Living the dream by 30!

Taylo_2

Long time no Taylo again, sorry, haven't had too much to update so have been quiet fro the last week. Here is where we are - still not received money from Wink as yet but the initial deposit transaction took a while to show so not surprised it is taking a while for the withdrawl to hit the bank, so as I mentioned that should be about £15, got £10 to withdraw from scratchcard (hit a £5 on monday!) and october payment went out of Abbey card so reduced balance by £11.68 so will have made short work of that costume hire pretty soon. Hopefully lower phone bill kicks in this month as well so can add a bit more when that comes through.

Hi to anyone who reads this, feel free to say hello, I haven't a clue which diary's to read so say hello and I shall come on over and have a nose at yours, all tips and wise wordds greatly received!

Fire Fox, thanks for the words of wisdom on the phone, i quite like my current one and it doesn't need changing at the moment, they let me have a 30 day contract to remain on current handset and reduced monthly to £10 which is probably best for the time being until the handset eventually breaks!

true27

:hello:

Just wanted to say hi and that I am so totally stealing your itemiser idea!!

Taylo_2

True 27, welcome aboard! I started an itemiser challenge but no one really joined, it is still going so if you want to put your first item on there then I can keep tabs on your progress and add each item to the list of victims as you progress! Would be nice if a few more people got involved as I am finding it a good way to get through the smaller items on my bills!

Just spoke to Tiscali as I changed my broadband back in the summer and am due a refund of almost £30 which should be with me in the next couple of weeks so will chalk that off when it arrives, pipeline is looking quite good at the moment, must come up with a few more ideas to keep it ticking.....!

Taylo_2

Oh my god - just noticed that the itemizer has been mentioned on the MSE email or top tips thing on the main site!! It is the Debt Free Wannabe chat of the week! Not bad given no one has used it yet!! Everyone get on board it is MSE endorsed!!

Taylo_2

Ok, finally got round to updating my figures, still not had my withdrawl from Wink, and the refund from Tiscali is on it's way too so got a bit more to come, but the Scratch card win and the 11.68 from the monthly payment has seen off the Batman costume so that has been scratched off now. Next we are off skiing in France so an Easyjet flight to Geneva has to be paid for!!:rolleyes:

Taylo_2

Survey sites - discuss....

I am wondering which are the decent ones to get involved with, essentially the ones that are quickest to getting to a withdrawable figure? I don't have a great deal of time free for it, but might be able to spare 20 mins here and there to crack through one or two.. anyone got any good hints?

Have signed upto bingo britain after seeing it mentioned on hypnos diary, will see if I can get anything out of that. Need to sign upto a second scratchcard site as well, i think it is virgin that you can do as well as butlins?

Taylo_2

Forgot to say - have registered with Abbey for online credit card access - should make it easier for me to pay off little and often - should have done this ages ago but it is done now - should have log in details through soon so will be able to attack attack attack!!!

Fire_Fox

Check you out getting in the MSE e-mail! :cool:

Taylo_2

Fire_Fox wrote: »

Check you out getting in the MSE e-mail! :cool:

I know! Feel like a MSE celebrity, might go get hammered and fall out of a taxi in front of the paparazzi.

£4 leftover from my food budget last week so will be adding that, and hopefully more this week as went back to my folks place and came home with a load of food for free! God bless parents!

Taylo_2

Have decided to stick £10 of my food budget for this week into the pot as I know I will have no need to spend it so it will stop me being tempted if it is no longer available to me...