Scuba's Saving the Ha'Pennies

scubaangel

Just redeemed £5 PayPal from mysurvey, they usually pay fairly quickly so it can go towards filling the hole in my bank account.
Tried using the prepaid MasterCard to pay my credit card, it didn't like the long code, kept saying it was entered wrong so will have to decide what to do with it now, possibly buy an Amazon voucher.

scubaangel

Redeemed a £5 amazon voucher from another survey site last night, applied it to my account this morning.
Also redeemed my 10,000 points on shopprize (a receipt snapping app) which will get me another £5 amazon waiting for that to be delivered.

Got a merchandising job to do before work tomorrow so trying to get my printer to play nicely and give me the documents.

Left one of the videoloyalty playlists running on instagc last night, happily it kept going overnight so I'm up to 1.17% bonus for the week and it's still going now. I'm almost 80% towards my current target of a £10 amazon voucher although I think they do paypal cashouts now so might check the value of that instead so I can get the overdraft paid off quicker.

scubaangel

The £5 from shopprize came through in the afternoon so I added that to my amazon account. Up to about £20 again now.

Went out for a run yesterday evening, did just over 10k, which was apparently my 3rd fastest ever 10k, I know that wont be accurate as the first 10k event I ran last year strava recorded as a 7.5 mile route, and my second it showed as being about 150m short of 10k. So when I have time I want to recheck the times for those events so I can work out what my actual best 10k time is as I'm running one on the 8th October.

I do need to start running more often though as after a bottle and a bit of wine I signed up for a half marathon at the end of November. I'm fully expecting it to take me 2.30 hours or longer but as yet havent actually told anyone I've planned to do it!

Just had a visit from someone about getting the leaky ceiling and roof fixed at the flat, would have been nice if anyone had actually been in touch to warn me as I was about to get dressed so only wearing my dressing gown and the flat is a pig sty.

scubaangel

Shopmium just paid me £12 odd for some shopping I did yesterday (coffee, for a cafetiere, cereal and some fruit juices).

Qoas sent me my monthly statement so I've requested £10 paypal.

I finished another book last night so I checked if I could ziffit it, and it was one I could send them so three books and a couple of dvd's are now boxed up to be dropped off at the shop tomorrow, should get me around £6 (I find dvd's almost always lose value by the time they get them but the books don't).

Also got a couple of books to take to work for the staff canteen and one I think a friend might like as she's got the first one in the series.

scubaangel

Books dropped off at the shop Saturday morning while the bloke creature and I were walking back to his after a date morning before work - we continue to do things differently, wake up in bed together, have coffee go for a date then get changed and go to work. Most people seem to come home from work, date, coffee, bed. But while I'm working daft hours and he's doing the silly running thing we'll carve out time where we can.

Work has been ridiculously mixed this weekend, loud obnoxious music for a small group who tipped incredibly well, a group who complained lots and then a fabulously friendly chatty couple having a private meal.

Tomorrow the plan includes catch up tv on the blokes sofa, a run and wine. The order of things to be determined.

scubaangel

Todays plans have been varied.....
Catch up tv occurred, watched the last two episodes of Outlander while snuggled up on the the male creature's sofa.
Said male wants to swim later so given the weather I've not been for a run yet, instead I'm walking around my flat trying to break in my new work shoes as they pinch one heel when I'm in tights (wearing socks now and its uncomfortable but not painful).

I've just put £26 of new money in to my sealed "tips" tin, I've another £100 in my tips purse in old notes.

Done three citizen me surveys this afternoon, and a few vypr steers, there are some more instore ones have popped up so am tempted to try to get them on the way home from swimming (it's a pain driving to the nearest shop at this time of day and I really don't fancy a run or cycle up there given the wind and threats of rain).

I've also got to go in to town tomorrow as I've had a red card through the door for a parcel I need to sign for, probably another goodreads book win as I'm waiting for a few as usual and cant think of anything else I'm expecting.

scubaangel

Not made it to the post office yet as its only open until 2 most days and I've been doing stranger hours than normal.

Redeemed another vypr £5. So I think thats me down to £4 to have the pop pay for itself in cash.

I've requested £1 amazon from another app on it and am still using it to run all the sb apps.

Other than that not alot going on cash wise, still waiting on the accumulated total of £20 paypal from the survey sites earlier this week.

scubaangel

The £20 from surveys was paid over the weekend.
Along with £20 from an app called shopalong.

All of which has been withdrawn to the bank.

Still haven't been to the post office.

Also haven't been paid by ziffit yet.

scubaangel

Ziffit paid today - the total amount which is quite amazing. Am about to log in to withdraw it from paypal.

Went to the post office to collect the parcel, its a beautifully wrapped book, I almost dont want to unwrap it!

In other news my grandmother passed away on Monday, trying to sort out when to go home now as the funeral is next week.

scubaangel

Had enough studies approved so I can withdraw £20 from prolific, I've requested it to circle as it has no fees, still got £7 in there from snatch prizes so at some point ill link it to my bank and withdraw it all.