~~ July 2011 Make £10 a day Challenge - All Welcome ~ ~

littlepinkstars44

onlyroz wrote: »

Are these things that you would have bought anyway, if you hadn't had the vouchers?

Yes, Body Shop items are for my friend and mum's birthdays next week,
saved on shampoo and conditioner and toothpaste in Boots, will be needing that anyway. And I was going to buy the Harry Potter game in my work with my 10% staff discount, Tesco sent me so many vouchers that it would have been rude not to buy it there instead

littlepinkstars44

Also nothing much today. Found 20p roadkill, has been added to my sealed pot!

misskaytee

Morning all,
Nothing to add yet, few ebay bits finish later, so i'll be back.

Just thought i'd share my view on the saving vs making money ideas.

I think times are hard, it seems especially this month we are all finding it a bit of a struggle, i dont count general savings towards this challenge, each week i save £15 /£20 on the weekly shop, but dont count this because thats just how i shop anyway, im not doing anything different, but if i was cutting out vouchers and using those while shopping, i would add those savings, because i wouldn't of just got them without the effort.
I dont think we can be adding things we wanted to buy but didnt!! Unless the £10 or whatever, you nearly spent on the thing you decided not to, goes into paying off debt or into proper savings pot

I Think that everyone has their own slight variation on the "make £10 a day" challenge, I say go with you Gut, If it feels right to add it, add it :T

Frodobaggins

Morning all, hope everyone is well.
I saved £8.20 yesterday on money off voucher for shopping and petrol. Also need to add £9.90 saved in s.world for 12 week countdown and £4.95 free recipe book.
Brings me to £142.48/£310.:o

MattSS

1p roadkill

and picked my brother and his mates up from town so adding £26 for that (after petrol)

onlyroz

littlepinkstars44 wrote: »

Yes, Body Shop items are for my friend and mum's birthdays next week,
saved on shampoo and conditioner and toothpaste in Boots, will be needing that anyway. And I was going to buy the Harry Potter game in my work with my 10% staff discount, Tesco sent me so many vouchers that it would have been rude not to buy it there instead

Fine then
I think we make our own rules. I wouldn't count the use of a voucher unless I'd bought something that I was going to buy anyway. I *would* count BOGOF savings, but again only if it was something that I would have bought anyway.

E.g. my mum thinks she is a great moneysaver but I think that she actually wastes money by buying "bargains" - when what she actually does is buy cheap tat that will fall apart after 5 mins. She'll also buy more stuff on BOGOF than she can possibly use before the sell-by date.

donna_dynamo

Hi all updated on this my monthly challenge so far i am upto 49.58. Not on target at the moment but i have some more ebay sales to finish and more CD's to sell and my sister has given me some things to sell.

robedha_2

£6.01 from eBay sales and a whole £5.00 from a Thunderball win last night.

£11.01 in total to add.

princesst84

Hello everyone
Sunday dinner on, so while waiting thought I would chip in with my view on how we all make our £10 a day.
I personally only count actual cash that i will pay against a debt or use to buy something we need (need not want:p). So for me it is ebay, or interest from accounts...will hopefully one day get some money from doing surveys and when I do I will add that too.
As everyone has said I am just doing what works for me..
Good luck for the rest of the month :j theres still plenty of days left!
xx

onlyroz

Another £30.62 to add today, largely from the 3-for-2 offer on Dulux paint in Homebase, and from BOGOF and similar savings in Tesco.