challenge Make £11,000 in 2011 The Dribblers Advance

lea123e

Well have finally got around to listing some bits on ebay so hopefully that will be a bit more to add to the pot. Hoping to do a spot of car booting, preferably in the sunshine, very soon

Hope everyone is well and prospering

tina01904

A bit of mystery shopping for me today so some free food too - every little helps!

I'll update my signature when the payments reach my account.

Hopefulwife

I am slowly reaching my goal - today have saved £26.30 - basically had budgeted to go see a friend (fuel costs) but trip was cancelled so more to add to the savings fund

Larumbelle

Ooh hello all! :hello:

I was going to do this challenge back at the start of the year. Then I got ill and couldn't start. I'd like to rejoin if that's okay I'm only going to set myself mini-challenges to start with though, because I don't know how well my health is going to stand up.

At the moment all I do is sell on Etsy and Dawanda. And if I'm honest I haven't been keeping up with that particularly well! I need your energy...

Anyway, hi!

slaughter97

Wow. Just seen this today, and its exactly what I have been "trying" to do this year - though somewhat lacking in motivation.

Have been doing some MS, surveys, ebaying and amazon. Picked up £10.80 on free bingo games over the weekend.

Will join and keep you posted on progress. Won't score anything until cash is in the bank. £5500 to go!!

jtz

So far since I've started reading this thread a couple of days ago:
£20 voucher from surveys
£10 voucher amazon

Still got loads of catching up to do!

Fredula

I feel so upset/angry. I think someone at work is trying to set me up. Someone at work pretty much insinuated that I've been stealing.

There are 2 problems. The first problem is the lottery. It's my job to go round with a piece of paper and get £90 out of people so that we can have a monthly draw. 1st prize is £22.50, 2nd prize is £13.50 and 3rd prize is £9. The other £45 goes towards the charity. In April, a pound was missing so Hannah told me to take a pound from the tuck shop which I did. May £2 was missing, and Shirley got the money out of the tuck shop. June, I made a conscious effort to sign my part of the document only when they'd paid their pound, and the 3 days before it was drawn I counted the money and the signitures and there was the right amount there. Yet on the day I drew the lottery, yet again we were a pound down. This time I wrote on the bottom of the sheet that we were a pound missing because I didn't really want to tell Hannah or Shirley again because they might have thought it was me taking it. It's not. I've never taken any money from them.

2nd Problem. Today, I counted out a fundraising tin, at the table with everybody around. I counted it all out and put it into bags and wrote it on a piece of paper as I went. Each bag was put in a line. The last bag I did was a bag of £1.50 in 50ps. When I finished, I got the charity tin and hung it on my arm and I picked up every single bag and carried it into the office where Chris told me to put it on the filing cabinet, which I did. On my way home from work Chris rang me and said "There are bags missing, where have you put the other bags?" I told her that I put them on the filing cabinet with all the others. Her response was "No you didn't." ... What so I'm a liar now? I told her that I picked them all up together and put them on there. Where else could they be? Apparently they've looked everywhere for them, even in my box (pigeon hole type thing). She even got Liz to confirm that the 3 bags that are missing aren't there. She then asked who I was sat next to and I told her Hannah and D, and she said that she would talk to them about it tomorrow.

Maybe I'm blowing this out of proportion, but I feel like they're accusing me of stealing. What do I do? What are my rights? I have no idea. What happens if someones trying to set me up? I feel so angry. If someone is trying to set me up then I won't let them. I'm going to keep my bag in the office, just incase they try and plant anything on me (god I sound so paranoid) and then someone will be in the office at all times so they can see if I go in there to get anything from my bag/put anything in. I'm not having it. I am not a theif.

dawn1974

Found £1.31 and used a £1 voucher on my shopping.

tina01904

reached £10 pay out on surveys so have requested a voucher. It is a capital bonds voucher so not too sure how that will pan out but I'm sure I'll manage to spend it and put £10 towards the challenge. Will update my signature when money reaches my account.

Larumbelle

Fredula wrote: »

I feel so upset/angry. I think someone at work is trying to set me up. Someone at work pretty much insinuated that I've been stealing.

There are 2 problems. The first problem is the lottery. It's my job to go round with a piece of paper and get £90 out of people so that we can have a monthly draw. 1st prize is £22.50, 2nd prize is £13.50 and 3rd prize is £9. The other £45 goes towards the charity. In April, a pound was missing so Hannah told me to take a pound from the tuck shop which I did. May £2 was missing, and Shirley got the money out of the tuck shop. June, I made a conscious effort to sign my part of the document only when they'd paid their pound, and the 3 days before it was drawn I counted the money and the signitures and there was the right amount there. Yet on the day I drew the lottery, yet again we were a pound down. This time I wrote on the bottom of the sheet that we were a pound missing because I didn't really want to tell Hannah or Shirley again because they might have thought it was me taking it. It's not. I've never taken any money from them.

2nd Problem. Today, I counted out a fundraising tin, at the table with everybody around. I counted it all out and put it into bags and wrote it on a piece of paper as I went. Each bag was put in a line. The last bag I did was a bag of £1.50 in 50ps. When I finished, I got the charity tin and hung it on my arm and I picked up every single bag and carried it into the office where Chris told me to put it on the filing cabinet, which I did. On my way home from work Chris rang me and said "There are bags missing, where have you put the other bags?" I told her that I put them on the filing cabinet with all the others. Her response was "No you didn't." ... What so I'm a liar now? I told her that I picked them all up together and put them on there. Where else could they be? Apparently they've looked everywhere for them, even in my box (pigeon hole type thing). She even got Liz to confirm that the 3 bags that are missing aren't there. She then asked who I was sat next to and I told her Hannah and D, and she said that she would talk to them about it tomorrow.

Maybe I'm blowing this out of proportion, but I feel like they're accusing me of stealing. What do I do? What are my rights? I have no idea. What happens if someones trying to set me up? I feel so angry. If someone is trying to set me up then I won't let them. I'm going to keep my bag in the office, just incase they try and plant anything on me (god I sound so paranoid) and then someone will be in the office at all times so they can see if I go in there to get anything from my bag/put anything in. I'm not having it. I am not a theif.

Sounds horrible. I don't know what your rights are. If you are in a union, I would contact them, if not call ACAS. All workplaces should have cash handling procedures, does yours? You need to find out what yours are and stick to them like glue. If you don't have any I would refuse to handle cash until some are drawn up. Sorry I'm not much help but it must be dreadful for you xx