Squirrel's Smiley, Smart and Solvent Diary

redsquirrel80

Karmacat wrote: »

Thats great Squizz! Do you do any extra dfw work, like mystery shopping and whatnot? Scratches? I'm just about to post a total on my thread for June.....

Nothing at the moment apart from cashback. Oh and Consumer Pulse, which gets me about £10 a month in vouchers. Used to do loads of surveys but it doesn't seem worth the time/ effort for the amount you get.

Of course the above is assuming that nothing changes! If Mr S asked me to move in we'd jointly be about £550 a month better off :eek:

Karmacat

Without that rent to pay, and just a contribution to Mr Squizz, you'd be *so* much better off, wouldn't you! Its obviously headed in that direction, I hope it all hurries up soon xxx

sallyx

And if you moved in with Mr Squizz...you could probably throw another £100-£200 per month at the debt

Its such a shame that Mr Squizz's job is so dire and that its really affecting him...can't be easy and I know exactly whats its like!

redsquirrel80

Of course there's much more to it than the money, but from that point of view, it's mad isn't it. Even if I paid half of everything, I'd still be £150 better off.. and he'd have an extra £400ish!

redsquirrel80

sallyx wrote: »

And if you moved in with Mr Squizz...you could probably throw another £100-£200 per month at the debt

Its such a shame that Mr Squizz's job is so dire and that its really affecting him...can't be easy and I know exactly whats its like!

Thanks Sal x

Is it wrong that sometimes I just want to shake him? He won't speak to his manager about either the lack of work, or the cr*ppy work that he sometimes has to do that is nothing to do with his role - if there's no new jobs out there (I'm assuming he's still looking as he hasn't mentioned it for a while), then he could do with trying to sort this one. Also.. if we were living together properly, he could afford to do something that paid a bit less, or wasn't permanent, to get some other experience and do something he actually wanted to do. Sigh!

sallyx

Maybe you should have the conversation about him taking a lesser paid more fulfilling job...maybe he feels he can't at the moment but if you suggested the move for that reason it might give him something to think about. I mean you practically live there anyway, apart from when your friend was down how many nights have you stayed at home in the last month?

redsquirrel80

Hmmm.. none! In fact apart from when friends or parents have been here, make that none this year!

sallyx

so there we are...if he had a problem with you living there all the time you would be going home regularly! Just think of the money you could have saved, its a huge amount to be paying out unnecesarily. Ok so if you say to him about it, what the worse thing that he could say? Actually I don't want you to give up your place, or im not quite ready for it yet....I think you might be suprised how happy he might be!

redsquirrel80

Well there's that, which would hurt a bit, but at least it would be a straight answer.. or "aaargh no go away scary woman" :rotfl:

Karmacat

I think Sally's got an idea there......... I hope you get a resolution to this soon.

**virtual crowd peers over Squizz's shoulder to shout encouraging things at Mr Squizz**