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

Missterious

Hey guys. bit late in the year i know but i was thinking of joining SB and SP, i saw a while back someone had referrals?

System

Would be happy to refer you to swagbucks. I don't have any yet

Missterious

How do we do it?

System

If you pm me your email, I can refer you. Don't worry I won't keep your email

bevally

Happy to refer you to SP! As autumnleaves has said PM me your email address, I can then email you the link to SP.
If you need any help, just shout!
Bev

Missterious

thanks girls, just pm'd you both

bevally

Have replied MissT!

Missterious

i'll get it sorted tonight when i'm home! thanks

Pips_Mum

Hi All!
Have managed to get 5 out of the 12 "one a month treats" for Mr Pips Christmas pressie. Found on Virgin last night they had 2for1 on the Grand Prix collection at Donnington only £8 and its not too far from us here so thats another crossed off.

Used my Spudpoints from McCains to get a Bella Italia voucher and you can use Lovetoshops vouchers there too so now have £35 which should be plenty for a meal, another ticked off and for free!

Hoping to exchange Maximiles points for 2 cinema tickets, just need to check dates its valid.

Hope your all doing well x x

TylersMummy

Hello Thrifters

September is here, we're back from our holiday, and now the next big 'event' (other than DS 1st birthday of course!) is Christmas and I just couldn't help but want to jump straight into the Christmas pool and start planning. I have been AWFUL at saving any money this year and I thought enough is enough and have done the budget planner and bit the bullet and saw that we are silly over spenders, which is just what we suspected :rotfl: We need a house deposit and we need to pay off our debts, so the scrimping and cut backs start now and I just know we can have an amazing Christmas and spend at least half of what we usually do! Every Christmas I do my best to save money and do pretty well, but upping my game this year.

So! Ordered a Waybuloo toy for DS for Christmas in the Tesco sale yesterday, free click and collect, used £10 of my cc vouchers for it, and it was down from £20 something so very happy at that free pressie! :T

Will also be making bundles of gifts this year to a) save us money and b) keep me very excited and busy (am a bit of an avid craft/cookery head!). I've made a wee list and I'm going to make a few home made food hampers with some (or all if I manage to find the time!) a jam, lemon marmalade (a local market shop does 8 or 9 lemons for 99p!), two different chutneys, two different mustards, sweet thai chilli sauce, fudge, peanut brittle, and chocolates.
Also going to have a go at bath bombs and bath salts!

Also had a rough count up and have around £70 in vouchers (Nectar and Valued Opinions) to spend! So I'm *hoping* a thrifty Christmas isn't going to be tooooo difficult! Subscribing to this thread to keep me inspired and on track! :A

xx