Mini meltdown and light bulb moment

AleMrsT

hi GMOOD. I use two email addresses anyway, a 'proper' email address, and a second yah00 address that I use for 'form filling', anything that I know I'm going to get loads of spam for basically!! OH told me to always run two email addresses, and only give your 'proper' email address out to people you actually want to email, such as employers, friends and family etc.

Nagme

AleMrsT wrote: »

I have spent ages on survey sites (Toluna, Swagbucks, ipsos, onepoll). I've only managed to complete one on onepoll, and one on ipsos, the others I've been frozen out of. I must have clicked on at least 10 surveys on Toluna and not been able to complete a single one. I give up. I don't have the time to waste on these!! UGH. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: May try comping instead.

I've joined and left Toluna, Swagbucks, and Ipsos, payout is reached so slowly. I've stuck with Valued Opinions, Onepoll and Pinecone although VO and PC aren't as good as they used to be. I'm still doing Pureprofile till I reach the payout threshold of £25 then ill probably dump that too. I also test products for B00ts which is a good supply of free shower gel, scrubs, makeup etc
good luck with your journey, I subscribed ages ago and just had a major catch up of your thread. You've not mentioned it, but in case you're not aware, use saynoto0870 for getting round those pesky premium rate phone numbers.

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AleMrsT

So sorry for the silence over the last week or so, will do a big update later.

AleMrsT

Well, I guess a whole 24 hours is 'later'. Again, sorry!! Ok, I don't know where we last were....

Wow, it has been a whole 8 days since my last full update, this is not good enough *slap on the wrist*

OH is currently suffering with a cold and is in the bath, this is a new thing on me, I can't remember him ever having a bath at home!!

Anyway, this gives me time to do an update, if I can remember as far back as 8 days ago :mad:

Saturday 3rd January - I spent the day at my sisters (new house) looking after my niece whilst they moved house. Took niece for a walk with my grandma and called at Asda, bought niece an outfit, £8 spent.

Sunday 4th January - again spent the day at my sisters new house, looking after my niece whilst my sister and her OH cleaned at the old house. Spent £12.25 at coop because it was so cold to venture elsewhere, but some of this was for my sister and she gave me £3 towards her shopping (baby wipes and ham!)
No other spend as too tired to leave the house once we were back home!

Monday 5th January First day back at work after 2 weeks off. 25p spent on a packet of crisps, and £2.50 bus fare.

Tuesday 6th January At work first thing, got a lift in though so no bus fare. Hospital appointment at local hospital in the morning so no hospital parking (yay), scan results for my ear are all fine (yay again :j) so no need for follow up appointment, and discharged from that clinic. Good news in that I dont have to remember more appointments, bad news is I still have hearing loss in one ear and recurrent infections, with no explanation why as all is 'normal'. OH said to consultant 'is there nothing else we can follow up?' consultant just said that from and ENT perspective, everything is normal, so he has to discharge me. Oh well.
Then back to work half an hour later, so nipped to town for the remainder of my hour lunch and got my Grandma's birthday present, £14 spent in Max Spiellman, and £4.76 spent in card factory.
Went to Chimichanga's in the evening with the Tesco clubcard voucher, had £30 to spend on food, the bill came to £48, I don't know how they worked it out, but OH only had to pay £16 towards it, so pleased with that. Was a birthday treat.

Wednesday 7th January My day off, and my birthday :T spent the day with niece again, as sister back to work after maternity leave. NSD as mum bought me lunch and flowers for birthday. Spent the afternoon reading lovely.
Then OH said he'd treat me to a takeaway, my choice, as a birthday treat, so we had an indian, OH spent £15.50. :eek: Was nice though, and we don't do it very often. We were VERY lazy and had it delivered, even though the takeaway is on the main road, and we live on a side street just round the corner. :rotfl:

Thursday 8th January At work. Took lunch in, so NSD apart from £2.50 bus fare.

Friday 9th January Got a lift in to work, so no bus fare. Really fancied a Boots meal deal duck wrap, so bought that, and some tuna sandwiches for today's lunch at work, so £4.29 spent in Boots.
Got in the car after work (OH picks me up when he's on early shifts) and the car was juddering and the engine light on :eek: He called the mechanic who said he would sort it on Saturday, so the plan to go food shopping went out of the window, so went straight home and OH had pasta, I had a jacket potato.

Today - Saturday 10th January At work, so £5 in bus fare, as OH at work at 7 and the mechanic was going to be fixing the car at his work, so I had to get the bus both ways. Plus, I asked colleague to get me a drink whilst she was on her lunch, (just fancied a change to water) so I owed her £1.25 :eek::eek: Serves me right for not replacing the squash at work when it gets low!!

New coils and spark plugs needed on the car, £120 gone on to OH's CC :eek:. Can't be helped, and my parents kindly gave us £100 for Christmas which we were going to use on a weekend break, but the car is more important, so at least he can pay the £100 in and we've only had to pay £10 each (technically).
On the upside, we have been invited to a medical conference in London, paid for by the charity, so we are going to be staying in a 4 star city centre hotel for two nights, all paid for. :T:j We will have to pay attention and write a report about the conference, but a free weekend away is a free weekend away. If we book the train, we'll get the ticket fare refunded too :T

We have been and done the grocery shop that we planned to do yesterday, there was hardly any stock at Aldi. No pasta, no kidney beans etc. The checkout lady said they'd been really busy, and had to pull shelf stackers to man the tills. EEK. So we need to get pasta, but I bet OH will get that next week as he is on late shifts.

So today has been a spendy day.
£120 car (technically only £10, but will count as a whole as that is the actual outlay until cash paid in to OH's CC)
£5 bus
£1.25 drink
£69.76:eek: in Aldi.
£196.01 TOTAL
However, I haven't been proper food shopping since before Christmas, so I'm happy with that. OH may have bought bits here and there, but if we included all of his spends my diary would be a million pages long!!!:rotfl:

Total spends since last post are: £276.06 :eek: BUT.... Not all of this is mine, so if you take off what my sister gave me, what OH has paid, MY spend total is £121.56, plus £10 towards car, so I don't think that is TOO bad, its not good, but considering its been my birthday, grocery shopping and back to work, I don't think thats too bad. The best part is, I have money left over in my account, and I've managed to make some payments to savings account. (haven't included these as I don't consider them 'spends', the money is just in another account.

Speaking of which, I am going to try and persuade OH to let me open a third account, for bills, which we both pay into an equal amount into.
Will see how that goes down...

I got invited out tonight with my friends to a local mexican restaurant, I declined because we went for Mexican food on Tuesday, I'm quite glad I did now, with the car and the food shop needed doing. Plus, we're out for Sunday lunch tomorrow for my Grandma's birthday, so would have been a LOT of eating out expenditure. My friends know the situation with my finances so they said they would come over to the house one night next week when OH is on late shift instead of me going tonight

OH and I have been spending most evenings playing Xbox, which suits me just fine!

Ok, that really is everything now!! Apart from, I did tell OH off for spending £10 on an empty box for a card game that he bought the expansion packs for. Ah well. His money.... his choice (my new mantra...... Lets see how long it lasts!)

misstara

Belated happy birthday - sounds like you had a lovely day Your meal out sounds ace, love Mexican food!

:eek: to the car but Wow to the free stay in London - when is it?

AleMrsT

We go to London in March, ive swapped my Saturday shift and requested holiday for the Friday so we can have the whole weekend. Looking forward to it because it's an unexpected trip.
I hadn't realised how long my last post was, or how badly worded it is, wowzers! I cant be bothered to correct it all! That will teach me to update more frequently.

AleMrsT

Home now after a lovely Sunday lunch with my family. The food was really nice, it was even better when my grandad paid for the bill as a treat for everyone, so an unexpected NSD. :T bless him.

Just a chilled afternoon planned now, maybe more x box playing, but i do need to do some housework and ironing so might crack on with that, although OH did a lot of housework the other day so there's actually only the bathroom to clean and hoovering to be done.
If we do that first I can get the ironing done whilst we watch a film.

twiggy86

Belated happy birthday!!!

AleMrsT

:mad: ugh, so much for relaxing afternoon and may do some chores. I get so unreasonably mad at OH sometimes when he makes me feel inadequate and lazy. He asked, no TOLD me to sort the washing out whilst he fixes a laptop, great I thought, I'll get all the ironing done whilst he does that, as I had every intention of doing it anyway. I went upstairs to get changed and thought I'd fetch ironing basket too.
Instead of sorting the washing as it comes off the airer, he just dumps it all on the ironing basket, so I needed to sort that before taking washing off airer so I decided to go back to it later and get a drink and sort on top of the fridge as wanted to get some items off the sideboard and back up on the fridge, by the time I'd done that he'd taken washing off the airers and fetched the ironing basket down. I hadn't even had chance to do it!!!!!!! Don't ask me to do something, then do it anyway. It then took me twice as long to get the ironing basket back upstairs and sort it properly into ironing, towels, underwear etc.
Plus he'd gone round closing all the windows and curtains, and turned the thermostat to 22 degrees! I'd literally just opened the windows to air the rooms! I can't iron when it's too hot.
So we're sitting in silence in the stifling heat, with the curtains all closed at 4.30 in the afternoon 'because it's dark outside'. I'm sitting in a vest top!!!!
Sod the ironing now, I'm in a foul mood and I know I'm probably being completely unreasonable, but it makes me so mad when he makes me feel useless.
Sorry, rant over. :eek:

misstara

Hugs AleMrsT - hope things are ok now