Scuba's Saving the Ha'Pennies

hummingbird

Wow - brilliant savings there! Do you have your calls with them as well and does that also work out a lot cheaper?

scubaangel

I've not got a land line plugged in, so no idea what the calling costs are - I have a landline but since anyone who needs to get hold of me has my mobile number and I have more than enough free minutes it seemed pointles keeping it in use just for marketing people to bug me on it.

Might dig it out if I ever needed to call premium rate numbers but so far sayno has always found me a geographic alternative.

scubaangel

Decided when my alarm went off this morning that I was going to treat myself to a lie in so turned it off and went back to sleep. Woke up again about midday which felt soooo good. I probably should be going out for a run or a bike ride this afternoon but given my legs have ached constantly for days I'm going to give myself a day off totally and am installed on the sofa with two phones, tablet, lappy, Kindle and remote controls for the tv and music system.

I should be sorting out the stack of DVD's next to the sofa to make a fresh attempt to get rid of some of them and the rest packed in to the new storage box I've bought but that would mean moving across the room to get the box then rearranging the furniture slightly to get the box in the gap next to the sofa.....and it feels like lots of effort.

scubaangel

Surprised and impressed the £100 has arrived in my paypal account from swagbucks, so that the £1 from qmee, and £4 from the foresty survey people has all been withdrawn to my bank account.

Not seeming to have achieved much given I've been online all afternoon, not really managed to complete any surveys (barring two on swagbucks towards my next redemption).

Still not looked at the DVD stack other than to check it was stable so I could use it as a mug rest for my numerous cups of tea today.

Logged in to my interwebby banking to find that the paypal money is already showing as in my account and cleared. Even more impressed.

Also the £10.90 from the survey company.

Have bounced it all in to the savings account with that bank as my second current account there already has enough in it to cover three months worth of credit card payments (one set to min as its a rate for life, and the other set as at least £100/month) for both cards and I want to wait until I've at least £500 to pay off one of them before I make another over payment from saved money.

scubaangel

Seem to be feeling very tired all the time at the moment. Most days am getting home from work and falling asleep on the sofa for an hour or so.

Going to try to get in to the habit of eating more iron rich foods as my sleeping habits haven't changed (other than the napping) and while work is very busy it's not as busy/stressful as previous jobs, and again the amount of exersize I'm doing is more than I had been doing lately but again not excessive in comparison to things I've done in the past.

So adding iron to my diet and giving it a few weeks then if things aren't improving then I'll go see my GP.

scubaangel

Strangely one of the survey co's I'd pretty much given up on redeeming from has altered its payouts so just redeemed a £25 virtual mastercard code and have enough points left over to be almost half way to the next payout.

Decided to use it to buy a gift card for a shoe shop, as I was given one for my birthday and the shoes I like are on the very expensive and not very practical day to day side so justifying buying them would be near impossible - so now total shoe cost £125, gift cards towards them £55.

Off back to the survey site to see if I can get to work boosting my points towards another £25 payout.

scubaangel

Realised while chatting to a friend that although I've always wanted to I've still not booked myself a ticket to see the Ceremony of the Keys at the Tower of London.

So just been online and booked myself two tickets, scarily its such a popular event that it's fully booked right up until November! Will have to find a friend to take with me nearer the time.

scubaangel

Had a hectic weekend - London on Friday night after work to see friends who were down for the rugby at Twickenham, ridiculously late night but had to get back out to work for lunchtime Saturday so wasn't quite at my best until mid afternoon, which was lucky time wise as we hosted our first big function Saturday afternoon/evening. It seemed to go really well.

Relatively short shift in work today to help clear up and back to normal tomorrow with a split shift.

scubaangel

I think today counts as a spendy day with overtones of "!!!!!!" and impulsiveness.

I now own three hybrid bikes, the orignial one, and two identical models I bought this evening. The two this evening are slightly bigger frames than the other one, so I'm going to try one and see if it feels any more comfortable to ride as I still feel like the other is a shade too short. One of the new ones am hopefully goin to have one of the girls who also works at the company buy from me - its rare I see her but she was over in my building today and was asking about the tri training, I said I was looking at a bike this evening but the guy I was talking to really wanted to sell both of the ones he was advertising at once someone else chimed in saying she'd been talking to another colleague asking him to keep an eye out for a bike suitable for her the other day. So hopefully I can take one in to work tomorrow for her to try then split the cost of the pair between us (£100 for the pair).

They're both practically brand new - both still have the shop labels on the brake cables! So even if she doesnt want it I'm sure I can find someone else who'll want one.

scubaangel

Today has been abit of a blahish day, the rain hasnt let up so I wasn't able to get out on the new bike since I'm currently keeping it in my living room bringing it home wet would have been unpleasant.

So I went for a run in the forest instead. Came home like a drowned rat.

Still trying to use things up out of the cupboards to avoid shopping so think dinner for the next week is going to be pasta and sauce - just need to see if I can find some veggies to bulk it out and make it more interesting.