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

rufusdog52

Yes every 7 days. I do it on a Friday. I didnt earn the two in a month, I had accumulated the points over the last year or so, I wasnt doing it every week as kept forgetting and was just building the points up to get the £20 amazon voucher but when they said they were stopping it I thought I might as well use the points up.

Pips_Mum

Oh ok, still good going though! I think I joined in Jan when I joined this thread as I hadnt heard of it till then, I remember it maybe twice a month so possibly I could still try for another voucher even with my lack of attention!

Pips_Mum

Not much use for Christmas but might help for Birthdays coming up, lots of magazines are 5 issues for £5, most are a magazine a month. Just got my Mum an Antique one and also a cooking one for her 60th.

http://www.buysubscriptions.com/SSBUY12

foxy219

Managed £70 on the ebay challenge, which I am quite pleased with. Also sold a bundle of my DS clothes on FB for £25 and a couple of other bits so made just over the £100 in July - not a brilliant total but better than nothing.
Managed a redeem on sb as well every little counts.
Am doing a market stall in a couple of weeks to try and make a bit more money, and have got a couple of product tests as well this week. All in the August pot now - looking forward to the new challenge for the month.
With regard to swag - if we are all friends with each other on there does it help our totals? I dont have any friends lol :-(

susan42

Hi foxy well done on your ebay totals. Im a bit fed up with it, still got the item here someone was suppose to collect 3 weeks ago. In fact it was longer than 3 weeks.

Im addicted to swagbucks making friends dont help your total , it just helps you see what your friends got, i got no friends either.

Pips mum thanks for the mag link, i signed up for 3 magazines I hate paying full price...

rufusdog52

I have been doing well on SB too Susan, not as good as some of them but enough to get a couple of vouchers per month.

Foxy, do you have public liability insurance for your stall? I have been offered a table at another craft fair, its only two weeks away and there is a big weekend on at the town in question that weekend. Stall is only £10 too but I need to have the insurance which is £50 for the year and I dont have the £50. I am gutted about it.

foxy219

Hi Rufus, to answer your question no I don't have any insurance - It is a weekly market that you basically sell all your unwanted items on - usually make between £60 and £80 cleared profit which isn't bad for a couple of hours work.

Could do with a free listing weekend on ebay as well! I will sort out the items that aren't ebayable later this week. I usually have 3 piles - an ebay pile, a market pile and what doesn't get thrown out goes in the charity bag.

We were in London yesterday and I have run the race for life this morning so am absolutely shattered. Plan on watching the tennis and athletics and sort out all the name tags for the school uniforms and sew this afternoon.

What is everyone else up to, it is very quiet on here

rufusdog52

Busy watching the Olympics too Foxy lol, can't get enough of it at the moment xx

mum2one

hope everyone ok, just got back from 2 weeks in Wales!! mum finally got her stitches out on Tuesday, touch wood bar a small scar everything looks ok.

Miss Hoodie had a sealion encounter, at seaaquirum at Rhyl, was £30 which included entrance (£8), photo (£5), when u take that off as a one off its ok. The plan was she was going with mum and dad, so they could see experience part of what we did in Dom Rep, but mum didn't feel well so dad and me, she did wonder I made her sit outside for an hr before the show to get a gd seat!!

She loved it, then we queued for a photo with the sealion, saved as dad got in for free as my carer, so the money saved pd for another photo, made miss hoodie stand in front of me, so I looked slimmer!!

Thou bless her, asked her what she want to do, she wanted to go up the cable car on the Great orme, came to a deal, she'd come with me on the tram, then we'd drive round and she could go up on cable car with dad, i'd sit and read kindle, the day we go chucked it down + too windy for the cable car!!

she was a little angel, she is a mean demon on the bingo, we had a budget £1 each for bingo and £1 each for 2ps, (last of big spenders!!), we both got some wins. I got 2 handbags with my wins, she got 2 bags, teatowel, lolly, game, 2 x wordseaches (for grandad hoodie!!).

She has good taste, she wanted to look at the caravans for sale, wondering around, the salesman comes in, asks ehat we think of this caravan were in, theres me its ok, but not quite what we want, Miss hoodie, - Its a tip, how you can put a caravan for sale that the toilet hasn't been cleaned, and you haven't fixed the thump hole in the wall, (honest!! but too honest), and i like that one over there.
Only 35k, but for cash sale he'll sell it us for 30k!! now where did I put that money tree.......... it was nice thou.

Catching up on post, emails, and try and sort out Open Uni, apparently i'm not entitled to any more funding, but they will hold the transational prices if I study this yr, just £4,000 to finish my degree, compared to 10k for a new student!! xx

shoetreeworksop

Hi I'm new to this thread hoping to save as much as i can before christmas have read the first page - could someone let me know how i get the spreadsheet?