Hypno's "there's more to life than debt" diary.....

Gemmzie

I'm a fellow Woolies ex-employee too, our store took more money that any in the country but Tesco put up a huge amount of money for the land so it got sold off
We got an amazing redundancy package though so hopefully the current staff will too.

hypno06

Gemmz, they were pretty good at looking after their employees when I was there, I have to say. End of an era!

I will go and check for my Amazon voucher and will alert OH and DD to keep an eye out for theirs!

I feel a bit better - have dosed up with beechams, echinacea and orange juice. (and had a double strength latte and a big fat blueberry muffin)

hypno06

Ooh, Amazon voucher has been received!! Thank you dmv for the original tip :T It is much appreciated!

Karmacat

Sob! .... mine hasn't turned up yet. Mind you, thinking about it, I wouldn't have expected to be in the first tranche. Enjoy, you lot!

hypno06

I finished my reviews on the Monday I think, so I was quite early on. DD finished hers later in the week and OH didn't finish his until this week so I don't know when they will receive theirs.......hopefully not too long, but they certainly seem to be getting them out fairly quickly - all credit to qype :T

pandapaws

Definitely. Need to make sure we all keep supporting them and don't just dump them like a hot brick now we've got our vouchers (plus there may be more goodies in store in the future).

In case you missed my previous post - check the expiry date on your voucher, some people have been given ones that expire today. Mine's fine.

hypno06

Mine's fine too - I will def keep my hand in with qype so to speak......apart from anything else, I have yet to receive my ipod and ninja (obviously I am more looking forward to the ninja than the ipod.....) and if they do any more offers/challenges etc, then I want a piece of that!!!

Karmacat

Yep, its only fair for something like that. I just did two reviews this morning. Aside from anything else, it could well be useful, its a proper website.

pandapaws

And if anyone ever needs to know all about the parking arrangements at every Post Office in Doncaster, or which TK Maxx has a mezzanine floor in it then the info's there for the taking!

hypno06

I have made progress:

I took my credit score today - to see if Egg (gits) have made any sort of negative comment on my file. Thankfully they haven't.

Anyway. My score just after I joined this site - 6.1.07 was 616
8.3.07 it was 613

Both these were marked as "poor" with only 10% of the population in a worse state than us

A year later, in March 08 I took the score again, when applying for the job I have now, just to see what my new employers might see. It was 762 - "Fair" which was a big difference.

So imagine my shock when I take the score today and see that I have a credit score of 999 - "Excellent" - low risk to lenders etc etc :T

So go suck on that one EGG!

I have printed off the score and will frame it next to my picture of :money: (well, not really, but that is how it makes me feel )

Will check OH's later - he should be in a similar position, although I think he was a couple of days late with a CC payment earlier in the year which may well have an effect.