The DFW "Celebrate Christmas for free in 2008" Challenge

chocaholic110

Just received £25 from Cashback Rewards so can now add that to my signature. Have attempted to transfer it to Cahoot savings account (where I can't touch it as easily) through online banking so hopefully I've done that correctly and it will appear on my balance next week. Feel as if I'm off to a proper start now

CASH BANKED

£30.19

VOUCHERS

£40 (Argos)

REWARD POINTS

£28.85 - Boots
£15 - WHSmiths
£5 - Nectar (about 1200 points which Martin's loyalty thing says is £6.51 but only counting what I could actually use which is £5)
Tesco - too pitiful to count!!

I'm also expecting £25 to go in the bank from PureProfile at any time but have already spent that in the sales!! And I won't count it until it's received anyway

TOTAL: £119.04

ehallett

I did well the other day when my fiance spent some gift cards in WH Smith on a DVD and gave me a leftover one with £5 on .

Also went shopping with my sister yesterday and came back 80 Boots points better off (she lost her card ages ago so she always hands over mine) and got a free No 7 lip gloss worth £8.50 too as she got some make-up on 3 for 2 and told me I could have the freebie .

Emily x

jo1972

Oooooh, just noticed this thread! Can I join??

I've started a sealed pot for the coppers using a big amazon box that I've taped up and my kids have 'decorated' :rolleyes: (total eyesore but hey ho ), I shall be doing the usual ebaying, mystery shopping, surveys etc. and will look through this thread for some new ideas. Roll on a free christmas :beer:

chocaholic110

jo1972 wrote: »

I've started a sealed pot for the coppers using a big amazon box that I've taped up and my kids have 'decorated' :rolleyes: (total eyesore but hey ho ),

Lol, bet it kept them busy though! Will add you to first page...

stressed.mum

Just counting up my vouchers left over from this Christmas - which WILL be used for next year

Argos £25
Waitrose £30
Debenhams £10
WHS £ 5
Book Token £ 5
Tesco stamps£16
£ 91

Also have £66 club card vouchers but these will probably be used for a holiday to haven this year

Also made another £10 yesterday as took kids bowling with cousins and was undercharged and got special needs discount for son


So my total so far is

Cash £140.76
Vouchers £ 91.00
231.36

kiwi88_2

Ok as of Jan 2008 this is what I have so far

Vouchers
£10 arcadia

Points
Pigsback 550
Lightspeed 545
Toluna 73,790
Just the Answer 100
Global Opinion 740
Global Testmarket 350
Ipoints 2,126
Tescos clubcard 1944

Unredeemed money
Ciao £14.95
Valued Opinions £5.50
Pure Profile £2.10
Quidco £8.29

WOW didn't realise I had that much or had signed up to so many companies:D

tattycath

Hi everyone. I've just been checking and so far i have:
£10 argos voucher
£10 boots voucher
£10 savings stamps
£ 8 tesco vouchers

I also have £7.45 boots points.
This year I am also putting my savings away from money off vouchers/coupons and the total will go towards christmas 2008.

jamtart6

Can any one recommend any good survey sites for free cash. The presents for friends, families and extra wrap ups are probably going to be sorted by vouchers/recycling etc. But a major proportion of my gifts are hard cash. I'm running out of stuff to eBay as I made £260 between sept and december and I'm trying NOT to re-clutter the place by basically only buying what I really need.

That said I'll get back to doing Quidco free clicks which is a little bit extra, but just wondered if any good ones pay proper money?? I need at least £15 for Valentines day (should have been £46) and £29 for Mother's day plus wine.....

Plus I spent £480 on a large gift for OH for xmas half for xmas and half for bday, so trying to get back the £240 of that for this years birthday if I can.....

chocaholic110

You can pay lightspeed points into a Paypal account. I think it works out slightly better than swapping for a paper voucher but slightly worse than an e-voucher.

I have had cash payments for surveys from pureprofile, home of research, ciao (though they are rubbish now) and Global Test market. You can also get cash from opinionbar(?), yougov, its your view and onepoll though I haven't reached payout at any of those.

tattycath

Hi everyone. I mangaed to buy a chess set today for 98p and it should have been £30.00 So I think that might just be a christmas present sorted. It is free really when you consider that I bought 2 4pks of spaghetti for £2 and full price was £3.20. So that makes me a happy bunny despite the cr*p day I've had otherwise. And I did get 5 avon items for £1.80 including p&p. So that's a few more presents sorted-full prices totalled over £19!!!!!