~*~ Thrifty Gifty Moneysaving Thread for Christmas and all Occasions 2012 ~*~

sambamamba

mum2one wrote: »

Miss Hoodie has asked could she go up in a hot air ballon for her 10th bday (that would mean dad would need to go!!, he'd be 1st in the queue). Its def a tight year. But were do it. xx

Hi MUM2, Tesco deals have a Virgin balloon experience for £80 of vouchers

rufusd!!!2 wrote: »

Do any of you know if 500mb of data is enough to last a month for normal smart phone use?

Hi Rufus I'm on o2 too with the same calls & texts & £3.50 for 500MB usage. So far I've been 50p - £1 over what I expect each month but have a feeling this is either long calls or tweenies pressing buttons!

sparkleychel

morning all

rufus i think 500 is enough depends what you do i suppose
but if you have wifi at home just connect to that
i only use my allowance when there's no free wifi
im contract with vodafone, have been for years so don't know about the others sorry
cor i dunno a new laptop, a kindle and now a phone

elysia will pm you about the big list

mum2one well done on getting your assignment finished
i need to organize the present cupboard too, have a few left overs from christmas

and the tree is coming down today

juliejim

Morning All

Well I've just redeemed on MP so that's a good start. My S&S scanner still won't transmit my barcodes though so I'm waiting to see if they email me today - I'm going to miss all the triple points!

Have a good day all

Jue

elysia2003

Rufus - have you signed up to ereaderiq.co.uk yet? - they email you a massive list of free Kindle books everyday, and also when they get reduced in price. I've just asked DD what she meg she uses on her phone, she has a 100 allowance, but she only uses about 10, and she's a 20 yr old on facebook all day. You'll be fine. I haven't got a dataplan as I hook up to wifi either at home, or in shops and cafes when I'm out and about like Chel said.

Emma - well done on the E's. Hopefully that'll be a nice little bonus for you. I hope your staomachache goes soon. Take care x

Chel - pm'd you the list. Hve fun taking the trimmings down. I hate that bit. Mind you they come down quicker than they go up, so that's a relief. It's the dust afterwards - mind you mine have been up about seven weeks so far. :cool:

Welshdreamer - I can't remember now - did I send you the spreadsheet. There's a page on there for presents. Even if you haven't bought any thing yet, you could type in ideas for people, and fill in the numbers when you've bought it. We'll have you all organised.

Morning everyone else - I've written one review, just about to paste it in. I can never resist a challenge. :cool:

What's everyone's plans for today? I've got to take DD2 to the park on her new flicker scooter (or there will be bedlam), and need to tidy up toys too - I'm sure they are breeding.

candyblue

Glad to see everyone is doing so well. unfortunately for me I am back at work oday so wont be able to do anything unil this evening as works have stopped us logging onto certain websites:mad: This is a pain as I could be doing money earning now whilst I am sat here at lunch. Still I am jotting down things ready to do tonight

cornish.chick

Rufus - What a palavar with OH's alarms!! I'm not sure about the data useage, it all confuses me

Elysia - If it wasn't for that little challenge I wouldn't of written anything new between now and new year, so thank you 1 done, 7 to go!

Been in and done the asda shop today, few more rolls of wrapping paper bought, so they should do me a year or 2 now! Then this afternoon is sort out my wardrobe and sort the dreaded toys without DD going mad cos I've moved some upstairs that she wants to play with :rotfl:should be fun!

ETA - could you PM me to big list of sites aswell please! Would like to see if theres any others I could have a good go at x

rufusdog52

Thanks everyone about the mobile thingy. I have never had a smart phone before so its all new. Oh said he should get his new phone in the next few days.

I was lucky with the cushion, I went to have a look as I had two already made up with people on them and one of them had a ginger cat on it already so I just had to adapt the people and do the tortoises on it. I havent sewn the cushion up yet. I will leave that until the weekend now as I told her it would take me a week anyway.

I made a Kindle cover for my little treasure, there are some photos on my blog. Thank you Elysia for the website, I am off to have a look. I downloaded three books the other day, I am still reading a normal book so will start on these next, but takes me ages to read a book as I usually only read when I go to bed.

aspella

Good afternoon everyone. Just noticed that I've won £1 on Loyaltyshopper's weekly football prediction competition. :j
Thanks for the spreadsheet Elysia, I just need to copy and paste site names on to it now.

elysia2003

Candy blue - well done hun. It's a shame that you can't access some surveys while at work, you could be spending the time money making. When you get into DooU and Ciao - you could write reviews in your lunch hour, and type them up, and do the reviews in the evening. It might work out quite well.

Rufus - Lovely kindle cover. Do you know, I only piad £18 for a new cover just last week, I totally forgot, I could have asked you. Maybe something for your shop though

Aspella - You're most welcome hun and well done on the win. Could you give us a list of these sites with the bonus ball comps on? Would that be ok? I used to do the ones on coffee clicking (or something like that) but I haven't been on for well over a year now since the clicks dried up. If you could pm me the list, I could add it to the survey list. Thanks so much.

Cornish - I knew I wouldn't write anymore without a struggle, so getting you to write some meant I would have to too. I'll pm you the list now. I know there's lots of sites you're on, so just ignore those, and sign up to the others. Like always, If you could get someone to refer you, that would be lovely.

sparkleychel

rufus lovely kindle cover you should do some for your shop

i have the kindle app on my phone and have read 100's of books already
think i have paid for 1 lol as it was a 2nd part to 1 i had already read
loads free on amazon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bestsellers-Kindle-Store-eBooks/zgbs/digital-text/341689031/ref=pd_ts_zgc_kinc_341689031_more?pf_rd_p=260749847&pf_rd_s=right-5&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=341689031&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=0GK7K1SB5XCMZ43AZR94
thats the top 100 free from amazon
it changes all the time , so loads of freebies

elysia today i am doing an hours tidying then 1/2 hour at money making
although i've been sat longer than 30 mins lol
keep getting thrown out of surveys today esp annoying when i'm 50% through