Setmefree's Diary: MFi5 journey

Lynn11

Excellent results within a year to reduce your day rate of interest. Well done

RosieTiger

Hey SMF2 you are role model for all of us - must be the new clothes !

SmlSave

Congratulations SMF2!

taka

Wow thats some decrease! Well done!

SuiDreams

Well done on that, that not something I've been tracking, think I'll start keeping an eye on that myself.

setmefree2

It was one of my new year's resolutions to try and use more coupons, points, vouchers etc. This is how I've been doing:-

Savings made in:-

Boots £30.42 (points used & coupons)
Hairdressers (local-me and kids) £20.55
Sainsburys £3.25 (coupons)
WH Smith £1.84

TOTAL Saving £56.06 in two months:j

Points outstanding:-

Boots £33.52
Sainsburys £50.40 (to use in Argos)
Tesco £23.00
Legoland vouchers £60
Airmiles 6991 points
Your points (Natwest) 3551

TBH I missed a couple of tricks in Boots and could have had perhaps two more of the £5 off No 7 vouchers which I could have used against cleansers, so I'll try and learn for next time;)

Still forgetting to collect nectar points on my Amazon purchases:o

Not bad though:T

SmlSave

Still forgetting to collect nectar points on my Amazon purchases:o

:doh: You just reminded me that I could have got points yesterday! :doh:

I am very impressed by your mass of points:T

StuartGMC

SMF2
I see you have NatWest Yourpoints, we've now got about 41,800 (we use the card alot to keep the offset amount high), but I've not yet used any. I think they are now at a level which means they are "useful", the question is, what is this in real value vs. say, a cheap flight on easyJet?

Have you used any yet?

setmefree2

StuartGMC wrote: »

SMF2
I see you have NatWest Yourpoints, we've now got about 41,800 (we use the card alot to keep the offset amount high), but I've not yet used any. I think they are now at a level which means they are "useful", the question is, what is this in real value vs. say, a cheap flight on easyJet?

Have you used any yet?

The Natwest Yourpoints scheme includes Easyjet in its choice of airlines and also American Airlines, Virgin & e bookers. (41,800 miles will probably get the 3 of you to this side of mainland Europe on easyjet) As you suggest, however, it might be better value, say, to save the points up and use them for a free trip on Virgin or American to a destination for which it's not so easy to buy cheap tickets, rather than use them on a free trip on easyjet.

We haven't used any Yourpoints as I haven't collected enough. I don't use my credit card very often (just online purchases). However, we've used the Airmiles scheme and BA miles scheme and they have both been simple enough.

Do you collect any miles with your business travel?

evab_2

Well done on using your points, I'm very impressed. Also I just discovered mysupermarket after someone mentioned it, you can get ipoints on your shopping as well as your nectar/clubcard points and currently get 400 extra points on your first order.