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

Savvybunny2009

Diddly - you can change your username on Ebay which is what I have had to do with hubby as he found out my account details and went snooping and found out what sold for what and wanted 'his share' and found out what I bought him for his birthday, how much it cost and from who but you could change your password but then he can still see what you have sold and how much for etc

kiwichick

zangels wrote: »

I just did my shopping on line and i saved about £7 at the end. I think I will start a supermarket savings card instead of a bank account and will put the money saved that trip onto the savers card (up to £5 each time) and do it this way instead if thats ok?

Great minds and all that ZANGELS, I did just this last night at Mr T. Did my shop and had a shiny £1 coin in my change, spotted the savers stamps on my way out the door and bought one. I've never bought them before but thought I'd nothing to loose. Have clipped the book to the fridge with my tesco vouchers so as not to loose it. In future I shall do that at whichever supermarket I happen to be in at the time, any £1 into savers stamps, £2 into the £2 jar and change under 50p in the sealed jar.

NickyBo_2

Oooh, thanks so much for the challenge! And for putting it on a day early, as it gives us an important extra day to get ahead with it


1. THE AIM IS TO MAKE £50 ON EBAY. (after all ebay/paypal fees and postage has been taken into account).

Just before Christmas I sorted out all DS's toys, how can a 3 year old have so much stuff??!! I ended up with 3 bin bags of good quality toys that he has outgrown, so I'm all ready for an Ebay challenge. I'm not expecting much of it to sell well as I would imagine most houses are swamped with toys right now, but I'll give it a whirl anyway .
I have some clothes he has outgrown and also some that I have outgrown so I will pop those on too. I don't think I'll make the full £50 but anything made is extra and this challenge will motivate me to try harder rather than put it off!


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2. OPEN A SEPARATE CHRISTMAS SAVINGS ACCOUNT.
I have an old savings account that I haven't used in years. It has £2.52 in so that can be a start to my Christmas savings

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3.SAVE UPTO £5 WHEN YOU DO YOUR SHOPPING

That's a great idea! I often get buy1get1free and love looking at the bottom bit of the receipt to see how much I saved.

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4. Save for January sales!
I have my tin ready. It's the tin I started last year and then it got packed when we moved house at the end of October and I couldn't find it again in time for this Christmas! So I actually have a bit of a head start with that as it's got quite a bit of change in already :rotfl:. Hopefully I'll not lose it this year!


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elysia2003

How you complete the challenge is up to you, be it music magpie, recycle old phones - whatever!!! :beer:

The way you save your money is up to you - It IS your money. I just know that I always saved for Christmas with Park hampers, or Family Hampers or Farepak - whatever gave you the most comission that year. I was one who lost thousands, not just me either. As I was the rep, it was my family and friends who joined just to help me earn a bit of cash for Christmas.

Since then, I wouldn't touch those companies with a barge pole (sorry Diddly), and saving money in the house meant I kept dipping into it. Not good!!! Hence my suggestion for a dedicated bank account - true you can still get your money out, but I think you are less likely to.

Thanks for the advice on opening a bank account through TCB Buffythedebtslayer. I did check through quidco obviously, but the time of morning, plus I wanted to get the challenge up and running meant I never checked TCB. I opened my savings account this time last year with Santander (£20 cash back at the time). I have no book, it's all done online, (I do have an ATM card to withdraw though) and it means I can transfer money easily from one account to the next or set up a Direct Debit and never notice it.

Store saving stamps is a brilliant idea. Thanks to whoever mentioned it, and remember you will still have your Amazon vouchers from Bingoport, and other vouchers (from Toluna and the like) to pay for gifts.

This challenge like mum2one (on the other thread) says - is like a pic n mix - you do what suits you. The aim of the challenge is to give you a bit more motivation. :A

:j:j:jCome on everyone - we CAN do it!!!:j:j:j

ladyfour

Hi i have been lurking for some time now, I love the idea that I can get all my Christmas presents for free ( well nearly) I have 4 children, plus 20 other people to buy for.
Would like to buy some furniture from homebase today online of course looked at quidco and topcashback, already a member of quidco but not topcashback, would somebody please refer to topcashback the cashback is double to what I would get on quidco would love to help out another member spending £377 on a new sideboard and tv unit plus having a new tv in 4 days time ( had a win at bingo -- £500) thanks
Also I love playing bingo, do you get anything for refer a friend on bingport

NickyBo_2

This afternoon I’ll send out the message containing the Toluna usernames. So far the following people have asked to join:
Turia
Legendmum
elysia2003
twinklekat
zangels
susan42
Ddraig
rufusd!!!2
esmer

If anyone else wants to be added to the list please message me your Toluna username, thanks

NickyBo_2

ladyfour wrote: »

Hi i have been lurking for some time now, I love the idea that I can get all my Christmas presents for free ( well nearly) I have 4 children, plus 20 other people to buy for.
Would like to buy some furniture from homebase today online of course looked at quidco and topcashback, already a member of quidco but not topcashback, would somebody please refer to topcashback the cashback is double to what I would get on quidco would love to help out another member spending £377 on a new sideboard and tv unit plus having a new tv in 4 days time ( had a win at bingo -- £500) thanks
Also I love playing bingo, do you get anything for refer a friend on bingport

Pm'd you about TCB Well done on your Bingo win, that's great!

susan42

wd savvybunny on your b/p redeem and a 20000 point survey wow , I get so frustrated with toluna so go in and make 1000 npoints on sponsored links.

kirsty - the abbreviations are confusing but i like the donkey / hay :rotfl::rotfl:

didly - when i won the CM said pick a nutter, i did nt have a clue what they were on about, but i thought it was an insult to call someone a nutter so while i scanned to see if i could find anyone off here, i typed in lisa and there wasnt anyone of that name and she got a bit annoyed with me:o

stressed - wd on your redeem

elysia - thank you so much for the challenge, i must find some things and perhaps we should have codes for BP

legendmum - you feel free to use caps when you want ...:D

esmer - i hate smoke too, its odd really because i dont mind people smoling around me when i`m out but went to visit relative other day for an hour and went to bathroom 7 times, must have thought i had a problem, but as i have had 2 heart attacks was finding it hard to breathe when the lady lit up and was going to bathroom to breathe as chest was getting tight. My OH was horrified she lit up in front of me and kept going on about the extraordinary length of her cigarette.

zangels - i joined survey network yesterday was awarded a £1 and have done 2 surveys this morning emailed to me £2 each And its a fab idea putting money on savoings card, i`m going to do this and then it`ll be a surprise come december

elysia - thanks for challenge about using shopping savings, thats ace

kec - im doing 1000 points a day on toluna as I answer surveys for hour and have nothing to show for it.

Hi everyone else and 4 pages in 12 hours, i cant keep up , best check in later, i`m off to the sales...again...with my copper jar...:T

ladyfour

thank you to elysia2003 and nickbo for helping me this is a very friendly thread

esmer

Woo Hoo! got my first redeem from Bingoport. Im not off to get dressed and go out and about. If I dont speak to you all later, have a wonderful night and see you all next year!

Kim