The DFW "Celebrate Christmas for free in 2008" Challenge

tallyhoh

Hi, I have been saving my vouchers etc from surveys & my points for Christmas. Here is what I have so far:

Boots Gift Vouchers £95.00
M & S Gift Vouchers £20.00
Book Gift Vouchers £20.00
Revlon Vouchers £10.00
Boots points £6.49
Nectar Points £23.00 (to be cashed at Sainsburys)
Spare Change tin £45.00 (approx)
Littlewoods Cashback £12.00
Asda credit card points £19.41.

I think I have it sorted this year:D

chocaholic110

Spent loads of my Boots points yesterday - got Christmas and birthday present for my Mam's partner (Boss Gift set, £32 and Boss deodorant £17), presents for my nieces (£15 each) and my friend's three boys (£15) and some wooden blocks for DS2 (£10) - all using Boots points! Even better, the 3 for 2 still works when using points so you can buy three gifts and only use points for two of them - bargain!

I now have most of my Christmas shopping for free. I only need to buy for my Mam, my hubby and eldest son - he wants Guitar Hero World Tour and I have £50 in HMV vouchers and over £100 cash in the Christmas account so that will cover that.

Now what can I buy for my Mam and hubby at Boots or Tesco...?

chocaholic110

98sidney wrote: »

Aiming to get everything bought and wrapped up by Nov 1st..

Just wondering if you managed it...?

Gemmzie

Haven't updated in here for a while, so far we've had:
* £80 shopandscan
* £100 cash (from bingo, cash back etc)
* £130 tesco vouchers
* £3 co-op vouchers
* £5 amazon vouchers
* £11 capital bonds (for iceland)
* £20 sainsburys (still waiting for bonus nectar points too!)
* £8 pinecone vouchers

So far we've spent £137.18 and got £285.12 worth of stuff! :j That's over 50% saving :T :T

98sidney

Hi everybody.. I have today bought my daugters pressie. Was £40 in argos but they had reduced it to £20 I had £12.50 on my nectar card so used that so in total I paid
£7.50 for it. Well happy..

Thanyou to all on this site as I wouldnt have known about it a year ago..

chocaholic110

98sidney wrote: »

Hi everybody.. I have today bought my daugters pressie. Was £40 in argos but they had reduced it to £20 I had £12.50 on my nectar card so used that so in total I paid
£7.50 for it. Well happy..

Thanyou to all on this site as I wouldnt have known about it a year ago..

Well done you!

That's interesting, i didn't know you could use nectar points towards purchases, i thought you had to have enough points like Boots cards. Thanks for that.

chocaholic110

So how pleased am I that I started this thread? OH was made redundant last week. Luckily for us (well, more for the kids) Christmas is already covered!

Who's up for it next year?

irishwexford

I opened a bank account especially for Christmas and any cash left from food shopping goes in there for pressies. I also am taking part in the sealed tin challange so should be enough for food. OH got an organic turkey from work for £7 and we bought sweets and biscuits when they were on BOGOF. Bought dd present from Argos at half price and granddaughters pressie from Debenhams on their 20% day (from Christmas account). I do not earn any cash from surveys etc but when I buy something with my Boots vouchers I put the money saved into account.We bought all our cards in sales last year so this year I do feel I am having Christmas for free. :T

huxley

Hi chocaholic110 sorry to hear about the redundancy alot of it about:o but well done you on being so organised. I am definetly in for the challenge next year, its realy helped dh is selfemployed and this time of year is not a good earning time so now thanks to this challenge his wages can go on what there meant to (bills!) and christmas is sorted:T

Smamfer

Hi all can someone help.. I have had my nectar card for ruddy ages and i know i have something silly like 20,000 points on it... how do i convert them pls?

Thanks in advance