Our attempt at being MF!!

CathT

I think Pammy + Froggy have a bit of a race on with their mortgage. I was tempted to join the challenge but would need to OP by £800 a month. That is a lot of ebaying and surveys to do!

I've transferred some extra money across to maternity account (which hopefully we won't need to dip into and it can become an OP although I did use it purchase my latest bargains) as my phone bill was a lot less than i expected this month.

Am hoping to sort out another £20 OP when I get some money in that is owed to me.

Payday is still a while off but all bills paid (although I do need to pay £15 to Greenthumb tomoro) so we could still afford to have a tight month as planned. Unfortunately petrol doesn't last as long as I hope it to and DH's car needs filling again tomoro :mad:

Could do with writing a meal plan for next week so I can make yummy food on a budget. Have my recipe books out to see what delights we can have. Managed to delay my top up food shop until today which felt like an achievement. It just didn't help that I bought DD a new dress for being such a good girl (it was fairly cheap though )

CathT

Think i've just about caught up with email invites for surveys although was too late for most of them.

Have done a survey for 7000 points on toluna today and did one for 10,000 few days ago so hopefully get to a voucher on there soon. Still not sure I get the most points out of it that I can though. Caught up on Onepoll, i'm on £29.75 but never did recieve my bonus for when DH got to £40 a while ago.

Have 3 ebay items ending today, one is a BIN which I have reduced the price of but still don't think it will sell. Have a bid on one item though. It's frustrating as it takes so long to list items only for them not to sell.

No other money making plans for today apart from going to work later.

gratefulforhelp_2

pammyj74 wrote: »

I would just love the kids dad to be more hands on with seeing his kids to help me out. He is having them for a week in the hols (which is forced) and i got a letter from her telling me the time for collection and bringing back - I get home from work about 2.45 and they are dropping them back at 3pm! It makes me so mad like they cant wait to get rid of them grrr

Um...why is either of them telling you?

pammyj74

I have to be grateful that they are having them for the week so I dont want to complain or rock the boat or they will just not do any. Personally I think that she did that time so I would moan about it and give her amunition but I have learned my lesson there

Well done on surveys Catht, I really need to get back into doing them but I just cannot get motivated at all!
I am at 480 on polls on toluna, only 20 more to get 500 pts lol, took months and months to get there. To get more pts CathT you need to post a reply of more then 80 words and you get 100 pts but they dont get put on straight away and you can only do 50 posts like that a month. I have my word doc and it counts the words and I keep my post on the doc so I can see how many I have done If you reply to as many as poss and leave a note they should return the favour. you can only earn 15000 pts a month (plus 5k from 100words) so once you have reached that you wont get any more.

CathT

pammyj74 wrote: »

I have to be grateful that they are having them for the week so I dont want to complain or rock the boat or they will just not do any. Personally I think that she did that time so I would moan about it and give her amunition but I have learned my lesson there

Well done on surveys Catht, I really need to get back into doing them but I just cannot get motivated at all!
I am at 480 on polls on toluna, only 20 more to get 500 pts lol, took months and months to get there. To get more pts CathT you need to post a reply of more then 80 words and you get 100 pts but they dont get put on straight away and you can only do 50 posts like that a month. I have my word doc and it counts the words and I keep my post on the doc so I can see how many I have done If you reply to as many as poss and leave a note they should return the favour. you can only earn 15000 pts a month (plus 5k from 100words) so once you have reached that you wont get any more.

Thanks for that Pammy, I do get so bored doing them at times but persevere!

I've amended OP for June to £350 as received cash from selling highchair and pushchair. Depending on how well we budget from now until payday could possibly send a bit more too

Ebay was disappointing, sold one item for 99p :mad:

Had a busy shift and as I can't have wine am eating a vanilla slice, I think i will have an active baby in a little while!

CathT

Ebay parcel packaged and ready to send, I think we will sell a lot of the other stuff at a car boot.

I did get together 2 parcels of NEXT clothes but am debating whether to ebay these or not.

If we could run the cars on fresh air for the next 2 weeks I could make another OP but think I'll have to make a big dent in current account filling the tanks :mad:

Day off with DH today so we are taking DD out to a science exhibition/activity centre they have at the local university - i've heard good things about it and I think we get in free as we have Zoo membership so it is a good MSE day out!

Froggy-G

Hi Cath! :j

Enjoy your day out with your family!

Froggy

CathT

Thanks Froggy, just googled it as it looks like lots of fun. It is a Science Discovery Centre, should be good for DD's inquisitive but intelligent little mind.

Hope you and Princess are well.

Froggy-G

CathT wrote: »

Thanks Froggy, just googled it as it looks like lots of fun. It is a Science Discovery Centre, should be good for DD's inquisitive but intelligent little mind.

Hope you and Princess are well.

Princess is in bed, chilling.. Her breakfast is ready in the kitchen..She is fine and very relaxed...
I am at work and starting to count down the minutes to the weekend...

Am sure your DD will enjoy her day out, and so will you & your OH ..

Froggy :cool:

earthgirl

I have been and it is good, hope you all enjoy!
You are soooo organised and seem to be on the ball with everything!!
Right, I am off to take action and get organised!!