Financial faux pas and other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Haven't done any housework for 48 hours apart from the essential stuff. OHs friend being here seemed like a v. good excuse to have a weekend off. Can't believe how bad the place looks. The only tidy rooms are the DDs rooms and the bathrooms.

Have vacuumed one room downstairs, done two loads of laundry and washed up. Hoping I'll get time to vac the rest of the ground floor and stairs and mop the rooms with tiled floors before heading back to work.

Got the invoice for OHs annual dental care £34 (the most basic policy on offer) and spent £1.40 in the village shop on milk.

moo2moo

Am destined to be overdrawn by payday. DD for the dentist has gone through leaving me with £34.08 in the bank until the 15th. Of that £20 will go on the DDs riding lesson next weekend leaving me with a balance of £14.08 and a direct debit for £23. At least the first £200 of the overdraft is fee free.

Floors vacuumed. Washing machine on it third load. Just the mopping to go. Have written the second of todays DooYoos - am hoping that I can kick myself back into action. Writing reviews is infinately more interesting than doing surveys. Time wise it pays much better too as long as I'm clear precisely wht I want to write about otherwise I get major writers block. Its amazing just how difficult it can be to put a 500 page novel that occupied my brain for 3 days into 200 or so words of opinion.

DedicatedDFW

Hi moo,

I play on bingoport to get amazon vouchers at the mo. Have you joined this site? It is a little more time consuming than it used to be but I've got a few vouchers from them now

moo2moo

I did try bingoport v. briefly but won nothing. I hate bingo. Hate isn't really a strong enough word to describe the sheer loathing of the monotonous droning of the computer generated caller. Suffice it to say I was a vagely saner person when bingo port was notin my life. Its one of those things I should perhaps consider in times of sheer desperation... like yesterday when DD1 said her teacher had written a list of names on the board of people whose parents haven't paid the second installment for the residential trip, the one thats not due until the idlle of March. Makes you want to bang your head against a brick wall.

In more fortuitous news I have requested a £10 Tesco voucher from Valued Opinions, its only taken me fourteen months to obtain.

Brickies have finished in school for the mo. Their parting gift was a brick wall which transformed the bosses office into an 8x8 cell. Wandered up the corridor with the cleaners singing "He used to give me roses, I wish he could again, but that was on the outside and things were different then". Spent the evening calling each other Bea in australian accents. Boss was not amused. Some people have no sense of humor.

moo2moo

Still suffering random PC crashes so you're stuck with hundreds of mini posts in rapid succession so that when it does crash (which it will at any moment) I don't have to retype too much.

Days to payday: 6
Money in purse : £7.60
Money in emergency jam jar: £0.02
Money in bank: £34.08
Money spent in February: £301.91
Money remaining of this months portion of the live on £20K challenge : £1365.09
Part used smellies used up and disposed of: 10
Gift vouchers for X-mas 2010 and all the birthdays inbetween: £33.00

moo2moo

OH has taken DD1s cello to be repaired on his way to work. Clueless as to what it will cost as they won't even hint until their restoration department have inspected it. Not expecting it to be cheap though.

Have agreed that the DDs can go to one pony fun day during the hols and am using this as childcare to give me a full day to put in a brick base for schools greenhouse which will free up a teeny weeny bit of holiday for the first week of Easter. Need to work out just how little holiday I have left. Will get £20 overtime to go towards this and they're missing their usual weekend lesson so its really only costing me an extra £10.

Going to write a DooYoo and then start cleaning upstairs.

moo2moo

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Cello repairers have phoned to ask what the problem is as theres nothing obviously wrong apart from a damaged bridge and worn strings. They're now going to investigate the glue. I forsee this being very very very expensive.

Helen105

moo2moo wrote: »

I did try bingoport v. briefly but won nothing. I hate bingo. Hate isn't really a strong enough word to describe the sheer loathing of the monotonous droning of the computer generated caller.

Oh lordy! Never try to play bingo with the sound on, the mute button is essential.
I played on BingoBritain and did nicely out of them but got hit towards the end of the month by their crackdown which has left me feeling vaguely guilty.

moo2moo

Its Wednesday already. Only two more days to the school holidays and a week of peace.

Splurged last night on take out and vino spending an entire unnecessary tenner. Enjoyed it very muchly. Slapped fish fingers, tinned sphaghetti and toast under the grill, in the microwave and the toaster respectively and then remembered that I'd forgotten the milk, fortunately OH walked in the door seconds later and then out again on a mission for milk and kebabs. One of his Superstar moments. I'm easily pleased.

Have cleared my in-box of odd requests from the PTA and done every survey available plus have applied for three rural mystery shops which will also in theory pay a petrol allowance and a bit more than normal to cover the extra travel time involved. Will wait to see what happens.

moo2moo

Snuck off from work early having run out of things to do. Well Ok not run out completely just run out of the things I felt like doing. Had a dippy moment and forgot to go to the feed merchant on the way home but have enough feed to get to the weekend so will get some on Friday as I'm passing the store anyway rather than detouring to visit it.

It looks like being a nice enough day to dry washing on the line for the first time this year so plans extend as far as bugning the bedding from the master boudoir into the machine and then doing the vacuuming I didn't get round to doing yesterday. Also need to bung dinner in the slowcooker. Its going to be a fun filled day. Am more tempted to venture outside and prune hedges though.