I'm 33 now - time I acted like it!!

Emzilla

I've redeemed from Springboard :j:j. I chose a £25 Amazon voucher as it's my nephew's birthday in August and that will help with his presents (presuming I get it in time!!).

Emz xx

Emzilla

Finally received a call about my iNeb, but don't have a date set for receiving it yet :mad:. The guy said he will call me back. I'm not holding my breath.

Not been a great day as my niece was ill and had to be collected from school - queue muggins here going to get her and looking after her. Getting a bit fed up with how much my sister and BIL rely on me, but I feel that if I say anything, WWIII will break out. She's not going in to school tomorrow, so as well as taking my nephew to pre-school, I'll be looking after her.

Need to get some more Olay moisturiser later as that Nivea stuff isn't doing my skin any good. I ran out of Olay a couple of weeks ago and have since had 2 massive spots on my face and my skin feels rougher. Asda are doing it for £6 (£15 everywhere else!!), so I'll pop there later and get some. Will then stick the two Nivea moisturisers on eBay and hopefully get the £6 back.

Need to pick up my prescription on the way home too as I've run out of some of my vitamins.

Busy busy busy.

Emz xx

constantworrier

Emzilla wrote: »

Finally received a call about my iNeb, but don't have a date set for receiving it yet :mad:. The guy said he will call me back. I'm not holding my breath.

Not been a great day as my niece was ill and had to be collected from school - queue muggins here going to get her and looking after her. Getting a bit fed up with how much my sister and BIL rely on me, but I feel that if I say anything, WWIII will break out. She's not going in to school tomorrow, so as well as taking my nephew to pre-school, I'll be looking after her.

Need to get some more Olay moisturiser later as that Nivea stuff isn't doing my skin any good. I ran out of Olay a couple of weeks ago and have since had 2 massive spots on my face and my skin feels rougher. Asda are doing it for £6 (£15 everywhere else!!), so I'll pop there later and get some. Will then stick the two Nivea moisturisers on eBay and hopefully get the £6 back.

Need to pick up my prescription on the way home too as I've run out of some of my vitamins.

Busy busy busy.

Emz xx

Hi Emz
They have Olay products on special offer in Wilkinsons, don't know which one you use but here's the link. x

http://www.wilko.com/search?q=olay

Emzilla

constantworrier wrote: »

Hi Emz
They have Olay products on special offer in Wilkinsons, don't know which one you use but here's the link. x

http://www.wilko.com/search?q=olay

Thank you - they didn't have the one that I use in there, so I got it from Asda in the end. I got two as they were better than half price, so that should last me a while.

Emz xx

Emzilla

Finally got my new nebuliser today - it ain't arf complicated!! I'm sure I'll get used to it, but I'm a bit scared of using it as the bloke was saying this part was worth £200 and that part was worth £400 etc!! The whole thing must be worth at least £1,000 :eek:. I'm tempted to sell the thing and use my old nebuliser (joke - I won't!!)

Looks like England are about to go out of the World Cup - oh well, let's hope Murray can do well at Wimbledon instead.

App Trailers had a funny 5 minutes earlier (giving loads of points out for watching videos), so I managed to squeeze £1 out of that before they fixed it. Add 41p from Qmee and I've got that sat in my Paypal.

Still need to get my backside into gear though. Fed up with saying that, so I will get earning. 10 days left of the month (not including today) - let's see how much I can earn.

Emz xx

Emzilla

Been up since 6am and earned a tenner already. Not a bad start to my 10 day earning blitz.

As it's a nice day, OH and I are going to clean my car. It's disgusting and really needs doing. I'm hoping OH will go out tonight so I can get some serious earning done.

I've ordered some syringes from Amazon as I have to mix some drugs up for my new nebuliser and want to be accurate. Think I'll just use my old one until they arrive. Don't want to break the thing by adding too much (it only takes 1ml at a time).

Emz xx

Emzilla

Looked back at the first post in this diary earlier on and I haven't really stuck to what I intended to do:

1. Earn £1,000 - this will mean I can start getting on top of the bills from June and make a plan to clear the arrears. - No where near - need a rocket up my backside!!

2. Keep on top of the house work and keep the flat tidy (we have an inspection on 22nd May, so this will also save me having a massive blitz the day before like I usually do!!). - Not really, although the flat isn't too bad, but I do need to make more of an effort.

3. Make a list of all my debts and bills arrears. Work out which ones I need to clear first (the arrears will be at the top). Any extra money during May can be used to pay some towards them, but the big payments will have to start in June. - Not done

4. Start shopping properly. OH and I go out for meals and get takeaways far too often. This needs to stop. OH is lazy when it comes to cooking, but he will eat pretty much anything, so if I make him something at home, he will eat it and we will save loads of money. I need to be stricter with this. OH gets paid on Friday, so I will do a big online shop. In the meantime, I will work out a list of things we need and clear out the freezer. - We're getting better at this, but there's still room for improvement

5. Carry on saving Amazon vouchers to pay for a new bed. OH and I really need a bigger bed. If I can get it by doing surveys and other stuff, all the better. - We still don't have a new bed

Totally rubbish . If I can get these goals achieved, it will be a big help to getting sorted financially. So, my aims for July are:

1. Earn £1,000 - this is 2,500 questions, which means I'll have to do 80 a day for 30 days and 100 on one day.

2. Do at least 1 hour of housework a day. Also get rid of 100 items from the flat to make it less cluttered.

3. Get all of my debts and arrears written down and payments sorted out to start from July (if not already in place).

4. Continue to eat at home and don't give in to OH's demands of a meal or takeaway. If I can manage just one meal out or takeaway a week in July, that will be a vast improvement!!

5. Start the bed fund up again and aim to have saved £150 by the end of July.

Emz xx

Emzilla

OH wanted a KFC tonight - I'm making him burgers at home instead. Advantage me!!

Emz xx

dawnybabes

Well done you :-)

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My £20 in Morrison's vouchers redeemed from MyVoice surveys have just arrived:j:j. Sent really quickly, I think I requested a payout around 15th of this month.

Already have £10 in Morrison's vouchers from another company so we'll definitely be eating tonight! I've enough food in but it's the 'bits' that need replenishing (tea bags, bread, milk, oil, oxos etc) plus cat food. As I don't get paid until Thursday I was getting a bit panicky with only 95p left in my purse, 18p in my debit card account and no credit cards now I'm on a Debt management Plan:eek:

Did a YouGov survey on Friday and am now just 10 points (10p) short of a £50 payout :j:j

Well done on 'helping' OH to cut down on takeaways. Better for the waistline and the pocket. A win win then.

Andy's just started his first match so will watch some if it before I go to Morrison's. Trouble is, David Ferrer is playing this afternoon as well but it isn't on a show court so BBC might not televise that one. He's such a brilliant player but because he's so low-key we hardly ever seem to see him:mad::mad: