Scuba's Saving the Ha'Pennies

scubaangel

Out this afternoon doing shopping for the next three days - visited three supermarkets Mr L spent £25, including two new hairbrushes because I really like the miomare one I bought a couple of years ago so that was £3.98 more than planned, I wanted to spend £20 to use the "welcome" card my local L have had deals on for the last 6 weeks, this weeks was free 200g jar of instant coffee. Mr T, was a mere £5 on stuff they had on offer to restock cupboards, and finally Mr S where I was going to pick up app freebies and stuff virtually free after cash back - spent £7 and will get about £6.50 back.


In the process also discovered that there was a 20p cash back offer on pizza on tcb groceries so submitted a reciept for that too.

scubaangel

Another lazy day at home, two more books read - one ibook and one physical.


Attempted to off load some of the non keepers from the red books pile and still can't get enough together for ziffit or webuy which is annoying, guess I just need to read some more!


Cashback requested from greenjinn - £6.70 so the £7 spent on 5 "healthy" snack bars has cost me 30p.


Also managed to redeem for a couple of £10 swagbucks mastercards - loving the 1000sb rebates on cards worth 1000sb or more, 1300sb is £10, so each one is actually only costing me 300sb - have another 3 rebates to use before the end of the week, should be able to earn enough to use all of them.


While texting the male he's again referred to what might happen if we're ever in a position to look at buying a house, I'm starting to want to throttle him everytime he refers to it without actually suggesting we live together at his place first.

scubaangel

Day off again, feels like I'm only working parttime at the moment!


Went to the pool with the male last night, didn't swim as much as I probably could have/should have, but I have got my speedo mp3 back up and running, although I really need to change the music on it since the last changes were made in 2014. Planning to swim again tonight after a dinner of pancakes - so at some point this afternoon I'll be headed out to the car to retrieve some of my more recent cd's.


I also need to log in to the study portal and do some work as I have a meeting scheduled with my training advisor on Friday morning and haven't achieved very much since the last meeting a couple of weeks ago.

scubaangel

Spent some time this morning transferring the first three £10 mastercards between paypal accounts to the bank, this afternoon another has arrived in my inbox so I'll be transferring that shortly along with £1 from qmee.


So thats half of this months payment for card 2 in the bank before I have to move any of my salary around.

scubaangel

Confirmed redemption of another £10 mastercard, also requested £2.55 from opinion outpost and £10 from opinion world - once OW pays I'll be unsubscribing as it's taken over a year to earn the last £1.50 I needed to reach redemption.

scubaangel

3 more bags dropped off at charity collection points -an assortment of shoes and clothes.



Got the car valeted while I was in town, its bad when even I think my god its mucky! Spent about £18 in Mr L, dinner tonight, tomorrow and enough coffee to last about 2 months in various forms - instant flavoured, and ground filter.



Another £10 sb mastercard arrived while the male and I were out swimming so I've bumped that in to paypal and I'll transfer that in to the bank tomorrow.
During the day the £10, and £2.75 redemptions arrived so they're safely in the bank, and the account closed on opinionworld.


Assuming I don't manage any more cash outs tomorrow that'll be another £22.75 in the bank so around 3/4 of this months card payment for CC2.



Did a yougov survey that might lead to a face to face focus group which is being held reasonably locally so fingers crossed for that.

scubaangel

I've been invited to the yougov group next week so need to work out the best way to get there as it looks like the venue doesn't have its own parking, but for a couple of hours it'll be a nice cash boost.


Sent a couple of ideas for things I've randomly spotted on facebook to work - one is a marshmallow toasting kit which is as simple as a chaffing dish fuel (in a pretty wrapper) a bag of giant marshmallows and some skewers, I'm sure we could put something together to add to our menu options especially as BBQ season is up coming and it's not always nice enough to have people outside around the firepits (which I've seen people toast them on) and probably safer for groups with children.


In general earnings this week has been somewhat lazy - I've been concentrating on house work, bathroom scrubbed twice and the walls and tiles bleached and mold sprayed - just got to do the ceiling - it's more time consuming than a small room should be thanks to the stunningly useless extrator fan since my bathroom has no windows and if I left the door open my whole flat would stink of cleaning stuff.


I've tried to get rid of some books but once again I came up short of enough to send to ziffit or webuy, despite having read another three paperbacks which are now in the boxes ready for my next attempt to declutter them! In a few days I plan to venture in to the box of DVD's left behind by the ex all those years ago and have another go at getting rid of those as it would free up the wooden box for some of the stuff that is in other random spaces.


The male creature wants to swim tonight but I'm really not feeling much enthusiasm for it, I'm finding after a late swim I'm just too wide awake to even attempt to sleep which is throwing my already not quite normal sleeping patterns out even further.

scubaangel

Realised that my energy deal ends next week so had a look for a switch, gone with Bulb, they weren't the cheapest but the cheapest company had some quite awful reviews while Bulb had mainly reasonable ones. I'm going to need to give them regular readings for a few months as their starting payment is quite a bit higher than my current - but due to practically living at the male creatures place I'm a very low use household.

scubaangel

Bulb cashback through TCB tracked, will obviously not be payable for a while yet though.


Went in to town to do some food shopping. Iceland have the deal on a Chicago town large pizza + free pizza baking tray - the tray probably isnt great for a pizza as its solid but it has a lipped edge which is better for cooking other stuff as my current baking tray is completely flat. So £3 for a large pizza (aka dinner when the male is out doing running or gym for the evening), and a new baking tray. If I'm in town again next week I might pop in a see if they've any left as the freezer is emptier than I thought so I could fit at least one more pizza in there.


I also popped in to the usual charity shops and found two books missing from a series which means I can start reading (the books I found are 2 and 3 of the series). Cost me all of £2.:j

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Read the first 5 of the series I got near complete last week - and the male has ordered me book 7 for my birthday next month. When I finish book 6 I'm going to have an awful book hangover. For anyone interested its the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch.



I've also redownloaded the gumtree app and stuck some of my stuff on there, added a few more listings to shpock and am planning to put all of the same stuff on to some local facebook selling pages. Took a final bag of old shoes down to the charity bin this afternoon and attempted to sell some of the old DVDs to cex, or music magpie, it wasn't a successful attempt so I've bagged them up and I'll take them to the local hospice shop next time I'm in town.


As I've been concentrating on the books and decluttering I haven't earned very much this week, still got the focus group upcoming so need to do the pregroup task today.


While in the decluttering mindset I've been contemplating getting rid of my music system, its a Sony Gigajuke so fairly old, and bulky, I have a couple of the remote stations which connect to it at my Dad's house so next time I go home I think I'll take it back up there and get all the random pieces of it boxed up together, but first I want to copy all my music off it - should work with just a USB cable to an mp3 player but I need to get one big enough (34GB+). As much as I like the idea of it these days a nice looking dock system is much smaller and looks better, and given I only ever used the remote stations when I lived in the house which is now 7 years ago it feels a bit of a waste of space keeping an obsolete system - if the male and I do ever move in to a house instead of our respective flats I'm absolutely certain it wouldnt be beyond us to buy a decent modern system if we wanted music through out.