Scuba's Saving the Ha'Pennies

scubaangel

A friend had a couple of the same bowl's as the ones I won so she bought my two off me for £10.

My vypr payout arrived so thats £5 in to paypal.

I've also done 5 citizenme surveys so another 50p paid out already.

Citizenme is on the iphone so I'm not counting that towards covering the cost of my new phone. But the other two do so thats £15 towards the £39 it cost me in cash. So only £24 to go and I'm back to reducing the debt from whatever I earn on it.

scubaangel

It was a colleagues leaving drinks last night so the bloke and I were out for the evening. Spent about £20 including lunch today.

Stayed at his flat last night and walked home, so have collected my full compliment of 10 snatch parcels and about 150 betterpoints for the walk.

Debating putting the SIM back in to the pop, it would mean I might be able to get the instore vypr steers which are worth about 100 points a time, currently there are 4 for Mr S, 2 for KFC and one for M&S, all of which are places I spend time near regularly so could pop in and earn the points (in Mr S yesterday I couldn't get the app to recognise I was instore even connected to the instore wifi).

scubaangel

Did a merchandising job before work earlier this week, managed to get the pop to find that I was instore and did two more steers at the same time.

Vypr is back up to 80% so hopefully I'll get another payout requested this week.

I've also fiound my first golden Snatch parcel this evening, I currently have another 30mins to find out that I've won £1 (bigger amounts are available but I dont expect to get those).

A few more citizenme surveys have dropped some more pennies in to paypal.

Also another lovely set of guests handed me foldy money for me and my team, so I've added my part to the current tips purse and I think there should be enough to cover the cash outlay of buying a couple of new skirts if I can get them instore and when I get the money reimbursed some new more appropriate work shoes - my current ones are trainer style and will look silly with a "suit" style work outfit.

scubaangel

My Snatch win was indeed a whole £1, so I've opened a Circle account and redeemed it.

Had planned to go for a run today but given the current state of the weather I feel that isn't a thing I want to do so I'm going to head to Matalan to see if they have any suitable skirts for work as there are a couple on the website which might be ok, annoyingly my local Matalan is the smallest I've ever seen so I'll likely end up buying online to click and collect more than one of the right colour and size.

scubaangel

Just redeemed another £5 from vypr. Means I only need another £19 to pay off the phone I'm using.

Have just been on a rather unsuccessful shopping trip looking for skirts for work. The Matalan £12 ones are too long and the £10 ones which are about the right length they only do in black and I need navy blue. M&S black ones (£29.50) are also a bit long - no navy in stock to check the colour match - and I can't see a petite option on either website. Next's tailored suit skirt was £60 :eek:

Will have to go in to Reading or Guildford to try some of the dept stores on my next day off.

scubaangel

Vypr paid yesterday so thats on its way to the bank account.

Had no citizenme's today but attapoll have had quite a few short surveys (have completed three, and screened out of two) but they have a £5 redemption threshold.

The boy wants to go out for dinner tonight so I need to shift off the sofa and in to a shower fairly soon.

scubaangel

Another vypr £5 redeemed and recieved.

It was almost instant this afternoon. So thats down to £14 to have paid for the pop.

Had a couple of citzenme's this week but not as many as last week and a few shopmium payments to withdrawn from paypal.

Decided to try swagbucks redemption for a £5 prepaid mastercard, thats come through so I'm going to see if I can pay it off my credit card directly. If I can I'll work out if I'm as well keep saving my sb's for a £100 paypal option or the equivalent in mastercards for best value since either way it goes to paying down my cc debts.

scubaangel

Been stupidly busy for the last couple of weeks, redeemed another £5 from vypr. Averaging two citizenme surveys a day (only 20p a day on average but worth it in the long run!).

Just spent £70 on a new pair of work shoes, ordered from Hotter via tcb so should get cash back, but need to go put the cash in the bank on monday as I've enough from cash tips in my second purse to cover the cost. Am planning to order a couple more skirts too the Asda ones are a good fit, a decent length and £6 each, so I'm thinking if I buy another 4 I've got enough to do a full load of washing with them and my suit jacket and a spare in case I need to change mid shift.

scubaangel

Still chasing my letting agent about the ceiling leak.....3 months and counting. Apparently two different contractors have been out to view the roof and have said they can't fix it. Which is odd since noone has been in touch to get in to the loft space to find said leaky area and from the outside there is no visible issue.

scubaangel

Just done some checking of survey sites, managed to remember my log in for gtm so logged in to the lifepoints app and have redeemed my points there for £10 to paypal, did a search and got pennies from qmee, so have also cashed out £1, an a couple of citizenme's so far this morning. Have withdrawn the £1 from paypal already and transfered that and the £6 from ciao in to the 'active' bank account, which is currently over drawn as I missed the cut off for changing my main credit card dd over to another account. Annoying but it should only take a couple of weeks to get it back in the black.