Adventures in Living Frugally

DedicatedDFW

Oh! Forgot to add in another £6.90 re-imbursement MS which involved purchasing something and my friend needed it so bought it off me when she came round

Have a good day all - glad its Wednesday! Nearly the weekend - back later!

DedicatedDFW

Hi Everyone! yet another busy day but by the weekend will have caught up on all my shifts I missed due to snow. So I am a third of the way through the month and am on track for this month but know it will get hard to maintain as MS jobs are harder to come by.. *Note to self* Must do better on Dooyoo.. Also join more MS companies

Updates for money Earned:

£52 for MS's :j
£2 as an apology from supermarket which i forgot to add in earlier post

Spends

£17.99 - ink cartridge needed replacing :rolleyes:
£4.50 - finally after 2 years+ of avoiding it have purchased a shiny new purse and it fits all my little cards in and has a bit for coins too. No more doing a lucky dip to the bottom of my bag and seeing what I come up with :rotfl:
Travel to work


I do need to have a big push on Dooyoo my new shifts are exhausting though and sooo time consuming travelling to and fro in these snowy icy conditions. I know excuses, excuses.. but I will catch up on this.

I've done all surveys but pretty much just screened out of these. Keeping up with bingo, scratchies and everything else too. Also managed to collect 2 more MS's

DedicatedDFW

Hi Everyone!

I've not posted this last few days due to a lack of time after getting home from job / jobs and then typing up reports, applying new MS's and completing surveys. I was definitely up way past my bedtime but I have made notes of all transactions so I will be back later to update on my spends / earnings.

Today I am a poorly being so have had to cancel all plans of going out and completing assignments and I couldn't even reschedule them

I got up early and then took myself back off to bed once I'd mustered up the courage to climb the stairs. I'm now about to commence on e-bay listing - have just relisted 3 things which was quick now for the harder longer task of posting new items.

I'll be back later with my diary for updates.

Have a great Sunday all

DedicatedDFW

Phew! Have washed pots, started tea, done washing, drying and all folded. Also listed several items on e-bay and 3 left to do so fingers crossed for some bids. No high value things on there but all over £1 start price and anything will help.

Ok so far an nsd but have got a special offer to look at for some garden things I need to buy anyway so will see how I go.

Thursday Income

£10 redeem so have a voucher!
£5 on scratchcard but not at withdrawal level yet so will update sig when I withdraw
£15 p/t work

Thursday Spends

£10.58 groceries freezer is packed but offers were too bargainous to leave
£10 phone top up
Essential travel fare

Friday Income

£5 - p/t work not busy so was asked to leave early :rolleyes:
Did an MS but no fee but will be re-imbursed so nothing earnt or spent but a handy purchase made
£50 win on free bingo - this has gone straight to OH as I do owe him a few pennies

Friday Spends

£5.61 bargainous grocery shop
Essential Travel

Saturday Income

£32.50 p/t work

Saturday Spends

Nothing a wonderful NSD

Have continued completing all surveys and managed to gain a few extra MS's over the last few days. Am printing off all jobs I have lined up so am prepared.

In other news my bag irreparably collapsed the other day - I looked at the sales but thankfully nothing there I liked so will now have to use a bag I already have. Off to update sig and continue with the e-bay.

mooomin

DedicatedDFW wrote: »

Off to update sig and continue with the e-bay.

I think the whole forum is listing on Ebay today

Just off to do my last four items.....

DedicatedDFW

Hi Flying Fresian :hello:

I listed 14 items in total on e-bay - hope they sell if not will be making a box up and popping them in ready for car boot! Off to dish tea up now and then a relaxing evening

DedicatedDFW

Morning Everyone!

Am still under the weather today but will toddle off to work as I'm not really too ill to stay off. Ho hum

Today I've done a MS £4 income for me.
I've redeemed £10 from scratchies! Yeah :j
Still doing free bingo and bingoport will need to wait until later. Also need to write up MS hmm may do that later on too.

Grocery shopping has been done spending £8.51 spent there.

A couple of watchers on a few things on e-bay - fingers crossed they'll bid!. Also managed to pick up another MS to do! It's all go here. Really hope I can pick up a few more to help with my challenge.

Off to update sig before work... Roll on the weekend!

DedicatedDFW

Hi Everyone,

Past my bedtime but I want to post before I forget anything!

Was lucky enough to collect another 2 Mystery Shops :j
I also requested 2 days off work. - OH is hoping I'll be having a rest whereas I'm planning a massive declutter / ebay list and Dooyoo catch up! Hope they go through. I just feel if I got all these bits organised it'd be easier keeping up with money making things. I missed a pile of things for e-bay at weekend too - I think I'll need to pop them in a big bag and then they'll be more obvious to me next time

I didn't spend anything unnecessary today - just travel to work so thats good. I also may have won a fab £40! on free bingo - I have tried to withdraw and will see how that goes before I add to sig.

I was reading about MB today - I do bet anyway - or used to when I had the pennies so this may be something I need to look into to help keep my target within my sites!

Good Night all

DedicatedDFW

Hi Everyone - I didn't get to reply yesterday as I had 3 MS's to write up when I finally got home from work - 10.30pm no less I've been toying with the idea of getting a netbook then at least whilst i'm commuting or on lunch i can do something productive and will have more time for me when I get home - the thing is I'd need to purchase a dongle too and its the on-going cost I'm not sure about. I don't really have the cash for any of this but would definitely save me loads of time which is really what I need to start doing.

Am very tired today so rescheduled 1 MS, have done 1 that I need to write up and have 1 more to do today.

In money making news I made £19 on MS's yesterday and also purchased 2 gifts :T
I also did some more grocery shopping. This is a major downfall for me. The freezer is groaning but when there are good deals I love to stock up. I'm still well within the weekly £40 target but need to focus on not going to supermarkets and then I can really cut back on this area and throw some more money at the debt.

I have a small credit card balance I think I'm going to pay off. I'd just feel better with 1 less bill on my list and I know I should be focusing on overdraft but its still all bills and interest is higher on this. I'll have to get the statement out later and then report back!

Thank goodness its Wednesday - roll on the weekend. Am hoping to speak to my boss today - I'm on minimum wage at the mo. but was told I'd receive annual reviews for pay rise but I've a bad feeling I'll not receive it even though I have worked hard. hmmm

Have a good day all!

Oh and 1 happy bid on an e-bay item yeah!

DedicatedDFW

Hi All!

I have written up both my reports for MS's already so today that is income of £8. I did however spend more than this today but in my defence it was in the glorious-tastic Boots 75% sale! I'm only sad I didn't have a full lunch break today so only picked up a few things - given there wasn't a whole lot of stuff left this wasn't too bad. I could have just got a couple of extra prezzies sorted if I wasn't in such a rush. Managed to purchase 4 prezzies!!! and 2 little house things for the amazing price of £16.60 - not sure what happened but the full price had been £68 so it should have been a bit more but i'm not complaining;)

Managed to snag a couple more MS's although my progress on challenge seems sadly slow :think:

At the month end I'll review where I'm at with my challenges and give myself the much needed kick into action!

On this note I'll nip onto e-bay and hope there's been some bids. Hope everyone is having a good week.