Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

Igamogam

moo2moo wrote: »

Posh bookstore didn't have any of the books I wanted to peruse, still can't face paying Amazons prices, even the used and dropping to bits prices are far higher than I'd like. Will resist and add them to my Christmas wish list.

Shed is still progressing very very slowly. Its had two coats of creosote inside and out. It honks.


And finally I am 25 points away from cashing out with YouGov. Bet it takes another month to reach payout though.

Have you tried Oxfam books on line - might find what you are looking for ( and others!) there.

Creosote............love that smell! Reminds me of warm summer days playing in garden at grandparents house - grandad always creosoted the fence and coal bunker EVERY summer!

You Gov - is the payout worth it - I signed up but havent done many. I tend to use another survey site which seems to rack up the pennies quicker!

moo2moo

Igamogam wrote: »

Have you tried Oxfam books on line - might find what you are looking for ( and others!) there.

Creosote............love that smell! Reminds me of warm summer days playing in garden at grandparents house - grandad always creosoted the fence and coal bunker EVERY summer!

You Gov - is the payout worth it - I signed up but havent done many. I tend to use another survey site which seems to rack up the pennies quicker!

Tried Oxfam books but they don't have any of the titles. Nor do any of the local charity shops. Its not like I have any shortageof books to read though so I'm resisting buying it for the mo.

YouGov is a bit of a meh. Yes its worth it in that they never screen you out of a survey, they're usually quick and easy but only pay 25-50p per time and you're lucky to get two a month which means payout takes years because the one and only option is a £50 cheque. Its most welcome when it does arrive but getting there takes forever, especially when you're daft enough to do it twice.

In theory today should be spent erecting gazebos on the school field but since its rained non-stop for days I'm hoping the boss will give in and OK the school fair moving indoors. Either way it will be pathetic as very little tat has been donated.

Igamogam

moo2moo wrote: »

In theory today should be spent erecting gazebos on the school field but since its rained non-stop for days I'm hoping the boss will give in and OK the school fair moving indoors. Either way it will be pathetic as very little tat has been donated.

bet your tat is a much higher quality than our tat:rotfl: over the years we have had dentures ( never been near steradent:eek:) incontinence pads ( still sealed in packet I have to add so a bonus!) a stuffed pet dog and handbag that had contents with a 'street value' which could have made a sizeable dent in Greece's debts:eek: It was a very popular tombola that year;):rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

beanielou

Ive done You Gov twice and both times it took me two years.

moo2moo

Igamogam wrote: »

bet your tat is a much higher quality than our tat:rotfl: over the years we have had dentures ( never been near steradent:eek:) incontinence pads ( still sealed in packet I have to add so a bonus!) a stuffed pet dog and handbag that had contents with a 'street value' which could have made a sizeable dent in Greece's debts:eek: It was a very popular tombola that year;):rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Classy stuff. We had Value Cup-a-soup with a best before date of the 1980s, several tins of beans with rust on, a vast amount of what we think may have been deodorant but was labelled in Chinese so it could have been pretty much anything. Half the toys went in the bin before it even started.

It did go a lot better than I expected despite someone over-ruling me and setting up the giant gazebo. They'd almost got as far as getting the roof on it when a particularly strong gust of wind flung it across the field and into a fence bending rather a lot of poles in the process.

Rather amazingly I was home by 9:15pm which is the earliest I've been back from a school fair in years. Inside isn't as disasterous as normal either.

Should be horse riding today but I suspect that will be cancelled due to wind which is a pain in the bum because I wanted to get rid of the mountain of stuff for cash for clothing thats been loitering for almost two months.

chevalier

Yeah to the shed going up.

moo2moo

35kg of tat disposed of at the cash for clothes place for £14. Don't feel quite so bad about last Wednesdays yarn splurge.

moo2moo

Having a !!!!!! moment or three.

Trying_to_be_good

Moo - to try to cheer you up - just cashed out of You Gov, and they now pay by bank transfer rather than cheque through the post :-D.

Double_Trouble

moo2moo wrote: »

Having a !!!!!! moment or three.

Sorry to hear that dodgy hug alert :grouphug:

DTxx