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

Legendmum

Ladies I went into store to check dates and from what I saw, no guarentees with online orders, but wine sets were dated May and biscuits were June! The only set I did see that was January was the chocolate dipping set but they have none of these online! Sorry Savvy they had no Bailey fudge so cant help there! I am slightly gutted i have few birthdays bdfore May and those sets would have made nice teacher presents too! Kayandy I was gutted earlier as had a few things in basket before nipping to town to check them out instore, sizes, dates etc and when I came back theyhad gone oos too! Prob because it was all over hduk!

mum2one

I think I tried every alcohol link on BHS, sure it thinks I have a drink problem! all sold out, never mind save some money

Finally got round to getting my TV fixed in bedrm, not bad had 12 months, - we had to have new aeriel (for downstairs tv), that re-tuned in, as the bloke who did it the 1st time put the freeview under the netherlands, so when we digital in area it wiped lot.
Set up dads tv (xmas present off mum!), what did he get her!! rephase what did I order for him, (normally pay as well, but this yr slapped it on his c/c.- cd and a book!), retuned in Miss Hoodies tv, £85 all in so plzed

Done some reviews on dooyoo, is there a way on chow of finding whos reviewed you, just that I'm only on 90p... think it was something to do with copy and pasteing 40 in one go!! xx

elysia2003

Mum2one - if you go into your account - and click on your review heading, it will bring your review up. When you scroll down to the bottom, it will list everyone who's rated you, just click on their picture to rate them back.

I didn't do too badly yesterday - I jumped up over £3 from two reviews - same as the toy promotion, but they were both brand new items to go on, so that would be the best bet, so you get double, double rates.


I just wanted to apologise for my last message last night - when I've just re-read it, it sounds like I was being a bit snappy - It wasn't meant that way. Honestly. :A I was trying to get DD to bed, as she has school this morning, and after having lie in's in the morning, meant she wasn't tired. I was getting a bit stressed.

I've been asked by the mods to keep referral links off the thread, even though we can do it via pm.

claireylulu

Morning everyone

Just put my new review on dy and posted an older one on chow. Going to do a little bit of rating before its time to get my eldest to nursery - back to the routine.

Then its more cleaning! Got a busy day the toddler group I help run reopens this afternoon so hoping to get loads done this morning.

rufusdog52

Morning everyone

I redeemed on MM this morning for £15 MS voucher. This month is a good one so far. I am waiting for £25 payment from Viva and the £36 from C on top of that. What with my sale too I am very pleased with how its going and its only the 5th of the month.

tibawo

Morning all .. got waylaid yesterday - don't ask me what with though as house is a bomb site and i need to tidy and as its litttle'uns birthday tea party got that to sort too so at 9am i'm doing 15 mins of pure blitz whilst keeping my eye on the bingo!
Can do with finding some more friends for dooyoo if anyone is interested please pm - i've two to add from yesterday but it took me ages to work out how to do it and it's so simple now!

elysia2003

Well done both of you - that's fab news.

I just posted that rogue review on Chow - It didn't get added straight away afterall. Despite chow saying I could alter it when I wanted, I couldn't access it until the product was suggested and it didn't go on until three, so I had to wait in all day just in case. OH wasn't impressed.

Has anyone has the new format for posting a review yet? I did! I love it - it's so much better. You can spell check in it too, to save having to use a word doc and pasting it over. There's none of this == either, you just click the B for bold. I'm sorry, what's that saying? Simple things please simple minds. I'm easy to please me. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

mypie

Hi all,

So the husband is off to work today and its back to porridge or should I say peace and quite. I have a little 8 month old and will be returning to work in 6 weeks myself. I have registered with a few sites but atm I really don't have the time for them all and was wondering if there would be an particular sites that you would suggest which are suitable to fit around little ones demands. I will be much more able to do more once I am back to work as its so slow I need something to get me through the day and previously I had my parenting research (of which most was useless lol) and now I have my santa fund making.

Hope everyone is well and your balances are racking up nicely.

Pie x

claireylulu

Day 1 of trying to potty train my youngest! Considering he can only say three or four words I can see it is going to be difficult. He was two in August though so it needs to be started! Wish me luck!

Elysia I havent seen it but it sounds a lot better although I will still do mine in word and paste across as I have them sorted on comp so I know which ones havent been used on both sites. Bold hey and after I have just learnt the == format!

boat_girl

Mypie, I am in a similar position to you with a little one to work around. My fav sites are sw*g b*cks, op and and maxi, they don't require much effort and you can do very short jobs.

Good luck.