The revenge of the stripey socks - a DFW adventure

ragstoricheswannabe

wow fay, well done on getting hairy McClairy down to under £1k!!!!!!! So very nearly gone!!!!!!!

Pippilongstocking

Peedie update (- and Hi Rags!!)
Redid the finances last night - scary stuff

Loans - hairy - 955, lloyds 1600, penguin chops 2755 (student loan 13770 - dont think about that one)
CC's - Bad one 2980, fishy card 270, lloyds one 703
o/ds both at about 1000 ish give or take

Reduced dd's by £5 this month by phoning O2 - small but it all helps

Phone scottish power later as our usage has gone down (dd' 115) so see if they can reduce that

Phone BT to see if our phone package can reduce any - but I doubt it - although being on here has taught me you never know

Cutting out milk in tea and coffee (better for me) so will reduce our milk order and save mabye £1 a week

Some stuff started in the garden - ie onion stalks, some lettuce and rocket so we are looking to only see if we can buy seasonal veggies - rhubarb is up so need to start cutting that and freezing some although must buy some fruit (apples + banana's)

Looking at a big bag of local tatties too to tide us over as we have none left

Wee things I think but should all add up

Brother still kicking about so he's busy chopping logs and stacking them each day for only 1/2 hour but it all helps

Must start my ebay sales - got some plants coming (chilli's) as a tester of the quality etc of other folks stuff.

A pal locally has asked for some plants so will give her some too

Bought DD a book that she saw on amazon on ebay with quidco - hurrah

Must must must post expenses claim (216) or it wont be paid eh?

Hope you are all fine and splendid today

Got a bit depressed last night when I added it all up - but after took off student loan and looked at the loans etc I have pushing down so far felt a bit less wobbly.

STRATEGY FOR STRIPEY REPAYMENTS - Pay off hairy - find out about Lloyds loan (dont think that can be paid off quick) and then look to clear one OD as its now a pay one.

Must phone bank and down grade from royalties account (6.95 a month) as I don't use anything but it as a current account - might do that now........

hampsterpoo

unixgirluk wrote: »

Does anyone else do click throughs? Was wondering Fay if you could maybe speed up paying off your loan by doing click throughs and some surveys (cash ones like YouGov)? I know it wouldn't bring in that much but every little helps.

I do, er (just counted em ) 15 clicks and survey sites ,if i actually did them all each day it might take a while ( but I might up the totals a lot quicker),
so I only focus on a few clicks each day and the others twice a week,

pigsback used to be quick to get to a tenner but since they changed the racecaller rules its slooooooooowed right down so I many do the comps there.

You gov ,,,,,well was slow , but since the recession started its picked up and I seem to get asked each week how I feel about the economy , but at 50p a time I dont mind.

I really only focus on quidco its only pennies but thats were my ebay buys go through to, and have looked at the insurances for later on in the year to get cashback.

Piquant_2

You're doing well chipping away at the debts, it won't be long until the hairy one is cleared, hopefully about the same time as my awful A&L card! We can have virtual champagne together to celebrate.

Pippilongstocking

Joined yougov !

Found 4.02 in bag - will go to dotty pot.

Hp what do you sell on ebay?
Didn't get my morethan payment for my insurance will have to check that up - thanks hp for reminding me.

Pippilongstocking

piquant wrote: »

you're doing well chipping away at the debts, it won't be long until the hairy one is cleared, hopefully about the same time as my awful a&l card! We can have virtual champagne together to celebrate.

free or paid through quidco of course

thanks to you as well as you nagged me to start this stripey adventure - hugs - hope you not too sore still - but i guessing you probably are xx

hampsterpoo

fayjmck wrote: »

Joined yougov !

Found 4.02 in bag - will go to dotty pot.

Hp what do you sell on ebay?
Didn't get my morethan payment for my insurance will have to check that up - thanks hp for reminding me.

Oh sorry I dont sell on there I just purchase through quidco,

I did sell but now no-one wants my stuff anymore,
or
if they do they are normally in the USA and the postage charges scares em off.

Sold some dvds in the past for a few ££, last lot of stuff I listed was for DD and she made about £100+ on selling clothes and handbags:T

Pippilongstocking

Just earned £1 for completing the youguv reg thing - ta you guys

ebay yeah ds has alot of warhammar he needs to shed and dd has alot of books - i have alot of books but need them to stand on but have two carver storage boxes full of cd's which are now all on the computer - so might see if i can sort those out -

just waiting for my babies to get big enought to sell (plants not children)

Hurrah - also got a 3/4 double from freecycle this am which sounds lovely for the spare room (double and a single in it now for a pal and her DD coming ) picking up tomorrow

- so when are you all coming???

Uniscots97

I joined Pigsback too but found it slow. I'm doing Toluna as well although its taking an age to get anywhere. my goal on Toluna (as they give out vouchers) is for enough to get a small bottle of Gwen Stefani Harajuku Lovers Love perfume.

Not sure if Qype still pay out (there might be a thread about it on the Up your Income board), but last year I registered and got a 50 quid Amazon voucher (got DVD box set for my Mum, a DVD for youngest and straighteners for me), an iPOD, sweets, a t-shirt and other little stuff. Might be worth checking out?

I also send off for as many freebies as I can, save me spending money on shampoo, conditioner etc and all the extra goes to my debt.

Uniscots97

fayjmck wrote: »

Hurrah - also got a 3/4 double from freecycle this am which sounds lovely for the spare room (double and a single in it now for a pal and her DD coming ) picking up tomorrow

- so when are you all coming???

Once I'm speaking to OH again, nothing serious but he's being a typical bloke.