One frugal year = freedom and choices

lobbyludd

Hi mum2one - 5 chocolate buttons and some lube - I'm not even going to ask!! LOL.

that's a great idea about the money pot for samples you'd use anyway, and I really need to get into the airing cupboard and sort out the toiletries. I've pretty much no idea what's in there.

I finally posted the zapper books hurray.
sb first £5 amazon voucher recieved and cashed in another today,
toluna: I've done all the spons0red polls, (11000 points worth of 15 point polls!) all the quicksurveys and all the interest surveys, which hopefully means they really, really shouldn't send me any surveys that I am not applicable for anymore,
I have attempted over 75 surveys that they have invited me to and only completed to finish on 17, and I am so fed up of being screened out 50% through a survey, the last one, they asked me 25% through for my TV area, at 35% through for the beginning of my postcode and then at half way through to pick my region from a list that didn't contain any area within 100miles of where I live, and when I picked "other" it jumped to 90% complete: a sure-fire about-to-be-screened out predictor, but still asked me 8 more questions before screening me out as "not applicable". and none of the 16 I've completed have yet been credited to my balance.

at least on sb the survey points are credited imediately, and you're screened out relatively quickly if you don't fit, and get 1sb for attempting a survey.

moan over.

I WILL list items on sunday on ebay as it's a free listing weekend, the photos are done for half of them so it's not a problem.

really wrestling with myself over the £20 in next vouchers I have, got a code through from them for £10 off a 25 spend, so I could get £30 of goods for nothing. There are some lovely big fluffy towels could get for £2 essentially, or a light fitting for the kitchen (again for £2),

more mSE would be to use the vouchers for my brother's birthday (wouldn't be able to get him exactly what he would want), or look through ebay and see if there's something from next selling well that I could essentially convert the gift card into cash by selling on there....

I'm not keen on keeping vouchers in the current economic climate, I'm sure supermarket and amazon will be OK , but I lost £20 of habitat vouchers last year, that I was saving for christmas present buying, don't want to lose money that way again.
decisions decisions, hope everyone is having a warm night

lobbyludd

day one of not smoking again.
sb, daily clicks etc
chicken out of the freezer to de-ice,
credit card in to the freezer in a bowl of water to ice-up.

takeaway pizza for tea. but pretty cheap and the kids will have it for either tea or lunch tomorrow dependent on when I cook the roast.

couple more things in the ebay box ready for tomorrow.

ds's comic that I got him for chrimbo with mr t vouchers has finally turned up, he is sooo pleased, his sister however is heartbroken as her's hasn't come this week swings and roundabouts.

millionaire_in_training

good luck with the no smoking

lobbyludd

day 3 of not smoking.
brought sandwiches in for lunch but have already eaten them
listed 4 items on ebay last night, not great, but at least I did something, will try and list a couple of the 99p-ers today and more thoughout the week, they are at least ready to relist then if they don't sell next time there is a free-listing weekend.

lobbyludd

gosh - netflix have already paid QUIDCO, hurray - the lkids love it, now if only I could work out how to connect the Wii to the wi-fi......

brizzledfw

Hi lobbylobb great to hear about the quitting of the smokes. You won't regret it. Much much better for you and oh so MSE!! ;-)

Hope you can sort out the wii.. I seem to remember it took us a while..but then we had a couple of months of huge download bills as our kids then used it to run iplayer...until we put a stop to that carry on!!

Brizzle

lobbyludd

thanks brizzled,
fallen off the wagon again back on tomorrow.
had a query on some ebay stuff which is a more positive sign as no bids yet, waiting for zapper to confirm what they'll pay and nappies listed but no interest yet.

hopeless couple of days on surveys: lots attempted, none qualifying, have joined superpoints and mcCains spud shillings thing, but cannot get the hang of either (mccain don't seem to credit the games I've played and superpoints seems to be a very slow earner unless you get loads of friends to connect to, and it's not my IRL friends sort of thing).

plus in some sort of protest for my harlotry in joining other sites, swagbucks have stopped awarding me for playing games AND I can't get the searches to award me anything.

all round frustrating.
ex hasn't paid cm today, and has told ds that he's going on holiday again tomorrow or perhaps saturday(not told me and ds isn't sure).

brizzledfw

Uggggh what a day.

Hope today is better..

Brizzle

lobbyludd

yes, today is much better thank you, figured out mcCains, bids on 2 items on ebay (to pick up as well which is a bonus as they are an awkward shape to post), taken photos of 5 more 99p items so will list tonight, swagbucks have forgiven me and awarded search points. all good.

no news on the cm, or whether ex has gone on hols or not.

Have downloaded instructions on how to connect the wii to the wireless and to netflix - we'll see how long that takes me (and whether I break any obscenity laws in the process!), and have worked out I have 8 cards for birthdays etc in march and april to send, so am going to try and make them - the challenge is to see if I can do that without buying anymore craft supplies: this means venturing into the loft and finding the card blanks from two christmas's ago. With any luck I'll find some more contenders for ebay too.

lobbyludd

lowest APR cc have writen to say they are extending my credit limit by £1K so if I don't get the BT cc from Mr T, I now have options, either to BT £1K from the high APR credit card (at least halving interest, better if I can get an existing customer deal) which will save some pennies. Hurrah