Scuba's Saving the Ha'Pennies

scubaangel

Another night with the bloke, takeout and wine at his place. Hopefully have an evening in at mine this week but we have residential guests so am back to shifts all over the place and might be headed north to see my Dad at the weekend as I have it off which along with fitting in a swim means there are limited evenings available from my point of view without even attempting his schedule.

Very close to cashing out on swagbucks should manage it this evening.

The perk money was added to my paypal sometime between Thursday and this morning so I've withdrawn it.

I really need to do some decluttering, the stacks of DVDs around the place are starting to really annoy me, so have started a list of them in a word file to try and get them on to faceache selling sites for a few weeks before I next go in to the town with a CEX.

Have bagged up some shoes I never wear to drop off at a charity shop on Monday, while I'm in town doing a couple of mystery shops.

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Swagbucks redemption made, so am waiting on £100 landing in paypal in the next week or so and now to start working on the next redemption!

Feeling lazy, so thinking I'm going to walk to the Co-Op where there's a charity clothes bin and drop off some of the stuff I've already sorted out, it should mean I manage the 30 minutes of activity I aim for to meet my weekly Pact app goals (I was 100 steps short of the 10k recorded steps I needed yesterday).

My Shine has been dispatched, delivery estimate of the 11th August, so once that's here I can get it linked to my Bounts account and hopefully find my rewarded activities go up on there as I know the Moves app on my phone is quite hit and miss (although I'll leave it on there as it links to Pact too).

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Got the Shine linked to bounts, extra points have landed in my account from yesterday and am pretty close to hitting todays activity target with it so thats more points - should help me hit my redemption thresholds quicker.

Meant to be swimming tonight but am absolutely shattered. The Shine's sleep tracker tells me I had under 5 hours sleep, but I know that for at least an hour of that time I was actually awake and reading.

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Swagbucks money has hit paypal and been withdrawn.

Somewhat knackered, worked last night got home and needed to drop some stuff in the post so ran to the box half a mile away, as I got home my friend text to ask if I wanted to go swimming, so I picked up my swimming kit and went out again.

Net result was that I sat down for dinner at 10.45 and fell in to bed at a little before 1am.

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Just managed to redeem on another survey site, so I have £16 incoming to a bank account, not the one I prefer to use for these things as it was a nightmare finding the BIC and IBAN codes for the one I prefer.

scubaangel

Had an evening of being slightly crazy again.

The male was here on Wednesday, we're not doing anything over the weekend as he said he was going to see his parents and friends, yet earlier he was texting he was home doing housework, then went silent, has read my last message about an hour after it was sent but not replied - just a general chatty type message normally he'd have replied relatively quickly, and on other days when he's gone home he's said he's arrived safely.

Have I ever mentioned that I hate dating?

And the more time I'm spending with him the more I like him, and as mentioned before my confidence is generally pretty wobbly!

On the upside I've been invited to a friends house tomorrow afternoon/evening for a BBQ and drinks so while am sure she'll quiz me I'll not be sat on the sofa wondering.

As an aside I may have also consumed a bottle of wine and been chatting to one of my friends who is sickeningly happy with her new boyfriend, and if not for the accident on the M6 this morning would have been home in the North spending time with my family and a friend there who has recently been in a motorcycle accident so probably not my usual self on the whole.

scubaangel

A little bit hungover today.

Sat on the sofa sorting out some of the DVD's my ex left behind, so far I have 2 going to CEX and another 10 headed for MusicMagpie, total money I'll get for them under £10, but it's a start on the decluttering process!

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CEX parcel dropped in the post box last night, the walk didn't do much to help my head unfortunately.

Forgot to seek out a box for the musicmagpie stuff, wondering if I can get away with packaging it in a heavy duty plastic bag well taped up.

Also sorted out a pile of kitchen type items I don't use so plan to stick them on facebook/gumtree as a bundle in the hope that someone going to Uni might want it.

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MusicMagpie stuff boxed, just need to print off the label/check the details and write them on the box so I can leave it out in the morning.

Also moved the box of things I want to get rid of from its tucked away under the stairs home to next to the sofa. Will have a look at that this evening and start Gumtree/faceaching it.

I've also decided that because y'know normal people do this stuff, I'm signing up for the Surrey Cycletta in two weeks time - so thats 2 weeks to get comfortable enough on the bike for a 50km hilly ride. Think am going to hire a bike again though, much more reliable than mine as I know it'll have been serviced and checked before I take it.


And in the meantime I've set an alarm and am going to take a nap before going for a run this evening then more decluttering.

scubaangel

MusicMagpie box has been collected, hopefully by the courier I put it out for.

Trying to work through some of the surveys in my inbox - somehow it seems to fill up without my noticing.