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

unhappy_shopper

LavenderBees wrote: »

Just one new thing from me in amongst all the other normal (perhaps not so normal??) stuff I do - the Office of National Statistics interview me every 2 years about financial stuff. Seems I'm representative of the nation (can you imagine! :rotfl:), so I do my bit for Blighty, and tomorrow is my interview and in return I get a £10 High Street voucher :T

Well done on your NSW :beer:

I am also part of the statistics, an officer comes home and interviews us for an hour. But, we are not paid for it I always thought of that as our contribution to the country. Do I have to ask for my payment next time?

linz

unhappy_shopper wrote: »

[*]Wombled two 5p off petrol tillspits when I was at MrT collecting something which I ordered last week - projected saving of £3 each for the next 2 fillings.
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That is brilliant :T I often wonder why people do this, get vouchers for 5p a litre off and don't even use them, especially in this current climate.

My small things over the last few days are;

- Packed lunches for work all week, mostly using whoopsied bread

- Filled up at Sainsburys in the week, used nectar card, paid on nectar credit card, got a till spit for £4.50 off a £30 spend and one for double points on my next shop.

- Went to Sainsburys again today to make use of the till spits. Conveyor belt looked distinctly orange and white with basics stuff but who cares lol.

- Another nectar promotion in the post which i'm going to use this weekend is 500 bonus points if I spend £10 in Homebase which I will use for something.

- Found a load of old scrap metal bits, including some bits of brass and copper in the shed. Taking it, along with some old tools to the scrappies tomorrow, should fetch about £10 or so. Decluttering and getting paid for it

Just realised my list is nectar heavy. This is because i redeem my nectar points for Amazon vouchers to spend on Christmas presents / bargains throughout the year.

Happy weekend everyone :j

LavenderBees

unhappy_shopper wrote: »

Well done on your NSW :beer:

I am also part of the statistics, an officer comes home and interviews us for an hour. But, we are not paid for it I always thought of that as our contribution to the country. Do I have to ask for my payment next time?

That's strange. I'd certainly ask why you haven't received your £10 voucher in the past & how they will make sure you receive it this time - it normally arrives a good 1-2 months after the interview, so is a nice surprise when it eventually arrives. I've not had to do anything...wonder if your ONS Officer isn't completing the paperwork properly. Definitely ask. It may only be £10, but it's YOUR £10

LB xx

ETA - just dug out my letter - "To reflect the importance we place on your assistance, a gift of a £10 voucher is given to each person who completes the survey". N.B. This is the Household Assets Survey...Survey Enquiry Helpline is 0800 298 5313 if you want to query where your tenner is. Good luck!

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linz

linz wrote: »

- Found a load of old scrap metal bits, including some bits of brass and copper in the shed. Taking it, along with some old tools to the scrappies tomorrow, should fetch about £10 or so. Decluttering and getting paid for it

ETA - £20 for some scrap copper & brass bits at scrap yard :j

rainbowcattail

Morning all, I'm trying to get back on track and all your posts are really inspiring. I've upgraded my mobile at £4.57less per month. I really must try & remember to charge mob & things at work as well.

Yesterday I potted up pumpkin, squash & courgette seedlings to harden off for the allotment. Pleased to see my tomato seedlings are showing signs of growing as well.

Xx

shala_moo

linz wrote: »

Just realised my list is nectar heavy. This is because i redeem my nectar points for Amazon vouchers to spend on Christmas presents / bargains throughout the year.

do you know i'd forgotten that you could swap them for Amaz0n vouchers.. i'm saving up my vouchers for a Kitchen Aid (£410 :eek:), got £100ish at the moment but i'm sure there's quite a lot on my nectar card! Thanks :jnow i'm a bit closer!

Today i've saved some money on shopping
- H0mebase was 15% off so finally bought much needed toilet floor and shelves for the hall, total saved £11.94
- Tesc0 shop - was sent a voucher for £12 off £80 spend, used this in conjuction with my £10 complaint voucher plus a few of the ones from the news letter and i've managed to save £26! (and some of the shopping is not for us - i'm doing a buffet at work for the jubilee so i'll get some more money back!)

and other bits
- got another £1 voucher through the post from M&S for using their 0% credit card
- 5p off voucher for petrol
- Quidc0 payment of £1.01 requested
- ISA remaining interest £1.31 put into my saving pot
- FD regular saver is up this month so looking forward to this interest coming through

Shineyhappy

Hi all,

DH and I transfered £14.7k to the mortgage, we are now maxed out without paying 3% fee on any further OPs. Do we keep OPing and take the hit or put it in the bank till next year?

On a bad note, I am being made redundant from one of my jobs so money will be tight but there is enough to pay the bills and we have plenty in the bank for a rainny day. Its a good thing as I hated the job but scary as there isnt much work where I am. We have been preparing for this by phoning Sky to get the bill down by £30 and we have have saved £50 on our gas/electric and our mortgage payments will be £100 less with. This will obviously help but apart from growing some vegetables I am running out of ideas. I do the normal surveys and coupons so will just have to get my thinking cap on.

Sorry for the rambling!

katsu

Wish I could get into that ONS survey, sounds fab.

This weekend for me:
* cheap petrol fill and miles points at Mr M
* got 2 books for my Xmas pressie box for <£1 in CS bargain sale (and a small "just because" gift for a friend for 25p).
* got some yellow sticky bits of fruit and veg at MrT petrol station

pink_poppy

shala_moo wrote: »

do you know i'd forgotten that you could swap them for Amaz0n vouchers.. i'm saving up my vouchers for a Kitchen Aid (£410 :eek:), got £100ish at the moment but i'm sure there's quite a lot on my nectar card! Thanks :jnow i'm a bit closer!

Got a Debenhams sale brochure with the Sunday Times today & they're showing a Kitchen Aid for £369 (was £419) available in 9 colours. I know Debenhams are on the Nectar eshops ~ says on the website they're doing triple points as well.

Has anyone seen/played the 'Spin to Win' on Nectar's facebook page?? Thousands of points to be won every day apparently ~ will have to have a mosey on over