Cinnys Spending Diary - Take 2

Cinny91

Well done for getting over 10,000 points :T I've just passed 20,000 but I'm behaving, I don't need a £20 amazon voucher and a cheque will do me fine.. (she says)

That mask and toner I made last night were fantastic!! Much better than the S&G Fab Pore stuff I normally use, plus it's 100% natural and 100% free as I got everything from my cupboard. Admittedly the Cider vinegar and Green tea toner didn't smell all too great, but it did the trick and my skin feels pretty jazzy.

At work all day today, so I've cheekily clicked up a few things to DooYoo during the day. Massive pile of work though so I should stop MSE surfing!

Tete_en_l'Air

Hi Cinny, just noticed you've got a new thread. Sounds like you're really focussed with dooyoo and STP - more so than I am anyway! Today I plan on reviewing a lipbalm and have even brought in my concealer to refer to when I write a review on that!

Love the sound of curling into a ball and watching telly, that's exactly what I did last night, didn't do anything productive at all and I'm not sorry!!!

Cinny91

I just keep on trying to mentally picture things to buy for our first little home that I can buy with my extra earnings. I'm already eyeing things up from Ikea. It's terrible!

Right, so with another Christmas present turning up I thought I mareswell make a little list on here to keep an eye on things!

Already Bought:
Dad: Quadrophenia DVD
Mum: Keep Calm and Carry On Print
Brother: Bloody Hell We're !!!!!!ed Now Print
Sister: Disney Couture, Benefit Makeup and Picture This DVD
Grandparents: Canvas Picture.
Sisters OH: Transformers Calendar.
Brothers OH: Canvas Picture.
Uncle: Box of Chocs.
OHs Family: Canvas Picture and Body Shop gift for his Nan.
Work: 2 Boxes of Chocs and a Body Shop gift bag with extras.

To Buy:
OH: Boots Gift Set.
Dad: Magazine Sub and Boots Gift Set.
Mum: Frame the Print and Retro Style Scales (With Toluna Voucher)
Brother: Frame the Print and Novelty Crimble Socks.
Cousin: Tin of Sweets.
Grandparents: Mazipan Fruits.
Sisters OH: Boots Gift Set.

So Already Spent: £137.49 (21.47 which was 'free' with vouchers ect)
Left to Spend: £125 (roughly)

Had budgeted £300 for Christmas gifts so majorly under budget! Hoping I'll be able to get OH and my Dad something nice from the Boots 342 then I can get what I have my eye on for my Sisters OH for 'free' lowering the cost a tad more. I live in hope!

Trying to stay away from the path of buying people extra presents when I've already bought enough - I do this just about every year and people get up with some right stuff!

Tete_en_l'Air

Sounds like you've got people quite enough there! You're very generous. I need to start making a proper list, may end up taking OH up on his "Don't get me anything, it's all commercial" (I couldn't do that really though!)

Cinny91

I do try! I think I've saved about £90 so far using discount codes or buying things in the sale. Planning on waiting until the start of December to get the rest of the things now, putting whatever is left of my weekly budget in a jar each payday to make a little present-buying fund, then whatever is left from that can go towards mine and OHs holiday in December. I'm going to end up confusing myself at this rate..

wendz86

You are doing so well with your christmas pressies, I am waiting till after my birthday to start my shopping.

Cinny91

Didn't have chance to update moneymaking wise yesterday, but it was pretty un eventful. Up 55p on STP with a few reviews but that's it as I got dragged into watching a movie with my parents. No DooYoo reviews either as it was manic at work.

Today is looking a bit more eventful, so far I've:

Cancelled my contract mobile with O2 - saving roughly £30 a month.
Sold one of my new tops with tags to my sister - She's giving me the money for it next Wednesday so I'll pay it straight off my CC.
Finished one of my Toners - Not on my Pan challenge but nice to have finished it!

Plans for Tonight:

20 STP Tracks.
2 DooYoo reviews.

Not majorly heavy on the money making side, but I'm not going to be back home till 6ish tonight and want to spend some time with my family rather than locking myself away in my room frantically tapping all night.

wendz86

Seems like you are doing well and very focused. I haven't been too good at the moneymaking stuff in the evenings as I don't get home from work till about 7 half the time and then want to do stuff with OH. Need to do more dooyoo though.

Cinny91

I'm finding it really hard to get motivated in the evenings after work now. Money making might be taking a back seat over the next few weeks though so I'm trying to cram it all in!
Out of targets for tonight I managed 1 DooYoo review and 4 STP tracks, OhMiGod that's so bad! But STP were throwing N-Dubz, Leona Lewis and bands like that at me and it's seriously hard to review things when I've already heard them a million times on the Radio. Still that's, 90p extra money? Ugh, need to try harder!

Flower08

I know what you mean about lacking motivation - i havent done any dooyoo again today. I've got 5 things lined up to review though. Havent got work tomorrow so i have no excuse not to get on with them.