Mariagti's Bargin hunting, Save for a deposit & start a family diary!

mariagti

Hello all,

Well i had an email from Qype saying ive completed the challenge and if all my reviews are upto scratch then my voucher will be posted to me in Feb.:D

Im having problems with an ebay seller, i won a brand new speedo for £40 which was his starting bid. 15 mins before the listing ended he wrote if this doesnt go for a good price then i have the right not to sell it! What an idiot! Nobody else bid on it and i won it. I emailed him about it and he said no he wont sell it to me he wanted £100! I emailed him back saying he should have put a reserve or higher starting bid i won it fair and square. he cant not sell it to me because it didnt make the money he wanted! So ive paid for it and will see what he does, if he dont send it paypal will give me back the money so im covered. I will also report his listing to ebay too.

My water pump sold on ebay only for £10 but every little helps right! Ive still got a CD,another Wii game, lowering springs and lights to list yet.

I have £9 going into my account from CBKings's and £8.58 going in from WPT:)

I havent received my ipod shuffle from qype yet, i had the email a week ago now and everyone esle seems to have received theres....blooming postie!

Anyway, wages went into bank today so £100 transfered into ISA New total £2600.

mariagti

Hi peeps,

I got home to a great email today from shopandscan they invited me to foodonthego! Where you text what food you have brought during the week, the texts are free and you can claim a max of 5000 points a week so thats £5 of points a week! Plus another £1 from the normal scanning! I will be claiming vouchers every other week!
:j :j :j :j :j

Also Tesco home panels are sending me two things to test...oven cleaner and bath soak!:D

Im off to OH's will update later:)

mariagti

Well ive read all through the foodonthego instructions on what you text etc and all seems easy enough! I cant wait to get extra points! Although its hard to know what vouchers to buy now incase the shop goes bust!

No sign of the Ipod shuffle or the speedo yet I suppose they will come 2moz when nobody is in to take them and postie will take them into towns office.

I was naughty round OH's and brought a Domino's pizza! Cost £8.99 though so not a massive spend:D

mariagti

Just a quick update today OH has paid in £400 into our deposit fund, he will be saving £700 a month from now on but needed extra money this month for his upcoming MOT.

So new deposit total £13,000

lilmissmup

Yay thats great

I am trying to think of as many ways to earn as possible for our deposit now!

mariagti

I hope there will be lots of money making ways coming our way soon Lilmiss! I still havent got my head around matched betting fully yet and OH isnt a 100% yet. We will have another read through again this weekend hopefully.

mariagti

Afternoon,

I had a very busy day at work today which resulted in 2 hours overtime plus there was a memo with todays wage slips that we have a had a 10p per hour wage rise! Lol it goes down every year! But im surprised as i id think we would get a rise this year with the credit crunch. So im now at £6.20 Per hour:o .

My car insurance renewel came through today from Tesco and they wanted to charge me the same as last year!!!! £535 for the year! So i will be cancelling and renewing with Halifax through quidco for just £230 a year! Huge saving there!:D
I will pay that using my Asda card then pay it off in full when the bill comes.

DHL tried to deliver me a parcel today but everyone was out so now cant have it re-delivered till saturday. Wonder if its the speedo? Or the oven cleaner! :rotfl:

lilmissmup

Great saving on insurance hun and congrats on pay rise.

mariagti

Afternoon,

I had another busy day at work today and did an extra hour so in total i should have 3 1/4 extra hours on my pay slip next week so far.

8am this morning my speedo i brought off ebay arrived! I cant believe he actually sent it after saying i couldnt have it as it didnt sell for enough! It does look like its brand new too, although there is a sticker on the back that has been torn off. But all the rest are clean white stickers and the clips look scuff free. I will see what my OH says. As i need this to have 0 mileage or under 63k mileage as when i out it in my car it will display whatever has the most mileage the clocks or my ECU in car. Fingers crossed its never been in a car and it has zero!

So that parcel from yesterday that will be delivered 2moz must be the oven cleaner and bath foam from tesco to test.;)

Shopandscan just sent me a 2 min survey so got 500 points for that! Im loving shopandscan ATM. I will be able to order another £10 voucher from them on monday!:D

Still no sign of my Qype goodies i reckon a postie somewhere may have had them.

mariagti

Morning,

Im up and waiting for my parcel to be delievered, how exciting it could be a comp win! or the oven cleaner as said before! Lol

While im waiting im going to write a list of to do's for today as OH is watching football today so wont be seeing him till later.:rolleyes:

* Wash my car! Its sooooo dirty! Done
* Fix side airbag light, wire under my chair has come loose AGAIN! Done
* Fit my new speedo
* List some Ebay items
* Force myself to do the surveys in my inbox Done
* Check online banking Done
* Do CB free clicks Done
* Sign up for the royal mail surveys Done
* Have a look on Jobcentre website Done
* Check all my CB accounts Done
* Do at list 50 comps Done

That will keep me going for a while! Im dreading washing the car in the cold though!:(