Scuba's Saving the Ha'Pennies

scubaangel

And home from another muchly fun work shift, of which I spent over 3 hours waiting for late guests......they were due to arrive at 8am, the last one rocked up at 09.30, they were then 30 mins late for the mid morning coffee and another hour late for mid afternoon coffee. So thats 3 working hours wasted when I could have had the floors mopped and swept, the fridge scrubbed out and the glass trays emptied and started polishing the flutes and wine glasses.

Hopefully tomorrows groups won't frustrate me as much!

Plan for the evening is now get some more washing done, I have one load of dark clothes in the machine as I need clean work trousers, then if I can be bothered/am still awake I'll do the coloured stuff and iron my remaining clean white shirts.

I really also need to get some washing up done as I have no clean mugs left and will be wanting a brew shortly.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

Yup, I can stretch/move/bend equally on both arms.

You just need a massage then. Someone to get in there and make you scream...

scubaangel wrote: »

Which sounds like fun

Doesn't it? :T

scubaangel wrote: »

Easier would be earning pennies, reducing debt, rebuilding savings etc, entertaining is reading the kindle and not getting much else done. Although I did get through a few surveys.

So not totally wasted then.

scubaangel wrote: »

Plan for the evening is now get some more washing done, I have one load of dark clothes in the machine as I need clean work trousers, then if I can be bothered/am still awake I'll do the coloured stuff and iron my remaining clean white shirts.

I really also need to get some washing up done as I have no clean mugs left and will be wanting a brew shortly.

There's your priority right there then...

scubaangel

The washing is still in the machine - I'm convinced that the wash cycles pick a duration based upon how bored the machine thinks I need to be by the time it finishes (or when I did my research I failed to check it had a quick eco cycle - the only quick cycle on it is 20c which doesnt actually seem to get things clean).

I did the washing up, now have a drainer full of mugs.

Realised I a; couldnt be bothered to cook anything for dinner and b; didnt have anything to cook for dinner. So zapped a tin of beans in a chilli style sauce and a bag of microwave rice, not impressed by the beans and sauce as they're pretty much flavourless so won't be trying those again.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

The washing is still in the machine - I'm convinced that the wash cycles pick a duration based upon how bored the machine thinks I need to be by the time it finishes (or when I did my research I failed to check it had a quick eco cycle - the only quick cycle on it is 20c which doesnt actually seem to get things clean).

It's the difference between old and new machines. Old machines would get your washing clean in 40 minutes using a gallon of water. New machines take 3 hours to fail to get your clothes clean, but only using a teaspoon of water.

Of course living in an area of the country where water is less scarce than air, that doesn't seem a good deal...

scubaangel wrote: »

Realised I a; couldnt be bothered to cook anything for dinner and b; didnt have anything to cook for dinner. So zapped a tin of beans in a chilli style sauce and a bag of microwave rice, not impressed by the beans and sauce as they're pretty much flavourless so won't be trying those again.

Name and shame. The raison d'etre of sauce is to be a flavour, so a flavourless flavour is neither use nor ornament...

scubaangel

Washing took almost 3 hours, stupidly long cycle! I've got another basket load ready to put in before I go to work in the morning just need to remember to get it out again when I get home.

We've not shortage of water here its just that full of rubbish it barely registers as water - have to remember to descale the kettle again this week, crunchy tea is not fun.

It was a Sainsbury tin, not one I'll be buying again which is fairly easy to avoid since my local supermarkets are Tesco and Morrisons in my nearest town, although Sainsbury is still the easiest place to get to on the way home from work when its not busy on the roads also the only supermarket that I can commonly earn vouchers for from surveys.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

Washing took almost 3 hours, stupidly long cycle!

The most used cycle on my washing machine takes over 2 and a half, but that's with extra water, extra washing action and extra singing & dancing.

scubaangel wrote: »

We've not shortage of water here its just that full of rubbish it barely registers as water - have to remember to descale the kettle again this week, crunchy tea is not fun.

Well at least it'll be good for your bones.

scubaangel wrote: »

It was a Sainsbury tin, not one I'll be buying again which is fairly easy to avoid since my local supermarkets are Tesco and Morrisons in my nearest town, although Sainsbury is still the easiest place to get to on the way home from work when its not busy on the roads also the only supermarket that I can commonly earn vouchers for from surveys.

No Aldis/Lidls etc round there?

scubaangel

The two nearest Lidl are in town centres - one being the town near work which has a one way system which I'm sure is a prototype for one of the rings of hell, and the other is in my local town but the nearest carparking is Morrisons/Tesco.....

There's an Aldi I tend to visit when I go to the other town furthest from work to do audit/merchandising stuff but it's too far out of my normal routes to make it worth visiting regularly.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

The two nearest Lidl are in town centres - one being the town near work which has a one way system which I'm sure is a prototype for one of the rings of hell,

There speaks someone who has never seen any of Sunderland's one-way systems... :rotfl:

scubaangel wrote: »

and the other is in my local town but the nearest carparking is Morrisons/Tesco.....

Even handier - shop in Lidl, top up in Morrisons.

scubaangel wrote: »

There's an Aldi I tend to visit when I go to the other town furthest from work to do audit/merchandising stuff but it's too far out of my normal routes to make it worth visiting regularly.

It depends how you shop. If you're a buy a little and often type of person, it usually isn't. However if, like me, you don't really like shopping at all and it's the equivalent of a Viking raid when you do go - then it is worth it.

But then again, you're a half-a-pint of milk a month kind of person...

scubaangel

When I say the Lidl is in town centre is a good 15 min walk from the carparks - town planning was not the strong point locally.....This being one of my local towns.

Given I'm not even a little and often shopper it seems more hassle than its worth to park up, walk in to town, shop walk back, shop some more in T/M then go home when I can be in and out of T/M in under 5 mins for the few things I need.

I'm sure its a very early protoype, its a fairly simple system, sadly it fails because the roads feeding in to and out of it are too congested, double parked or in one area suffer from water run off flooding them.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

When I say the Lidl is in town centre is a good 15 min walk from the carparks - town planning was not the strong point locally.....

Ahh...no... In my local town there's nowhere 15 minutes from a carpark. In fact there is nowhere 15 minutes from anywhere else in the town centre, and a number of carparks are within 2 minutes of everything.

So at least they got that right.

scubaangel wrote: »

This being one of my local towns.

There's not a great deal you can say about that. I'm surprised the council hasn't started to make noises about withdrawing planning permission since one of the pre-conditions hasn't been met.

Or perhaps the brown paper envelope pre-condition has been met, and we just don't know...

scubaangel wrote: »

Given I'm not even a little and often shopper it seems more hassle than its worth to park up, walk in to town, shop walk back, shop some more in T/M then go home when I can be in and out of T/M in under 5 mins for the few things I need.

It is. Probably even a local Co-Op would make sense for you, despite their sometimes eye-watering prices.

Have you finished your second sleepover?