Batten down the hatches.....

Orange_Ena

Evening!

Today
* £5.05 on cheese, milk and lunch and receipt scanned on checkoutsm@rt
* £38.58 on postage for ebay parcels, withdrawn straight from payp@l so I'm not out of pocket. All the items that needed posting have been paid for, no stragglers delaying payment which is a miracle.
* £3.80 on more packaging materials
* One item is collection only but I've a feeling the buyer has made a mistake. I made it very clear it's collection and cash only and a rough area, but when the buyers details came through once the auction had finished, I noticed they live about 120 miles away. Maybe they'll be getting someone else to collect, or maybe they work round here? Who knows! But I haven't heard from them yet. It's only been a day of course but my spidey sense tells me I ain't getting that cash! It's only £4.99. I suppose I could have posted it but it's a odd shaped delicate item so would have cost me all my profit in bubble wrap. We'll see!
* Once fees are paid, I've made a profit of £39.42 (plus the £4.99 cash if I get it). I'll transfer it next week to my overpayments account, once everyone has received their items and are happy. Hopefully they will be, I don't want to have to refund anyone.
* £10 income for a little job I did
* No SB again, no time tonight.

Well Christmas has come early for me......a friend has given me 5 bags of clothes and 4 coats. She's been losing weight and she's given me loads of stuff that will hopefully fit me now. Anything I don't want, she says to pass on to charity. Do I count as a charity seeing as I'm a bit skint and I could eb@y them? Orange Ena's Free Her From Debt and the Job She Hates Fund. Quite a ring to it :rotfl::D

Saw a funny meme today

Money doesn't solve problems, but it could solve my money problem :rotfl::D

crazy_cat_lady

Orange_Ena wrote: »

Haha thank you. I'm not that proud of it really I'll be interested to see your list of toiletries. We should have a use it up challenge or something

That's a really good idea - that would make me more motivated not to waste stuff or leave it half used.

Orange_Ena

I finished work yesterday lunchtime and I'm not back in until Monday. One of my favourite things in the world is putting my out of office on :rotfl::D

Tuesday
* £15 on fuel
* £3.20 on lunch and receipt scanned on checkoutsm@rt
* Youg0v survey
* VO survey
* No SB earned again
* £1.43 sweep to my overpayments account

Wednesday
* £15 on a 2 small Christmas presents and one birthday present in Access0rize
* £39.76 on groceries including a few special offer things put aside for Christmas and receipt scanned on checkoutsm@rt
* 50p for the car park
* Found 5p, wombled that bad boy!
* 2 pinec0ne surveys
* Youg0v survey
* 86SB earned

Thursday
* £2.93 spent on a new vacuum brush head, paid out of eb@y profit!
* 24p sweep into overpayments account
* 2 PA surveys
* VO survey
* 201SB earned
* Joined Nect@r canvass surveys. I just didn't have enough surveys going on in my life!!! :rotfl: Have earned 158 points so far
* Called a ppi company and started a claim. I know I could have done it myself but I've had all these years to do it and I haven't bothered, so anything I get will be a bonus. I don't think I have had ppi so I'll very be surprised if I do get anything but if this company want to have a look, they can knock themselves out!
* I applied for a weekend job in Sainsbobs on the checkouts. Not holding out much hope as I'm sure there are loads of applicants

I decided to work out how much extra income I've made, the majority of which since July 2015 when I had my LBM (for the second time). So from Checkoutsm@rt, Sh0pitize, VO surveys, Youg0v surveys, Pinec0ne surveys, Sw@gbucks, PA surveys, Eb@y and TCB it's a staggering

£463.54

Some has been spent, some has been paid to debts but I haven't spent a penny of the £116 in my Am@zon account earned via Sw@gbucks and VO surveys. I'm saving it so it counts towards something but not quite sure what yet. I have seen a lovely furry tunnel thing so that's my cats Christmas present sorted! :T

I've been off today, not really done a lot but I saw a few people talking about MBTI personality test so I've done mine. Apparently, I'm a INFP. It seems fairly accurate.

crazy_cat_lady

That is a fantastic amount of money. Well done, and just goes to show how successful we can be when we put our minds to getting things done. It'll be a happy Christmas

Orange_Ena

crazy_cat_lady wrote: »

That is a fantastic amount of money. Well done, and just goes to show how successful we can be when we put our minds to getting things done. It'll be a happy Christmas

Thanks CCL, I know, I'm amazed! I haven't got much to ebay now but the surveys cold still being in a tidy sum

And thanks to you, I rang a ppi company to try my luck. I read it on your diary so cheers :beer: Hope I get something back now

GoingToDoIt

Wow Ena that's a staggering amount earned in your spare time! You're very committed to your surveys

Orange_Ena

GoingToDoIt wrote: »

Wow Ena that's a staggering amount earned in your spare time! You're very committed to your surveys

Thanks Gonna. Makes it worthwhile now.

AspiringButAnxious

I'm an INFP too!

Well done on all your progress so far. You seem to do well on SB on the days I struggle and vice versa! Once I've sorted Xmas presents, I want to save Amazon vouchers towards a Lulu Guinness handbag I've wanted for ages. It's perspex in the shape of red lips and fits my slightly camp retro style Figured it will be nice to have a fun money challenge, in addition to my sensible goals!

Orange_Ena

AspiringButAnxious wrote: »

I'm an INFP too!

Well done on all your progress so far. You seem to do well on SB on the days I struggle and vice versa! Once I've sorted Xmas presents, I want to save Amazon vouchers towards a Lulu Guinness handbag I've wanted for ages. It's perspex in the shape of red lips and fits my slightly camp retro style Figured it will be nice to have a fun money challenge, in addition to my sensible goals!

:wave::wave::wave: Well hello fellow INFP. I need to read a bit more into this!

Haha perhaps SB fix it it so we don't earn too much. Between us we are fleecing them :rotfl:

Ooh I'll have a look at handbag, can't quite picture it You definitely need a treat in there too, go for it. Perhaps you could do a one for me, one for you (your friends and family) with the vouchers so it's fairer?

AspiringButAnxious

Think it might have to me 2 for me, 1 for you The bag is £240, which I know is a lot, but I must have spent a huge chunk of vouchers throughout the year on books/ebooks. If I cut down on my ebooks, I could probably get the handbag by Xmas 2016!

Think I'll try to keep a balance for presents — though the advantage of having loads of birthdays from October to December is that I have relatively few during the rest of the year! (5, in fact, compared to 6 in Oct-Dec, though my brother's is in January, which is also awkward!). I like the idea of seeing how quickly I can get the handbag while still paying for all presents with vouchers