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Cat2011

November Tally of savings.
Need £1,300. Saved £150.03

£39.87 - Mystery Shop
£17.00 - Mystery Shop
£36.00 - Mystery Shop
£13.55 - Mystery shop
£11.00 - Mystery Shop
£3.81 - Amazon sales
£1.81 - Round down
£3.99 - Round down
£15.00 - Surveys
£8.00 - Mystery Shops

Cat2011

Oh poo. I've got a missed payment on one of my credit cards. That's exactly how not to handle your cards. I forgot to set up the direct debit, and then never got round to paying. Will have to pay it off and set up the d/d this weekend.

Sold 4 things on eBay for a whopping £5 total, got more finishing on Saturday, but only expect a few more pounds if anything. Every penny counts and all that I suppose.

In the process of palming off my old sofa onto some friends, then can put the futon up for sale, which should hopefully make a little bit of money. Got 4 sofas in the living room at the moment, so it's a bit crammed!

Cat2011

Left my books at work so failed to do any study tonight... must try harder...

I've got 3 of the eBay parcels packaged ready for posting tomorrow, got to do a mystery shop on the way home too.

I've got a £50 travelodge voucher to use by December. I had a not so great stay, and complained after a friend prompted me too (don't generally like the compensation culture). I was impressed with how effective the customer service response was . But I doubt I'm going to be able to use the voucher, wondering how to get rid of it? Might offer it on Facebook, or eBay? Not sure.

Cat2011

Started using a cashback website about 3 months ago - and finally got money cleared! Woohoo, it's a whopping 91p :rotfl:. But they only pay out over £1 - so have to wait a bit longer... I have about £190 on there so far, so that'll be nice when/if it clears.

Cat2011

November Tally of savings.
Need £1,300. Saved £243.53

£39.87 - Mystery Shop
£17.00 - Mystery Shop
£36.00 - Mystery Shop
£13.55 - Mystery shop
£11.00 - Mystery Shop
£3.81 - Amazon sales
£1.81 - Round down
£3.99 - Round down
£15.00 - Surveys
£8.00 - Mystery Shops
£5.00 - eBay
£8.00 - Mystery shop
£10.00 - Mystery shop
£70.50 - Matched betting

Cat2011

November Tally of savings.
Need £1,300. Saved £270.02

£39.87 - Mystery Shop
£17.00 - Mystery Shop
£36.00 - Mystery Shop
£13.55 - Mystery shop
£11.00 - Mystery Shop
£3.81 - Amazon sales
£1.81 - Round down
£3.99 - Round down
£15.00 - Surveys
£8.00 - Mystery Shops
£5.00 - eBay
£8.00 - Mystery shop
£10.00 - Mystery shop
£70.50 - Matched betting
£26.49 - eBay

Cat2011

Had an exhausting day yesterday. Work just went all wrong, then left early to go do 3 mystery shops in a nearby town. Came back just in time and dashed over to St John training. Finally got home at gone 10pm, and had to upload all the shop data :S . Got to bed uber late so knackered today. 2 more shops this week, then that's going to be it for a while. Altho the money is good and I enjoy doing them, I have to concentrate on my studies right now. I'm late with an essay... and that comes first. Hoping to do a load round Christmas if I get all my studies done in time, then back to kicking my debts !!! in January.

Cat2011

Oh great. Just had to give my first ever refund on eBay. I sold a spray bottle, and apparently the spray did not work. Grr.

*EDIT* They've just sent me a mean email saying they couldn't understand why I didn't check the bottle, and I have terrible customer service. How they were really disgruntled, and could of left poor feedback but didn't.

They left positive feedback as soon as they got the bottle (before THEY checked it worked), which is their own fault. I didn't check it because I had no reason to think it didn't work. And I gave an instant zero-quibble full refund, including my postage costs, so I'm out of pocket.

There's just no pleasing some people.

Cat2011

Wooo! I have 2 stars :j

prettypaula

hey cat, ebay people, only there mothers could love them!