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emmad5689

So excited sad I know but I can changed my signature as £15 CB have just arrived from my food survey woop woop!!

I'm a bit stuck not sure if anyone has any ideas but last year for a holiday we stayed at a travel lodge and had a few day trips out (cadbury world and drayton manor) using tesco vouchers, last night oh said he would like to go somewhere like butlins (£800 no chance) basically so that we are in one place and stay there. Apart from butlins and centre parcs i'm not sure where else to look problem is my parents go away last week in august so that is when we have our hols so expensive.

Done some rating today and got my housework done but been kicked out of every survey I have tried

sparkleychel

emma what about the sun holidays ? most of them have on site entertainment , or does your local paper do them as well i know mine does

rufus thanks ahhh hope you find it , i lost an advent calendar bought in oct to be organised and finally found on boxing day :rotfl:

hollie thanks for that link , ive bought bits of ebay , as we dont have any good fabric places round here , well none i have found

hollieinbloom

emmad5689 wrote: »

Apart from butlins and centre parcs i'm not sure where else to look problem is my parents go away last week in august so that is when we have our hols so expensive.

Maybe you could ask some friends along and book a cottage or something?
my OH parents did that with lots of their friends (for one big P*ss up)
and they didn't pay a lot. It was cheaper than a haven or butlins holiday!

the sun do those £9.50 holidays too, but you have the be very flexible with dates for those xx

elysia2003

Emma - why not go on a Sun Holiday. That's what we do - you can have a 3 night (weekend) stay or a 4 night mid week stay, and you just pay the extra to make it up to a full week. With all insurances and even our dog, it cost's less than £200. First voucher is out today.

ETA: Hi Hollie - I must have been typing when you posted. Great minds think alike.

Hello everyone - I didn't come back last night - I was intrigued by stepmum staying she's found some more sites, so I was having a mooch around. I think I signed up to a few dud ones oops, but there is another one that's similar to sB's and Spoints. It's had good reviews so far, but I only joined last night, so I'll see how it goes. If anyone wants to take the chance, I can let you know the name or refer you if you'd like.

Feeling happy at the moment. Haven't been to fat club (weight watchers) for three weeks, and even though it's been Christmas and New Year - I was the only person there to lose weight. 7.5 lbs. Sorry - I'm so happy, I just had to share.

Foxy - I'm glad you got the referral to TCB in the end.

Aspella - thanks for helping.

Savvy - did it track yet? Mine tracked before I'd finished playing through the money.

Chel - lovely name for your shop. I was caught on the hop - I really wanted Little Treasures, and then I couldn't think of anything.

Charlie - My OH is back at work too. Yay!!!

Lurkers - stop lurking, and post on here. We've love to have you join us.

Restricted - thanks for the message hun.

Restricted told me I had won some sweets of FrePostCode Lottery, but I was too slow to claim them.

Off to find some surveys now. Be back in a bit. x

Savvybunny2009

Mine hasn't tracked Elysia, typical but I suppose I best do a cashback claim, these things always seem to happen to me

emmad5689

Hi all, can't do the sun holidays as you have to be flexible and we have to work our holidays around my parents, have just found a haven holiday in Blackpool for 4 nights for £206 so not too far out of reach, plenty on site for the kids to do only issue being you have to take your own bed linen which will be a pin as it will take a lot of room in the car. There are lots of places (sea life centre, pleasure beach, circus and zoo) in the general area that I can use Tesco vouchers to get tickets so once the initial holiday is paid for some days out would be sorted and I could probably pay my mam for her tesco vouchers to be able to get more.

My plan now is to try and use this to convince OH that we have to be extremely careful with money to be able to afford this and hopefully he can stop wasting money. I listed some things on ebay last night and I have more to go on tonight anything from this will go to holiday fund since it is the girls stuff. Actually quite excited now!!

hollieinbloom

Today has been very productive!

*Collected up 12 receipts from Tesco (even wombled a few (ones left in trolleys in tesco) ) and have just done the Tesco price check with those.
*Been collecting lots of coke zone codes from family and just typed those in.
*Just sorted out my coupons and threw away all the ones that ended in 2011.
*Funds from some ebay sales have been put in my new E-savings account i opened for the challenge.
*played games on the mccain website to earn spud shillings.
*Did the surveys on the Unilever VIP facebook page to earn some coupons too.

Now for coffee and sit down and rate on chow. xxx

sparkleychel

yah for another husband gone to work today :j
got so much more done

have a little production line going and multi tasking with sw@g vids
although will have to stop in a min for the school run
but i will continue tonight when kids go to bed

emma that sounds like a good deal

hollie busy busy busy ! well done

elysia wow !!!!!!! 7.5 lbs thats over half a stone isn't it :eek:
well done you :beer:

savvy is that with tcb or quidco ?

emmad5689

Sounds like a productive day Hollie, I really must remember to enter my receipts and check out coupons every penny needs to be saved now I want to book my hols!!

Elysia - well done I really need to do something with my weight but hearts not in it at the moment

hollieinbloom

Emma, I love coupons, i generally hold on to the one with longer expiry dates and check tesco website before i go shopping to see whats on offer and if my coupons will give me a hefty discount with the offer in the store. I had about 30 milkshakes in my fridge in november as they had it on offer for 49p and they had a 50p off coupon for them (wasn't even 1 per customer either ) so i managed to get away with doing 3 separate shopping trips and got 10 for free each time. Plus the over of 1p on each milkshake it gave me all together 30p off my shopping. So they paid me to take them away! xx