Saturday 14/06/08 What small dfw things have you done today???

sophiesmum_2

Wow that's a lot of savings:T :T well done you:D

CarolynH

Ta, I'm very pleased. Normally manage about £7 or £8 but my Tesco are generally happy scanners so thought I'd chance my luck and see what happens as there are some good coupons around at the mo.

Aussieonabudget

Couldn't get onto the forum for some reason last night so just read the rest of yesterdays thread

Cassey - congratulations, you get the benefit of a new job without the hassels of starting work somewhere else and having to learn the ins and outs. When do you start on you enhanced salary?

Andan - I'm thinking maybe you can have the OH for a bit. He did good during the day yesterday with the cleaning and cooking, but then proceeded to reward himself with most of a bottle of rum and passed out on the spare bed upstairs but left the mobile with the alarm in our room!! Do you still want him? He is getting better at the money saving thing, usually laughs at me when I find things off this site and makes fun of me to our friends but then does take it on board with the cooking, and changing mobile contracts and shopping etc. So I think I'll keep him for a bit yet!

Today I'm going to try to be super productive and
- do surveys (done, none to do)
- not spend anything during the day - store cupboard lunch etc
- chop and freeze any veg that I can so that it doesn't go bad
- sort out sky (live in a shared house so it's between 5 people and we NEED it!)
- cancel my australian medical insurance and get refund for overpayments
- organise financial paperwork and try to organise last years tax
- show 2 people the room upstairs that we need to rent and hopefully one of them wants to move in
- read the food waste challenge thread from the beginning
- enter competitions
- make my way down to friends house later becuase we are doing the london to brighton cycle tomorrow - we are going to take them out for a carb loading dinner tonight becuase she is driving his work van down to brighton to pick us up (and work is even paying for fuel) - so that should be the only spend for the day!

Other than that, enjoy the fact that it is a weekend, hope everyone else is doing the same!
Aussie

Aussieonabudget

CarolynH wrote: »

I just couponed £17.50 off a £30 shop at Mr T. :j :j :j

How did you manage that? Were they XX vouchers? Thought you could only use one? I'm very impressed!

Aussie

Hawthorn

Aussie.......surveys. Do you get paid for these? What are the bonuses?

Thanks

CarolynH

Aussieonabudget wrote: »

How did you manage that? Were they XX vouchers? Thought you could only use one? I'm very impressed!

Aussie

I have a lot of good ones at the minute. One was a £6 clothing file one, then Eve and Instyle magazine ones were £2.40 each, a couple of high value couponet ones, a huggies one, and some low value internet ones for a bit of variety, and so one.

My Tesco are generally VERY good at taking coupons though. :j Long may it continue!

Aussieonabudget

There are quite a few survey sites, a couple of years ago I signed up for everything going whle off work for a bit but now only do the ones that actually pay you for them. Have only started doing them properly again a few weeks ago but still have points left in the accounts so can't tell you how much I make on them. Usually about £1 a survey and then you can redeem when you get to £5, £10 or £20 depending on the site. Some pay cash but most pay vouchers.

Here is a part of Martin's Boost your income article:

"Online market research.

• You can get paid cash to take part in online surveys, which are often short enough to fill in during breaks at work. Try ValuedOpinions, Pure Profile, Pinecone Research, Lightspeed Panel and Toluna.
  How much? Some surveys can pay £1 to £3 for just a couple of minutes of your time.
  Find out more: Join the discussion and read other MoneySavers' top suggestions or add your own in the Online market research thread. "

I would probably say that these are the ones that I get most money from but am not a member of Pinecone Research so can't tell you about that one.

Just make sure that you set up a separate email address for any junk that comes through - but I think these ones are actually pretty good.

Hope that helps!
Aussie!

Eternal_Optimist

:hello: Hi Everyone:j

First of all, I hope everyone has a happy DFW, NS or Just a Little Spend Weekend:A

Secondly, Good luck to Claireabell at the races, hope you win lots:T :beer:

&

Finally, Andan, Get Revising!! :T When is your exam btw? It's D218 isn't it? My favourite ever course:T :j

Well hopefully a NS Weekend here as I don't need to go out.:T

Meals will be from items bought in weekly shop:A

Gonna seriously think about doing some more OU study, got my Open degree last December but if I did one more level 3 course I could up it to an honours degree:T Plus, I would still qualify for financial support so I really should consider doing it while that still applies:rolleyes:

Checked online banking.....hovering between staying in the black:T and tipping over into the red:o

Quiet evening in here planned with a DVD bought second hand on Amazon:T and a bottle of fizzy Aussie plonk:beer: :rotfl::p :beer:

Energised

Will be making a lovely curry today and gonna go up to my mums for a free dinner tomorrow!

Hopefully a no spend weekend .

Hawthorn

Thanks Aussie. Much appreciated.

I am a stay at home mum so I should be able to find the time to do a few of these. even if it's only a fiver, it helps

I also have some tightlacing corsets that are too small for me (sob) that are brand new and cost me hundreds. Going to list those on Ebay, this weekend. I'll be sad to see them go, but not sad to see the money pay off the visa