The DMP of Emily

ehallett

Morning everyone

OMG, I have never been so skint in all my life!! Only 2.5 days to go though until I get my DLA so that will be £70. However, I owe my boyfriend £30 and I need to top my phone up with £10 and I will have to use £10 of that for petrol.

Leaves me with £20 for food and I need LOADS!! I've got some stuff going in the freeads of the local paper tomorrow so fingers crossed that some of that sells and I can get my hands on some cash earlier than Wednesday. Oh, and I've got nearly £20 going in from mystery shops at some point next week so maybe it's not as bad as I think .

I have so far managed to avoid going to the local record shop with my CDs but if my petrol gets too low before Wednesday then I might have to.

I've started to do some reviews on Dooyoo (thanks to Hayley for the idea as I read how well you were doing on there :A ) - I've already got over 5,000 points which I believe is a £5 Amazon voucher. I'm going to try and do 10 reviews a day for a couple of weeks and see how much I can get towards christmas. Also, I am nearly at the payout level on Test & Vote so I will probably get a £12 CD Wow voucher.

I've been hitting the competitions hard recently too as I just don't see how I am going to be able to afford to buy anything for Christmas presents this year. It would be so helpful if I could just win a few.

I've been doing my own Christmas list and it is so long, I want so much that I just can't afford. There are house bits on there too that I would like but can't justify spending my money on.

Anyway, I am at my mum's today for dinner so will save some money on food and won't be using my car .

Emily x

benbenandme

Has the radio competition money arrived yet Emily?

ehallett

benbenandme wrote: »

Has the radio competition money arrived yet Emily?

No :mad: - I keep ringing and all I get told that it is a 'national prize' and they will chase it up for me. It has been over 10 weeks now. I could really use £350 at the moment and they are just having a laugh.

The station is part of the Capital Radio group so beware when entering any comps with any of their stations :rolleyes: .

Emily x

ehallett

Hi everyone

I finally got my hands on some money today - however it was only £5 :rolleyes: . I sold something in the local paper. It has all but gone now though. I had to buy some food for my boys and something for my lunch tomorrow.

Still, only tomorrow to go and I will have some money .

Had my flu jab today so feeling a bit sorry for myself. They got me with the pneumonia jab too so both of my arms are killing me. Won't get much sleep tonight as everytime I turn over, I will feel the pain and wake up.

Will post more tomorrow when I don't feel like my arms are about to drop off .

Emily x

thepinklady

Hi Emily,

I noticed you on Dooyoo, i wasnt sure if it was you or not but added you anyway to the people i trust . I'm glad you've signed up, its very easy money. It can get a little boring writing the reviews though, i prefer reading other peoples reviews and rating them. Where are your 10 reviews for today?

I hope tomorrow goes fast for you, then you will have some money - yay!

I hope your arms are feeling better tomorrow.

Hayley
xx

ehallett

thepinklady wrote: »

Hi Emily,

I noticed you on Dooyoo, i wasnt sure if it was you or not but added you anyway to the people i trust . I'm glad you've signed up, its very easy money. It can get a little boring writing the reviews though, i prefer reading other peoples reviews and rating them. Where are your 10 reviews for today?

I hope tomorrow goes fast for you, then you will have some money - yay!

I hope your arms are feeling better tomorrow.

Hayley
xx

Thanks Hayley . I couldn't face doing them today as my arms are hurting too much to do all that typing. I will definitely be back on there tomorrow though .

Emily x

beanielou

Hope you managed to get a wee sleep.
Take it easy!

ehallett

Hi everyone

Hooray!! I finally have some money :j . Ok, I've already spent quite a bit of it .

£10 - petrol
£10 - monthly phone top-up (essential to get free texts)

£1.80 - cat food (but have gone for a cheaper lot of tins (6 pack) that she seems to like and I should get 3-4 meals out of each tin as opposed to the pouches I used to get which she would eat in 1 go and were more expensive!).

£1.80 - sandwich (naughty, I know)

£4.36 on food - I managed to get 5 meals for the week at work so that I am not tempted to buy anymore sandwiches during the week. Also got some milk and biscuits with that. The meals were actually only £3.06 which is pretty good for a whole week's worth of work food seeing as I spent £1.80 on a sandwich for 1 day.

£9.40 in Card Factory - I got all of my christmas cards (for family, 11 cards in total) and 2 birthday cards and this will be all I have to get for the rest of the year. I know I shouldn't have spent my money on this when I am so skint, however my mum and I sold another item in the local paper which worked out at £7.50 each so I put this towards the cards and at least now it is done .

£30 to my boyfriend - he had to lend me £60 towards my rent so am paying him half of this back.

I also saw a car book in the book box at work which would be ideal for my boyfriend's dad for Christmas. It's £4 so I will look out for something for his mum for around £5 and that will be them done. I usually spend £20 on a joint present for them so this is good for me. I haven't paid for this yet as it's not being collected until a week Friday so I might put the money in for that out of next week's benefit.

I haven't completely run out of money - I've still got £19 in the bank and another £12 in my purse so I should be ok until next week as all I will need to get is petrol again at some point.

Tonight, I am entering some comps in the hope that I win something before christmas that I can use as presents, answering questions on AQA and doing some reviews on Dooyoo.

Emily x

benbenandme

Sounds like a better day Emily

ehallett

Hi everyone

Not posted recently as have been very ill. Was struck down with the Norovirus. I was nearly admitted to hospital on Tuesday as I was very dehydrated and couldn't stop being sick. Anyway, I am on the mend now and will be going back to work next week.

However, I haven't been able to do any moneymaking online for ages which means that I am going to struggle with my rent next month again. All is not lost though as there are still 8 days left in the month. If I can get £50 a day on AQA then I will have £400 towards my rent which isn't so bad.

I would then only need to make up the extra £150 from my wages but I'm going to try and list some stuff on Ebay to get at least another £50 towards this. I've already withdrawn £10 from my Paypal from a terramundi that I sold on Wednesday so I've only got £40 to get from my Ebay sales. Will get my camera back from the BF tomorrow and get cracking on Sunday.

Right, so it's day 1 of 8 and so far I've got £8.40 in my AQA account. To get £50 for today, I need to do 167 questions, I've already done 28 so only another 139 to go.

Better get cracking

Emily x