Mooooving Into 2010 - Bovine Adventures In Budgeteering!

mooomin

clarissa_D wrote: »

just a quick helloo from me will post more tomorrow xx

*waves*

Good to see you back on MSE!

EssexHebridean

I take it you have seen or are aware of this thread?

mooomin

Motivation is lacking today as my debt went up last month. Only by about £40, but that's not the point dagnammit!!

It's going to go up again this month as I will be using some of my savings to pay off any Christmas spending :mad:

Still, I have a plan (I always try to have one!) to keep my motivation flowing. I used to post on the What Small Things threads, but never felt like I was doing enough. I'm thinking about just posting on here to say what I have done that could be considered to be working my way towards being Debt-Free.

So, today I have:

• Took my lunch and flasks to work
• Bought 25p coffee from the machine when my hot water ran out rather than paying 95p from the canteen :A
• Emailed Ebay buyer of 20p to confirm receipt (He's not got back to me yet)
  
• Resisted withdrawing Ebay profits until people start leaving feedback/confirming receipt of goods
• Made dinner using whoopsied mince (72p!) and s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d it to accommodate two unexpected dinner guests
• Joined Ciao surveys via Quidco (Anyone used them before??)
• Made my PAD
• Turned off heating earlier in the evening than normal (About 7pm)
• Got Mr Fresian to post Ebay stuff and things for Music Magpie for me
• Had my go on BB for today (Won nothing.....Boo!)
• Realised that I can take back two things that didn't fit to Primark next week, putting £30+ back on my credit card

Now, that's not a bad list for one day, so I should be more :j than :mad:. I am a good DFW and Rome Wasn't Built In A Day (etc etc, insert cliche here!)

Hope everyone else is well.

Night all

xx

mooomin

EssexHebridean wrote: »

I take it you have seen or are aware of this thread?

Ooh that's another DFW thing I have done today!! I found it earlier!

I only need another six for my cow baking kit.

Come on Internets, PM me some codes!! Help a Fresian in need so I can go back to buying cheap margarine

mooomin

Didn't win anything on BB this morning so made up for it by spending 15 minutes comping. I really must get back into the habit of doing that. If nothing else it will provide me fodder for Ebay .

Speaking of which, £19ish from Ebay hit my account today along with my last £5 win from BB so I was able to pay £24ish to my overdraft. I now have less than £40 to find this month to pay it off completely :j

se999

flying_fresian wrote: »

Didn't win anything on BB this morning so made up for it by spending 15 minutes comping. I really must get back into the habit of doing that.

Good morning, I spotted you in the BB chat room. I didn't win anything either.

A good point about getting back to comping, I used to do quite a lot, but then had terrible internet so couldn't get comps to load etc., but need to get back to it now I've got decent internet again. I did win a few nice weekends away and a weeks Thomson al fresco holiday in France, so it was worth the time.

mooomin

se999 wrote: »

A good point about getting back to comping, I used to do quite a lot, but then had terrible internet so couldn't get comps to load etc., but need to get back to it now I've got decent internet again. I did win a few nice weekends away and a weeks Thomson al fresco holiday in France, so it was worth the time.

I think that if I had won a holiday I wouldn't have given up so quickly!! I normally just went for small items that either I wanted or could Ebay for cash.

I think that I just need to be more organised and then do more comping, hopefully winning an ITV prize of £10,000 soon :rotfl:

se999

There are so many comps that I prioritised my time for the things I really wanted as there wasn't time to enter everything. But others go for your way and try for the ones with more prizes but they're smaller.

I think everyone wants the GMTV ones

honeybear_2

flying_fresian wrote: »

Now, that's not a bad list for one day, so I should be more :j than :mad:. I am a good DFW and Rome Wasn't Built In A Day (etc etc, insert cliche here!)

Yay to you, Ms Fresian :T

You are doing really well so insert all the cliches that you like so long as you remember that

clarissa_D

Hi ya FF and wll done so far so good !!
givin me incentives to do some things I really need to start learning and understanding more, and thank you I started to neglect MSE but I had still been PAD each Tuesday £10 into account
will have to update me siggy lol
well dun hunni can you not have an occassional stayer 1 month on 1 month off the £300 would be good to help clear things alot faster !! :T