Financial faux pas and other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Happy Sunday Morning all.

OHs expenses claim has duly been submitted. Despite the money blown on food and his netbook hes still made a profit on this trip. Its most odd. Thats before overtime and claiming the vouchers from the hotel promotion. Wish trips like this came along more frequently. Mostly he ends up somewhere that food is extortionate and everywhere is shut by the time they finish meaning each meal is chowed in the premium hotel chains most expensive restaurant or worse its a room service butty at £14 a time with the late night surcharge etc. etc.

Today is free listing day on flea-bay oh joy. DD2 is out offroading with OH for the day. They left at 6:30am and won't be back until much much later tonight. DD1 went to bed feeling pukey so I forsee a day of flopping about on the sofa randomly whining muuuum. I'm so not a people person.

Other exciting news - I finally got rid of Februarys Ipod for £31.50. Whoopeee. Shifted a bit more tat so so hopefully somewhere approaching £45 after fees and wot not. Planning to list tons more tat today to take advantage of the free listings.

Did my weekly shop at Mr Ts yesterday with the entire household in tow. End result was a rather ridiculous £45.54 - I only wanted milk and fresh veg *sob* - but thanks to the zitty teenager on the checkout who happily emptied my wallet of coupons this shrank to £37.92. We now have enough toiletries (with the exception of conditioner) to see us to the end of the challenge.

moo2moo

I've finally cracked DooYoo (I think). 450 words on I can't believe its not butter. It seemed to flow. Admittedly its random bollox interspersed with vaguely relevant facts but that seems to be what the DooYooers like. Will wait to see if I have this one locked for too much waffle too. Won't be overly surprised if it is but I enjoyed writing it. Yes I'm a pathetic person with no life and I'm admiting to enjoying waffling about margarine. Bring on the men in straight jackets. Still 15735 points down, 84265 to go.

Almost reached payout with Toluna too. Just another 5000 points to go. Irritatingly I've also reached payout level with Shape-the-future who have changed their reward scheme in the 5,000,000 lightyears since I joined and now only offer refunds against recipets from a half dozen companies I've never heard of an more importantly I have no use for.

honeybear_2

moo2moo wrote: »

Admittedly its random bollox....

Random bullocks, surely? :rotfl:

mooomin

Ooh might do some Ebay listing today as well if it's free and try and get rid of some of the tat in the house....

moo2moo

It might be free but its tediously dull. Still 10 items down and at least another 30 things handy to stick on. Fairly confident that none of them will shift but I'm making myself list everything twice before donating it to the charity shop.

mooomin

I find it really boring too and have to be in the mood for a good Ebaying. Don't think I am today tbh...

moo2moo

I'm not in the mood for it but I'm most definately thinking of the money and the extra space that getting shut of the tat will generate. Still I've avoided further listing by dragging DD1 out for a 10 mile cycle ride thus guaranteeing an afternoons peace as shes not speaking to me. Turns out she aches all over and I've refused to drive her to McDonalds to help her get over the nettle stings gained when she scratched her nose losing control of her bike and ending up in a ditch at the side of the road. I am evil. Still I've waffled on about toothpaste to rack up another DooYoo review taking me to a whopping 28.

moo2moo

30 items listed on fleabay. I'm officially bored and abandoning it. I've had enough. No amount of coffee or strawberry shoelaces is going to persuade me to do any more. DD1 is moaning about the amount of time I've spent on the PC. Apparently its her turn now.

moo2moo

Still surfing away. Have made coconut and cherry buns for school lunches, apple crumble for dinner and DD1s home made mini pizza specials are cooking as we speak. Another DooYoo review done. Have almost reached the 15% mark. Not bad for 8 days. Feels like its been an awful lot longer though. Suppose I should start parcelling up all the sold E-bay stuff ready to post tomorrow. Have been very naughty and splurged on Phoenix Trading cards. Invested £14.50 in 56. Will shift the ones I don't like via the staffroom thus making a very nice profit.

moo2moo

Its monday already. Plans for this week involve lots of stealth tactics namely avoiding the PTA and any requests they have for anything to do with a make-up demonstration next week which they've thrown together in the last few days. Conveniently timed so that they have another function the day after. They want someone to stay behind afterwards to clear up and lock up but because its a PTA thing its voluntary and we usually do it on a rota however since everyone on the rota will be at Thursdays disco no one wants to stay behind until 11pm to lock up the day before. Planning to hide at the farest end of the school field doing a litter pick or a fence inspection or just wandering aimlessly whilst parents are visible.

Other exciting things to report include less than 24 hours to payday with a positive bank balance which extends into double figures. Unfortunately I'm about to blow this on house insurance but getting this close to payday without having to go throgh four cards at the hole in the wall to see which, if any, will give me money, is a very nice feeling. Bit too tempting to splurge away though. Will be avoiding shops and E-bay for as long as humanly possible.