Moooooving back to DFW - one Fresian's continued adventures in debt-busting

Hopeful1

Fingers crossed your dastardly plan works!!!

moo2moo

You could get £15 off your Unlimited card if you buy it on-line via Quidco as a "new" customer. Theres also a 4.5% cashback using a registered card for in-store shopping option but the small print excludes buying the unlimited card which is a v. mean thing for them to do.

mooomin

Palema wrote: »

I ordered you something yesterday but you may not get it for a few weeks yet! :eek::D:eek:
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Ooh I'm intrigued now!!

mooomin

DedicatedDFW wrote: »

You've probably not forgetten anything - i take it you've budgetted for home insurance, car tax / service if applicable MOT and insurance ? Just trying to think of annual bills here :think: And i guess when you visit family you budget for this nearer to the time. Hopefully you've got everything covered and have an amazing plan in place :T

Home insurance is paid monthly, as I don't get charged extra for doing that. Car insurance is annual, but I've got £500 in an account for the car at the moment (going to reduce soon though as annual car tax is due) I don't know if I have enough saved to insure and MOT the car this year, so I think I'll increase my standing order. Thanks for making me think of that! His MOT shouldn't cost too much as he's only due his first one at the end of the year.

moo2moo wrote: »

You could get £15 off your Unlimited card if you buy it on-line via Quidco as a "new" customer. Theres also a 4.5% cashback using a registered card for in-store shopping option but the small print excludes buying the unlimited card which is a v. mean thing for them to do.

Ooh now that's useful to know! I think I would count as a new customer too.

mooomin

£210.75 spent so far today and I'm not even out of my pyjamas yet

Still, the car is taxed for another year and I've topped up my Sainsbury's giftcard so we'll have petrol for the next month. I still have £16 on this month's gift card and over half a tank of fuel left, so we've done quite well this month :A I'll reduce the amount I top up by in March to correspond with what's left on the card, and put cash towards our petrol money for our holiday.

Plans for today include getting through work without committing an act of violence and blogging the three cards I've made since Sunday. I'm making them too quickly to keep up

never_too_old

Morning FF couple of questions about swagbucks if you dont mind.
how do you earn them,what do you do and how many do you need for amazon voucher?
tia
nto
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mooomin

never_too_old wrote: »

Morning FF couple of questions about swagbucks if you dont mind.
how do you earn them,what do you do and how many do you need for amazon voucher?
tia
nto
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You need 849 for an Amazon voucher (£5)

You earn them by:

Doing daily polls
Completing surveys
Watching paid videos
Using SB as your main search engine - when you search you will randomly win bucks a couple of times a day

It's not exciting, and not quick, but they soon mount up. I only have 200 points to go till my next voucher

If you're not already using them, PM me and I'll send you a referral link.

never_too_old

Thanks FF ,I signed up yonks ago but have only recently started to do it.I tried the surveys and got rejected right at the end of evryone. The search engine isnt on chrome yet so will have to stick to daily polls and tv:D

mooomin

It's payday

Money

PAD/Spends - £90
Entertainment - £50
Outstanding loan - £4127.08
ISA Balance - £2800
Outstanding loan (once ISA deducted) - £1327.08

Suddenly paying off the loan by the end of the year doesn't seem unachievable! If I get a bonus this year I might even be able to pay it off sooner than that.

Entertainment-wise I have quite a few things planned this month already including dinner out next week (less than a tenner, carvery), lunch with Souk (hopefully less than a tenner - we have a voucher) and a meet with some of the localish ladies from the NSD challenge. I've hit my target of 12 for this month, so I'm upping it to 15 :eek:

mooomin

Other news!

I won a prize for this card in one of the challenges I enter with them. I've won five digital images, which are ones you download to your PC then print on card to use. My printer is a little goosed though so Mr Fresian is going to try and help me fix it this weekend so I can play

I bought £34 worth of special cat food this morning (!!) for Cat 2 who has a dodgy tummy. It would have cost me over £60 in our local supermarket though so I'm pleased with that. I upped this month's grocery budget by £20 to try and handle the extra expense, so there might be a bit of creative accounting on the way!

Off to Morrisons tonight with a £5 off £40 voucher that I'm planning on making good use of. We're going to have enough tins to last until Doomsday!