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

pinkfluffybabe

There's a TL app!?! Ooh, will need to get on to that.

The VO is a bit slow in kicking off I think.

Twinklekat have an amazing time in Hong Kong.

Gail welcome to the thread.

Elysia lucky you getting to write up, I keep clicking that link in hope!

Have a good day all. One survey done already (50p lol).

rufusdog52

Morning all

Will have another check on Viva. Kept trying WH yesterday while doing other things but my computer is so slow the thing kept crashing. I did have a few little wins though but for some reason I mainly win on the points games and not the stars! Typical.

I managed to redeem on MyS this morning, only a fiver Amazon but will help in the long run.

Not sure what to do about OH's present for his birthday. I had it all set to get him his surround sound he wanted (I have enough vouchers to buy it now) but I expect I am being a bit silly over this but for my birthday he bought the foot for my machine I had asked for and a dvd and that was it, came to about £40 altogether. I am thinking may be to hold on and get the surround sound for Christmas as we tend to buy dearer presents then for each other. Only thing I am worried about it in case any of these sites go bust between now and then will I still be able to use the vouchers? I dont want to put them all in my Amazon account or I might be tempted to dip in and use them. Some of the sites are ok because they actually email you the voucher so I can leave it in my email until I use it but T and TCB just put the voucher codes up on their sites these days. I can copy them down but what if they do go bust? I know it sounds silly to say it but there have been a lot of cashback sites gone bust over the last couple of months, some that I thought would never disappear and I lost quite a bit of money from them all added together. What would you do anyone? Shall I just put the codes into Amazon and try not to spend them? My Dad often asks me to get him a dvd or cd from Amazon, he gives me the money but means the voucher money would go down. Decisions, decisions lol.

Savvybunny2009

Morning all, no sunshine here I'm afraid, was going to go out but the weather has put me right off.

Have had a good morning, redeemed again on viva and have 20k points added on loony so I'm going to try and do a few surveys, I haven't had much motivation with them recently. Will try and give SN a go again, although it can be very tedious at the best of times.

Rufus, once you have vouchers they wont be taken off you. I just put mine in my amazon account as I worry that someone could randomly generate codes to find which vouchers have been issued and not redeemed yet. With regards to hubby's present I would split the difference. so if he spent £40 on you but the item he wants is £100, then allocate him £70 and spend the extra £30 on yourself, you did work hard for the vouchers so you should treat yourself too

Hope everyone has a lovely day whatever they decide to do

rufusdog52

Thanks Savvy, I am going to take your advice and put all my vouchers on Amazon and done with it. I my Dad asks me to buy him something then I will put the money away in my savings and try to keep hold of it. I am also going to tell him nearer the time that if he wants to order a surround sound from Amazon I will pay £70 towards it in vouchers. He usually get money from his family for his birthday so he should be able to do it. That way I can keep hold of some of the vouchers towards Christmas, Rufus xx

rufusdog52

I have £116 in my Amazon account now :T and still have another £45 owing from T. Seems more than I thought so very happy.

Off to do some more surveys xx

twinklekat

Awesome when that happens isn't it Rufus I bought the OH a couple of things for Valentines / late xmas and it was a lovely feeling not spending my own money.

Redeemed £25 Amazon on Msurvey today and on SN too. AND my first survey tracked on viva, I'm now at £1.85 lol

I've decided I'm going to make homemade gnocci with chicken, tomato and mascarpone sauce for dinner tonight, one of my favourites

elysia2003

Oooh Twinkle that sounds nice. I'm fed up of eating the same things week in week out, so thanks for the inspiration to try something new.

Kec - I'm so sorry I didn't comment on your post last night. You must have posted just as I started typing and I missed it . Anyway, so sorry that you are feeling low. Scream and shout on here any time you like - you too Twinkle. I hope the tabs kick in soon, and that you both feel on top of things again.

Twinkle - Hong Kong??? Why, what, when where and who??????? How did that come about? I'm jealous now - I'm only going to Newquay. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
I hope you have a fab time, the rest and the break will hopefully do you the world of good.

On viva - there is a survey about airports - three times I've done it now (successive days) and it gets to the last question and nothing registers. Just a warning - don't bother with that one.

I signed up to do mystery shopping again. I got a job but realised I'm supposed to do it next week (when I'm on holiday). I got home from our day out and released the job so someone else can do it, and there was a better paid job for where we've been today. Typical!!!

I saved the article I wrote for the test in word, but re-reading it today, it doesn't sound as good as I hoped. I don't think I'll get anywhere with that. It was hard trying to fit all the info into 100 words when on most articles you can get 400. I don't hold out much hope.

Rufus - wow. Well done hun. I agree with Savvy - you should spend that extra £30 on buying yourself something - that way both you and OH will have had £70 the same. Did you have a good day anyway? I hope you did.

Savvybunny2009

Twinkle and Kec I hope you start feeling better soon (((hugs)))

Hong Kong sounds wonderful Twink, it will be a great experience, you learn alot about yourself travelling away and seeing other cultures, places. I hope you have a great time.

I had a one minute survey on buying flowers/plants, easy enough to get through and I enjoyed it, completed questionairre fully and it wasn't credited. Still I redeemed today, hopefully I can keep up this pace

Hope you had a lovely day out with the family Elysia, t's good to get away from the laptop every now and then isn't it was supposed to go out today but it loked so cold and gloomy I stayed in and sulked instead :rotfl:We have planned to go to the Harester on Friday to treat dd though and to soft play, not sure if in that order or not yet though lol.

I occasionally do mystery shopping too, I have two I use, one for petrol and the other for takeaways/quick shopping trips. Have you been with any reliable ones? I wonder if you wouldn't mind could you possibly pm me as I'm quite keen to do a few more shops.

I tried to do some surveys through SN but they use the same ones as viva, so I didn't qualify for more than one on SN, anybody else found this?

susan42

Hi everyone

I been planting seed, 100`s of them, dont hold outmuch hope but its worth a try, we did have one of those plastic greenhouse things, but it had a tardis moment and flew away

glad to see you all cracking on with the fund raising, been slacking lately

But I been making cards and crafting more, I became a bit of an internet addict so have eased off abit

OHhhh Elysia - mystery shop, have I missed something?

Savvy like the way you delegate the money for things, perhaps I should have a go at that....

rufus - well done on your amazon total, thats fab:T:T

twinklecat - hong kong wowowowowow

stressedaah30

just realised the new look v.o site is up and running, loony still owe me for 3 surveys one from mid feb grr. have a fiver on viva even if i managed a redeem from them once a month would be better than i do on any other sites
i use to do a bit of mystery shopping but was so nervous im sure i stood out would like to get back into sometime, having the kids on hols and the nice weather has slowed up the money making