The 2008 Money Neutral Gift Challenge

mum2one

Shopping day 2day - quiet day - but added £10.00 to the xmas tin £198.00 x

jamtart6

VOUCHERS & CASH FOR MONEY NEUTRAL CHALLENGE UP TO NOW:
ARGOS: £19.72
BOOTS CARD: £12
BOOTS VOUCHERS C/O PGSBACK: £40
OTHER BOOTS VOUCHERS: £15
CD WOW : £1 + £10 pigsback
CASHBACK REWARDS: £7.27 + £2.64 pending
QUIDCO: £47.82
EBAY: £40 yipee!!!
MARKS & SPENCER: £35 Given as a present for Mother's Day
OTHER CASH: £5 arrived Envirophone and £50 from Boots Points
TOLUNA: 20'000
HMV: £0
TESCO: 114 POINTS
NECTAR: £1.72
WATERSTONES: 85p
ONEPOLL: £13.20
OTHER: 18 x 1st class stamps from Royal Mail survey


* Red denotes updates this week!


MONEY NEUTRAL CHALLENGE:
January - 100% Money neutral
February - 100% Money neutral

News:
Have got back on ebay just bits here and there, made £50 tonight which is about £40 actual profit

How are you all getting on? Would be great to see your updates too

March Forecast
Dad's Birthday - ALL NEUTRAL
*Got him a gift from Boots with points (was £40, got it for £10) = neutral
* Bottle of Whisky c. £15 cash - still neutral
* Sweets £6
*CD £5

Friends Birthday -ALL NEUTRAL
*Stella set from Boots with points = neutral
*£15 next voucher = cash but neutral

Other Friends Birthday - ALL NEUTRAL
* Giftset from Boots with points = neutral

Easter
*Eggs - Cash probably hopefully about £4 though!

March is looking like it could be quite neutral too :T:T:T

chocaholic110

Amazon do eventually track with cashbackrewards.It's just they update it all at once the month after you buy so it can take weeks. I haven't had any not track though and I've bought quite a lot.

scattymam1

April update for money neutral challenge::T

Boots:18.13
Pigsback:5.00
Morrisons petrol:not sure, must check
Tesco:3.53
E-bay: 17.50 just used some for 2 presents and 1 fathers day present so balance now:2.83
Toluna:15,825
onepoll:8.95
Ipsos:610 points
Valued opinions:5.00
Lightspeed: 15 points(just used £6.00)

So Jan, Feb and March has been money neutral so far for birthdays Thanks to this "wonderful" challenge

April: AAAAAAAGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! This month I have 5 kids birthdays, bought 4 of them already and spent £19, so have to make that back on ebay
Also have 3 adult birthdays- one will be £20 cash in card:eek: , one I may use my boots points for and the other I have got already through ebay money and recycling unused christmas plonk.

Christmas saving: £10 whsmith voucher and £5 sainsburys voucher
Have 23 people to buy for have 5 sorted with recycled presents from last christmas, so building up to that quite well

Gonna have a car boot sale soon too and nobody will come with me so it's all going in my birthday/christmas kitty (which will probably end up paying for presents for the people who refused to help with my car boot sale in the first place:rotfl: ).

jamtart6

Well done scatyymam!
I know I am still neutral, but managed to lose my spreadsheet when I transferred data from one pc to my new one. I wil lhave to re-build the spreadsheet I am still 100% neutral for Jan, Feb & March. No birthdays for me in April so all is good there too

Also have got 26 things listed on eBay. go me!!

scattymam1

Good for you jammy, next month will be better I have one birthday in May all the rest are cards (and I can make them) roll on May I say!!! Ha Ha I'm a poet(Iwonder if there's any money in that).

jamtart6

heehee!! I have 1 birthday, our anniversary, then my OH's birthday but we don't go mad with that. Most of my funds will be for Xmas when the most money is spent

oldMcDonald

Update from me as I have been [strike]pretty quiet[/strike] lurking on this thread!!

Have got:

£10 Argos voucher (from a spend in Argos when they were giving vouchers back on over £50 / £100 spends.

£30 Argos vouchers from Consumer pulse

£46.53 in Boots points

£10 Pigsback Waitrose voucher

£25 back from Quidco

£10 off petrol voucher from Texaco WE O U

Spent on pressies so far:

£98.48 (Several birthdays in first few months of this year plus a couple of Christmas pressies bought and put by)

I make that IN: £131.53 OUT: £98.48, so I am doing OK so far!!

SugarSpun

I bet on the National and won £48! Taking out my original stake, that makes me £36.45 up, and I am adding this to my running Christmas total.

Super awesome! And only a few gifts left to buy!!!

jamtart6

i bet £25 for the family with the free bet. we covered 7 horses and I had 2 in a sweep at work, and won SOD ALL oh well got £30 tracked in quidco for signing up HURRAH! that will help towards an xmas present!