The Debtbegone Challenge!

debtbegone

Hello everyone!

Well, my challenge is currently under review until I figure out exactly how I want to attack it

debtbegone

Well, might get myself started (I'm so interesting :rotfl: )

NSD today, rather proud of myself as I went to the Post Office / Shop, posted off my parcels that sold on ebay last night and walked past all the sweets, fizzy juice, magazines and other bad bad temptations

Since I'm not working for the next wee while I'm hoping to not spend as much on fuel too, so today just had the post office run (it's pouring down where I am, so much for all this "hottest day of the year" nonsense :rolleyes: ) until my sister came home from work and practically demanded a lift back after her dinner :mad:

Just waiting for the boyfriend to get back in to help me write up a sale notice for my old car. Scrap is unfortunately just free uplift due to location (or so they say) so I'm going to have a go and see if I can get some money for it as spares.

Was going to get ebay listings up tonight but haven't been feeling too great and ended up trying to sort out the laptop wireless connection as someone's managed to completely wipe it or do something, no-ones fault of course! My brain wasn't in gear to get it fixed tonight though so will have to have another go tomorrow, else I'll have to kiss goodbye to stp!

Got some more items listed on Amazon though.

In the £10 -a-day challenge I made £58.99 today through a mixture of cashback, ebay payments and some lightspeed surveys.

Roll on tomorrow! :j

Skippycat

Just a quick hello and to say best of luck with your challenge! :beer:

kika

Goodluck I'm sure you'll find support on here.

debtbegone

Thanks skippycat and kika!

I'm hoping that by getting it all down here it WILL give me the push I need.

Having said that . . . . . . .

I went into town today to get cheques into the bank and spent £15.79 - £14.29 on my debt card :mad:

I'm going to stop taking the card with me except from on a Thursday so I can take a tenner out.

£1.50 was for Charity shop shopping - a book, bag and glass

The stuff on the card was for in superdrug so I can get cracking with trying to beautify myself for a wedding next Friday. My boyfriends mate is getting married so I kinda want to look good but didn't need to spend all that, urgh! I'm making my dress, it's all cut I need to get sewing now!

Good news so far today - check for £28.59 from freefivers is on it's way plus a cd sold on Amazon for £3.40 profit :T

I've also accepted another 4 days holiday cover work so so far I've got 33 1/2 hours "overtime" planned for the summer hols. Got my first night tonight, really don't want to but needs must!

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Not long back from getting shown around where I'll be doing my first stint of holiday cover and it's going to be a doddle :j SO glad I accepted it now

Got some ebay listings up tonight too - it's easy to get them done when the boyfriend's away at work (he regularly does overnighters due to his job) as when he's at home we usually spend the evening together since we're hardly seeing each other at the moment.

We're both self employed and are getting stuck into work just now - me to clear my cc debt and so I can then put money towards the house we're renovating so we can finally move out of our parents house.

He bought it nearly 2 years ago and so far all we've done is strip it down to the poured concrete walls! It's currently being used as his workshop :rolleyes: men!

I looked back over my superdrug receipt and from everything I bought I only really NEEDED to spend £1.99 :mad: on the other hand I hope my pasty dry skin will look wonderful in a weeks time! :rotfl:

kika

I know how easy it is to spend I try to think of demotivator. well done on getting extra work.

debtbegone

I had one blu-tacked to my door before and thought I was doing quite well so took it down - think it's time to put it back up!

It's an AMAZING day here, such a change from the last few days where it's poured down. Could do with sitting outside on the laptop instead of my dingy room but I'll have to sort the wireless out. Can't wait till I'm living in a place of my own where people don't mess up my stuff!

I spent £5.79 in the shop today - Bottle of juice, couple of scratchcards and the local paper :rolleyes:

Won a quid on the scratchcard but big bonus was inside the paper there were 2 £3 money off vouchers for the local shop so if I do sums I came out of the shop £1.21 better off! THAT doesn't happen often!

Sold an ebay item, waiting on payment.

The boyfriends back from work tonight so we're going to make ourselves a thai red curry or fish and chips - got the stuff in for either and he's an amazing cook - SO much better than a take-away!

Multi-tasking and playing me some g a l a b!ngo GLGLGL

mummum2

Just wanted to drop a note to say welcome and welll done, you're certainly motivated. Good luck!

MM2

debtbegone

Thanks mummum2!

Hopefully nattering away on this will keep me that way!

Ended up not making dinner as the boyfriend finished work waaayyy later than he was going to but he had a really good day today moneymaking wise so bought me a chinese, twas yum!

Made £6.60 from a couple of small ebay sales and have sold another item tonight, really need to get some more auctions up!

So instead of dinner tonight I got down to making my dress. It's the first time I've made a proper piece of clothing so was a bit nervous but so far so good! Bodice part is done but needs some tweaking once it's attached to the skirt part. Left it alone earlier as my mind was starting to fuzz an I want to give it 100% doing gathers in the skirt would not have been fun with fuzzy eyes!

Got shoes to go with it a month or so ago, on sale on asos for £14 including p&p, gorgeous peep-toe wedges :j need to get (or make!) myself a wee bag and some sort of shawl / shrug to keep my arms warm.

Just waiting for the t*sco card to send me a promo bt code so I can get that sorted.

Also had a couple of business opportunities today - one to make some dosh when I thought I wouldn't and the other to possibly get a grant for attending an event/expanding so going to look into those.

Super apologies for boring everyone with my uber long posts about nothing in particular

Going to watch my some csi:ny now and drool over all the fit guys

debtbegone

Not been feeling great today - just a kindof ick feeling all sluggish all day, plus I slept in this morning, well annoyed with myself :mad:

Can feel a tad of procrastination/disinterest setting in with regards to getting stuff sold/listed and that needs to be done to blast the cc so I'm going to get a few things up in turbolister just now so there's no excuse.

Then onto wrapping up orders ready for the Post Office tomorrow, not feeling tired at all since I had that long lie

Had my first full shift doing holiday cover tonight and I'm SO glad I took it, it's so easy I'd do it onto of my normal work all the time if it became available!

Was a fantastic day here again today but didn't see much of it, hopefully it'll stay nice over the weekend!

Edited to add: I had another NSD, woop!