*** Make £10 a Day Challenge thread for NOVEMBER ***

mavvymoo

Extra news :eek: I have just checked Toluna and I have jumped from 75,000 points to 115,000 :eek: from a 40,000 survey I don't remember doing at the beginning of Oct so snap Monkeynut :T
So have cashed in for love2shop vouchers which I don't expect to see until after Christmas either so now up to £90 worth with £30 outstanding and £60 sitting in my drawer waiting to be spent :T

nat21luv

Received a £25 cheque in the post from doing a survey and a free car hands free phone charger from confused.com motor mate whoever said there were reports of them not paying up so they weren't doing it, egg on your face! 250miles done and £50 plus a free charger later I am one happy bunny

415SanFran

I have had 8 eb8y sales and 1 book on Amaz@n has gone out today.

I have decided to pack things up as they sell, the moment they get there first bid it has sold, even if the bid is only 99p it has still sold, that way I am not spending hours packing stuff up on the morning that I go to the post office, it's also a running joke that if a book has been on Amaz)n for a few months, it has been lost!:rotfl:
I put a number on the return label to remind myself what is in the package, as I have made that mistake before as well
Also a really [STRIKE]butt ugly[/STRIKE] erm I mean gorgeous vase that I listed last night already has a bid on it and a few watchers!:)

Not complaining or anything, but anyone notice how you always seem to make another sale the moment you come back from the post office!

fairyclicks

sweetpea26 wrote: »

Hi Fairyclicks
Good news about the oil. Do you have enough dried/frozen food in the house to keep you going. Have you asked anyone for help to move, do you have any other family that could help?

It will all work out for you.

There is no food in the house at all mind you i might be able to smuggle some pasta out of the house my ex is staying in :rotfl::rotfl:

Monkeynut wrote: »

Oh no, as if moving isn't stressful enough at the best of times, let alone with no car. Would you have had to get a van anyway for the bigger things / furniture.
Maybe ask on Freecycle if anyone knows of anyone who would be willing to help you for cheap, I assume you are still moving in the same town / area?
Lots of people on there tend to be pretty generous so might offer up some help.

Luckily i'm not moving furniture etc just me and me bits into a furnished place tho it is about 60 odd miles away.....

I will get there should it have to be a suitcase at a time on the train

Thought you might like to see a couple of pics of where i'm going....

This is the view out my new kitchen window



And this is the view out my front window



Maybe i can make lamb stew :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Actually i just got £5 from a few wee fb sales i'm sure i can live for a week on that if i try hard

fairyclicks

Monkeynut wrote: »

Definitely

And another £3 from a few of my sons old books, which I'm sure were given to us free originally anyway

Better put the kids to bed now Peace and quiet but means no one else can turn up at my doorstep to give me money and take my clutter away

Ooh and a nice little surprise, just checked Toluna, and was on about 50,000 odd point when I last checked, probably a week or so ago, and it's now jumped up to 103,411 Had a quick look through and there was a 40,000 point survey I did at the start of October apparantly. I don't remember having one worth that much that I was waiting on, but definitely not complaining!!
So have redeemed £15 Love2Shop vouchers, which I will add here when I receive it. Not placing any bets on it being before Christmas though.
It's nice not to have to see your points back down to 0 once you hit redeem, and still a fair few pending too
At least all those boring surveys pay off.

(Except for GlobalTestMarket which I am *still* on 995 points out of 1000 for redemming and keep getting screened out of every survey
And £47.50 out of £50 worth on YouGov, so getting there too

You should try emailing GTM and say you have been getting screened out so frequently and you only need 5 points to cash out and can they check if there is a problem etc (be nice in the email) and they might be nice and give you a wee bonus worth a try!

sweetpea26

oh fairyclicks thats lovely.

Go pasta hunting soon please. Can you invite yourself over to anyones house for dinner? Do you have any clothes for cash ... it might be enough to get you through the week. £5 is doable .... bread, milk pasta tinned tomatoes. You will not know yourself by the end of the month. Be happy you deserve it and a view like that is priceless. take care


Forgot to add £8.97 from ebay...I am seeing my goal coming closer and closer :):):)

Monkeynut

Oh Fairy - huge jealousy here. Tempted to post a pic of what I can currently see out of my window - a broken fence, a piece of fence to fix the broken fence, which has been blown over onto the grass and I'm fairly sure is now also broken!! A few weeds, and some cardboard that I threw out of the window to put in the green bin but forgot about until it's now a mushy mess
So you should feel amazing about your views, even on an empty tum!!
And c'mon, we know you and we know you like a bit of a challenge, so £5 for food - easy peasy. Especially when it's just you, so no one else to try and please. You can get loads of pasta, tinned tomatoes/passata, even a bit of supermarket value cheese if you're feeling posh!!
Big bag of value frozen cauliflower, and some cauliflower (easy on the cheese) cheese!!
Rice, cheapy value pizzas... trolley full

Don't give up Nat on the Facebook pages, I've noticed ours dying down a lot lately, and it's easy to see what will sell straight away when others post. New / boxed kids toys, gift sets etc as people are buying for Christmas, but not buying the usual second hand things they usually would to save money for buying christmas stuff for others, and also because they think they might as well wait and see what they are given for Christmas themselves first.

I buy loads of kids toys on Facebook for my 2, but have been told by OH to put a stop to it too much for a few weeks as they will undoubtedly be given tonnes by family members at Christmas, and little ones 1st birthday soon after. So I would imagine lots of people are saying the same.
We sold £30 of stuff on Facebook over the weekend though, one £15, one £8, and the rest just 50p, £1 or £2 etc, so it does all add up.

I'm pleased to hear Toluna has been nice and generous to lots of us It's quite a lot to be given really, £7.50 worth of points, so hopefully won't be picked up on anywhere if it's an error.

Will stop rambling now, and add £50 that hit the bank today for some auditing work I do.

Aesop

Free listing on ebay this weekend folks.

fairyclicks

Ah ha things are getting better in fairyland - i was able to find 20p in 5ps by hunting through everywhere ex tends to throw his odd change - he did say i could and that mean't another £5 added to my account today from that. Also got a lovely wee cheque for £7.50 from royal mail for a parcel that went astray

£17.50 now in the food fund - i feel rich :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I have a plan as well - am going to put some of that money towards a train ticket back to the old house on Sat so i can do the car boot on Sunday - it was a rubbish week last week but end of the month week there is usually good

I spoke to my long time ex today too - he is going to fix up my motorbike for me to get it through MOT so hey presto i will have some cheap transport without trying to buy a cheapy car - now how can i get car boot stuff packed onto it i wonder :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Anyway things are on the up it must be all those good wishes you all have been sending me Thanks for that!!

xx

PS - i love the view from the house too its worth every penny

415SanFran

Just saved over 100 pounds by shopping with approved foods, lots of good stuff for me this month, soya mince, noddles, rice, pataks curry starter stuff, bean salads, canderel sugar, (got 10 of those ) olive oil, red lentils.....


But I am only going to put 50 of that on here because I also got some drinks and other bits that I would not have bought had it not been smiling at me, at the supermarket I would have just walked past them.

Now, just got to find a suitable place to hide/store 7K of egg free noodles..........:0)