PigginSkint's DFW Diary

PigginSkint

Today’s to-do list:

· Do a bit of shopping at Aldi on the way home (tc gone in today so I can!)
· Collect Avon books in and get them ready to go back out again tomorrow
· Relist Amazon Marketplace items
· Parcel up a book that I have sold through Amazon Marketplace today (hooray!) ready to post tomorrow
· Do surveys
· Do daily clicks on Quidco, Pigsback and Banana lotto

PigginSkint

Update on yesterday's to do list follows. Didn't do much because I wasn't very well last night - my IBS decided to have a right old flare up so I was in quite a lot of pain from about 3pm onwards.

PigginSkint wrote: »

· Do a bit of shopping at Aldi on the way home (tc gone in today so I can!) Was lucky enough to get a lift home from the station (one of my Avon customers happened to be going by in her car) so didn't do this
· Collect Avon books in and get them ready to go back out again tomorrow Collected them in but didn't do anything else
· Relist Amazon Marketplace items No - didn't do this, felt too ill!
· [strike]Parcel up a book that I have sold through Amazon Marketplace today (hooray!) ready to post tomorrow[/strike] Did this morning!
· Do surveys No - didn't do this, felt too ill!
· Do daily clicks on Quidco, Pigsback and Banana lotto No - didn't do this, felt too ill!

dawnybabes

Aw - hope you feel better soon, hopefully OH will realise how bad all this stress is (((((hugs)))))

PigginSkint

dawnybabes wrote: »

Aw - hope you feel better soon, hopefully OH will realise how bad all this stress is (((((hugs)))))

It could happen.....!!! But I doubt he will realise unless I spell it out for him!

I actually think it might have been the chickpeas I had for lunch yesterday that set it off (home-made rice and chickpea salad -yum!) so today I made sure I had one of my tablets before lunch, like I am supposed to.

I have been feeling better today - just the odd twinge instead of looking pregnant and doubled up with pain!

PigginSkint

Have had a really busy day - preparing stuff for exams next week. Also trying to catch up with the stuff I didn't do yesterday.

I have just finished relisting all my Amazon Marketplace stuff and I got all my Avon books back out this evening.

Also managed to do a bit of essential Aldi shopping on the way home. I have also been playing the free bingo this evening.

Just need to catch up on surveys and daily clicks.

Bye for now!

PigginSkint

Hi All

Another busy day today but at least it’s not as bad as yesterday. Feeling better today because I have actually managed to get quite a lot done at work, including all those niggling little jobs that never seem to get done. I have still got a list as long as your arm but at least the items on it haven’t been hanging around for weeks waiting to be done!

Sometime this weekend I am hoping OH will be able to give me at least a sizeable chunk towards the last Halifax bill that I paid for him (not counting the one before of course!). Otherwise I am going to run out towards the end of next week and there won’t be enough left to cover the Capital One payment that is due to go out next week. Once he has paid me all of that one, he can start paying me back for the payment I made when the cheque bounced, so that I can start paying that off the Egg card (had to do a super-balance-transfer to cover it so I want to pay it back asap).

OH is off to London again this weekend as they have a gig for the theatre and dance project he and his friend have been working on. I think (if I remember rightly) that after this weekend he won’t have to go back down again for a while – not until they have more gigs booked, which hopefully they might even get paid for. Here’s hoping!

If I have got this right, then OH should have more spare money to throw at bills. It could happen!

I am making quite good progress on the various challenges I am doing at the moment:

· The latest payment from Amazon has hit my account today. That was £12.41 so I have now added an extra £9.68 profit to my total for the Make £10 a day challenge, taking me up to £124.06 for September.

· On the Pay a Debt off by Xmas 08 challenge I have now reduced the balance on the Tesco credit card from £573.59 to £508.85.


· I have been combining the last one with the Make a Payment a Day challenge and have been making daily payments of £1 plus pence representing the date it leaves my bank account (so today’s was £1.19) to the Tesco card, the same amount to the LTSB credit card (to get it paid off before the 0% APR expires) and £2 plus pence to the Egg card (highest APR) for the little bits of spending I have done on that card (uniform, new jeans and socks for DS, last WeightWatchers payment – account now cancelled – and OH’s National Express fares to London for which he gave me the cash). The total on this challenge is now £71.52.

I think that is all the news for now. I was going to do a to-do list but as it’s Friday I don’t think I will bother – I am guessing that I will just be just too tired when I get home to do anything!

Have a good weekend everyone!

Byeeeeeee!!!

PigginSkint

Hi All

Monday again – groan! I didn’t get a lot done over the weekend because I was just too tired.

On Friday evening I had to book National Express tickets for OH again for his trip to London at the weekend. I couldn’t get the exact times that he wanted because the coaches were full, but I did get close to them and the prices were actually cheaper. Also because our printer is currently not working (we have got to take it into a local printer shop to be reset which will cost about £10 – haven’t got round to doing it yet) I had to use the m-ticket facility (ticket sent to mobile phone) rather than e-ticket. It wasn’t immediately clear whether I could do an m-ticket with a fun-fare so I had to phone them up and ask them. All this palaver, combined with the laptop deciding to cut out the first time I tried to do it, meant it took about an hour to complete the process. Not best pleased! :mad:

OH has not yet given me the money for the coach tickets but he has now given me another £50 towards the last Halifax bill I paid for him and I hope to be able to get the rest, plus the coach ticket money, out of him before the end of the week. :T

On Saturday I had to get up really early, about 5:30am, to make OH’s flask of coffee for him. I discovered that although I had asked him to wash out his flask himself (because I had cut my hand and didn’t want to get the plaster wet) he had only actually put it into soak. ‘But that is what you told me to do!’ he said. What I was trying to tell him was to put washing up liquid in a bowl of hot water and put the flask into it, rather than put washing up liquid and hot water into the flask itself. I didn’t think I needed to spell it out in words of one syllable that he actually needed to wash, rinse and leave the flask to drain! Grrrrr!!!! :mad:

On Saturday morning the Betterware man was due, and as OH was in London he asked me to wait in to see him. When I came down in the morning I discovered that all he had left ready was the order and list of stationery he wanted – no money, no returns, nothing. I asked him about it and he said that as he hadn’t managed to get rid of a lot of the orders he didn’t know whether the Betterware man would want to hang on until the following week for those. So I asked him whether he had actually spoken to the bloke about it – of course not! So I told him that he ought to get the stuff out anyway and write it down – the outstanding orders, the returns, and fish his money out so that I could give the Betterware man what was owed. It took OH all of about 5 mins to do it, so why couldn’t he have done it anyway instead of waiting for me to get cross with him for not having done it! Grrrrrrr!!!!! :mad:

After OH had left I went back to bed, but then had to get up again at 9am ready for the Betterware man. After he had been and gone I decided to go into town and get my shopping done early (badly in need of potatoes, for one thing!) and pay money into the bank. As it was so early I decided to go to Iceland to stock up and have a home delivery – I paid using the Egg card but as soon as OH pays me what he owes me I can pay that back. We could have muddled through with what I had got left in the cupboards and freezer but it is nice now to have a bit more choice. It also means that there are some things that I can now delete from the Sainsburys order which is due next week.

We were home by about midday on Saturday and I fully intended to get some jobs done – Amazon listings, washing up (currently being done the old-fashioned way as I have run out of dishwasher powder and there will be no more until the Sainsbury’s delivery comes next week), washing, surveys etc etc – but I fell asleep on the sofa and stayed asleep nearly all afternoon. I woke up in time to go and collect my Avon books and then didn’t have any energy to do more than make dinner and watch telly.

On Sunday I was up early (for a Sunday) again as I was expecting one of OH’s Betterware customers to come and collect her order any time after 9am. Managed to get quite a lot of washing and washing up done while I was waiting for her. After she had been and gone DS and I walked to Aldi to finish the shopping that I hadn’t done the day before ( had to be back by midday for the Iceland delivery) and to buy an energy monitor. Needless to say I had to roadtest it yesterday evening! It took me a while to work out how to set it up and then I had to try and work out what times of the day I get regular price and what times I get discounted price. It doesn’t seem to work like that on my tariff – it seems to be that I get discounted rate on part of the units used and regular on the rest but I have not been able to find any documentation to tell me how it is calculated. Oh well, I have used the prices listed on my last statement and although it might not be wholly accurate at least I will get a good idea about how much electricity certain appliances use compared to others. I just did the washing machine and tumble drier last night (on short cycles) but I shall be interested to discover how much the laptop uses for example! I am writing all the results in a notebook for comparison.

Right, I had better finish for now as I have got to go and invigilate shortly.

Bye for now!

dawnybabes

I'm sending off for the one from the Daily Mail and will be going round the house switching things on and off - OH is already dreading it....

hypno06

Ours is a real source of family entertainment......

PigginSkint

Thanks dawnybabes and hypno. I plugged it into the laptop the other night just before OH started using it and I have to say that I was surprised at how little electricity it used - I kept checking it to see if it was right! OH had it on for 4 hours and it only used about half the electricity of the washing machine doing a 40 wash in quick wash mode, or half an hour for the tumble drier.

Nightmarishly busy day yesterday so didn't get time to update - plus I wasn't feeling too good. Today I'm around but still busy so I doubt I shall have time for more than quick updates.Then I am out of the office tomorrow and Friday so I doubt you will find me on here at any time!

Bye for now!