The DFW "Celebrate Christmas for free in 2008" Challenge

tattycath

Thanks Kiwi. I've had loads of other crafty ideas as well since then. Gonna make my mum a smellie hamper (not putrid smells!!!) Maybe some of the old fashioned pot pourri/lavendar bags to put in her wardrobe/drawers etc. Got loads of idea buzzing round in my head.

chocaholic110

Got £16 credited from Quidco so using it to "repay" myself some of the money already spent on Christmas. Off to change my signature accordingly!

Also Boots points are up to £68.51 as I got over £10 worth from an order this week.

pheeni22

New totals:

£10 Schuh Giftcard
£25 HMV Giftcard
£10 Next Giftcard
£21.85 Pigsback
£14.94 Boots Advantage Card
13010 points Toluna (30000 converted into £5 Sainsbury's voucher)
£7.53 Nectar points

£89.32 Approx total

sweetpeas_2

hi everyone,
im sorry ive not been on lately, ive been doing loads of extra work the last few weeks (got to pay for holiday next week) pennies pennies pennies!

ive tried to read up a bit, but theres been that much going on in the last few weeks that ive missed, ill prob be catching up for next few few days!

im doing okay with my saves, £15 each month still by standing order to my mum to stash away for me, £1 a week towards pressies aswell, and also £2 week saver stamps. toluna going a bit slow now mind you, i think they stop sending the surveys when they know ur close to getting a voucher!

ill update my sig!


xx nog xx

chocaholic110

noggin wrote: »

im doing okay with my saves, £15 each month still by standing order to my mum to stash away for me, £1 a week towards pressies aswell, and also £2 week saver stamps. toluna going a bit slow now mind you, i think they stop sending the surveys when they know ur close to getting a voucher!


xx nog xx

I think a lot of sites seem to do that - I always seem to be so close for ages before I get to be paid out! Where are you off on holiday?

Got £5 paid out from Lightspeed into Paypal. Have added it to my savings - getting close to £300 altogether!!

pippo

I'm so near another 1,000 points pigsback voucher!
i know we are still inFeb but.................

hypno06

OH has now got enough lightspeed points for £10 HMV vouchers :j

(lightspeed have dried up for me, sadly, but at least OH is getting them!)

gallygirl

Am not an official member as my priority is the mortgage free in 3 challenge, however thought I'd post anyway . Please ignore if you want to .

I did really well last Xmas using vouchers (mainly pigsback, gotta love that co ), however, I did find it a bit restrictive in where I could shop. Have decided this year to convert them all into cash so will be ebaying them all later in the year.

Currently have around £50 on Boots card :T, does anyone have experience of selling gift cards on ebay?

My target is to have enough for Xmas, plus a girlie trip to NY in Feb :T, without using cash. Quidco & mystery shopping earmarked for mortgage challenge but will be accumulating:
Boots
Pigsback
Survey sites vouchers.

Will also be using Morrisons £5 grocery vouchers from petrol and putting money straight into savings, same with money off coupons.

Lastly, all income from competitions will be going in pot, just over £100 so far :j.

So, only £1895 to go :eek:.

Keep up the inspiration folks :T:T:T:T

chocaholic110

I've found vouchers and gift cards sell quite well on ebay, usually for close to their face value, though I have had several sell at face value or even above - now what's all that about?? (Actually I did read that some big sellers who don't want to pay tax on earnings buy gift cards with their earnings so it doesn't look like they are getting a lot of cash through their bank account - not sure whether that's true or not!)

chocaholic110

hypno06 wrote: »

OH has now got enough lightspeed points for £10 HMV vouchers :j

(lightspeed have dried up for me, sadly, but at least OH is getting them!)

Strangely the other way round for us, OH's have stopped and I've had loads.