The DFW "Celebrate Christmas for free in 2008" Challenge

Queen.Bess

Well I'd like to join in too this year! DH and I managed to only spend £23.46 for Xmas 2007, so lets see if we can beat that!

Have £4.35 from pigsback and am hopeful of getting my £50 yougov payout this year (only taken 2 years!). Plus I do lightspeed surveys, valued opinions and am also an avon rep, so can either save my commision or use it to buy Avon stuff with my customers' orders, which means I don't pay for them directly myself!

huxley

Yippeeeee got a £5 Amazon voucher today off to add that to total:j

jess444_2

Hi,
Just updated my total. Have added another £5 voucher from Paypal and £5 cash from Lightspeed. Have at last managed to get some surveys from YouGov (have been with them about 6 months) Had 3 CC with small credit balances (about £3 on each) rang up and cancelled them and got cash refunded so have added this. Have also made £137 from 'free bingo' Next plan to sort out the loft - there must be something amongst all of that junk to Ebay.

tattycath

Hi everyone. Just got a £5 morrisons shopping voucher (for petrol points??) I already have a £10 boots voucher from pigsback and i've racked up over 1500 points with them since then!!!
So in actual amounts cashed/vouchers - not including points not claimed yet I have:
£10.00 boots voucher
£20.00 morrisons savings stamps*
£10.00 Argos voucher
£25.00 M & S voucher
£5.00 morrisons voucher
* Morrisons savings stamps are from grocery budget-I have a fixed budget and I buy the stamps out of the budget-so I make sure I never go over and I don't make the budget higher so as to include this. It just makes me more frugal!!!
I have also got £5.71 cash -when I use money off coupons I put the equivalent in cash in a separate pot towards christmas 2008!!!

pippo

Sent off my coffee points to nescafe - 2 presents for £2.60 - money saved from money off vouchers like tattycat!

tattycath

Hi Pippo. How does the nescafe points work? I've got some of those bean things off my jars of goldblend

sweetpeas_2

hi everyone im at a major loose end today cos had interview for my job making permanent this morning and waiting for the phone to ring to see if ive got it or not. so thought id come on here for a nosey around...

ill update my sig with my totals cos not done it for a bit. well done everyone on your progress aswell!!!

xx nog xx

gillypen

quick update from me

one poll

6.7

tesco

23

boots

23

pigs back

17.55

vouchers

11

lightspeed

375

pheeni22

A quick update from me:

£10 Schuh Giftcard
£25 HMV Giftcard
£10 Next Giftcard
£15.00 Pigsback
£9.49 Boots Advantage Card
29555 points Toluna

£69.49 Approx total

Quick question. Does anyone know how to redeem Pigsback points on Leisure vouchers?

pheeni22

Just a quick update.

I've properly reviewed how much I've approx I've spent for Xmas 2007 and the total is lower what I estimated previously. Approx total has gone from £157 to £144 for 14 presents (totals varied on each present). RRP was calculated wrong (£248 instead of £267 in my previous post), hence saving £98. This is a guide me for Xmas 2008.

For 2008, I've only got 11 presents to buy for but this may increased towards the end of the year. Already got one gift lined up for someone and it's a recycled gift so a cost of nothing for me :T .