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

mooomin

Hopeful1 wrote: »

That'd be a no then?

We're all determined to get you exercising for some reason!

I earned 22 Fat Points just by shopping alone this weekend :eek: To put that in perspective, I'm allowed 27 per day, so I earned a lot of cake!

Today I walked to the local shopping centre at lunchtime rather than take the car, so I am exercising, just not in front of other people which is what I take issue with when it comes to gyms.

£5 Amazon voucher ordered through My Survey today. I want to have a balance of £30 by the end of March.

Hopeful1

flying_fresian wrote: »

I earned 22 Fat Points just by shopping alone this weekend :eek: To put that in perspective, I'm allowed 27 per day, so I earned a lot of cake!

Today I walked to the local shopping centre at lunchtime rather than take the car, so I am exercising, just not in front of other people which is what I take issue with when it comes to gyms.

£5 Amazon voucher ordered through My Survey today. I want to have a balance of £30 by the end of March.

Ok ok I hear ya!!! :rotfl:

I managed to crawl through a couple of surveys today. I've signed up to Netmums surveys - Ipanel I think it was called but don't quote me. They pay between 50p and £3 straight to paypal. I did one today for a whole 69p but every little bit helps hey! It goes to paypal as soon as you complete too. Sometimes surveys make my toes curl they are so boring. Need to catch up with My Survey though.

mooomin

Morning all,

Worst night's sleep last night. Mr Fresian is going Up North today and I think I was worried that we would sleep in and he would miss his train. No chance of that having been up since around 5am :eek:

Pennies

PAD/Spends - £23
Entertainment - £18.72
Food - £7.27
2nd purse - £8.64
Loan balance - £3999.71
ISA - £2800
Actual loan balance - £1199.71

Credit card balance - £175.55
Available to pay it off - £44.62
Still to find - £130.93

I'm probably going to take the money for the credit card from the ISA account and then top it back up if I get a bonus in March. I get paid in six days and I'm hopeful about next month's budget for the following reasons:

1. Mr Fresian is away for the next couple of weeks, so the food shopping will be vastly reduced
2. Due to a distinct lack of funds I plan to spend a good portion of the weekend batch cooking and freezing meals/soup for the freezer.
3. There will only be 29 days until my next payday due to it being February (Woo!)
4. We have a few days in York booked and already have spending money as it's no council tax time Mr Fresian is paying for all the petrol while we're away (I wanted to take the train as it would be cheaper and he refused so I had a tantrum and now he's paying ) I already have Pizza Express and Bella Italia vouchers to use while we're away too!
5. I still have over £30 left on my Sainsbury's gift voucher that I use for petrol. I have over half a tank left so won't have to use this before payday.

All that being said, I'm still tired and cranky this morning! I am heading out tonight too to go to the movies with a friend, so hopefully I'll manage to stay awake. I have a nice healthy baked potato dinner planned too as Morrisons had 1.5kg of baking potatoes for 30p yesterday. I foresee a lot of these in my future :rotfl:

Hopeful1

You can't beat baked potatoes! I'd live on them and pasta if it wasn't for the boys

Hope you have a good, not so cranky, rest of the day

mooomin

Hopeful1 wrote: »

Hope you have a good, not so cranky, rest of the day

Ach it's not been too bad so far. I delivered Mr Fresian to the train station with enough time for him to get his train, then made it to work earlier than I thought I would.

My lunchtime was spent walking round the block then to the post office to pick up a wee crafty parcel, which is full of all sorts of delightful things I have also earned 3 Fatpoints due to all the lunchtime walking, so that's not to be sniffed at!

I'm still pretty tired, but coffee and lots of water should keep me awake long enough to get home and head to the movies later on. I'm trying to think happy thoughts

Hopeful1

Have finally caught up with My Survey. Was really gutted that I was phased out of most of them..........:p

mooomin

I sat through a long dull cheese survey tonight with Ipsos when I was starving! Brought me up to my redeem level though so £10 came through almost instantly for my Amazon account

mooomin

Morning

Much better sleep last night, although another four hours wouldn't have gone amiss....!

Surveys

Ipsos - 95 points (1380 needed to redeem :eek:)
Mysurvey - 30 points (550 needed to redeem :eek:)
Valued Opinions - £3.50 with 75p pending
Swagbucks - 706 points (849 needed for redeem)

So the surveys are coming along nicely - my balance is up to £17.99 on Amazon, so I'm hopeful that I will have enough vouchers to buy Mr Fresian something nice for his birthday by the time that comes around - a computer game at the very least. I have noticed that the new Kindles are only £89 though and he seems to love mine, so that might be an option if I really go for it with surveys. I'll see how I get on!

DedicatedDFW

flying_fresian wrote: »

Morning

Much better sleep last night, although another four hours wouldn't have gone amiss....!

Surveys

Ipsos - 95 points (1380 needed to redeem :eek:)
Mysurvey - 30 points (550 needed to redeem :eek:)
Valued Opinions - £3.50 with 75p pending
Swagbucks - 706 points (849 needed for redeem)

So the surveys are coming along nicely - my balance is up to £17.99 on Amazon, so I'm hopeful that I will have enough vouchers to buy Mr Fresian something nice for his birthday by the time that comes around - a computer game at the very least. I have noticed that the new Kindles are only £89 though and he seems to love mine, so that might be an option if I really go for it with surveys. I'll see how I get on!

Hey flying - i'm just after some kindle adbice if thats ok as i may be lucky enough to get one as a gift later in the year - but the person getting it wants to know now so they can sort out their vouchers :cool: So i've seen there are 2 types of kindle 1 with a keypad and one without and though i've looked at some customer reviews i'm still none the wiser - any advice on which is better please

mooomin

DedicatedDFW wrote: »

Hey flying - i'm just after some kindle adbice if thats ok as i may be lucky enough to get one as a gift later in the year - but the person getting it wants to know now so they can sort out their vouchers :cool: So i've seen there are 2 types of kindle 1 with a keypad and one without and though i've looked at some customer reviews i'm still none the wiser - any advice on which is better please

Mine has a keyboard, but only because the keyboardless one didn't exist when I got mine. I don't really see the need for the one with the keyboard to be honest, I don't use the one on my Kindle. The keyboard one has 3G, but I don't see the need for it really unless you think you would ever have to "urgently" download a book.

With the amount of books on mine from freebies and Amazon deals, it will take me months to read through them all, so I'm glad I decided to save money and just go for the wireless one.