The DFW "Celebrate Christmas for free in 2008" Challenge

liloandstitch

Hi, thought Id better update, totals as follows -
Woolworths gift card (took something back) £23.01
Freemans Commission £29.24
Luncheon Vouchers £8.00
M & S refund voucher £15.00
Boots Points £13.66
Next Gift cards £40.00 + £75.00 gift vouchers (fraud award)
Capital Bonds £20.00
Pigsback £10.00 voucher + 1199 pts
Lightspeed points 1765 pts = £15.00 paypal
IPSOS - 810pts = £5.00
ciao £8.65
So not bad at all - that adds up to £273 ish plus I have notes in a tin which I will count at Christmas - its part of my sealed tin challenge.
Im really impressed - we spend a lot at christmas, we have one DS + I have 4 adult stepchildren and 2 step grandchildren plus all their partners to buy for, it gets expensive. And although we dont buy much during the year, DH and I usually treat ourselves as well. This year, although we spent a lot, we have coped with it and nearly paid for it, This year shoul be virtually guilt free as we will have it sitting there YIPEE!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, and well done to redsquirrel80 on the £50.00 - I have £4,75 so I dont think I will be celebrating for a good few years yet!!!!!!
Lilo

chocaholic110

liloandstitch wrote: »

Hi, thought Id better update, totals as follows -
Woolworths gift card (took something back) £23.01
Freemans Commission £29.24
Luncheon Vouchers £8.00
M & S refund voucher £15.00
Boots Points £13.66
Next Gift cards £40.00 + £75.00 gift vouchers (fraud award)
Capital Bonds £20.00
Pigsback £10.00 voucher + 1199 pts
Lightspeed points 1765 pts = £15.00 paypal
IPSOS - 810pts = £5.00
ciao £8.65
So not bad at all - that adds up to £273 ish plus I have notes in a tin which I will count at Christmas - its part of my sealed tin challenge.
Im really impressed - we spend a lot at christmas, we have one DS + I have 4 adult stepchildren and 2 step grandchildren plus all their partners to buy for, it gets expensive. And although we dont buy much during the year, DH and I usually treat ourselves as well. This year, although we spent a lot, we have coped with it and nearly paid for it, This year shoul be virtually guilt free as we will have it sitting there YIPEE!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, and well done to redsquirrel80 on the £50.00 - I have £4,75 so I dont think I will be celebrating for a good few years yet!!!!!!
Lilo

All I can say is...WOW!

chocaholic110

Just looked on Home Of research and had £22.25 sitting there waiting to be claimed which I duly did - should receive a cheque at the end of the month and will add it to totals then. I seem to have a lot paying out all at the same time - though that probably means it will be June before I get anything else!!!

jamtart6

Can i just ask - why (apart from daily clicks) are you all signed up to different cashback sites? am i missing something? isn't it better to stick with one eg. quidco which gives the highest?

Edit: Just signed up to one poll - looks good - are they regular with surveys??

chocaholic110

jamtart6 wrote: »

Can i just ask - why (apart from daily clicks) are you all signed up to different cashback sites? am i missing something? isn't it better to stick with one eg. quidco which gives the highest?

Edit: Just signed up to one poll - looks good - are they regular with surveys??

From a personal basis I use Quidco when i'm buying (or very occasionally Top Cash Back) but do daily clicks on MoneyBackMadness, Freefivers and Cashback Rewards that don't cost me anything to do. They can be a bit of a chore but when the money seems to build up into a £25 cheque then I'm happy! (Also Cashback rewards pay cashback on Amazon purchases which Quidco doesn't)

jamtart6

aha ! I getcha! thanks for that

stressed.mum

Another £169.99 today - this was a refund on something bought originally with bonus bonds which DH got free from work - refund was a cheque :j

pheeni22

redsquirrel80 - Wow on the payout on Yougov! I still got approx £1.25 to go to reach £50 :rolleyes:

chocaholic110 - I will be investigating MoneyBackMadness, Freefivers and Cashback Rewards for more clicks!

If anyone is looking for cheap Xmas cards, there were reduced packs in my local WhSmith at 69p which I assume is nationwide. Ribbon and giftbows were reduced too.

sweetpeas_2

hi everyone, im busy at the min trying to save up enough from various places, so my christmas saving has been put on hold at the minute.
im having to use my mystery shopping money saved up for christmas stash for my holiday fund now, so that has gone back down to a big fat ZERO. so a bit miffed at the moment. quite fed up
trying to stay positive tho, cos as soon as hol paid off (14th feb), all my spare pennies will be going towards christmas 2008

hope everyone else is doing good, you all sound like youre doing really well :T


xx nog xx

redsquirrel80

For some reason since I did the survey that got me to the £50 point, I get an error message everytime I try to log in to YouGov - I just want to go and see if there's a nice message saying they've sent my cheque out!! :mad::rotfl: