Just Say NOvember 2013!!!

Fmess

EyesWideOpen wrote: »

Hi all,
As I'm home on mat leave I can't make more money by working overtime. A lot of people are mentioning making money doing surveys. Do you all know of some which pays in Amazon vouchers or via PayPal? And do you really make anything...?

Hi, I'm not an expert but I use Sw4gbucks (4 = a) and it gives you lots of choices of different vouchers, including Am4zon or you can get your money via P4ypal. I have never managed more than £15 a month but I usually only manage to do 1 survey a day and then a few tasks/watching videos etc. Some people say they earn a lot more. It can be really frustrating and does take a bit of time (you often get disqualified from surveys for not meeting their criteria). There is a thread you can join on MSE which gives you lots of advice and I find really helpful.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Maisie_M

Food £266.58/350
Petrol £50/250
Local food bank 0/6 (missed last month so will double up today)
SFD 0/25
Lunch to work 1/21
emergency lunch fund 0/£10 (two of us)
Declutter 0/20
Extra money earned/made 0/80
Christmas shopping 0/250
Outing 0/20
Coffee shops etc 0/0
Beauty £8.73/10

Okay so today was the big shop for the month and we have £80 left for the month for fresh bread, milk, cold meat and veg - totally doable.

Fridge, freezer and cupboards are now groaning with food and hope some may spill over to next month. Spent £8.73 on shower gel, baby bath and shampoo but this will last 2-3 months.

apple_muncher

Well, nsd 2 is nearly over - yay!

I read on another thread about someone whose husband had to work away for 10 days, so she set herself challenges to complete while he wasn't there. I've nicked the idea and split NOvember into 3, with things to complete or do in each section. I do like lists, especially crossing things off them!

So, 1-10 November has
-complete dbs forms
-return pony toy dd now doesn't want
-bin all paperwork that's out of date
-sort out our ridiculous number of hats, scarves & gloves and get rid of some
-finish marking before returning to work on mon
-post fins & booties for sale
-collecy dd prescription after the 8th
I'm sure there's more in my mental 'to-do' list, but this'll do for now...

PiggyBankShaker

Had to get some fresh fruit and bread today, as well as some sandwich fillers for DD pack lunch this week and next. So no SFD for me.

Petrol 0/£67.50
Groceries £8.05/£200
'Outings' 0/£30
Food Bank 0/£3

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Lunches 1/21
SFD 1/25
Declutter 3/20
Make extra 0/£80
Not using GCH 1/0

thriftylass

eyeswideopen i use valued opinion and ipsos. They have various vouchers but use the amazon ones. I do about a survey a day and can make up to 20 quid in a really good month. Do it on and off but want to do it more regularly now to pay for next christmas.

First spend day as I did the big weekly shop. But should have enough till next Saturday incl. milk, fruit etc. Might have to bake a bread on Tuesday.

Quick dinner and then batch cooking while oh heads to the pub

tennisfanatic

Managed another SFD by using water instead of milk in my porridge and eating freezer leftovers for lunch and tea. Will need to have spendy day tomorrow as fridge is empty apart from 1 yoghurt! Off to finish meal planning and shopping list to maximise the SFD's.

SFD 2/25
Lunch to work 1/18
Food £0/£100
Foodbank £0/£3

EyesWideOpen

Thanks to Fmess and Thriftylass on the survey advice
I think obtaining vouchers of between 15 and 20 pounds a month is very good - could sort Christmas 2014! I'll get signed up to those, thanks again for the advice!

Rachel021967

Can you put me down for 5 NSD.

stewby

Evening everybody.

So, we did our "weekly" shop although I imagine this shop will last us a lot longer than that.

Our usual haunt of Tescimos was first on our hitlist. Bakery stuff on 3 for 2 so bought some golden syrup and two bags of self-raising flour (which I am using a lot just now). I had seen skinless sausage online at £1 but they weren't as cheap in the shop itself so bought 20 of the usual walls skinless sausages to split up into fours.
Total in tescimos: £9.15 (I think my clubcard shed a tear).


I was noseying around supermarket websites last night and found that morries had some great offers on meat so that was our second stop... OH says we should have enough meat to last him ages, lots of porky stuff like ribs and chops and steaks. They also had 1kg of beef mince for £5.66 which will be great to batch cook lasagne for me.
Total in morries: £23.58


Morries online was showing lurpak 2 for £4 so I had planned to buy it but they didn't have it on offer. Tescimos was 2 for £5... however, the local keystore/co-op/midstore/not sure what it is calling itself these days had it on offer too. 2 for £4.50 which is still better than tescimos. They also had scones for 30p and a 'neep' reduced to 30p as well.
Total in the wee shop: £5.10

So our first major shop of the month and we have spent £37.83!! That's not too bad, I think. Especially if it means we don't have to buy much meat for the rest of the month.
:undecided

Oh... the tescimos money included the food bank donation too.


Sig will be updated in a minute. Once I have taken the ginger nuts out of the oven.

CrazyCatLady1_3

Hi everybody,

So ive enjoyed being spoiled by my girls this weekend, dinner made for me last night and family lunch today On SFD2, still have some stuff I can use in fridge so tomorrow we,re making soup and apple crumble.

0/£80 Food Budget
0/£3 Foodbank
0/£80 Make £80
0/20 Declutter
2/25 SFD