I want to raise an extra £50 a month until the end of the year. Anyone want to join me?

[thefuturesnotourstosee]

My thoughts have turned to Christmas (sad I know). I'd like to pay for it without worry this year so want to raise and put away an extra £50 a month for the rest of the year. That will be £250 altogether.

I'm starting with surveys. Initially going to do Valued Opinions, One Poll and Toluna. With Toluna and Valued Opinions the payout is in Amazon vouchers when you get to £15. One Poll pays out at £40. Hoping to get 4 £15 amazon vouchers and one £40 payout by the end of the year which will give me the first £100.

Also planning to sell things on ebay mainly a huge heap of DD's clothes - quite a lot of mini boden and some good coats. No idea how much I'll raise but hopefully it will help.

Will also put DDs second hand school uniform in uniform sale. Won't make a huge amount but will help.

Will think about other ways to make money.

Would anyone like to join me? There are similar things of Money Saving Expert forums but the threads move so fast and are full of very dedicated people I don't feel I can rival

Nice one on the forgotten account!

I went back on my Sainsbury's account after it being inactive for 11 months and found a tenners worth of points when I signed up to AdPoints

You're doing really well, I'm not doing as well atm, Thurs/Fris are my current "busy to death" days though I leave that job in two more weeks If I get this new job I want I'll have one day a week of long hours and the other three days will be 4/5 hours each and some split so I'll have loads of time :)

fluffy I looked at that and keep dithering, is it worth it?

I think so, you get about £60 a year if you convert the points to amazon vouchers.

You just download the app, set up an online account and let the points build up. They build up really quickly at first then plateau out but you get about a 1000 a month and a £10 amazon vouchers 2000.

I'm back from my holiday and ready to start again. I managed some very small bits while away so new totals are:

One poll £8.80
valued opinions £7.25
nectar £5.32
crowdology £2.56
My Surveys £10

total £33.93. £216.07 to go.

Its a long way to go! I've got a few more nectar points from surveys and video watching to come and also probably have about £7 worth of toluna points now so may yet get a voucher by Christmas. Also just done a small survey on mysurveys so got a few points again on there but not much

Really need to get on with some ebay listing now I'm home

Update on my boring thread:

One poll £9.70
valued opinions £7.75
nectar £5.32
crowdology £4.08
My Surveys £10

Also got a few more mysurvey points and a few more toluna points. I'm not counting them in until I've cashed them. I've started doing swagbucks again as well even though I hate the site but it does sort of pay.

New total £36.85 so £213.50 to go

Its the end of August and I've missed my target for this month by nearly £10. Not a great start!!

One poll £10.65
valued opinions £7.75
nectar £7.49
crowdology £4.48
My Surveys £10

Total: £40.37 so £209.63 to go.

I also have

65000 points on toluna and need 80000 for voucher (hate the site intend to stop doing it as soon as I've cashed out).

665 points on mysurveys (need 1100 to cash out for another £10 voucher).

325 points on justtheanswer (need 500 for a £5 voucher)

700 swagbucks most of them left over from last time I tried the site (really don't understand swagbucks but will just carry on swagging am sure htey'll be worth something eventually)

Hopefully with a bit of effort some of the points will convert to money next month and be added to the total.

And still put nothing on ebay though my excuse now is camera function on phone broken -grrrr

Don't eBay,

If you are on Facebook, join your local selling groups and sell on there,

You won't have to pay any fees and people are local so collect from you so no hassle with post office trips

One poll £11.45
valued opinions £8.25
nectar £9.76
crowdology £4.48
My Surveys £10

total £43.94. £206.06 to go.

Struggling to rack up the £s at the moment. I keep getting disqualified from surveys half way through but will just keep trying. Its not gone up much over the last few days.

Plus have a few things listed on facebook and some things went to school uniform sale and am waiting to see if i get anything for them

I gave up on surveys because I would spend ages answering only be told I hadn't qualified. Decided that life was too short.

One poll £12.50
valued opinions £10.25
nectar £9.96
crowdology £4.48
My Surveys £10

£47.19. £202.81 to go.

Also have

65000 toluna points but another 5000 or so pending (how I detest that site can't wait to cash out and never use it again)
1652 swagbucks (need another 347 then can get £10 paypal)
735 points on mysurvey (have discovered I can get paypal on this if I prefer cash to amazon vouchers)

Finally I've received £3 luncheon vouchers from pinecone! They'll be useful next time I fancy a greggs sausage roll or two but I'm not counting them in my total

Very slow. Keep comforting myself this month will be better as only started on 8th August and was away for 10 days as well. No interest on facebook stuff but never mind will leave it there for now.

Its an interesting experience to see what I can generate whilst sitting on sofa breastfeeding and/ or watching TV!

One poll £12.85
valued opinions £11
nectar £10.70
crowdology £4.48
My Surveys £10

Total £49.03

On top of that I now have enough to claim £10 from Swagbucks but have to got through a validation process first so may take a while. I've got various points and £ on other survey sites (toluna, panel base and my surveys) which I'm not including until I've actually managed to cash out so total will hopefully go up quite a bit over next few weeks as I hit some targets.

Does anyone else use Toluna? They are so slow at adding points. I'm sure I've done enough surveys to cash out but they still owe me some points from July!

Really sorry about htis thread its sooo boring but its useful to me as a sort of tracker.

hiya, you are really doing well.
Toluna add points when they ferl like it, but state 4 weeks after study has finished.
Please don't cancel your account until you have your voucher in your hand. Read on a site once how as someone cancelled the account day after ordering voucher the voucher was cancelled

thanks for the warning Caz. That does not surprise me to be honest but good to know in advance.

I might just keep it and do the odd survey when I feel very very bored but really its a horrible site to deal with. I did a 6000 point survey last night so hopefully they will get round to adding the points one day.

Some of the surveys are actually interesting on other sites but Toluna seem to specialise in very long and boring ones

I always register for the product tests, you dont get points for doing this but you do get to test and keep the products ! have had all sorts, Walkers crisps multi packs, toiletries, nappies and cleaning products

Hi

I have been inspired and now watching the ads for nectar points.

Another thrifty tip is when collecting the trolley have a quick look as some people throw away their coupons. I have collected and used a £9 off £60 shop and some that add extra points to the card. DH used to be mortified but now has the key fobs for nectar and Tescos and reminds me to bring the coupons.

I am going to see how many extra points I can collect on Nectar to use for a nice big Xmas food shop.

I've been inspired too, thanks for starting this thread op.

Have today signed up to the nectar survey site but stumbled at the very first hurdle! I only have internet access via my smartphone but their surveys need to be done on a pc/laptop!!

Are there any sites suitable for Smartphones, does anyone know? I will have a look at the app mentioned upthread now.

my survey, Toluna and opinium survey sites are all available on smartphones

Glad someone is insipred. Right now I feel like I'm grinding to a halt. Not had many surveys for days and keep getting disqualified from the ones I do get.

Current totals

One poll £14.25
valued opinions £11
nectar £11.12
crowdology £4.48 (this keeps chucking me out of surveys)
My Surveys £10

Finally passed the £50 mark - £50.85 altogether. In a sense the only thing I should count is the my survey as its the only one I've actully been paid for yet but that would be too depressing!!

I also have various other bits that will hopefully add to the above total eventually.

66016 points on toluna (and they owe me so many grrr)
2688 swagbucks
935 mys survey points
£8.20 on panal base (need £10 to cash out)

I have complained to Nectar Canvass (only been doing this a couple of days )

When asked for my opinion and would I recommend them to a friend I said no. Reason was that if the company stops the survey at any point then a percentage of Nectar points should be awarded. It is not the members fault if the answers they are giving means the company do not want them to complete the survey. Also changed my profile slightly.

Quite like doing the adpoints, set myself a target of 200 points per week. It is not the bad when watching something on telly.

And lastly ensure I have got 100 points on the tool bar. I just sit and type in loads of searches for a couple of minutes then do it again the next day.

What about focus groups?

In the last year I got 100 for an indepth interview about baby wipes, 60 for one about buggies and 120 for doing online diary with photos about cereal.

I also got an iPod touch for free (might sell it) from Bryter Research.

My DH did 3 groups in the last fortnight getting 160 total.

I would do more but I am often not available in the evenings due to the kids...

I've used Focus Force and Saros. Way better than online surveys in terms of productivity if you can get to the groups.

Also watch with Toluna points expire after 12 months!

One poll £16.15
valued opinions £11.50
nectar £11.67
crowdology £4.48 (this keeps chucking me out of surveys)
My Surveys £10

Total £53.80

Still no interest on my facebook stuff oh well.

I'm 15 points off £10 paypal on my surveys so hopefully one more survey will sort that out. Also have 3434 swagbucks and need about 1500 more to get £25 paypal.

Betty how do you get involved in focus groups? i'd love to do those thoigh like you evenings are difficult for me because of child care. NOt much point spending most of your earnings on a babysitter

Iloveonionrings afraid this si really common while doing surveys you have to get used to being disqualfied its part of the game unfortunately. With the adverts you get what you get not much you can do to increase the score. It just depends what adverts are up.

Lovely surprise in the post this morning £18.50 cheque for dd's second hand school uniform :) Will do another summary later today but this will certainly help with this months target.

Thats fab !
Have you being using/collecting any coupons towards shopping ? I try and collect these from free papers/magazines etc. It can make a difference to the final bill at the check out and better in your pocket than their till.

One poll £16.95
valued opinions £11.50
nectar £11.70
crowdology £4.48 (this keeps chucking me out of surveys)
My Surveys £10
selling dd's old uniform £18.50

Total £73.13

Just got another £10 from My Surveys :)