All the small things - tell me what you have done to be MF today

LauraJo

made cookies with skanky left over dried fruit. Weirdly had all the ingredients and they have come out ok (considering I can't cook!)

usa1

Today

Redeemed £20.00 via Pay Pal from Reward Opinions.
Redeemed £10.00 Asda vouchers from Max1miles.


Better money saving day today..

dipashah

PM'd you

it's a shame you find maximiles slow - i had that problem for awhile where I wasn't getting the emails - go to your account - untick and save and then re-tick and save and see if you start to get them. fingers crossed.

do you watch the videos? that's a good way to boost your points too - you just need to play them then carry on doing whatever you are online and go back to rate them each time they finish. and the polls are just one question and give you 5 points each (normally on the right hand side of my homepage once signed in)

shala_moo wrote: »

- need to join swagbucks and inboxpounds - any referrals welcome

dipashah - i find maximiles slow to collect points on - i don't get the surveys/emails at all even though it says i'm subscribed to them:mad: once i get to my 3000 (only earnt because i used to use it through mysupermarket) then i'm cancelling it...

Thanks for the heads up on the Gumbo AG... i mentioned it to OH and he's quite excited to try it..

shala_moo

Thanks dipashah - have tried the trick with maximiles will let you know how it goes. I do the videos and the polls too but i'm a little impatient and it's just not quick enough for me building up the points. I'm finding Superpoints better..

Thanks for the PM..

had more money saving this afternoon
- had 25% off £60 shop from Ocado
- boss bought in 2.5 boxes of Felix cat food for me, free!
- free pedometer given away at work (we're encouraged to be healthy as we're owned by Americans and they like a healthy workforce - still pushing for free fruit box!)
- researched a new mobile phone contract for July found one for £10.50 a month rather than £40 :eek:
- free lottery ticket from Searchl0tto

just watching Long Lost Families - oh it does break my heart

unhappy_shopper

Not very much money-saving activity today other than a NSD.

Regarding surveys, I do only a selected few (SP, VO, Crowdology, Mysurvey and now OnePoll) as I find that I cannot spare lots of time to do these regularly. I particularly like those surveys which send the invite to the email address.

Have a nice BH weekend, everyone :-)

ammonite

Was having a grumble about having to spend a fortune on Garden stuff and how I thought it would be around £30 and seems it has totalled over £100..anyway, went to B&Q twice, and both trips ended up coming to £100 in total....seems it was 20% day in B&Q if you spent over £100, wasn't sure if we would get it as we'd spent £100 in 2 trips....but they honoured it and we saved £20.......gone into the overpayment fund of course

Just hit £300 savings to overpay this month!

Shala - that is some saving on a mobile contract ! I believe GiffGaff are good and piggyback the o2 network.

Kazza41

I have really enjoyed this thread and it has inspired to really save those pennies:j

Today, I have not put the heating on, despite being cold!

Started to used valued opinions again to use money for vouchers.

Rounded down money in my bank and added to my virtual sealed pot

ammonite

Another £8.34 in cashback from November due in the next payment round from Quidco ...straight to the overpay account :j

Paddy Power have an offer on Topcashback...£25.50 cashback if you sign up and deposit £10. Wondering whether to have a bet on the FA cup final because technically I'd end up £15.50 in profit from the cashback regardless if I won or lost. Hmm decisions decisions.... :think: what do we reckon?

shala_moo

Thanks ammonite.. i had a look at giffgaff but i didn't really get it. i have a short attention span for anything technical and complicated... :rotfl:

Just put the phone comparison on my diary, it's shocking how much money i've wasted..

My comparison :

Contract = 600 free minutes, unlimited texts and unlimited data
actual usage (avg month) = 10 minutes talk :eek:, lots of texts and 150-200 mb of data

So at the moment i'm paying for 500 + minutes of talk time i never use :eek:

In other news
- i've won 17p on my free lottery ticket i had, wooo hooo :T:rotfl:
- planted out my raspberry, blackberry, blueberry, strawberry and asparagus plants - i'm hoping by next year we'll have some decent crops
- not gone shopping today - NSD
- done all surveys etc
- redownloaded nectar search bar thingy - double points in May the email said
- emailed for a refund from Ocado for bruised apples
- rang mortgage ppl y'day - upped my monthly DD by £123 (knocks off 4 yr 8 months)

ammonite

I think Giffgaff is just SIM only - lol at your short attention span

well done for your 17p

Wondering whether I should change our DD on the mortgage, reckon we could manage another £100 minimum every month, that way we have to find the £100 rather than it being an optional overpayment.

Decided to go for the PaddyPower bet...so made £15.50 cashback profit already, then we also got a £20 free bet...

Worse case scenario: I'm £15.50 richer.
Best case scenario: I'm £410 richer. <---- You know where that will be going!:D

So I guess everyone is a winner here! Now...Liverpool better play well today! ETA: I'm not in the slightest a gambler usually, just thought that was a good offer!