Just say NOvember!!! ( are you brave enough )...

Siouxsie32

Anyone had any more luck with the Quidco check ins? Not had a chance to do any more but I keep checking my Quidco homepage to see that my win was real :rotfl:

NSD number 18 for me today - I think I can manage until the weekend. Can anyone tell me that washing dishes with liquid handsoap is bad for me? If it is, a spend day will have to be tomorrow cos I've used up the last of the spluttering-turn upside down-dilute it washing up liquid! I used the liquid soap this moning and it's fine and will see me through til the weekend unless any of you chemical boffins can tell me it's a bad idea. Personally, I think it's just the same stuff with a different marketing team.

I think I already signed up for the December and January challenges kat (if I get the soda bread excemption in January!), but if not, add me to the team as well. Debt busting/money saving is so much easier when it's made to be fun and you have like minded people around you.

Everhopeful09

I'm interested to hear about the December challenge and will sign up!

thriftylass

Just a wee question for the ones of you who have sold on ebay before. Got up to 14 watchers on 4 objects and was wondering what the chance is in your experience that they'll actually start bidding towards the end?

Cheers
TL

Siouxsie32

thriftylass wrote: »

Just a wee question for the ones of you who have sold on ebay before. Got up to 14 watchers on 4 objects and was wondering what the chance is in your experience that they'll actually start bidding towards the end?

Cheers
TL

It's difficult to tell thrifty. Sometimes the watchers are other sellers who are watching to see how your item is doing. Sometimes it's people genuinely watching and not planning to bid til the last minute (this is what I do when I buy anything on ebay). That's a lot of watchers though (assuming it's 14 different people and not the same person watching all 4 items) so you'll probably sell some or all of your items. My experience is that you can no activity until the final hour and, if you have lots of watchers, once one bids, others do too and you get a bidding war going on before your eyes! Let's hope that happens for you. When do your listings end?

thriftylass

Siouxsie32 wrote: »

It's difficult to tell thrifty. Sometimes the watchers are other sellers who are watching to see how your item is doing. Sometimes it's people genuinely watching and not planning to bid til the last minute (this is what I do when I buy anything on ebay). That's a lot of watchers though (assuming it's 14 different people and not the same person watching all 4 items) so you'll probably sell some or all of your items. My experience is that you can no activity until the final hour and, if you have lots of watchers, once one bids, others do too and you get a bidding war going on before your eyes! Let's hope that happens for you. When do your listings end?

Thanks, Siouxsie. It's 11 on one now and 1, 2 and 6 on the other three. I only put them up on Monday so it'll run till Monday next week. Only one bid so far but as you say hopefully they'll start towards the end.

Siouxsie32

Wow, that sounds very positive. 11 and 6 watchers on items so newly listed is a great start. Fingers crossed for you

abundant1972

Hi everyone!!!

Am so sorry for my absence on here... Thanks Kat for my PM - it was really kind.

I've been having a hell of a time. I moved into a shared house in June (previously lived on my own for 10 years!) to really save some serious money! It's worked... I have managed to clear 3 smaller debts so far so yay! However - the place where I've been living has been like an episode out of Eastenders meets Jeremy Kyle with more ups and downs than a rollercoaster.

Last Friday something snapped and I had a relapse with my depression (managed to stay off meds for 4 years!) and had to see my GP. The last 5 days I've somehow got myself into work even though I've felt awful and today is the first day I've felt remotely like myself. Am so angry that it's come to this.

I now face another house move which is really unsettling me, a job promotion I've been waiting for for years... and I feel just about able to get up and wash and eat and sleep. Timing sucks unbelievably!!!

That said... I've somehow kept on track with NOvember!!!

Am up to NSD number 17!!!

Last weeks grocery spend was £0.00/£20.00

Today was a planned spend day but I cancelled the lunch I was going to have as I didn't feel up to it (saving £15 I'd put aside) and I did my shopping (sneakily using up all my Nectar Points) and came out at £16.78 - so on target this week too (Total = £29.98/£80.00 so far). Some were essentials and I had to actually buy new stuff in too as cupboard down to minimum.

I have 1 spend day allowed before the end of the month so here's hoping

It's nice to be back - and hopefully this will restore some much needed sanity!!! It's funny - through all the emotional ups and downs - focusing on meeting this challenge helped me loads - so once again...

THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!

What's all this about a December/January challenge... ??? Sign me up already!!!

his_missus

hello all!

Oh dear Kat, I'm back to confess to yet another spend day. Used the Smiths £5 off voucher to buy a book for Hubby and treated myself to one too. After the voucher discount it came to £11.49, cheaper than buying the books in the SM too.

Tomorrow will be my shopping day (instead of Friday) as the cats are almost out of biscuits and my youngest one (3yrs) almost lives off the 7yrs+ senior biscuits I buy the old codgers. He looked most unimpressed when I only put half a bowl down of biscuits this morning:rotfl:Aiming to spend £40 on groceries (including cats) and £10 on Xmas food to put away.

suzitiger

Siouxsie32 wrote: »

Can anyone tell me that washing dishes with liquid handsoap is bad for me? If it is, a spend day will have to be tomorrow cos I've used up the last of the spluttering-turn upside down-dilute it washing up liquid! I used the liquid soap this moning and it's fine and will see me through til the weekend unless any of you chemical boffins can tell me it's a bad idea. Personally, I think it's just the same stuff with a different marketing team.

Siouxsie, I think you will be fine on that one. Most liquid soap is antibac, but if you want squeaky clean lemon juice is great and it is also naturally antibacterial. :-) Good for you for holding out until your next spend day :T

thriftylass wrote: »

Just a wee question for the ones of you who have sold on ebay before. Got up to 14 watchers on 4 objects and was wondering what the chance is in your experience that they'll actually start bidding towards the end?

Cheers
TL

TL I know Ssie has already given you your answer but i just wanted to add that usually, in my case when I have many watchers and it gets a bit bid frenzied at the end, but then again sometimes not, ebay is my form of gambling :rotfl:

killerpeaty

CandyCupcake wrote: »

Another couple of NSDs for me 16 and 17!! Feeling really proud of myself. I'm really enjoying seeing my debt repayments account balance go up, up, up!!

Does anyone have any ideas of how I can make more money?? I looked into a second job however because I currently work shifts, this makes it really difficult getting suitable hours at a second job. I have ebayed literally everything I own haha so that's that out of the window!! What does everyone else do to make more money?? How do these survey sites work, should I sign up? And if I should, then to which one?!?

Any ideas appreciated!!

Candy
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Hey,
Ideas that people use for extra income include: article writing, surveys, mystery shopping (MS), competitions, paper rounds (I'm thinking about doing this ) and crafting. If you go to the "increase your income" forum, they have tonnes and tonnes of threads and advice. I know of two sites that you have to be invited to and those are mysurvey and pinecone (there's some shop and scan thing as well that I didn't like).

I'm in somewhere between 20-30 sites (I have no current list haha), I harass my local university for experiments (econ pays out £8-15 per hour, psych pays out £5ish and business, while incredibly rare, pays out a maximum of £40 per hour in my experience) and do "paid-to-click" sites. It's incredibly badly paid for the majority of it, boring buuuuuuut with some of them you get to know all sorts of things. I was once paid to look at the MIB3 concept and say that I liked it, this was well over a year before anyone else knew it was coming out. If you want a list of my sites I can PM them.