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

NickyBo_2

Wow, I just checked my Ebay and the Halloween costume is going for over £10 now! It still has quite a few hours to go too

Legendmum

Well done Nicky! I need a halloween costume for Connor so I may pop on the old ebay and have a gander!

Karonher

It would be lovely to see pictures of the puppy Michelle and I am getting worried about what to buy for a few people now that I am seeing how organised everyone else is.

I still have my friends daughters 18th and 21st in the next few weeks although I have already bought theirs and another friends 50th in December so I need quite a few ideas for her.

I have a mystery shop today which means I can spend £45 so can I count that towards my total as long as I take out expenses and tax?

I have just seen another replay of the Jack Rodwell sending off and have started to get annoyed again so will go and calm down before I go to do the shop.

Hope everyone has a lovely day and finds lots of bargains.

Savvybunny2009

Don't worry about alot of us being so organised, quite a few of us bought presents in the Christmas sales last year as well as buying grabbits throughout the year. I have started on dd's birthday presents and my younger sisters 18th mainly because these are the expensive ones which I can't really leave last minute. My sister will be having a pamper hamper full of make up, toiletries, slippers, a bottle of lambrini as she wouldn't know when to stop with champagne lol. It has cost next to nothing so far

My best advice is keep an eye on the grabbit board and buy any gifts that you know you will need or the person would love as and when they pop up. I do this mainly because it saves so much money but also you never know what is around the corner or what might happen in life. We had a money situation last Christmas which would have caused problems but luckily we bought throughout the year and Christmas was salvaged. This year will more than make up for last thankfully

Good luck with the mystery shop, sounds like you are with a great company to be offered that much, the most I have ever been offered is a free meal, free petrol or a small incentive payment without cost of spending.

Legendmum

Ladies dont forget S&S and Elysia Tissue!

Haha I beat you to it today Elysia!!! x

Karonher

Savvybunny I have pmd you the details of the company as I was worried about putting it on the board as a couple of companies dont like their business discussed. I can send anyone else the details if they want them. I did worry about working for them at first as they ask for banking details right away but I have been with them for a couple of years and no problems.

bunbun2

karonher please could I have the details too

legend thanks for the reminder about S&S. I have done the receipts but need to do the barcodes on ds2's computer and for some reason it won't connect to the internet. will try again later.

nicky wow at least £10 for your halloween costume:T hope there is a last minute bidding war

savvy my points on the spuds didn't jump either but I have only just joined. sorry to hear you are not well. hope you feel better soon

michelle how is your puppy settling in? ours is fab at the moment - he is asleep! he is very cute and reasonably well behaved and good fun!

well done on everyone's totals. I forgot to write most of mine down:( but I have managed to pay for both school trips which was my goal:j:j

ds2 is off on his school trip tomorrow so have been packing for that today. it's a shame it wasn't this week as then weather doesn't look good for next week in Cumbria

karen_is_trying

Legendmum im just back from a mooch around shops and they have a fab array of haloween suits in asda'a and home bargains (sorry i dont know what the rules are regarding posting shop names on here, hope someone can fill me in y the * and bits are used), but back to haloween they had all sizes from a baby to adult and from £3 and up if you cant find what you want on ebay x

xmum2threex

Thanks all for welcome wrote a mobile phone review and up to about £1.50 now with rates of others so I am happy with that :j:j first review I have done for a while but the £2.50 challenge gave me a push so thank you

Also due a payment from one survey site once they add the points that is and up to 77 000 on T so just waiting for more polls etc to push that up to a voucher

Im new to s & s sent in my first lot of reciepts but not recieved my welcome voucher yet not sure what I am missing :rotfl:

Your all doing so well keep it up xxx :cool::cool:

elysia2003

Hiya Karen - It's just so the companies can't use the search feature and find out what we are saying about them They can search by trawling through each thread, but that would take ages.
Thanks for the heads up about the Halloween stuff - DD wants to go as a bat this year. I think she's turning goth, she's been dressed head to toe in black all weekend. She's starting early, she isn't 9 yet.

Legend - thanks for the reminder. I've been neglecting that one lately. I need to get on to S&S too, before they chuck me off. I've not posted any barcodes for three weeks due to comp trouble. I still can't get it to work.

Michelle - I hope murphy is settling in well. You've got your hands full I guess.

Karoner - I did join one you mentioned a while back. I've not took the tests yet though, due to comp trouble mentioned above. Is it the same company you mentioned before? If so - that's the one I joined. If it's not that one, can you pm me too please? I love doing myst/shops.

Don't worry about not being so organised - most of us have been at this since Christmas. You'll be VERY organised next year.

Sorry I've been AWOL. Went and took DD to the park this morning, and got back about 1.30. I've been sat here listing my stuff on ebay ever since. I've got a numb bum. :rotfl:

Fingers crossed they all do well. I've listed 29 items but I'm dreading the packing and posting already. :eek:

Not a penny earnt for me so far, so I'm on the hunt for some surveys now. If I can't find them, I'll be sure to put my £1 in my pot.

See you in a bit. xxx