means entering a world of pain & spam. Any advice?

Just a thought, but what i do is for surveys etc is set up a 2nd email address, then I know I'm not filterinf through to get to the important ones.
Some of the sites are ok, but you have to really take note of the small print, as you some you have to depoist x times the amount you had free, some you have to use some of that money. Its more the odscoure (excuse spelling), ones that have the weird rules, but sure there be someone who can help more than me xx

mum2one

My aim for mone neutral, all birthdays, mums dat, fathers day, and xmas. Excluding, Miss Hoodie, me, mum and dad, (my figures may look a bit weird, but we do a trade off in the house I do xmas and bdays etc - don't contribute much to food bills. for example a relative, has 3 sets of presents, 1 off parents, 1 off me, 1 off Miss Hoodie) but include Miss Hoodies, Ballet, Tap and swimming lessons.

Birthday
Jan 0 £0
Feb 4 £80
Mar 4 £100
Apr 0 £0
May 3 £50
Jun 3 £40
Jul 2 £25
Aug 2 £35
Sept 6 £45
Oct 2 £35
Nov 0 £0
Dec 1 £15

Total needed £425

Ballet
Term Jan - Easter £55.00 paid (money neutral)
Easter - Summer £
Sept to Christmas
Uniform, 2 prs tap shoes, 2 prs ballet pumps (est £120)
Exams (2 sets a yr) £60

Swimming
Jan - half term Feb
Feb to Easter
Easter to half term
half term to Summer
sept to Oct half term
Oct half term to Dec
2 lots of membership

Mothers day
me £15
mum x 2 prezies £20
nice nanna x £10
Irish nanna £10 (inc postage!!)

Fathers Day
Dad (from me + Miss Hoodie) £20
Grandad x £10
Irish Grandad £10 (inc postage)

Christmas - thats another day!!

esmer

zangels wrote: »

cant find the forum on bingo port, is it the chat thing?

It's down the bottom of the screen on a tab with play bingo, forum etc let me know if that makes sense, I'm sleep deprived. Lol

kirsty822001

Hello everyone, been lurking & would like to join too please.
I am really looking forward to getting some more grabbits as only found them at end of 2010. They really helped with christmas pressies especially the gwp's.
I joined toluna last yr or yr before it was ciao or something then,,anyhow after reading this thread decided to see if i had any points as never checked and stopped doing surveys,,there were 26,000 so am on my way to a voucher at some point! Thanks for tips as bumped it up by 10,000 last night

Joined first thingy live lol cant remember what it was called,,will join another today too,,not sure which one to join.
I have been sellin on ebay for last 10years ,sell all our outgrown unwanted clothes/household items and toys, I sell from about March april and then every Sept i have a big clearout of unwanted toys and sell them to buy my 3 childrens bag of pressies,then we just have to buy the main gifts. Made £345 this sep to nov selling toys and clothes.
I aim to sell every month this year, got 2 large bags of stuff already to put on

I love the idea of the spreadsheet although not good with maths,,it frightens me already and not even looked at it yet ,,how bad that is to admit LOL

Sorry rambled a bit am so excited to be on the case for the year and getting next crimbo hopefully money neutral or as close as I can.
I did make a couple of hampers which went down really really well and were fun to make.
Thankyou for all questions and replies already posted they really have helped me have confidence to join and joins survey sites,,joined the bingoport oh my i was soo confused (numbers see they frighten me LOL) will read tips on here and have another look :rotfl:

twinklekat

mum2one wrote: »

a big hi, your from my favourite part of the country, I love Dawlish warren, don't know far your away.
Your job sounds fab, I'm going to be cheeky, can I rack your brains in the future, I got the short straw on PTA of being the secetary, come begging letters for prizes - open to any ideas.

Funny you should say that - I work in an independent school! Yes just pm me whenever and I'll help however I can. My new years resolution is to be more active on here and not sit quietly in the background! Dawlish is about 40mins away from us and we have to travel though it on the train, it is a beautiful part of the world I do love it down here.

mum2one wrote: »

Goos luck with the ebay shop, and hopefully your soon have urs up and running.
don't know if you use them at all, but if you go throught topcashback (get £5.00 cashback) then use Vistaprint - can order upto 4 free things a time - inc business cards, etc - they also send emails with special offers - just pay postage - may be handy for the business.

No I've never heard of the Vistaprint offers before. I have got the business debit card in hand now and I think I'll go have a little look - thank you!!

Today I'm going to make a list of everyone I've got to buy for and when the OHs boy goes I'm going to raid his room for Ebay to go into his Birthday fund. Until then I'm going to spend an hour on Toluna!

elysia2003

Kirsty - Download the spreadsheet - you have to register for the site but it's free. Honestly, It couldn't be any easier to use - It is pre-filled with examples, all you need to do is click on what it says and press delete to make it blank, and then fill it with whatever you need.

Page one is for earnings - there are sections for Cash back sites, loyalty points (like Boots advantage card) and sections for vouchers (like what you would earn off toluna) The red boxes will add it all up for you - No Maths required!!! Easy!!!

At the bottom of the page at the left hand corner, if you click on page two there is a list for gifts, it has examples again so you need to delete them as above.

You type who you are giving the gift to, then what it is, how much it was full price and how much you paid, and it will work out how much you saved again, all done for you.

There really is nothing to worry about. Honestly.

Well done on your money making efforts so far - you've done really well.

elysia2003

Twinkle - If you are a member of both Quidco and Topcashback you can place two free orders per month (one on each). If you look at the site you will see how much cashback you will earn. Top left hand side when you join Vistaprint there is the option to choose freebies.

You can add your own personalisation and designs etc, but try and keep it as basic as pssible, sometimes adding colours or different fonts make the item chargable (not free). You can have four things free per order, and only pay p+p which sometimes (depends what you order) comes lower than the cash back, so you get your order free plus make some money too. It's great when that happens.

Save your orders Nov/Dec time to make personalised calendars. Grandparents love them, with pics of the grandkids etc. I know mine did, and all I paid was p+p. Bargain!!!