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Nectar Card

I am a huge fan of loyalty cards and one of my favorite's is the Nectar card. The Nectar card can be used to collect points in a few select places such as Sainsbury’s, Homebase and at BP garages. Unfortunately me and Ben shop at none of these places however over the last few months I have learnt other ways to collect points.


eShops
If you go to Nectar.com and click through to a shop say ASOS and buy something on the ASOS website, you are able to earn points on your nectar card. One of our favourites places to do this is Just Eat. Ben and I order a takeaway most week's and we find these points really do add up, no other website reward Just Eat customers so we love that Nectar do. Ebay is another place where we manage to collect point and although I tend not to buy much on Ebay, since linking my Nectar card to my Ebay account I have found I have gained a few extra penny's which always come in handy. I love that I can be rewarded for things I need to buy.

Nectar app
The Nectar app is free to download and can be downloaded to many phone/tablet devices. I personally have the app on my Iphone and my tablet. The app gives you the opportunity to opt in to special offers from retailers such as Sainsbury’s and BP, when you go to shop there you can gain 300 extra points for buying a certain thing. So far I have gained 200 extra points for buying a deodorant I needed which was on offer. Once I got the points back for it it made the deodorant free.

The app also gives you the chance to earn points by doing internet searches on your phone. You can earn one point for every two searches and can earn up to 100 points a month, this is great money maker if you’re often looking things up on the go.

Nectar Canvas
Nectar Canvas gives you the chance to answer surveys in return for points. I have done a few surveys however I feel they are a waste of time. You can click through half a survey and then are told you are not suitable for the survey. Instead of rewarding you with a few points they only add you in a competition to win lots of nectar points which is very unlikely when you think of the masses of people who do the surveys. On a plus side if you are suitable for the surveys I have found you can gain over 250 points at a time.

Nectar Toolbar
The nectar toolbar can be downloaded onto your browser on your computer. It allows you to earn points for doing internet searches. The toolbar works the same as the app it is one point for every two searches.

At Christmas I got a email to say that if I spent a certain amount of Nectar points, I would get a the same amount of points back. At Christmas  I was able to get 2 big boxes of Thornton's chocolates free from Argos because of this email. I was thrilled to get some free presents and it took very little effort to do so.

In the last 3 months I have managed to earn £11 on my Nectar Card. I am saving my points for a Argos toy shop for Maxwell at Christmas. I have found that you do have to put a little work into getting "free money" however I find it is worth my time and I enjoy doing the majority of the things that Nectar offer you to gain free points. If you would like to sign up to a Nectar card please check here for details.

Disney Movie Reward Points

This week Monsters Inc arrived free on DVD for Maxwell. Maxwell was of course pleased that he had a new DVD but I was also pleased that he had a new DVD which would have cost me around £8 for free. How did we get it for free? We signed up to Disney Movie Rewards, bought Disney products and saved enough points up to get our free DVD.. Is it worthwhile? YES!


Disney Movie Rewards is a reward scheme which enables you to get free products by buying other Disney products. Eligible Disney movies, music, video games and other products all include a code inside there cases, this code is worth a number of points. Once you have a code all you need to do is sign up to Disney Rewards and put the code into the top bar. You will also need the barcode on the back of the case of the product you found the code on. Once you input several codes and you have points you are then able to redeem DVD'S, Blu Rays, stickers, activity packs and iron ons for free.

To get Monsters Inc for free we used 5 codes from 5 different Disney films we had lying around. Unfortunately we kept finding Disney DVD's on our DVD shelf however they did not include a code as they were not the eligible Disney films which came with special codes, so please keep this in mind if you are buying films. You can check here to see if the film you want to buy is part of the Disney Movie Reward Scheme. 

If you are Disney fans but have no codes to redeem DVD's then why not print some of Disney's free activities off? For free you are able to print free activity packs, bookmarks and colouring sheets. The colouring and free activity packs look fun for this long bank holiday weekend.

Overall we are huge fans of the Disney Reward Scheme and we love everything about it. Personally I would love to see a wider range of reward DVD's that you are able to claim however there is a large choice and I am sure there is something for everyone to choose from. We would love to redeem Tangled next which is priced at around £10 in shops so these reward codes really do save you money.