Scuba's Spending and Life in the South Diary

scubaangel

OU Course has appeared on my credit card, next statement date is Dec 3rd, and payment by the 28th, need to work out the minimum payment but in the mean time will start putting small payments on to it as well as the other one to start bringing the total down.

scubaangel

Paypal account looks healthy again, all four ebay buyers who won things over the last couple of days have paid so now I'm home, showered and have sent the boy to bed I'm about to scrounge round the random piles of boxes for suitable sized ones to post things in, pack and label them.

I've also double checked that the mystery shopping work which is currently booked for tomorrow can be rearranged just in case as a colleague called in sick for this evenings shift who is meant to be doing lunchtime tomorrow (obviously if they're sick again there's no certainty that I'll be offered the over time but I figure its good to be prepared!).

scubaangel

Hmm two items boxed, labelled and ready to go, one other needs brown paper to parcel it up but I can't find it, am sure we have some somewhere in this hellhole....the other thankfully is teeny tiny and is in a nice envelope.

Just picked up another ms to do early tomorrow morning, there are a few other available dates to do it so if I can't for whatever reason (over sleep/over time etc) I can at least rearrange.

Have also emptied the shredder, and put a nice new bag in it ready for another round of clearing out the avalanche - which includes mail for previous tenants which we've returned to sender at least once but because its debt related they just send it straight back, not assisted by the fact that the female debtor has the same forename as I do, so when they phone (we have the same number too apparently) and ask for 'Scuba' I say yes and it then becomes 'Hello Ms Old Tenant we're calling from debt collection agency blah' and oddly enough they refuse to accept that I'm really Miss Angel, still at least they've not started turning up at the door yet.

Tempted while I'm out and about tomorrow to pop in to one of the local craft shops to actually buy a couple of cross stitch pattern kits, but I'm meant to be clearing things out so need to make space in one of my seagrass baskets so the pet doesn't spot it and complain about me 'messing up' the flat again.

scubaangel

Paypal money has arrived in my account along with a mystery shopping payment, the ms money has gone straight on to the ms credit card, and I'll split the paypal money between the two cards later. Planning to use the cash from the sale of the jewellery to pay for the ebay postage so once that's done I'll pay it off once of the cards, check my current ebay fees and request more money transferring out of paypal.

scubaangel

eBay sales posted, postage cost £5.40 in total, which is about what I'd estimated. Really don't feel like doing much else today so am thinking about having lunch sorting out some of the paper avalanche and then going for a run - I really really fancy a walk in to work to get coffee and cake but that would be rather unhealthy as I'm on creme brulee lattes at the moment (absolutely lush but full fat and with the syrup is not good for me!).

scubaangel

Now have a comparatively meek little pile of papers left to shred - but I think the cheap shredder is about ready to give up the ghost so will work on clearing the rest of the pile tomorrow.

Forced myself to get four more small items listed on ebay, again nothing that will make me rich but there are several of them in a box in the flat so every time I managed to sell one it gets me a bit closer to my goal of having an empty box.

Requested another withdrawal from paypal too £20 this time, once again when it arrives I'll split the money between the two credit cards. Waiting on a reasonably large mystery shopping payment to land early next week so I can take a chunk of the ms spends off the relevant card.

Went for my run, ran the same route I did a couple of months ago in just over 23 mins, which is 3 minutes quicker than I did it back then so reasonably happy, although I seemed to alternate between feeling as though my legs were going to drop off and feeling like I needed to work harder. I've finally downloaded the first week of the C25K podcasts, will give the first one a go on Saturday I think - am hoping that the first week will be nice and easy as I already have my running legs and am reasonably comfortable running for a few minutes at a time, but don't want to skip to the harder weeks until I know the distances I need to be looking to run while I listen to the podcasts (5k is unlikely until the last week or two unless I'm moving faster than usual).

I think this week I also need to sort through the duplicate DVD's the boy and I have and look in to musicmagpie'ing them, there are a fair few so should be worthwhile overall if not individually and means nice space being generated on the shelf before we move.

scubaangel

OK so the running to the podcasts thing failed... my cheapie 1GB mp3 player doesn't take standard earphones, its the frankly almost as obsolete as betamax small version of the jack, so either need to find the ones which came with it or see if I still have the adaptor lying around so I can use my normal earbuds (which was a mistaken purchase when I was sent out for something else with typical bloke instructions...).

Felt quite spacey and blahish again after work this morning so went in to town - days like this are the ones when I normally end up going spendy mad, but I was exceptionally restrained, and only bought the bulb for my car and used last weeks telegraph voucher for the body wash - not sure yet if I'll be keeping that for me or using it as part of a Christmas goodie selection for secret santa at work.

scubaangel

Currently have 7 items listed on ebay, but only 1 listed in the last 24 hours, at more than a 99p start, need to get the necklaces listed - and think I'm going to go and return one rather than ebay it next week.

Got a few ms booked this week but mainly low fee jobs so need to see if I can hunt out any better paid ones too - although I have 5 low fee booked for Tuesday so should make a reasonable profit overall.

Def need to remember to buy some washing up liquid as there is absolutely none left and a nice pile of dirty dishes in the sink!

scubaangel

Got most of todays tasks done, mystery shops done just need writing up which I have no enthusiasm for right now but need doing fairly soon.

Aquired some more boxes from work for moving, and binned two more bags of assorted rubbish.

'Treated' myself to two new pairs of trousers which actually fit as while I was out ms'ing my jeans were driving me mad falling down despite the belt. So I have a pair of pale lilacy Laura Ashley slightly flared cords and some jeans from one of the charity shops in town, cost me all of £8 and I was very near to buying a pair of jeans in Primark for £12 earlier on, so glad I waited.

bonsibabe

Well done you huni, you are doing so well. I've managed to list 15 items tonight on ebay .. all starting at 99p but they are magazines so hopefully they will disappear quicker than a fiver out of my pocket lol, keep up the good work hun xxx