Money Saving & Money Making Ideas thread...

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I don't know if this'll run its course or fizzle away to the depths of GD but it's worth a shot, post your money saving techniques in daily life, heres a few online I do:

Money Making and Saving.
  • www.topcashback.co.uk / [ref]

    Here's a great idea, Quidco does the same thing also but requires a membership fee. You basically sign up for affiliates, deals and clickthroughs to make a few extra pennies, if you create a separate email account to route all the spam through you really have no problems. After little to no effort, here's what I've got after about a month;

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    It may take a while to get paid, but if you've got Facebook then you can add the application and get 2p every friend invite, the easiest money you'll ever make! Getting £1 to simply sign up to 4od and £6 to get a credit report, that you later can just cancel by phone, easy.
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  • www.pigsback.com

    While this doesn't pay you in actual money, you can get an array of vouchers for supermarkets etc. and this is mainly built on clickthroughs and sign ups, again just using another email account this is fine; here's what I've got currently:

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    You get 500 points aka £5.00 for a referral here too.

    It stagnates at around 900 points apparently, and may take a bit of effort/a purchase or two to get to the 1000 points minimum voucher pay out, but it's all free money. There are loads of daily quizzes worth entering for little effort, the whole website literally takes no effort to do anything, and earn a few pennies.
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  • Something DEFINITELY worth doing is signing up to either of these sites and clickingthrough the www.lovefilm.com (screenselect) link, signing up for the free trial of 14/30 days gets you a £12.50 (or 1250 pigs points) payment. All you do is sign up, get a free DVD (Blood Diamond for me, great film!), send it back and cancel your free trial. I don't understand how awesome these can be as a company.

I've been reading www.moneysavingexpert.com as well, and they've got some great articles, but I thought I'd start this just so we could all share our own bargains and ideas.

My question to you is; how can I sell old clothes? It may be a bit tight not just giving them to a charity shop, but I have some old jeans and old t-shirts that even if I get around 50p a tshirt for them I'd be happy; any one know how? even if just for the material?

Get posting some bargains, any supermarket deals/savings for paying by the kg etc?

You can tell I'm a student with all the money saving ideas but it's worth it!
 
Quidco may charge a £5 admin fee, but its still great. I've gotten back over £300 in cashback in total, £100 of that this year alone (admittedly I've been buying bike parts but still).
 
platypus said:
Quidco may charge a £5 admin fee, but its still great. I've gotten back over £300 in cashback in total, £100 of that this year alone (admittedly I've been buying bike parts but still).
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Aye quidco is brilliant, I have earnt 250quid in the 11 months i have been using it. I dont think I have actually brought that much, only thing of worth was my amp, but other than that most of it is for applying for credit cards which I just cancel once they come through. Cant complain about free money.
 
Sorry should have given a bit more detail :)

Surveys take next to no time (under 2 mins usually) to complete. You normally get 50p per survey (sometimes 75p or £1 for longer ones) and get sent a cheque when you reach £50. Depending on your personal information and interests, you may get a few surveys a week or maybe more. Some surveys are prize ones where you could win a cheque for a few hundred quid.
 
Duke said:
Sorry should have given a bit more detail :)

Surveys take next to no time (under 2 mins usually) to complete. You normally get 50p per survey (sometimes 75p or £1 for longer ones) and get sent a cheque when you reach £50. Depending on your personal information and interests, you may get a few surveys a week or maybe more. Some surveys are prize ones where you could win a cheque for a few hundred quid.
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So you can't just choose any survey and just complete everything? They send them to you depending on my personal info. and interests?
 
Yep. It won't make you a millionaire, but is nice to get a cheque for £50 in the post or if you win one of the prizes etc. There are another one or two like it as well, so might be worth doing more than one company.
 
Whilst quidco charges £5 a year it is worth it in my opinion. They only take it from your cash back so its not like you lose any money and typically they pay more than other cashback sites.

The lovefilm example above, it pays £15.50 so you already have recouped £3 of the £5 its costs to use quidco.
 
I can also recommend the bingo sites on quidco. Typically you get £20 for depositing around £10 (so you are £10 up here). Then the bingo sites normally match that deposit (which cannot be withdrawn). Then play through the £20 in your account and cash out any winnings, I've won £200 on gala, £50 on william hill and £50 on the sun.

Only downside is bingo is as boring as hell. Obviously don't get addicted the gambling as then you lose! Also do them one at a time to start so you know the cashback is tracking correctly.
 
Cr0fty said:
No one tried premium bonds?
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http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/savings/premium-bonds

Not particularly worth it, it's just a lottery and the odds are on the fact you'll win less than the rate of interest, so better to put money in an ISA, I've got a couple of thousand saved in an ISA at the moment, and it's nice seeing your interest always building. :)

Might give the surveys a go.

Anyone got any offline tips?
 
Dist said:
i was reading on the money saving expert forums that it takes around 2 years to get up to the £50 mark, so its far from being a decent way to make money. especialy considering who knows if the site will still be around in 2 years time.
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Bah, just joined it...made £1 so far. :o
 
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