Flying gleefully into 2009 - One Fresians adventures in debt-busting

mooomin

moo2moo wrote: »

Some time later... in fact a whole 20 minutes has flown by a further £15.45 for another small pile of very dusty CDs has been liberated from their hidey hole. I had to wipe the dust off to read the barcodes so no one (no one being code word for OH) will miss them. Thank you again. Thats the easiest £22.92 I've made all month.

Any time!

What I did yesterday was this:

1. Go to musicmagpie and enter the barcode for the CD/DVD/PS2 game I wanted to sell
2. If it was pennies, fair enough, but if it was more than about £1 and the DVD/game was in good condition I listed it on Amazon instead

I got offered £4 by musicmagpie for a copy of Prince of Persia on the PS2 so I listed it on Amazon and it sold last night for £8 profit for me after Amazon took their cut. It is handy if you have a pile of poo CDs and just want to clear out though :rotfl:

Bagpuss741

Oh my god you have doctor who smilies:D:D:D Is it ok if I copy them?? Keep going with your debt busting you're doing really well:A

mooomin

Bagpuss741 wrote: »

Oh my god you have doctor who smilies:D:D:D Is it ok if I copy them?? Keep going with your debt busting you're doing really well:A

How could I refuse someone named after the best kids TV programme of all time?

Copy away!

SarahNeedle1872

Hiya F-F, thanks for the info about MusicMagpie.... I have a 'pile of poo' cds that have been listed on Amazon on more than one occasion and are still sat gathering dust in the corner of the bedroom! I shall spend tonight after work going through them and seeing what they're worth on MusicMagpie instead :T

mooomin

Good morning all

I have quite a few plans for today, so I thought I would list them here as well as on my reply to the What Small DFW Things thread, as this way I can tick them off and see how productive I have been when it gets to the end of the month/year. I'm not going to include some of the daily DFW things like storecupboard dinners etc (Unless I make something truly amazing!)

So, today the things I would like to cross off my list are:

• Post Amazon parcels
• Buy more bubble wrap for wrapping up the next lot of stuff
• List items on Ebay
• Declutter some more
• Put the items I don't think will sell into bags for charity
• Change and wash bedclothes
• Figure out why my cat is currently trying to lick my big toe. Weirdo.

mooomin

That's my items listed on Ebay.

I have also self-excluded myself from Gala for 6 months. I used to play bingo a lot, and I think that's why my overdraft got so out of hand. I closed most of my accounts but kept Gala as I like the site a lot. I have started spending again and not winning anything and I am not going to let my DFW progress be b*ggered by gambling, so I'm out.

Next time I'm bored I'm going to declutter something or play an online game. No gambling for me

Take that Gala!

*edit* and I signed up for a free trial of Audible through Quidco, so I have now got two shiny audiobooks to listen to - I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (We miss you Humph) and Northern Lights (5 hours, yikes!)

jacci45

Looking forward to following your progress to keep me plugging away at my debts!

Good luck!

xx

Lemon_Tree

hi found your new diary, good luck and i may follow your advice and have a look on music magpie, thanks

hayley_jayne

Cool, just subscribed to your new diary

Best of luck for 2009 x

tomtombeanie

flying_fresian wrote: »

*edit* and I signed up for a free trial of Audible through Quidco, so I have now got two shiny audiobooks to listen to - I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (We miss you Humph) and Northern Lights (5 hours, yikes!)

oooohh! well spotted, thanks! i have just signed up for my free trial and now need to choose my freebies. :D:D:D

i think your "get up and go" attitude might be rubbing off on me a bit (yay!). normally i am quite a busy & motivated person, but recently have fallen into slovenly lazy ways (i think i may have a touch of SAD and it seems to be worse this year, also with grandad passing have been down...) - BUT - today, i got up at a resonable time (7.30am), allowed myself just the one chapter of alan carr's autobiography whilst i drank my cup of tea, then got up & got cracking. thank god for that!

xx