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

mum2one

We did well today made £57 at carboot, Miss Hoodie put her share into the phone fund, shes been told she has to pay back the credit used. lesson learned.
Nice and gave dad £10, and brought a stool for the kitchen for £2, knocked him down from £5.
Have £40 more for lapland, but still have a boot full of stuff!!

Fun and games 2ngt - did have a nice ambulanceman, my mother tried to posion me (only joking), had an allergy attack to a cherry pie, bless her she couldn't watch me jab myself, but have to say nearly back to normal!! just have lovely rosie cheeks. xx

Nanamia

Oh no mum2one your poor mum must've felt so guilty. Glad you are ok now tho!

mum2one

Good news found some meercat sweets in our local poundworld, so have 2 bags ready to do the "compare the meercat.com sweet jars".

Also got "me to you", box of plasters, set of 10 tissues, box of tissues and pack of wipes" there gorgeous - bit of joke for friends bday, now got to think up of the captions to go with them. I would say ideas on a postcard, but the thread be better! xx

rufusdog52

Just redeemed on Swag again and got paid for a cushion I made for someone. Have a few payments pending this month still including some from chow.

kayandy_2

Pips_Mum wrote: »

I purchased my first Christmas Presents today everyone! Used money in my Paypal account from Ebay sales so I am happy.
Still keeping up with Swags and a couple of other survey sites.
Hope everyone is doing ok x x

Well done I've not even thought about getting presents since jan sales and only got a few bits for my little brothers need to start soon I think

Pips_Mum

People laugh at me buying pressies now but when you figure by Christmas I will have a Newborn baby and will have been unemployed for 7 months it makes it not so silly to start now!

corrag

I think you're sensible buying christmas presents now. I've started too, especially as I have 9 family birthdays from October to December which adds extra pressure for Christmas.

We did a boot sale at the weekend and made £106 which we were delighted with. My son made an additional £26 selling his old toys. He is putting the money towards his holiday spending money. Half of the boot sale money has gone on repairing the fences in the back garden and the other half is going into the birthday present fund.

I brought the Yankee candle May Birthday bundle and gots lots of really nice christmas candle plates which I'll be giving as presents this christmas. I also brought some presents in the boots sale in Jan. I'm currently on the look out for stocking fillers. The only problem is getting the room to store it all

Savvybunny2009

Hi everyone, been MIA with holiday and trying to sort the house out.

Not a huge amount of money making happening, need to get my bum back in gear, spent £50 yesterday for our anniversary, on food and drink and a meal for the little one, and that was eating in! To be fair it would have cost at least double if we ate out as cocktails were involved too and we still have pudding, starter and more drinks left over so I guess it wasn't a bad plan.

Have a forum group thing for £10 tomorrow, am up to date on all the survey sites except toluna. Oddly mysurvy took 300 points off me as my balance was negative when I logged in, no idea why and no reason I can see for it

I only really buy dd's presents in advance as they hike the prices on the run up to Christmas so you have no choice but to pay. Have spent around £150 for both her birthday and Christmas presents (all money made from here) including her stocking and her main birthday present was £100 (used vouchers) so not bad considering the value of them would be around £1150 all together. Just pj's, a nice outfit for Christmas and that's her sorted now.

Have bought some for family, not alot left except for my hubby but my amazon balance will cover whatever he wants, and I have Next vouchers to take care of dd's clothes for next year and probably to cover a Christmas outfit too.

Luckily we have a huge cupboard we can stuff presents into but to be honest I think It would be a lot less stressful to earn the money and buy it closer to the end of the year, for us anyway. Might go down that route next year, except teh Boots sale if it's any good lol.

rufusdog52

Evening all, I managed to redeem on T today so have to start that off again. Nearly at redeem on SP, about 40 points to go but some days I only get 4 or 5. Put a review on DY this morning and got £6 from PF on Chow so not a bad day all round seeing as I was out most of it.

mum2one

We now have a new posh chair lift, it feels like a rolls royce after the last one,

All ok here, xx