Scuba's Second try - Sink or Swim!

scubaangel

And back to money saving/making.

Reciepts submitted to click snap and snap&save for todays shopping, and the on hold merchandising project is apparent up and running again, needs doing over the weekend, so I'll either try to do it tomorrow morning or Saturday afternoon.

And snap&save has already processed the reciept and the cashback is showing as pending - I do so like when I know I'll be able to request money in the next couple of weeks (I seem to remember you can't cashout again within 30 days of the previous request).
The money isnt showing on quidco yet but thanks to my check-ins I do have over £1 waiting to be paid in the next run.

scubaangel

Check in pennies up to £1.70 with the click snap money yet to be added, also registered my cards for in store cash back - I don't often spend money in any of the shops listed but does no harm and more than likely will just about cover the annual fee making it more worth while using other parts of the site.

Phoned and cancelled my phone contract, so have just over a month before this one cuts off, so am thinking while I have the money in my savings I ought to order a new handset - am thinking iPhone4, on payg for the network I plan to take out a contract on, then get a SIM only contract when this one ends.

Mystery shop done, and merchandising complete after a fashion so just need to submit info and await payments.

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Got home today to find that the cheque from GTM has arrived so £32 and some pennies to go in to the bank tomorrow - will pay it straight off the credit card with the higher interest rate.

Slightly less happily I've also recieved next years water bill, works out at alittle over £30 a month which seems alot given I paid the same for a 2 bed house and this is a 1 bed flat but I suspect unless my LL would let me get a meter installed theres nothing I can do about that.

Have a delivery due tomorrow which I think will be the iPod I ordered with my clubcard vouchers, once it's here I'll get it listed on the fb selling site and put a card up at work, if I still have it when the next ebay free listings happens I'll bung it on there too.

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Not had time to get to the bank, as I've been busy this morning.

Scheduled to have the sofa delivered on Thursday, made arrangements with the company who damaged the wall for them to refund me the money to cover getting it fixed so have emailed the handyman to ask when it can be done.

Booked some more mystery shops over the next few days.

The parcel is the iPod so have posted it on the fb selling pages already, and if it doesnt go on there today/tomorrow will put a card up at work while I wait for free listings on ebay.

scubaangel

Home from the market research session, slightly better off cash wise - I shouldnt need to take any more money out of the bank now this month.

Also a nice email from quidco confirming my clicksnap cashback is payable so the next pay run should be £2+ headed to my bank account. Looks like they did the pay run before the clicksnap money went payable as it wasnt paid but I do have £1.80 headed to the bank with the clicksnap 40p waiting for next time.

scubaangel

I finally have a sofa.

I have been paid the £100 by swagbucks so they are currently my best friends ever.

I've completed two mystery shops and written them up, need to return some of the things I've bought on recent shops soon as I go to a branch of those stores other than the one I did the shop at - in this case tomorrow I'll return an item I bought today, need a trip in to another town for the other two items sat in my car.

Sadly I also received my car tax letter today £120, but I can't pay it until the end of the month as my MOT is due before April 1st but have transferred the money out of my 'car fund' account as the car is being serviced on Monday and I'm expecting to have to replace the brake discs at the very least as they were close to being an advisory last year. But there was nothing else noted on the preMOT service last year and no advisorys so am hopeful it won't cost too much.

And on that note the raft of paperwork is printed ready for tomorrow and the weekends mystery shops. So am headed to my bed to see if I can get Dead until Dark finished.

scubaangel

Finished D.U.D so will start Living Dead in Dallas when I'm home next week alongside the kindle stuff I'm ploughing through.

Mystery shops all done and dusted, including todays, which is good as I've just ordered myself a new phone so need all the extra money I can find - gone for the iPhone 4, mainly because all the apps I use on android are avaliable on iOS, but they also have the Field Agent app, which would give me the chance to add some pennies to my earnings ideally over the next 2 years that should equal out the slightly more expensive handset - think the difference between buying the phone outright and the SIM only contract or keeping my current contract and upgrading the handset for free is about £30.

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Submitted my 'leccy meter readings this afternoon, since Jan 30th I've used £70 something of electricity - meaning I owe them £50something, my next bill is due in April so will submit another reading towards the end of this month and most likely try to make a part payment after I've paid for my car's MOT to minimise the actual bill when it arrives.

Tomorrows plan involves cooking a gammon joint in the slow cooker then roasting some veggies and potatos - apparently the bloke is planning to come round so I have plenty to cook.

The current contents of the oven are a random frozen pasty, and some potato waffles, with a bowl of peas ready to go in the microwave - me thinks I need to go shopping on Thursday for food.

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Just requested $5 in paypal from zoombucks, not one I use much - think I've been a member just over a year but check it very infrequently as most of the offers to earn from are the same as the swagbucks ones, although it has a couple of different options which is where I earned most of my points from. Might stick with it for a little while longer see if with actually remembering to log in more often it might be more worth while.

Also joined instagc, very similar to sb and zoombucks, so is likely to be another I use occasionally, the main benefit of it is that if I can be bothered to do crowdflower tasks they credit instantly rather than having to wait for a certain number of 'stored' bucks.

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Cooked dinner for the bloke and I on monday, his job was to provide dessert his solution - expensive icecream, even better he bought it at tesco, doesnt have a club card and left the reciept with me, and on checking that particular brand is on clicksnap at the moment so all being well thats at least £2 cash back in the next pay run and the clubcard points next time I'm in store.

Email from quidco this morning £1 cashback being paid, and looking at the app most of the checkins have reset so a wander around town is due either tomorrow morning or Saturday afternoon.