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

Legendmum

Giggles I am SOOOO jealous of Glee! I would have loved to see them but nobody would come with me and they arent coming to Cardiff or werent when I checked!

DS was up at 4.30 this morning! I could have screamed! Pandered to him and lay in bed with him and he finally went back to sleep just after 5.30 for an hour! I am shattered! Was in bed by half 8 last night!

Right need to go and make my target! Made weel over target yesterday with a few surveys later on in the afternoon!

rufusdog52

Morning all

I have two sales tonight on EB so nearly at the challenge amount. Have a bid on one of the tops I put on there last night already, will put another couple on tonight. Is there anywhere where it tells you on EB how many items you have listed this month on the 99p free thing as I know you only allowed 100 per month then they start charging you a listing fee.

No surveys this morning, may be they are all on holiday this week or something.

YD is going through a spat of rows with BF so not sure if we will have tears when she gets up today or not. Dont think the stress of exams helps either. She only has one left to do now next Tuesday. Hoping she can find some holiday work up till September when college starts but hasnt any luck yet.

claireylulu

Morning everyone.

The decorating is coming on really well only downside is the moneymaking has had to be put to one side. Didn't manage anything yesterday. Didn't even switch the comp on just check mail on iPOd.

Legendmum I feel for you. The last few weeks have been smiliar for us with my youngest but he seems to be getting a lot better. Apart from last night he was sick everywhere so was up in the night clearing that up. Hope he is better this morning, he is still in bed.

Giggles sounds like your having a busy time of it at the moment.

Going to try and get through all my surveys today, wish me luck!

knithappens

bunbun2 wrote: »

elysia OH is fine in himself, at home it's just when work is mentioned. he has spoken to someone in the union who said he will refer him to occ health if he wants. OH said he will get back in touch after his appointment with the therapist tomorrow. last week she suggested he went on supply and I went back to work. supply pays half of what he earns at the moment and whilst I agree it would be better for him the mortgage and bills have to be paid. also I haven't worked for 13 years so getting a job won't be plain sailing. I just wonder how realistic this therapist is.

sorry to go on but I can't see a way out at the moment and money worries me

Try not to worry money wise at the moment, i knwo easier said than done, if is school is run by the local LEA, and apply the Burgundy book rules, then he can get sick pay - which will be his full wage for 6 months, then it drops to half pay for I think 3 months then nothing.

So money wise you are ok at the minute, if he decides to go back, Oc health can arrange for him to have aphased return to work, or can recommend he permanently reduce his hours, or give up some of his responsibility. When I went back I went back phased which was a few afternoons per week and built it up from there.

Try and plan for the worst case senario now, in case he does not go back and there is not a regualar income, the planning for redundancy section on his is very good, i knwo it is not the same situation, but the tips on there are fab in helping you reduce spending "just in case" and because things are so uncertain for you right now they may help.

Also the TES online have great commmunity forum section where you can post questions there, or just read posts for general advice.

I knwo when i want to see someone they had tonnes of suggestions but they were'nt realistic for me, I was single no partner or family to help etc, so the suggestions of getting support etc from family were just not doable.

Remember to look after yourself too, as peopledont seem to understand that you are affected by this just as much as your husband, I really hope tha he can make some decisions soon so you can get some clarity on how things are going to go.

Savvy_sewing

elysia2003 wrote: »

Mooloo - I'll find the code for you.

Susan/Knit - there's another one to add to your order. - Gu chocolate souffles - COU2144131.


Mooloo - You go through this link - add add your chocolate souffles above to basket, also the chocs I posted on the other page, make sure you order about £50 worth of items (including the freebies).

At checkout, add the two codes for the free items, and this code VOU0837678 - and it will take off another £20. If you ordered £50 worth, it will total about £20 plus delivery charge.

New customers only

Thanks, I finally had got there, but it took me some going. I have ordered, the 3 codes worked for me, the shopping is coming on next Tuesday. I got the cheapest delivery slot I could find, but got charged extra £2 for not spending over £75, but I dont mind. They said I had saved £31.79!!! Thats OK for me. I ordered 6 bottles of cheap plonk, an expensive razor on a "bundle offer", a BBQ deal on a "bundle offer", and a few different offers on the fruits. As this was not my main shopping delivery, as I had had my one from MR A, it will just save me off of my July shopping, and give us the fruit and veg that I start to run out of by now. I am at BF's tomorrow, so will make do with the store cupboard UHT milk for today, and we still have apples, lemons, carrots, potatoes and onions so I am OK.
Thanks everyone.
Now I must remember I have to put some of that savings into my Christmas funds.
I was originally going to use an old Nationwide account book that I had, but there isn;t one in the town (that I have found anyway), so its an effort to go to Towcester, unless I am with the twins. Then I dont want them to know what I am upto saving so I will have to have a bit of a rethink.

susan42

mooloo - i didnt have a credit card...they`re too tempting, i did have one and cut it up...lol. I know how nosey twins are nothing gets past them.

bunbun - sometimes i dont think theripist understands, if you get a good one with their own family they`re fantastic, but if you get a raw, textbook one , they`re a bit green...perhaps it be worth talking to occ health for another view. I feel for you and OH

Legend - i feel for you with DS, when your routine disrupted from no fault of your own, tiredness seems twice as bad.

giggles - slow down lol

Well i didnt do any surveys yesterday, but i had a laundry product to try , so that saved a £5 and with elysias links for free chocs, thats a pressie done as I not fussed on milk either...II dont know where the day went. And Elysia the card got your name on it, but you might change your mind as you see some more, LOTV have stunning images. That was one I wasnt too fussed on but wanted to make a blue themed card. When I make red ones (waiting for flowers to come) i get so excited for xmas...lol. And i`m away for 3 weeks before so need to get organised early....

rufusdog52

I was updating spread sheet again and went back in T to check points and managed to work out how to get to the sponsored polls now, they have changed the site so its not the same as I was doing (I was going to the top menu where it says explore and going down to it from the pull down menu). What I found is that when I clicked on one of the sponsored polls in the little box on the righthand side of the home page it came up with some questions and then was putting me through to a survey but didnt qualify so went back to home page and did it again and again, didnt qualify for any of the surveys but there were a load of those polls to do. When I finished them all it came up in the little box again to so some surveys so I clicked on these too to see what they were and it was just updating my profile questions (which I did not that long ago but it said some had new questions in it). Said I would get extra points when they were all updated.

I was on 79233 points I think before I started so was hoping to get to cash out level, when I finished I was over 84000 points so managed to claim another A voucher and have some left over.

Hope this might help some who have been having trouble with T lately xx

elysia2003

Rufus - good job! Well done hun. I did exactly that last week, that's what enabled me to redeem too. I'm not sure how you check your listings on ebay. Perhaps you could just list one at a time when you're near the limit. It should only cost you a few pence.

Knit - excellent advice there hun.

Mooloo - I'm glad you got your shopping sorted. I saved £19.99 plus the £20. So £60 worth of shopping for £22. I love it. Other people are placing multiple orders now, but being delivered in the weeks to follow. I think I'd rather stick to Mr T, I know where I am then.

Susan - I'm getting soooo excited for Christmas. I can't wait to see what you make next. I love LOTV images, they're always so adorable. x

Claire - I hope DS feels better when he wakes up.

Legend - did you try some of that SLeep therapy stuff out of the Avon? It's great stuff. You should give it a try.

Savvybunny2009

Morning everyone, aren't we all up early today!

Did a piney early in the morning so that's counting as my 2.50, yesterday I had skincare products to test through the post and a £5 giftcard too (I did post yesterday but mse had a meltdown and lost my post!)

Well done all who managed to get their order in, went to place mine this morning to find the code had expired, thanks tp [epople placing multiple orders I can't even place one and I ordered my crowdidty voucher at 2 minutes past midnight when it went live. Guess that'll teach me for waiting around. Don't ammend your orders otherwise you lose your discount too!

Trying to get motivated today but it's not happening yet, need a coffee and toast I think lol

susan42

hey elysia, thanks i managed to get the renault things, great day out too

savvy- didnt realise it could expire, nor realise you could do multiple orders, thought it was one per new customer