Breaking Through, Travelling On

I pootled off to London to have a look at the Scythians at the British Museum - I thought it would be interesting, I didn't think it would be utterly fascinating! Makes me wonder how much else is under the ground, waiting to be found. I'd like to go again, actually, thats how good it was.

Been researching my potential new phone, the Samsung J3 - will definitely be buying it unlocked, I need to research:
- what period of time my current contract runs for.
- the difference between buying it and keeping my current contract, and not paying for the phone but buying a new contract. Since that would only pay for itself in about 3 years, I'm inclined to do what I first thought, pay for the handset - I want to future proof, but right now I mostly want to use it for swagbucks etc.

A big birthday weekend in the family is coming up, so I have to be ultra alert to mse stuff, but still provide a good experience - in this case, its M&S meals, not the deals, but whatever-you-want. Hope its good enough, I think it will be, I checked it out.

Right, a bit more tidying, I think

Wow, SL! Thanks for that. I can't find that particular deal, or maybe thats the BT deal, but I can find plenty that would be great for me. My current deal has, ahem, 100MB of data. The £12 Carphone Warehouse would charge is 500MB of data. Oh boy. So either of the "Three" deals would be great, and so would the giffgaff sim.

I haven't renegotiated my mobile deal, just my broadband, so I'm pretty sure I'm on a 30 day contract. I'll give my notice tomorrow, see what they say.

Woo hoo! And with the easy smartphone stuff to make free money, that will be even better Yay to futureproofing.

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

What do you mean? I am time poor so have never looked at anything like surveys to generate any extra money, and just don't have time to blog or anything. Is this something in that sphere (in which case I might ask you for more when I retire(!)), or something else?

Hi SL, yes, it's surveys (very well paid surveys, my paltry little 50p yougov surveys seem like peanuts if you can join the right survey sites), but also things like playing games etc - mostly on swagbucks. Check out betterthanever's new thread - she mentions that she usually gets the bus to and from her (professional-type) job, so she does surveys then, very often. HTH

I'm making such a meal of all this because proper smartphones have really passed me by - my current phone can do all the smartphoney things, although very slowly, but the data allowance is tiny, and I haven't had the time or the health to do stuff.

I do understand about lack of time, believe me - and blogging certainly isn't a path to riches unless you hit on a good niche and spend almost as much time on it as a full time job, so thats a no-no.

But I *am* retired now, and what energy I'm recovering, I don't want to spend in running about my county doing mystery shopping, which is what I used to do. Using my smartphone while at home, and getting paid in Amazon vouchers or direct to paypal or whatever, thats fine. I'd aim for £50 a month, which would finance a couple of trips out each month.

I've just been thinking about what you said about running two sims at once - it's actually something to think about, because nobody needs to call me on the new number - and if I can get the new phone to connect to my wi-fi, I don't even need the new sim immediately. I'll definitely get that phone, and I'll check my contract out over the next few days.

- send off remaining birthday cards (sent 2, 2 still to do)
Not done them yet, but they're next, its sunny right now.

- phone friend to delay meetup next Monday, I'll be shattered from sister's birthday celebrations.
Easiest of the lot, he was fine.

- phone builder to wonder aloud about start date for works.
Not done yet.

- tidying! Am I ever going to stop tidying?
No, I'm never going to stop it. Unfortunately!

- bank account: pay credit card, check executor cheques have been credited, prepare payouts to my sister and brother, move my share to savings account.
Credit card paid, executor cheques credited, my share plus another wodge of the big one plus my energy cashback, all moved to savings account.

- investigate current phone contract thoroughly. Erm, copy notes and contacts and whatnot from my phone - I regret to say, its not synced to my sim, which is the kind of thing I mean about mobiles passing me by
Contract investigated, yay. I last logged on 2.5 years ago :o:o they want me to phone to discuss plans, so stuff them I'll go with the ones that Suffolk Lass pointed me towards. They don't deserve me
Got to work on copying notes and contacts etc.
NB GO TO THE CURRENT NEWSLETTER FOR THE LINKIE TO MSE-BLAGGED DEAL. GET NEW PHONE TOMORROW. HURRAY!