Diary of my new life !!!

chevalier

Glad to see you got yourself out. Hopefully you will have killed some of the germs in that cold fresh air!!

You seem very motivated with your lists. Puts me to shame. But on the other hand, there is often something on your list which reminds me that I have to do something. So I am now off to find the cheque that is somewhere in the pile of presents for the ds's
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benbenandme

Yep they were both on buy it nows, I usually do auctions cos I like the excitement of the last minute bidding :rolleyes: but as I'm back at work next week I thought it would be easier to post them this week if they were on buy-it-nows

I had a phonecall earlier from Mecca bingo asking why I hadnt used the site recently ... I didnt like to tell them I only signed up to get free cash from quidco, used the free bonus and am not interested anymore anyway, they said they'd credit my account with £20 to tempt me back .... so I've just played a few games of Deal or No Deal, losing 20p here and there and making 20p here and there, and then it let me withdraw £17.91 of it !!! :j

Woohoo !!! Am WELL chuffed !!! Easy free money !!! I was tempted to hang up on them when they phoned, and then when she mentioned crediting my account I was beaming

My Next man delivered delivered some more of my sale order this afternoon too but I will be sending all 5 items back as they all fit but none are very flattering :rotfl:

Natlou_2

Hi BenBen, just wondered if all the next ordering you do through Quidco, I have been a Next shopper for ages, I always go through Quidco, and the money tracks even if you subsequently send the stuff back.

Natlou x

benbenandme

Thanks Natlou, yep I went through quidco for my net stuff and have got £2.62 tracking from it :beer: which will cover most of the delivery charge

benbenandme

Quidco paid out £22.23 today which has gone straight into the mortgage pot, and that was just enough to scratch another month off the total :j :j So, now we're down to August 2031 :T :T Few more years to go but its nice when I can tick a month off my chart

I also got 100 piggypoints today for something or other I must have signed up for, so thats a start towards todays £10 for the January challenge.

I am trying to get an appointment to get my haircut today, its totally out of control at the moment and in desperate need of something doing to it, I found a really nice picture of Kelly Clarksons hair yesterday that I like, but my highlights need doing too so all in all its gonna cost me about £80 :eek: :eek: Bu I haven't had it done for about 6 months, think I need to start building it into the budget each month really as I have it done about every 6 months :rolleyes:

Keeping_Motivated

Hi Benben well done on the great start to the year with your mortgage money.

Do you have a chart for your mortgage that you tick off literally? Where did you get that from? I'm rubbish at this type of thing but would love to start some kind of chart to track the things I am trying to achieve!

benbenandme

I made a chart on excel, I'm rubbish at that kind of thing so it is very basic, each row is a year and each column is a month, so basically there are 12 boxes in each row. I printed it off and laminated it and stuck it on the kitchen wall. I have written in the start month, the original end month and then I colour in a box each time a month gets knocked off. I love it !!!! Very basic but keeps me motivated :beer:

Keeping_Motivated

Doesn't sound basic to me Thanks for expalining it though.

skint_spice

well done on the mortgage savings, can't wait to get my debts gone and start getting rid of some of that too. Have you got snow today? DS is wishing we did!

spud30

Ohhhh I need some help with Excel Benben - probably dead basic, but I'm a complete novice.

Can you help me hun?