~The Final MAKE £10 A DAY in December Challenge for 2011 ~ Everybody Welcome

lemmings1986

nat21luv wrote: »

Oh what a week! Hope you've all had a wonderul christmas!

Had a lovely few days away in Bath, gorgeous hotel in the sticks and fab shopping. Shame I had the LO with me as she was a monkey in the restaurant but apart from that...bliss! Even spotted Nicholas Cage whist shopping in Bath centre!

I have made some money, £20 cash from Daddyo, £10 gift voucher, £3 shopping savings. Thats all I'll add as I cant rememeber the rest! I had a lovely xmas day (once the ex left) He stayed the night on xmas eve in the spare room as I was feeling generous, it allowed him to watch his daughter open her presents as she was too young last year. He woke in a foul mood and was made worse by me accidently putting his son's toy in my sons stocking. He blew his lid, shouting, swearing so I kicked him out and told him not to come back. After that I had a wonderful day with my family joining us for dinner. Lots of fun. Had the day to myself yesterday and was at a loss for what to do! My daughter came home bright as a button but after being in bed for only 15 mins, screamed as she had been sick...everywhere! So I havent had much sleep and the washing maching has been working overdrive but we're still in good spirits.

Feeling rather positive for the year ahead, whatever happens with finances, fostering, ex's and my family, I will survive and be happy. Hope your all in the same frame of mind, we can get through it together!

Merry Christmas and Happy 2012 everyone!

:wave: hi nat glad you had a nice time.

fracturedsun

My second $10 paypal from superpoints arrived . Has been worked out as £6.22 this time so I'm adding that to my total. Took a little longer this time (but with Christmas in the middle I think I can forgive it being just over a week to fulfillment).

I got a handbag for Christmas too, so think I will add the £5 I would otherwise have spent at a charity shop replacing the previous one, which was one final straw away from the strap snapping.:)

jessicamb

Thanks for this thread - was just reading through the forums and saw the detail about Amazon trade in. I didn't even know it existed! Anyway a few hours later I'll hopefully be about £100 better off than I was at lunchtime.

Good luck with your challenge!

Rosie

Hi all.
Hope you all had a Merry Christmas :T:beer::T

ms_night_ryder

Need to pull my finger out, perhaps friday, need to finish filling in my food diary and send it off, need to take a few pics of stuff for ebay and redo my amazon trade in as i missed their 7 day deadline, all things to be done.

please-let-me-be-lucky

Hi hope everyone had a great Christmas :xmassign::xmassign::xmassign:

Adding £100 Xmas present money. Also, been out for my Mums birthday today with our large family. Mum slipped me £40 so we could be seen to chip in for meal, but as it was happy hour, ours was only £25 for the 4 of us. I offered her the £15 change back but she told me to keep it so I'm adding that too :beer:

Nat, pleased you sound more positive Xx

jakes-mum

Hellooooo,

Another £5 amazon voucher from swagbucks and £50 from me mum for christmas

franby64

Morning

Hope everybody had a lovely Christmas.

Just a couple of things, 13p roadkill and £1.75 from A*da price thing making a total of £26.81!

I've had some Christmas money but haven't included as I'm spending it! There may be a small eb*y sale if the buyer pays in time for it to be posted this year but that's probably it.

lemmings1986

hi guys well manage to get amother £5 amazon voucher with swagbucks but not adding til i recieve it.
still waiting on the £50 amazon voucher for the forum thing i did last week so they should be here soon.:D
had a great day yesterday me and oh went shopping and i had to get a new kettle so used the ar**s giftcard i had so didnt cost anything then went to game as oh wanted to have a look and everyone got him game vouchers for xmas he got £90 alltogether so he bought 4 games and because they were on offer it only cost £30.44 so used one of his giftcards, then went to ev**s and got a top also didnt cost anything as used vouchers from mc**ns, we also went to lush as i wanted some bits and all there xmas stuff is half price spent £35 but should of cost me £71 but managed to get quite a few presents for birthdays in january/febuary and am just going to rewrap them so saved £35.then went to mr t's as oh wanted a curry for tea so bought one of those takeaway things off reduced for £5.85 and some potatoes for 11p but used a giftcard so didnt cost anything.:D then when we got home and went to cook it the korma was smashed and the tikka had half the curry missing :mad: so rang the store and told them about it but we live about 22 miles away from that store and dont go in very often and she said bring it back next time your in,the last time i was in there was about 2 months ago cant wait that long it would of gone mouldy so rang head office and they sending me a £6 giftcard :j
also managed to get a xmas tree for next year as ours broke it was on sale for £2 from wilko's we was planning on buying one in the sale for next year so saved myself about £23 so all in all had a great day and didnt cost us hardly anything and it all thanks to this thread and all the people on here and aesop for running thread.
a few months ago i would of gone shopping and spent a fortune without a thought but now thanks to mse and you guys we have learnt we can stil buys the things we need but earn the extra money 1st to pay for them.
were now planning on saving vouchers/giftcards for b&q with sh*pns**n as were planning to decorate in the new year so they will pay for paint etc.
sorry for such longgggggg post but just wanted to say thanks if it wasnt for ever1 on here im sure we would still be spending like we was before and getting into more debt

Aesop

What a lovely post Lemmings.

I must admit I really enjoyed pulling out vouchers and coupons this year to pay for items rather than cold hard cash.

One of my goals is to be able to do the same again next year. Now I know I can do it, I just need to ensure I am doing all my surveys and cashing out in vouchers for Christmas and birthdays, etc.

and unexpected events in the family like births, engagements, weddings, etc.