Scuba's Spending and Life in the South Diary

scubaangel

Yesterday's onepoll'ing has got me up to almost £35, so looks good for cashing out pretty much as I hoped in the new year.

Another item sold on ebay last night, and was paid for almost immediately which is naturally very pleasing to my paypal balance (fees are due out soon), and on a smaller scale to the boxes containing my items to sell, envelopes and the masses of stamps I got when I was doing the Postal Survey. Even more happily the item is small enough just to pop in to the post box in passing on my way to work.

scubaangel

4 more ebay items unsold, will probably have to rethink the listings as thats the second time they've not even had any watchers.

Had a fairly big mystery shopping payment arrived in my bank account this afternoon, so have paid the 'owed' money off the credit card, which leaves mainly the lappy and a couple of fuel payments to get rid of before I'm able to start making inroads in to the date it'll be cleared by again.

Email from the company I sent my old phone to letting me know a cheque for £20 is on its way to my dads address (couldnt work out how to change the address) so will ask him to send it down when my mum visits next weekend.

Also plodding towards payout on a couple of survey co's - with any luck I'll get a couple of them before Christmas to help with the making a dent in the credit cards (particularly the one I put the OU course on!).

scubaangel

I either have a nice big dent to the credit cards incoming or a massive amount of money to pay back to HMRC...but the notice is about as clear as mud 'we may owe you or you may owe us' being the comment next to the reasonably large number of pounds.

Need to get some more stuff listed on ebay too to make the most of the flw.

clippy_girl

hello! you are very motivated with all your running, put me to shame! although this week I WILL go to the gym and swim! might investigate the zumba class as well! i have got my bare charm up on ebay, over £30 now exc postage so very pleased with that! have you had any comp wins lately? i have entered about 100 this week so fingers crossed

scubaangel

Nah nothing much lately but then I've not had the motivation to enter many which would probably explain it!

Don't worry too much - I was meant to run twice today, between shifts and run home from work....I managed neither, got too comfy in the cafe over lunch and a book then was/am just too tired to want to get changed this evening. This of course means that I feel fat coz I over ate slightly at lunch time, and snacking this evening when I got tired after my dinner break.

Right being more positive now, its payday mid week - I have money left in the bank and am fairly sure I have enough for some small spends as well as my last bills coming out.

I've no more overtime booked this week but as I've time off booked this week I doubt I'll be able to get any - the shift I covered today for example I can't do next week as I'll still be away, although I will be home for my normal evening shift.

scubaangel

Just had a quick check of my bank account, paypal money is in so have split it and dispatched it to the pair of credit cards. Also paid the 'pending' transactions from my ms float as they're ms spends. The float looks quite depleted again but theres some still there which is better than it's looked for most of the time lately, there are a handful of payments still to arrive which will bulk it up again, but I don't have much work booked at the moment thanks to the impending house move.

scubaangel

Nothing extra earned or spent today, but I did run the longer route home for the first time at night - did it in about the same time as I managed the other week when I did it during the day and took the short cut, so fairly pleased, esp as I've had a lazy week and am expecting to have put a little more weight on/stay roughly the same when I weigh in tomorrow.

Feels quite strange that today has been a monday, feels like a Sunday - the pet had a day off work as they were given a long weekend so we went for breakfast at Frankie and Bennys, which was actually really lovely, not necessarily the food but just being out together and not being out doing a mystery shop, although it was pretty MSE (and tasted good) as F&B have an offer for two breakfasts for £10, and 99p unlimited tea and coffee refills, and what they call a full english costs £8 (which is what we both tend to have). Although we also tend to get a side of hash browns to share.

But I have also won a book competition on another forum I use so looking forward to getting another lovely shiney new book to enjoy fairly soon.

Tomorrows plans involve a mystery shop around lunchtime, a visit to the new letting agents to sign the paper work, and a run of at least 2 miles preferably 3, and waiting around for the pets knackered kindle to be collected.

Am thinking I might run in to work and back in the evening so I can check to see if the payslips have arrived yet - normally we get them a week before payday but so far there is no sign of them which is quite annoying when I want to see it so I know how much I actually get paid now my tax issue is meant to be sorted out!

scubaangel

Still no payslips which is now quite weird!

Didn't get the length of run I'd planned as I ended up at work again (overtime = good etc), so ran a slightly different to usual route home, which is apparently very slightly longer than the route I commonly run - 1.65 miles compared to the 1.56 miles the normal route, as well as being more hilly, in a time which actually worked out as a faster average pace than I normally manage, fingers crossed I can keep increasing the overall pace before it gets too cold/I move.

So I need to reschedule my shop due today - hopefully can do it tomorrow before work - longer walk to the shopping area it's on than my normal walk to work so I'll get that recorded as a 'work out' as well as my run home in the evening to make up for my unhealthy eating over the last couple of weeks.

Also need to weigh in tomorrow, and hopefully money from the last MS co who owe me will magically arrive in my bank account so I can spend it on doing out for a few drinks tomorrow night and then when my salary arrives on Thursday I can do the shifting around playing with the numbers thing to cover the cost of the weekend with my sister and mum.

scubaangel

Payslip in today. :j

I did waaay too much overtime last month...apparently inc my overtime I earned enough to make paying £4 to my student loan necessary! On the upside, it means I have plenty of pennies to play with in London, and should be able to pay off a chunk from my credit cards.

Also been asked to do some more overtime, but need to confirm tomorrow after doing several mystery shops (off hand there are three booked), a visit to the new lettings agent, and a trip in to work to collect the accumulated dirty uniforms from my locker, for some reason this week they seem to have ended up more hot chocolate splattered than usual, although I think that as we've been incredibly busy and as its cold more people want chocolate (approx 10% more sales than normal according to this weeks figures) it's probably fairly sensible to assume that may be the cause.

I've picked up a handful of money bags so need to start counting my sealed pot, I suspect I'll need more so will ask for them when I drop the first of the change off at the bank.

scubaangel

Happy December......

Just finished what felt like an absolute marathon of opinionworld surveys and have smashed through the 1000 point redemption threshold so have a rather lovely £13odd instantly added to my paypal account and shortly to head to my bank account.