Diary of my new life !!!

benbenandme

Yeah the surveys do all seem to be paying out at once at the moment Its great timing though because I put them all towards Christmas shopping so its ideal really. At the momnet I have £60 John Lewis vouchers (£30 more on the way), £40 theatre vouchers (were a present I haven't used, may ebay them), £10 Boots advantage points, £20 Argos card, £57 bonusbonds (from work, vouchers that can be used in loads of high street retailers), £10 M&S voucher on its way, a couple of pounds on WHSmith card and a couple of pounds on ELC card and £70 Tesco clubcard points and another £56 due in the next mailing (think I might put all of them towards a holiday next year:D ).

Sea78

Fabulous going! I should keep more of a track of my vouchers - got £15 argos vouchers coming at the moment and also have £60 debenhams gift card to use for Christmas. Really trying to get my other surveys sites up to the claiming limit, so answering every survey - event he really boring ones at the moment! Also getting a cheque from Freefivers any day too

I never thought I'd get so excited about clicking! lol!

Have you started your shopping for Christmas then?

Sea xxx

benbenandme

I did loads of xmas shopping in the January sales ... I put bits away all through the year, although most bits get used up on birthdays :rolleyes:
I have a chart where I log who I need to buy for, how much to spend, whats in my present box already etc .... most of ds xmas stocking is done through bits I pick up from mystery shops throughout the year
I want to try and get most of it done this week though so I can enjoy the run up to xmas with ds without the mad rush to buy stuff:D

Ellidee

Sea78 wrote: »

oooh skittles Sorry to hear that you are ill with them though - maybe it was a good thing you ate them and didn't inflict them on someone else though, eh?!

Nothing to do with eating the WHOLE tube eh ?:rotfl: Anyway I can't say too much, I ate a whole box of maltesers not so long ago! Hope your tum soons feels better and you have a lovely week off with your son. XX

benbenandme

Yep it was totally my own fault, and at 2:30am this morning I vowed not to eat any more processed / fattening food ... didn't last long though, I've just eaten a milky way
I've just done some housework and put some washing on and the dishwasher on, now I need to tackle the paperwork mountain that has built up again on the table :rolleyes:

chocaholic110

Great going on the vouchers! I don't know what I did before I discovere survey sites! All OH's nieces and nephews have had £5 argos vouchers for birthdays this year and have paid for DD and Ds's birthday presents using vouchers. In faact, last week I used £50 of survey vouchers at Argos to buy Christmas / birthday presents and got £5 back which was nice.

Next year I plan to keep track of how many vouchers / daily click cheques I've received and maybe put it all in a Christmas account - see if I can have a completely free Christmas (there's a challenge for next year!)

benbenandme

I have kept track of all my survey sites this year and it helps motivate me when I get fed up of completing them When you see the totals for doing very little it makes it worthwhile, especially if you save up all the dribs and drabs and it soon makes a decent amount.

benbenandme

This afternoon ds and I went to McD's for lunch and they have one of those soft-play areas and ds isn't the most adventurous child and at first he woul only climb up one level (about 2 ft high :rolleyes: ) but eventually he managed to get up to the top of the climbing thing (about 8ft) ...he was so chuffed with himself.
As the weather was lovely we went to the park this afternoon and he wante to ride his bike ... well, when I say ride I really mean he sits on it and I push him :rolleyes: He knows what to do but doesn't really have enough ooomph to push the pedals round ... but by the time we got home he could just about manage it and was really pleased with himself
Have just had a nice chat with cutie guy again ... discussing how our footie team are doing Am now gonna gt ds ready for bed and then settle down for some AQA'ing .. oh and watching the rugby

benbenandme

Only managed £2.10 on AQA last night, the rugby was far too distracting so I wasn't concentrating so gave up
Yesterday was pretty unproductive so today I think I need a list to keep track of what gets done, so ....

Today I must ....

• Buy the Mirror (free ladybird book)
• Pack stuff to take to mums
• Do ironing
• Make a reward chart for ds
• Pay council tax
• Pay Next bill
• Package up ebay item (she's finally paid :rolleyes: )
• Sort birthday presents from pressie box for 3 of ds friends
• £5 AQA
• Take rubbish out
• Clean and hoover through
• Paint nails
• Bath
• Watch the grand prix
• Update xmas list ready for xmas shopping trip on tuesday

Think that should be enough to keep me going for now :rotfl:
Will keep you all updated with my progress

Karmacat

Wow, that'll be a good day's work, benben - this is your half term, right? Hope you have some time off too!