It's all such a mess and I don't know where to turn

chevalier

Here are some websites, on which you can earn a bit of money or points to put towards vouchers. Sorry if it is a bit long!

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www.lightspeedpanel.com - this is a survey site, where you get points that turn into vouchers (you choose). May not help with the cash flow, but the vouchers could be saved towards birthday/xmas or given as presents.

www.ciao.co.uk - survey site that gives money. A bit fits and starts i.e. no surveys for a couple of weeks, then three or four the same day.

www.yougov.com - again paid surveys. However takes a while to get to the minimum payout level

www.mytns.com - again this is a survey site, but it pays you in points that convert into Nectar points at Sainsbury’s.

www.pigsback.co.uk - this is a points site, i.e. they give you points for buying things via their site. BUT you also get points for signing up for news letters (some of which are even interesting!), and also for clicking on adverts with pink borders. I have spent NOTHING with them but got a £10 voucher through this week (only been registered since January). There is also a thread in the freebies section, of https://www.moneysavingexpert.com that gives you all the daily answers to the competitions so you can have a better chance of winning on them. I won £20 of points recently on the daily quizzes so a nice boost to the Christmas fund.

www.mutualpoints.com - another points for clicks site. You can also buy things via their site and get points too. For a long time, I just clicked the links in the emails they send you, and that gets you 5 points. At 3000 points you get £20 I think. You can do searches via their site and that gets you points too.

www.quidco.com - this is a cash back site, so very good, for checking if any potential new insurers (i.e. if you have checked your contents insurance say and found a new provider), are offering cash back. E.g. Lloyds was offering £120 cash back on new policies at one point (the offers do change). You can also get small amounts of cash again for doing searches via their site. You can earn 52p a day by doing this. Every little helps.

www.greasypalm.co.uk - another cash back site, where you can do searches and get small amounts of money. But it all adds up. I think you can get about 50p a day on there for nothing. Minimum payout is £20 I think, but you can sign up to survey sites via there, and get extra money that way for nothing.

www.topcashback.co.uk - another site where you can do daily clicks to get money for nowt.

www.britishrewards.co.uk - same as topcashback, daily clicks to do searches for pennies a time.

Again more medium term money might come from claiming back bank charges. Also if you had an endowment you can write to your provider suggesting you might have been misinformed about its performance. Many people have got money back on that. There are articles from Martin on the main site about how to go about doing this.
If you are going to do this, it is wise to set up another current account first, with a bank that you have no debt with. Just to be on the safe side.

Are you in the correct banding for your council tax? Again there is an article by Martin on the main website about how to go about checking this. If you are in the wrong band and due a rebate, it is for all the year you have been living in the house since 1991, so this can be several thousand pounds back.

Scarlett.1974

Wow Chevalier, thanks so much for all those :T

That's my morning sorted for tomorrow then :rotfl:

Scarlett xx

chevalier

No worries Scarlett. They are all sites that I have had money/vouchers off. There are other ones like freefivers, rpoints and ipoints. But I found that doing the ones in the post was enough for me!
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kittyscarlett

Scarlett, I've been reading this thread on and off for a few days so can't quite remember if someone has already suggested this, but come on over to the Money Saving Old Style board as there's loads of folks who will make you very welcome and give you lots of tips and support as to how to cut down your food bill etc well done on what you've been doing so far and keep your chin up !

Scarlett.1974

Good afternoon all :hello:

A couple of small updates from me:

Avon lady called this morning <sings> Avon caaaaaalling </sings> and she's coming to see me on Thursday afternoon to discuss getting me started

Ebaying is going really well, have now made £75.00 since the weekend and have this morning listed LOADS more stuff (where does all the "stuff" come from?!), I shall have nothing left to wear at this rate :rotfl:

Since registering with Pigsback on Friday I now have 2465 piggypoints equalling £24.65, which I'm going to convert into vouchers to help towards Christmas presents.

I seemed to have turned into a compoholic I would guess, since Sunday, I've probably entered 150 competitions :j

Scarlett xx

Alan1973

Scarlett.1974 wrote: »

Good afternoon all :hello:

A couple of small updates from me:

Avon lady called this morning <sings> Avon caaaaaalling </sings> and she's coming to see me on Thursday afternoon to discuss getting me started

Ebaying is going really well, have now made £75.00 since the weekend and have this morning listed LOADS more stuff (where does all the "stuff" come from?!), I shall have nothing left to wear at this rate :rotfl:

Since registering with Pigsback on Friday I now have 2465 piggypoints equalling £24.65, which I'm going to convert into vouchers to help towards Christmas presents.

I seemed to have turned into a compoholic I would guess, since Sunday, I've probably entered 150 competitions :j

Scarlett xx

Congrats on the progress so far. You're doing great :T

Al

(Land_of)_Maz

Scarlett.1974 wrote: »

Good afternoon all :hello:

A couple of small updates from me:

Avon lady called this morning <sings> Avon caaaaaalling </sings> and she's coming to see me on Thursday afternoon to discuss getting me started - Great stuff! Welldone you!

Ebaying is going really well, have now made £75.00 since the weekend and have this morning listed LOADS more stuff (where does all the "stuff" come from?!), I shall have nothing left to wear at this rate :rotfl: It's amazing, i bet you won't miss a thing! Have you Ebayed your children yet? Or still not getting them to sit still to be photographed! You're better than me, i get bored with the post office-y bit of ebaying. i try to stagger mine, so i only have a couple of items each day. the dragon at my local post office is an ebay hater!

Since registering with Pigsback on Friday I now have 2465 piggypoints equalling £24.65, which I'm going to convert into vouchers to help towards Christmas presents. - Flippin heck! You go girl!! Did you win a comp on PB?

I seemed to have turned into a compoholic I would guess, since Sunday, I've probably entered 150 competitions :j - They say it takes a couple of months for the wins to come thru, good luck though! And i always find it's more interesting having a reason to be online, rather than just idly surfng the net. i think comping gives you that extra focus.

Scarlett xx

You should go back and read your first post Scarlett, you won't believe how far you have came in such a short space of time. you seem so upbeat now!

Well done again!

Scarlett.1974

Maz3374, you've just brought a little tear to my eye I've just re-read my whole thread and you're right, a lot has changed in such a short space of time I'm feeling more positive for a start and right now the most important things are 1. cutting down wherever we can and 2. making more money!

I'm shocked at how quickly the ebaying money is adding up :eek: and you're right, it's nothing I miss or even need. I've been mainly selling clothes that are too big for me (I've lost quite a lot of weight this year ) that have just been sitting around, gathering dust. Will be photographing the kids later lol, hey, maybe I'll do it when they're asleep - they look much cuter then :rotfl:

With pigsback - I was a bit clever there, if I do say so myself I joined one of the 'bingo/slot machine' sites, deposited £10, they matched it with another £10, I played with the 'free' £10, promptly withdrew "my" £10 and got 2000 piggypoints (£20.00) for doing so Have ordered a boots voucher this morning, that's at least 2 or 3 xmas pressies sorted

Scarlett xxx

Floss

Don't forget, Boots have 3-4-2 on gifts, so your £20 voucher could go further than you thought!

Which bingo site was it? Might have a go myself....:D

Love Floss xx

(Land_of)_Maz

Scarlett.1974 wrote: »

With pigsback - I was a bit clever there, if I do say so myself I joined one of the 'bingo/slot machine' sites, deposited £10, they matched it with another £10, I played with the 'free' £10, promptly withdrew "my" £10 and got 2000 piggypoints (£20.00) for doing so Have ordered a boots voucher this morning, that's at least 2 or 3 xmas pressies sorted

Scarlett xxx

Was that chit chat bingo? I was considering doing them thru PB, do they pay points really quickly then? Hmmmmm, i can feel a gamble coming on!