Scuba's Saving the Ha'Pennies

scubaangel

Very tired. Day was busy as expected not helped by spending alot of the day butting heads with a supervisor in another dept. Office politics - is there such thing as a job with other people which doesnt suffer from it?

The day off tomorrow is now a few hours in work over lunchtime, hopefully find the energy to cycle in.

Completed another foresty people survey so should be able to redeem another paypal £4 in a few days.

Had a text from my Dad, apparently I've had an attempted delivery of a recorded delivery letter to his house, I've no idea what it could be about my address has been changed for everything except my driving licence (paper counterpart is currently mia in my house here). He's rearranged for the delivery on Saturday hopefully we'll be able to work out where its from once he's got it.

scubaangel

Just had an email from the Forestry Commission, the carpark at my local site is changing from pay and display to pay as you leave, won't affect me too much with my Forest Pass but does mean that I've got even better value for it as parking has now gone up to £1.80 for the first hour, £3 for up to 2 hours and £4.50 for up to 3 hours. So I now only need to visit on another 22 occasions to have saved money on my carparking there.

scubaangel

Cycled to and from work, a little quicker each way this time than last week which is positive.

Now however need to go back to work as I've left my tablet and old phone there, hidden in corners running money making apps (a swagbucks app and perktv respectively), but I did need to pop out at some point this evening to find something to do with my BBQ pork for dinner, so might go via the local shop and get a small pack of frozen chips and hope I can find space for them in the freezer box.

scubaangel

Been back to work, bought potato waffles so as they're easier to repack in freezer bags and fit in to the random gaps in the box!

Had the email from the foresty survey folks and been and redeemed my credit for paypal cash, that should arrive tomorrow, also realised that I'd over £1 in qmee, so have requested that to be sent to paypal too.

Aaaand hit £5 on gl so have withdrawn that too.

scubaangel

Stubborn persistance and having no life strikes again - just redeemed for £100 paypal on swagbucks. They're not necessarily the quickest at sending out rewards though so will expect it in a week or so.

Also redeemed for £3 on mysurvey.

Walked about 14k steps today, split between work and walking a friends dog this evening.

scubaangel

Work complete for the weekend, day off tomorrow - and I absolutely cannot wait!

Am exhausted from hours at work, stress caused by idiots I work with and lack of staff this weekend because of the bank hols. This week is going to be no less stressful, we're busy and have a big event in the house all weekend next week so I'm not going to have time to rest while finishing off the final details.

hummingbird

scubaangel wrote: »

Stubborn persistance and having no life strikes again - just redeemed for £100 paypal on swagbucks. They're not necessarily the quickest at sending out rewards though so will expect it in a week or so.

Also redeemed for £3 on mysurvey.

Walked about 14k steps today, split between work and walking a friends dog this evening.

I'm now in absolute shock at what you're redeeming - £100 swagbucks???? I've never heard anyone get that much before! Just one thing Scuba - I don't have unlimited broadband - just have 10gig at the moment - so I'm always a bit worried that doing things like watching lots of vids etc will take me over my limit. Perhaps it may be worth the extra cost to go unlimited though, I'll have to look into it!

scubaangel

I did say though that this month/couple of weeks seems to be my all weeks after a few nothing weeks for redemptions though.

The swagbucks has taken me since last year - I used to assume roughly 200 swagbucks a day to get to the £100 redemption roughly every 3 months, but I've been busy/lazy lately so it'd slipped.

You def need unlimited bb for it, I'm on plusnet which is unlimited but throttled and very cheap.

I know for perk there is an option to watch the videos in lower quality not so sure about swagbucks though. It should be said that I do take my tablet and old phone to work with me most days and hide them in corners to use works wifi to collect as well, now sb have four apps available for iphone it makes daily targets easier to get to - sb especially though have alot of surveys too.

hummingbird

Plusnet could be an option for me - it's much cheaper than BT which I'm currently with!

The only thing is I'm a bit unsure about changing because I had so much trouble getting any kind of connection where I live! I'll have to look into it all though as it could be a good way for me to save some money as well as make some! I'm currently paying £15/month for 10gig with BT.

scubaangel

Plusnet is a BT company so should work just as well as BT as well as being much cheaper! Def worth looking in to though, my deal is £2.50/month for 12 months then £9.99 after that (or I cancel and look around again), I did pay the line rental all at once though which makes it cheaper. Plus I got a cashback offer from them so after a couple of months got £70 back from them (yup they basically paid me to have the bb for a year).

I'm in quite a rural area so having super whizzy fast bb wouldn't have been an option, so the cheaper occasionally throttled speeds are just fine for me.