Scuba's Saving the Ha'Pennies

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Just managed to hit the threshold on another survey site, £3.92 already landed in my paypal account will withdraw tomorrow.

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Day off, as seems to be normal spent sat at home doing surveys online and hiding from the world!

Someone knocked on the door earlier in the evening and I ignored them as I really didn't feel like speaking to anyone.

I did walk to the shop and bought some flour so I could make toad in the hole for dinner, there's enough left to feed me on both of the nights I'm home from work this weekend, so I'll just need to bring some fresh veggies if there are any after the meals or walk to the shop and pick some up as I have mash and some potato wedges I can do with it.

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Yesterday's post included the £10 sainsbug card.

Today was a busy one at work, was very glad to get home and am forcing myself to stay awake in the hope that I'll manage to sleep like a semi normal person tonight. So lappy on and doing some surveys while battling the swagbucks apps which thanks to yet another update are cocked up.

Currently wishing I wasn't too lazy to go upstairs and turn the heating on as my house is freezing cold and I have a load of towels in the washing machine due to finish fairly soon.

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Went out this evening to the cinema with some colleagues from work, had a meal and then went to the cinema, paid for it with the cash I took out of the bank last month to take on holiday with me.

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Couple more self employed jobs done this evening, just need to send the data back to the company.

Also picked up a couple of bottles of coke life as there's a cash back offer on clicksnap for them - £2 for 2 and the offer is £1.85 cashback.

Debating putting dinner in the microwave as I didn't eat at lunchtime, but cant help thinking if I do I'll end up hungry later and there is no healthy snack food around.

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Been struggling to get the receipt loaded on the website for the cash back offer which is annoying me.

On the upside had a call first thing part of our groups at work were cancelled so after speaking to my colleague decided to take today as a days holiday and promptly went back to bed.

Left perktv running so even while I was napping I've been earning.

Finally came down stairs and have had two books delivered which were goodreads first reads wins.

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A few more surveys completed which is inching me towards payouts, including the product test follow up which means I can switch back to my regular product.

Went to take the two new books up to my boxes and discovered that both bxes of books I still have to read are full, so I brought the one I'm currently reading downstairs with me, as I quite often end up sat on the sofa listening to the tv and doing surveys or reading my Kindle so I need to get back in to the habit of reading books instead of just reading in bed.

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So life is back in a state of flux.

Landlord wants me out of the house because I don't want to sign another fixed term agreement.

Given my general unhappiness at work I'm tempted to start job hunting elsewhere in the country and use it as an excuse to get away completely.

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Just managed to cash out on one of the less frequent survey sites 4000 points which I think is roughly equal to £4. Not sure its worth keeping my membership on this site since its taken me almost 3 years to get to the point of cashing out.

Also redeemed another £3 to paypal at another survey site. Logged in currently my internet linked account has £200 in so it'll cover next months credit card payments which is handy so I can keep cash in the bank towards moving fees.

I've also begun the premoving address changes - changed my address on goodreads so from now on anything I win will go to my Dad's house not mine thus reducing the amountof stuff I have to pack up and move and meaning there will be lovely new reading material up there when I visit.

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Letter this morning from my main credit card company - from January they're increasing my credit limit by £4k. That is absolutely insane for an increase. This is why people have impossible debt problems for the last 2 years I've rarely paid more than the minimums on it (albeit a few large overpayments sporadically to help reduce it) and yet they think I'm a good enough customer to be trusted with an increase of that much!

Equally I'm not going to be turning it down, if I can use the card and save a little more of my cash towards moving costs it'll mean not borrowing off my parents.

Contemplating either putting my furniture in to storage and trying to find a room for a few months while I work things out and hopefully save/pay off some debt and job hunting elsewhere or just finding somewhere else to live and being clear about only wanting to have a 6 month contract.

In the meantime I'm working on getting the survey cash in.