Improving my life in 2011

Mags30

That list of survey sites has built up slowly over the last year I've been on MSE. Every time I see a new site mentioned on the "up your income" board I tend to sign up for it

I don't actually spend that much time on it. Every day I log in to onepoll, readbud and toluna. Most of the others on the list I just do if I am emailed a survey. I ignore a lot of the emails too because sometimes the surveys are really long for minimal reward or I'm too busy.

There are loads of popular sites that aren't even on my list yet. I've never had a Pinecone invite, I haven't done YouGov or Valued Opinions or many others.

There are some people on MSE who seem to be making loads of money from surveys but I'm not quite sure how they do it.

@Wordsmith I rarely get surveys from Surveyhead but as I'm more than half way towards payout it's staying on the list for now even if I wouldn't be recommending it too highly to others

@shoegal You should sign up for onepoll, loads of people on here do it and Crowdology is ok, they pay out at £4

@polesalot That list is the only way I keep track of them!

Wordsmith

I just had a survey from Irish Opionions. It let me get all the way to the last red dot and then no "Next" button for me to complete the survey and claim my reward.:mad: This isn't the first time this has happened!

Mags30

Wordsmith wrote: »

I just had a survey from Irish Opionions. It let me get all the way to the last red dot and then no "Next" button for me to complete the survey and claim my reward.:mad: This isn't the first time this has happened!

I don't like the Irish survey sites, they hardly ever send surveys

Earned 60p on onepoll today :T

When I got my iphone before Christmas I was promised my first bill for free (worth €40) but I've had 2 bills now and no €40 discount so I went back to the shop today to moan about it. The person I need to speak to wasn't there but they took my details. Someone did call me later to say they were looking into it and will call me again tomorrow. It takes so much effort to sort these things out I can see why people wouldn't bother.

Thankfully pulling out the paperwork reminded me to cancel the insurance which is still free but would be costing almost €10 a month from March on. No thanks :money:Great way to get people signed up, giving it free for 3 months and hoping they'll forget to cancel it.

Did a mystery shop at a large supermarket after work (T****;)). Nice easy job paying €18 only problem being that I got wet walking there in the rain :sad:

Mags30

Oh my God how many more bad things can happen in Ireland? The airport where this mornings plane crash happened is only a few miles from my house. I live on the flightpath. 6 people are confirmed dead, maybe more.

I didn't hear anything. There were loads of guards (Irish for police) on the roads earlier. Unusual but I assumed it had something to do with the General Election, a party leader visiting maybe and wondered why taxpayers money was being spent so foolishly. Turns out they were there to help emergency services and ambulances through.

I'm finding this really upsetting, haven't seen any pics yet, just the news updates on my iPhone. Tragic.

vasseur

We're just hearing this news now. Very sad.

Mags30

It's still all over the news, spent ages watching it this evening.

The airport is closed and the silence from the airport tonight is a very poignant reminder of what happened there this morning. It's strange not having the planes overhead tonight. Normally I take very little notice of them being so used to them but tonight I'm very consicous of their absence.

Wish I had company tonight, after hearing about tragedy all day it would be nice to have somebody to cuddle up to :A

Didn't get much done today. I think I've pulled a muscle in my shoulder, no idea how, didn't lift anything particularly heavy but neck/shoulder/back pain is a recurring problem for me. I think it's bad because it hurt rather badly every time I changed gears in the car today and when I carried folders that weren't even heavy. The painkillers I took didn't help either. Going to try some more now, make a :coffee:, do my skincare rountine and go to bed. Night x

Shoe_Gal

Such sad news for Ireland, hope you're OK?

Hoopylass

Hiya Ive just came across your diary and I love the happiness project! Just been nosying on the website and it looks fab and definetly something I could be doing with just now!
Look forward to reading more in your diary

Mags30

Shoe_Gal wrote: »

Such sad news for Ireland, hope you're OK?

Yes thanks, it doesn't affect me directly, just that it happened so close to where I live and work --it's cast a shadow of grief over my local area

Hoopylass wrote: »

Hiya Ive just came across your diary and I love the happiness project! Just been nosying on the website and it looks fab and definetly something I could be doing with just now!
Look forward to reading more in your diary

Thanks hun:A The Happiness Project is fab, if I go on about it enough maybe it can be the new Shred around here! (Shred is a fitness dvd that's very popular on MSE)

The Happiness Project lady is super organized or at least she becomes so over the course of the year. She has these very extensive resolution charts on which you tick off your resolutions every day if you have done them. I've printed the blank charts but haven't started using them yet.

If you email her she will send you the charts or feel free to PM me your email address and I'll forward her email


That banner on here for the free Costa coffee is making me think about a trip to Costa. Not even sure they'd have the loyalty cards here but all the better if they do


@shoegal Will be thinking of you this evening picking up the new car, excited for you, it's not every day you get to collect a new car so enjoy:T

Wordsmith

Hi, Mags

Have you seen this thread on the forums: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2479385 ?
It seems to think that readbud is a scam. I was going to join up to it but I think now I'll wait to see if anyone actually gets a payout from it.

Hope all is well with you.