Scuba's Spending and Life in the South Diary

scubaangel

All three auctions ended with no further bids (boo hiss etc) but one buyer paid literally two minutes after it ended so that item is packaged up ready for a trip to the PO tomorrow morning after I do my mystery shop.

The other two I've packed ready for labelling as soon as I do get the payments in, then I can work out my ebay fees and get those paid off and the money transferred in to the bank.

scubaangel

All three ebay items are paid for, packed and posted. I do like it when buyers pay quickly! Will have to work out the profit and withdraw it from paypal later on this evening.

Managed to over sleep and missed the time slot for a mystery shop this morning - not happy with myself as its one I rearranged from last week because I got up and didn't feel like going doing it so rescheduled it.

scubaangel

Just bought myself a new laptop, decided that there's little to no point persevering with the old one, although if the OH can get it working again I'll most likely keep it as a back up for a while.

Also called HMRC to get my tax code sorted, apparently my previous employers ISS failed to even generate me a P45 never mind send it, so are lying bull**iters after the number of times I've called not only the site I worked at but the payroll and HR depts at head office to ask for it and my pay slips and have been told they'll be posted or "as the last ones haven't arrived we'll pop copies in the post for you."

On the upside the return of the tax I've over paid will cover the laptop (paid for on the credit card) and hopefully give a boost to my saving to move fund.

scubaangel

One Poll £27.15/£40
Toluna 732/80000 = £15 amazon or l2s voucher
SurveyHead $0/$25 - cash to paypal - cashed out 13/10/11
Globaltestmarket 520/1000 = $50
OpinionWorld 775/1000 = £10 cash to paypal (usually)
mingle
mysurveypanel 300/575 =£5 paypal or 550 = £5 amazon
myvoice 2206/2000 = £20 gift voucher -need to choose what voucher I need/want this time.
valued opinions £4.90/£10 = gift voucher
yougov 225/5000 = £50 cheque
Panelbase £8.75/£10 = payment by BACS
springboard £17/£30
mindmover 845/2000 = £20 bacs
crowdology 0.64/£4 = cash to paypal
rewarded opinions 1700/2000 = £20 cheque
opinon bar £7.50/£10 = cash by BACS
myview 250/11000 = £5 amazon

Another quick update as I just managed to cash out of surveyhead. Tempted to email them and ask for my dashboard to be reset as thanks to their habit displaying both £ and $ values the fluctuations in currency mean it now says I have $0.75 or -£2.95....now I can't see any way that I can possibly owe them nearly £3 at the same time as I have 75c credit!

scubaangel

Mystery shopping payment in and dispatched to the credit card, which currently has almost £30 of unpaid ms spends to pay off as I get payments in (float account is empty due to transferring it to the 'want to move account').

One gyp coffee job done, train fare paid on the cc but the actual coffee purchase was from cash I had in one of my money boxes so when I get paid I can make that in to a small extra card payment.

Still not set up the new laptop - am almost scared to in case I mess it up, lol.

scubaangel

Been on an adventure on the train to do a gyp coffee ms with a reasonable bonus - when I say adventure we had the train stopped for 30mins at one station while we waited for the police as someone had been assaulted in one of the other carriages going, and on the way back another delay while a homeless woman/beggar who had been trying to guilt other travellers in to giving her money was also arrested.

Attempted to use the quidco app to 'check in' for cash back at a couple of stores but for some reason even while I was inside the store it kept saying "Must be in the store to check in" not sure if I was doing something wrong or my handset GPS just isn't accurate enough but it is quite annoying as a fairly regular dribble of 20p/25p's in to the quidco account would make it worthwhile keeping my account open.

On a more positive note for my phone apps I've used the ebay one to list a few small low cost starts - not the best use of a free listing weekend I admit but it was stuff that was lying around close to hand, brand new and that I have multiples of so can relist easily if it does actually sell in the hope of keeping my motivation for using ebay in general!

Was thinking while I was on the train (yup v dangerous pastime I do try to avoid it) that I'd like to try getting back in to cross-stitching, I used to do it alot but after using up the last of my materials a few years back I stopped, if I can remember where the patterns out of some of my old kits are in my room at Dad's house might get him to send them down, so I can at least practise again on things I'm familiar with, of course that means I need to sell on ebay so I can buy materials again since there is definitely no spare money in my budget for buying them right now!

scubaangel

Managed to find another item I wanted to ebay, but think it needs a decent photo with the listing so will do it on the lappy now I've got it up and running. But am far too tired to do it tonight - so that's tomorrow mornings plan - am posting as it means I'll be reminded to actually do it instead of thinking 'Ahh I'll get it done later' like I normally do.

scubaangel

Mystery shop done and written up, scarf listed, and car fueled up - only put £15 in as I'm using it so rarely at the moment it doesn't seem worth while filling it right up and then just leaving it sat in the car park.

scubaangel

Christ I hate running!

Home from work, via the on foot not walking method, I'm getting home quicker but it's definitely not getting any easier - in fact tonight I had to walk more often than I have done for a week or so and yet was still back almost a minute quicker than previously. It's only a 1.5 mile route so taking even as little as 30 seconds off the time it takes is fairly significant. Over the last three weeks that I have been running home I've reduced the time it takes from 17 minutes to just over 15 minutes on average. Am just hoping it translates to weight loss/inch loss! Although I think I need another mystery shop at a sport shop to get an idea of what trainers I need as my trusty Asics are starting to look and feel quite battered.

scubaangel

Knackered again tonight, just don't think I'm sleeping properly, which is probably the fault of Mr S as he's home at the moment and I slept fabulously while he was away!

Getting a little bit obsessed with checking my ebay app to see if I have any watchers/bids, so far watchers on 3 of the current 4 items, so am hoping that they'll turn in to bidders shortly. Think I need to have a scout round the flat tomorrow to see what else I can get listed for a 99p or less start so I stay motivated, and hopefully keep some pennies flowing in to my paypal account.

Day off tomorrow and have three mystery shops booked, one train ride in to 'town' the other two a food drive through and a visit to a convenience store - so I can at least buy some of the things we're running low on like loo rolls while I'm there.