The 2008 Money Neutral Gift Challenge

jamtart6

they sound great scattymam! I would love a "warm and cosy" hamper !! My Mun wants to do a hamper for me and wanted a theme, I think I've just found it! "warm and cosy, tea and coffee"

I've just been on boots.com bought 3 of the half price St Tropez sets for me and a friend who is paying me, and some other things for my Mum who is paying me.
£2.10 cashback, £13.50 back in points

So works out I got something that should have been £45 originally, and another thing for £8 has worked out (less cashback, less points back) at £4.50 for both! BARGAIN BASEMENT! love buying stuff for others online!!

scattymam1

want to put a personalised photo mug in with the tea/coffee hampers - anybody seen any cheap/good ones anywhere or a thread discussing this???

jamtart6

there may be some on the "i wanna" board! (ps have pm'd you!)

snapfish good quality usually and they do codes now and again. I'll keep an eye out

mum2one

Id say Snapfish is usually the cheapest for personalised items, esp if you can pick up from store and save post + packing, had some last yr they were £8.00 each but I had them on a bogof.

Re Calender - Id go for option B, you can get some brill personalised photos, or price up Vistaprint, as they usually do one calender for free, and you can upload some personal messages. (My fav got pic of dd looking worried, so added comment - I've just seen mothballs coming from daddas wallet, is that normal? (my poor father) but becareful as I got caught out as they now charge £1.99 photo upload, - (I know that sounds tight, but I had the same calender 3 times and got charged upload for each). Otherwise for 1 calender, may be a compromise between A + B. x

jamtart6

i really dunno which to go for as A will be professional and B will be a glue and tape job by me!! i do have free snapfish prints though so B is super cheap ..... hmm!

scattymam1

Thanks have joined snapfish and got free 20 prints which I need at the moment and think I will get the mug I want from there as it seems the safest option and P&P is reasonable.

shelovestobuystuff

I have managed to buy all DD,s xmas pressies with last months cashback from quidco,all for opening bank accounts and taking out insurance etc so no spend cashback.Now I have to sell some things on ebay to pay for the rest of the pressies.

jamtart6

scattymam - DID YOU GO THROUGH QUIDCO?!?! you get £3.50 for a new sign up to snapfish!!!! Re-register with another e-mail to get your cashback before you buy!! Pigsback do snapfish on 5pts per £1 spent, but good lluck if they actually credit them!

jamtart6

shelovestobuystuff wrote: »

I have managed to buy all DD,s xmas pressies with last months cashback from quidco,all for opening bank accounts and taking out insurance etc so no spend cashback.Now I have to sell some things on ebay to pay for the rest of the pressies.

Brilliant! Well done shelovestobuystuff that exactly what this thread is about! :T:T How much more do you need to sell on eBay?

scattymam1

Just realised after I did it? Am going to re-register with hubbies e-mail(which is the family e-mail ) and go through quidco.