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

claireylulu

Hey everyone

Sorry not been around the last week or so just struggling with everything at home at the moment.

Happy Birthday to Elysia.

Hope your all doing well.

Caught something about dy and chow on fb is everything ok with those two sites?

elysia2003

Claire I'll pm you.

Well preserved - you sound tired. I hope you get an early night.

Boat - blimey 3 redeems in 16 days - that's fab. The most I've ever got for searching is 28, and that was only last week.

Emma - is DoU back up yet?

Teeni - great idea about the knitting patterns. I hadn't thought of that.

Kay - Kindle is brilliant. I bought my first one last feb, and I 'thought' I'd left it on holiday, so I asked for the new one for Christmas. About a week before I found it, it must have slipped off the bed when I was unpacking - so I've got two. I should ebay one of them but I refuse to. I love them.

aspella

Presents for the male members of my family are all sorted thanks to the Boots sale - the best bit is I didn't pay a penny. Paid for it all using bonus bonds as I received a batch in the post the other day from RTV (talk about perfect timing).

Redeemed on Mutualpoints and claimed a voucher from RTV today.

There is a video on Maxi thats worth 20 points.

kayandy_2

Ooo I'm a little sceptic about getting one I don't seem to do well with gadgets I brake or loose them haha Ooo i didnt know they had colour ones!! Are they out now? might pop on amazon later and have a look I guess it frees up more room I have over 300 books and as we are currently living at his mums to save for house all our stuff is in our bedroom and the tiny box room haha so I might have a look on the book sites and sell as many as possible if I get one!! not been on maxi today but have done a few surveys for toluna when do points for them normally go on?

elysia2003

Before you buy one - take a look first. My DD NEEDED a reader, but she hates the kindle. I bought her a cheap one from Boots in the end, because the Kobo wasn't out then. She loves that one but the screen gets terrible glare. In her opinion if she wanted to read something that looked like paper, she might as well read a book. We have no space though - she has five floor to ceiling bookcases in her room - so she definitely needed one. I was afraid the ceiling will fall in if she bought any more books.


ETA: Thanks Aspella. I've just done it. Well done on your presents. There were no mens bits in our Boots. I might try and go further afield tomorrow, and see what else I can get.

poundsinbucks

Visited Boots today and got a few pressies and like Aspella used BonusBonds to pay, very satisfying!

Have just redeemed on Shop&Scan for my initial barcode upload, will be a while til the next one .

Is SuperPoints really worth it? Got a total of 5pts today for 30 spins, not sure this one is worth pursuing?

Am liking SwagBucks very much and should be ready for a second redeem tomorrow hopefully.

What is redeem for Maximiles? Am upto 1600 on there with watching vids and completing all profiles.

ETA - got OH a Kindle for xmas as he is always reading books, he LOVES it. and there are so many FREE books out there, you do not have to buy any for quite a while ;-)

Poundsinbucks x

kayandy_2

I've been looking at them since the beginning of last year and that's the one I want if I get one just don't know weather to or not I suppose it's easier to have than millions of books!! I have 2 floor to celing book cases and about 3 massive boxes of them too haha!! Thankyou for all the advice guys will deffinetly have to decide soon as oh moaning he wants to get my present soon!!

emmad5689

Elysia - dy is back

very tired this evening, waiting for take away and then bed for me, at work on earlies the next 2 days and then I am off for 3 days which means i finally get a weekend with the family which will be nice, i'm hoping the weather is ok so we can take the kids to the park.

I have done some rating and copied over 2 reviews, really need to be writing some new ones though, at 2400 on maxi so need a fair few more vids!, 599 on sp so getting there, 58000 on t with 5 to credit keep getting offered long survey on there and I never do more than 15 minute ones on there as I always get sidetracked and then end up timed out, back up to 70 on sb not bad for one day, 9.25 on vo with one to credit typically i think it's a 50p one and at 1340 on ips and of course not getting any surveys grrrr.

Hope everyone is else is doing well and hope you all manage to find the boots bargains, I won't have chance to go

Hope everyone is doing well and

sparkleychel

cornish.chick wrote: »

Chel - I think mum2three's name says it all :rotfl:I'm guessing baby number 4? Congrats!

Elysia - Happy birthday to Elysia, hope she has a fab one

Are surveys still quiet for everyone? Mine still haven't picked up since xmas. On a good note my cashback for car insurance is payable so thats £60 This month has been quite good what with chow and ebay so makes up from lack of surveys

:rotfl: i couldn't see when she joined so wasn't sure lol

sparkleychel

xmum2threex wrote: »

Yep baby number 4 :eek: was watching 15 and counting last night I thought I was mad with 4 lol

I have 2 little boys and a little girl Im sure this baby is a boy all same symptoms as my boys sitting in my back and all I can eat is eggs:O lol Thanks all for good wishes nice to have something positive to concentrate on after all the bad last few months:) xxx

hope it was all ok ? were you able to see ?