Scuba's Spending and Life in the South Diary

scubaangel

I love mr scuba...I love mr scuba...i love mr scuba...!!!!!! it not working, flipping bloke just decided to tell me the time scale for moving in together just got reduced by nearly 2 months....leaving about 4 weeks before he wants to be moving out of the house he shares with his brother and in to 'our' house.

ARGHHHHHHH!!!!

scubaangel

Nope still struggling with my beloved....maybe I'd be happier if I could go and give him a clout but as he's freezing himself half to death in wales I can't even do that until Friday this week....

So instead I have done a cursory check of rightmove for properties in our v.v.cheap price range and contacted the agencies for more details on a couple of them, ideally we can try to arrange some viewings on Saturday since its the only day we both don't work (normally).

I've also sat and boggled my poor little brain doing more toluna mini polls and a couple of surveys, and am now working my way down the unusually long list of surveys on surveyhead - I should be able to cash out on there fairly soon too, so more pennies headed for paypal.
A quick check of my other survey sites shows that opinionworld is over the redemption level but they appear to be saying on the site that the points for surveys ends at the end of the month so I'll hold off on redeeming until nearer at least just after Christmas. Valued Opinions has one redemption pending and am close to cashing out again thanks to a couple of mysterious credits which were added last week. *sighs* course the boy thinks all these survey sites are a waste of time and effort so I think I'll enjoy my shopping spree on household stuff using the varied gift vouchers I've collected over the last year or so, and then tell him he isn't allowed to sit on my cushions, walk on my rugs etc

scubaangel

Remembered that I haven't updated my credit card snowball recently so popped across to check on it, sadly even after this months payment it's telling me I have 28 months before I'm debt free - but that's down to having had a problem with my debit card over the weekend - it kept getting declined even though there was cash in the account and it was working perfectly on Friday morning, so I had to use the cc for a bit of household shopping in mr t's (no food, just bits and pieces to try and keep my 'stuff' under control in my room) and a rug from argos, but its my aim to pay these off this month from profits from no spend mystery shops since getting out and about in to the shops it horrendous at the moment thanks to the Christmas panic landing....which reminds me I need to do my family shopping now I have everything planned out, thankfully most can be done via the ever lovely amazon and be delivered to Dad's house to save me forgetting to take them with me!

I've also sat and listed all the books I have in my room which are read and unlikely to ever be read again in greenmet, with a couple on amazon.

scubaangel

Almost hit that 'magical' redemption level on toluna again, less than 4 weeks after the last one, pity they take so flippin long to deliver the rewards - since it looks like we'll be moving before they start arriving I need to change my address back to my dads from here - although I'm sure my landlady will pass mail on once I've moved it'll just be easier to get it sent to and from daddy dearest.

scubaangel

Redeemed again on Toluna, and am still crawling towards payout levels on the other sites, meanwhile I've picked up another extra shift at work tomorrow and have four mystery shops to complete in the morning - will have to write them up as soon as I get home from work. I also really need to get the train up to one of the towns with a branch of my bank to pay in my sealed pot money and a couple of cheques which are floating around the bottom of my handbag at the moment.

scubaangel

Paid £87 in to the bank a mixture of cheques and small change bagged up. Used £4.50 of the small change to pay for my train ticket.

Also forgot about a refund for an item I bought but returned to the shop so my credit card is down to 27 months to get paid off.

Worked out that this month I've worked about 23 hours worth overtime this month - which is 2/3 of my normal working week...I am sooo looking forward to my day off on Saturday!

scubaangel

Day off has been bliss!

Walked from home down to the boy's place and then across the campus in to town to do a little bit of shopping - given the snow fall over night it was fairly quiet by Christmas Shopping weekend standards. Wandered back across the campus the long way around so I could take some photos by the lakes but it was getting a bit too dark for landscape photography so had a brew and snuggled up for a couple of hours watching rubbish on telly before I walked home and finally bothered to cook for myself, roasted a big dish of assorted veggies, then scoffed the lot! Perhaps needed a bit less oil on them but it's been far too long since I last cooked something (albeit roasting veggies is pretty simple) from scratch and I'd forgotten how easy and fun it can be.

scubaangel

Another teeny tiny payment went on to the credit card today but has taken the time remaining to pay it off down to 26 months (or Feb 2013) am determined though that I'll be paying it off in full every month by this time next year.
Had a look at my ms spreadsheets, looks like all being well my tax will be nice and small so at some point over the next few weeks I'll decimate my ms float again to chuck at the credit card balance and should take a few more months off.

clippy_girl

scubaangel wrote: »

Had a look at my ms spreadsheets, looks like all being well my tax will be nice and smallQUOTE]

lucky you, mine will be about £250! :mad:

how are you doing? have you been to look at any properties this weekend?:)

scubaangel

I think mines going to be under £100 - but thats after I write off part of the cost of my netbook which is nice, but means next years is going to feel huge by comparison, lol.

No we were meant to be viewing three yesterday but the agent cancelled because they were all snowed in - we had a fairly heavy snow fall Friday night so looks like we're going to have to look properly in the New Year as I'm working for three days next week then we're off back north to see our families - the petboy has to be back at work by the 3rd so am hoping we can make progress then.