DFSD's five year plan... and all it brings along the way

debtfreesomeday

Tried to rename this diary rather than starting a new one, but can't figure out how to do it! Any ideas?

yukkibear

Go to your first post, edit, then go advanced. You should be able to change it there.

Great news on the ebay bids by the way, I could do with some of that.

debtfreesomeday

Thanks Yukki, unfortunately it doesn't appear to work, oh well, nevermind - I tried!

debtfreesomeday

The shopping came in at £24-odd last night which was just under budget.

Ebay bids are now up to £113. :j There's just under two days to go, so it's looking good.

I've transferred the odd 1p from the bank account to e-saver this morning - hardly seems worth it but guess it all adds up!

I still haven't listed the other stuff on ebay, I have a relatively late afternoon/evening tonight, so I shall aim to do it today.

DFSD

debtfreesomeday

Ebay items are ending tonight and are now up to £133! :j It would be nice to reach £150 but I'm not going to be greedy!

75p transferred to e-saver from main account this morning.

£3 has hit the paypal account from a survey earlier in the week.

I didn't get the rest of the items on ebay, but I was a busy bee. I sorted and shredded loads of paperwork which I had been putting off for far too long. I feel slightly more organised and on top of things now. I also did two loads of washing, most of which dried on the line last night, I only had to finish a few bits off in the tumble dryer.

debtfreesomeday

Another £3 survey completed - I seem to be getting a lot of these lately.

Ebay bids up to £141!

debtfreesomeday

Ready for the total made on ebay....

£174.49 :j:j:j:j:j:j:j

I've also just completed a second £3 survey!

wantabetterlife

OMG!!! That is brilliant DFSD :j:j. When i have things selling on ebay i get so excited in the last few minutes to see if the bids will go up..:rotfl::rotfl:.
Hope the pregnancy is going well....i am 18 weeks now and feel fine except for the tiredness...am literally counting the weeks till i finish work already! Dont worry too much about the financial side of things..you will manage..it is hard at times but it doesnt last forever and before you know it the last payment for the loan will be going out and you really will be DFSD

debtfreesomeday

Oh WABL - I didn't realise you were expecting too - congratulations! I'll be bugging you for some tips as I go along then! I'm pretty clueless and quite terrified to be honest! I'm nearly 9 weeks so it's early days yet; I'm also feeling fine with very little sign of any symptoms so I'm not sure if that's a good thing or whether I should be worried! We still haven't told anyone, not even our families, which is hard because I almost feel like I'm being dishonest to them when I see them/talk to them, but we want to wait until we have had the 12(ish) week scan to make sure everything is 'ok so far'.

Back to moneysaving, and I already have plans for the ebay money! Some of it (£79) will go towards some new chairs for our garden that we have treated ourselves to (and in true MSE style they were half price ). £20 will go into the 'garden' e-saver to make that up to £100 to finish the landscaping we need, and the remaining £75 will be put into the other e-saver to start the 'baby' savings fund.

Now I just need to list the rest of the ebay items (although they won't make as much as these did!).

DFSD

debtfreesomeday

57p transferred across bank accounts this morning.
All ebay sales paid for except one - it would happen to be a high value sale too. I'll wait for that one to pay up and then will transfer it all across to the bank account, along with the £6 in survey rewards cash.

I see I have one more survey in my inbox this morning - not a cash rewards one but a points one, so I'll do that a bit later to bump up the points towards our next Amazon voucher.

Tonight will be the dreaded task of wrapping the ebay parcels, ready to send. It's a job I am not keen on but I'll gladly do it for the amount of money we have made!

DFSD