Scuba's Saving the Ha'Pennies

scubaangel

Home from a night on the south coast near Christchurch.

Had dinner with family and friends of the family in a gorgeous hotel restaurant last night - place called Captains Club Hotel, fabulous food.

Ran this morning, then went for a breakfast at a place called the Noisy Lobster, equally lovely food although the service there wasn't as good as at the restaurant.

Dad gave me £20 towards fuel as I drove myself down, used it to top up the tank before the drive home so hopefully I won't need to fill it up again until mid May.

scubaangel

Just hit the 20k points I needed to cash out on perk so have requested £10 paypal.

Also had £4 land in paypal from the foresty survey people.

hummingbird

Glad to hear you enjoyed that time with family - I love the area around Christchurch, I've had some lovely holidays there.:beer:

scubaangel

I don't know it well, the friends we stayed with used to live further down the coast this was the first time I visited them in this house. I could definitely live in that area. Maybe give it some thought when its time to move on from this job.

Just redeemed for a £5 amazon voucher from a survey site.

scubaangel

Good start to the day for me logged in to my email to find one from Geolotto, I won the free play jackpot this morning so have a little under £115 added to my account. I've withdrawn that leaving the £4 which was already there - I'll likely be withdrawing that by the end of the week as its a min £5 to withdraw.

I'm particularly pleased as I only ever play the free instant win games - you get 50 coins a day = 50 free digs, usually win between 5p and 20p through those digs each day. I've been playing for about 3 weeks so far, joined just before I went on holiday, had to fund the account with £10 initially but had already got £5 withdrawn. So in the month I've been playing I've spent £10, and already taken £120 back (and without the big win today would likely have had my initial £10 back by the end of the week any way).

Also just been on a 3.3 mile bike ride, twas hard work being warm, and sunny but did it in a little over 20 mins on a route which is relatively flat until the last mile when there is a fairly steep slope down leading to a roughly half mile shallower upward slope back to the house.

scubaangel

Not feeling as chipper this evening, the prospect of tomorrows early shift fills me with dislikey feelings and it looks like I won't have a day off this week as today I was landed with 15 extra people for dinner friday night and lunch on Saturday, and it being Bank Holiday weekend there are no staff available to cover. Going to ask the receptionist to send out a begging email in the morning on the off chance that some of the other building staff might be free and willing to give up a few hours of their BH weekend.

£2.50 redeemed from opinion outpost, and in paypal already.

scubaangel

Home from the breakfast shift, long day.

Went for a run after work in the local forest, left the house under gloomy rain clouds, 4 miles later (about 2 miles as the crow flies) set off for my run under gorgeous blue skies, thought it best to keep my running jacket on just in case the clouds reappeared, somewhat annoyingly they didnt and I sweltered around a 3.4 mile route.

Need to check the weather forecast and will prehaps cycle to work tomorrow as I start mid morning and finish after the school run and before rush hour.

scubaangel

£10 landed in paypal from Perk. Promptly withdrawn to my bank account along with the £6.50 which was already there.

hummingbird

You seem to be doing very well with getting to cash-out on these sites - I'm so inconsistent with things like this and it makes me realize what I'm missing out on!:o Well done on that win! I'm not familiar with Geolotto or Perk!

scubaangel

This is clearly the all or nothing few weeks I've been working towards for months! Got a couple of other sites getting close to payouts, but have been more consistant over the last few weeks with actually dealing with the surveys in my inbox.

Fortunately or otherwise I'm stubborn and persistant and rarely drop a site even when its a slow earner.

Just hit the redemption threshold on another survey site so have £10.90 on the way to my bank account.

Geolotto I found through the freepostcodelottery, you basically click on map squares and dig for treasure - I only use the free daily dig options, each daily dig you make enters you in to the daily prize draw, if the square picked in the prize draw is one you clicked then you get the daily jackpot which is what I won, seems to be around £100-£120 most days. But from my free digs I seem to average 10p-50p a day which can be withdrawn when it hits £5.

Perk is a little like swagbucks although I only use the PerkTV app, tend to leave it running on my tablet and old phone when I'm not using them for other things, takes 20,000 points to redeem for the £10 and I tend to get around 500 points a day (more when I'm not working).

If you're not a member of fpl I highly recommend it - costs nothing and if your postcode is picked in one of the 5 (ish) draws daily you can get cash from £10 to £50+ depending on the draw.

I can't post referrals on here but if I mention anything you want to try let me know most have ref schemes.

At the moment I think my persistance is from the increasing realisation that I hate my car, its too small, doesn't feel safe on the motorways, and I'm always surprised when it gets me from one end of a long journey to another without falling apart around me! So need to be reducing debt and increasing my savings so I can think about a new/newer car in a few months.