Benbens moneymaking adventure

benbenandme

Surveys are all done and I managed to persuade ds to help me with some housework :T so most of the place is looking fairly reasonable again except for my room. I can't wait for the holidays I feel like I've got a million things going round my head at the moment and I just want to relax :mad:

benbenandme

£110 arrived today from quidco and has knocked the mortgage down to feb 2024 :beer: It was sports day at school today so a nice day sat in the sun After school was a bit mad, I had to go and get stuff for a frind who is leaving tomorrow, then ds swimming lesson followed by parents evening and meet the new teachers :rolleyes: Finally home and have just eaten a hot dog and am now going to chill for half an hour before tackling bedtime :rolleyes:

Only a few spends today ... 60p on a drink and £1 on ice-cream at school to keep cool, and £2.99 on a helium balloon for friend.

I've just completed a survey that will earn me £4 in a few days and I'm also only £1 away from payout on onepoll which has taken ages and ages to reach

benbenandme

Last night was a friends leaving do from work, I spent £5.25 on a game of bowling (we'd already paid for one game) and £1.60 on a drink (I was driving), so a pretty cheap night really

During the day yesterday at work I spent £1.60 on a cake for ds summer fayre.

Today we're off to the afore mentioned fayre and no doubt will spend lots of money on side stalls etc, but ds loved it last year so should be fun

hypno06

Enjoy the school fayre and good luck on the tombola

For the record, I think the number of sweets in the jar is 753. And the name of the teddy is "Ted".......

benbenandme

Summr fayre was okay but not as good as last years, spent too much but not ridiculous amounts, 50p entrance, £1.20 on fairy cakes that were horrible :rolleyes:, £1 on 2 go's on the lucky dip (got a notebook and some stickers), 50p for the bouncy castle, £1 for the tombola, 50p for the filled flowerpot, £1 for a tattoo, £1.50 for facepainting, £1 for pottery painting, £1 for 5 paperback books for ds inc. 3 x roald dahl books and 50p for Mousetrap, which I'm regretting already as its such a faff to set up and then the traps don't always work properly :rolleyes: Ds enjoyed himself though so thats good and he's been playing happily all afternoon while I've done yet another mammoth flat-blitzing operation :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

So far I have .... cleaned the guinea pigs, changed my bedding, done 4 loads of washing, filled and emptied the dishwasher, tidied and hoovered my bedroom, tidied the bathroom and tidied and cleaned the kitchen. Ds is just helping me get the dinner then I need to tackle the lounge

ladypinkof66

benbenandme wrote: »

Summr fayre was okay but not as good as last years, spent too much but not ridiculous amounts, 50p entrance, £1.20 on fairy cakes that were horrible :rolleyes:, £1 on 2 go's on the lucky dip (got a notebook and some stickers), 50p for the bouncy castle, £1 for the tombola, 50p for the filled flowerpot, £1 for a tattoo, £1.50 for facepainting, £1 for pottery painting, £1 for 5 paperback books for ds inc. 3 x roald dahl books and 50p for Mousetrap, which I'm regretting already as its such a faff to set up and then the traps don't always work properly :rolleyes: Ds enjoyed himself though so thats good and he's been playing happily all afternoon while I've done yet another mammoth flat-blitzing operation :rolleyes: :rolleyes:



So far I have .... cleaned the guinea pigs, changed my bedding, done 4 loads of washing, filled and emptied the dishwasher, tidied and hoovered my bedroom, tidied the bathroom and tidied and cleaned the kitchen. Ds is just helping me get the dinner then I need to tackle the lounge

Ben Ben hope you dont mind me asking but how do you manage to do 4 loads of washing and get it dry do you have outside area, I could only ever manage to do a maximum of 2 loads a day and get it dried outside, or do you use a tumble dryer.

benbenandme

I don't have any outside area, but am really lucky that I have 5 velux windows, so I put it all straight on hangers and hang it all along the windows, it dries really quickly in this heat and half of it doesn't need ironing either I also have 3 of those things for hanging socks etc from, so all the underwear / socks etc go on those Bedding gets taken round to mums to go on her washing line I do have a tumble dryer but its in the garage and hasn't been used now for over 2 years :T

ladypinkof66

benbenandme wrote: »

I don't have any outside area, but am really lucky that I have 5 velux windows, so I put it all straight on hangers and hang it all along the windows, it dries really quickly in this heat and half of it doesn't need ironing either I also have 3 of those things for hanging socks etc from, so all the underwear / socks etc go on those Bedding gets taken round to mums to go on her washing line I do have a tumble dryer but its in the garage and hasn't been used now for over 2 years :T

Gosh you do better than me i have outside area and still havent done any loads this week i have been laid up since last sunday however with food poisioning i think tomorrow i shall have to get going on the washing. Are you heading off to any car boots tomorrow Ben Ben
I bought a nice red and black Jane norman dress today in our local charity shop for £1.99 it has 3/4 length sleeves so might have to wait til autumn to list on ebay.

I love hearing about your bargain items you pick up at your car boot sales.

benbenandme

That dress sounds good Ladypink and a bargain for £1.99 :T :T I don't think I'm going to go to any tomorrow as ds is at home this weekend and he wants to buy all sorts of junk otherwise :rolleyes: I will definitly be giong next weekend though when he's at his dads. I also haven't had a chance yet to list any of the stuff I got last week, so will try and get that on ebay tomorrow and make some room before I buy the next lot

benbenandme

Last night was a wierd one; Mum phoned at about 8:30 asking me to go over there as dad was very confused and had been talking to me for the last 2 hours and was upset because I was ignoring him He'd also gone out to the fish and chip shop and returned with 2 carrier bags full (they'd had dinner) because "that man over there" told him to

My sister came too and we spent about 3 hours talking to him, almost all of the conversation was complete nonsense and was horrible to see him like that.

On the way home we have to go along a country lane and a car came speeding the other way and as we went a bit further we saw a baby deer that he'd hit in the road It was still alive so we called the vet and they said to bring it in, so we did, although we got the impression they thought we'd done it as they were quite off with us and when we got there they said they thought it may have broken its leg, in which case there would be nothing they could do for it :eek: :mad: :mad: I'm going to phone up in a bit and see what happened to it, but all in all it was a sad night Ds didn't get to bed until midnight and luckily is now having a lie-in His behaviour yesterday was absolutely lovely :T :T