Diary of my new life !!!

benbenandme

Next have refunded the delivery charge for me :T :T Very impressed with the speed of service as I only emailed them yesterday or saturday
Have got to do a bumper trip to the post office today, have to post 1 ebay parcel and figure out how much two others will be to Japan / Australia.
Yesterday was a no spend day :T , oh no it wasn't sorry, spent £1.20 on bread and crackers. We went to my Nans birthday party and there was a huge buffet so we filled up and had lots of cake
Today we're having a lazy day as ds is shattered! Have promised a trip to the park after the post office but otherwise it'll be a vegging kind of day. Last night I had another chat with my new online friend so far so good, will keep you all updated on any progress in that department !!

benbenandme

I pm'ed SS after reading his diary and took him up on his £100 offer .... the blokes a star, half an hour later I've "earned";) £115 !!!! Yay !!!! LOVE YOU SS !!!:D :beer:
This will also go towards my Next bill which should be coming along nicely now! :j :j

benbenandme

The £50 from topcashback has tracked today (from SS thingy) ... so thats a damn good start to the day !! :beer: Today the weather is a bit yukky again so I am writing a list of all those niggly little jobs that never get done and we're going out and not coming back till we've done them! :rotfl:
So far the list includes .... post another ebay item, return next trousers, buy ds school socks, do some food shopping, pay in cheques to ds account (branch is in next town), buy another mouse trap for the garage :eek:, buy some no nails and finlly stik up the noticeboard that I bought about a month ago .... sure there must be loads more things I need to do ....

benbenandme

Once I've done it all I want to figure out how I'm doing money-wise this month as I seem to have got a bit lost on the way in terms of keeping track of whats where I think I'm doing pkay, but would like to know exactly where we're up to Will report back later

benbenandme

Forgot to mention, I signed up to Truprint this morning on quidco and got 20 photos for free (just 99p for p&p) and its tracked on quidco already for £6.00 :T :T

benbenandme

I have just withdrawn my "winnings" ... I got £120 back (including my £55 deposit) and have another £50 tracked :j :j
Today I went to Tesco and spent £36, I had a voucher for £5 so only came to £31. This included a jumper for me and ds new school socks. I also got a pack of fruit-shoots ... they had 24 for £1.99 !!:D :beer: These are fab for taking to the beach / picnics although with the weather we're having this summer maybe its a good thing they keep :rolleyes:
Took ds to McD's for tea (£2.25for a happy meal) and took it down the beach to eat it;)
Must have a big tidy up tonight (AGAIN!) as the place is an absolute tip :mad:

katierose

Me too,i've just withdrawn £158 which includes the deposit:j

and have £50 tracked as well,well chuffed :T What a nice man SS is.

benbenandme

Today I've got to go back to Tesco as I read the offer wrong and the fruitshoots are £5.00 and you save £1.99 not the other way round:o
Also got a mystery shop to do today where I have to buy something that I would have had to buy today anyway but at least they will pay me for doing so
Still have to go to the post office today as it was shut when I went yesterday :rolleyes: Am also going to go and buy a new printer, mine gave up months ago and I've got by but I do need it now or I will start spending a fortune printing at the library. I will only buy a cheapy one as I don't need it that often.
Postie brought the labels to iron onto ds uniform today so I have that treat to look forward to :rolleyes: He also brought the truprint photos I ordered yesterday through quidco :eek: how quick were they?? :T :T

Last night I sorted out where I'm up to, and I have got £163 left for the month for everything, I will spend at least £11 today on the mystery shop, and I need to get ds hairut before he starts school, but other than that its just for food/petrol/general day-to-day stuff, so hopefully I'll be able to save a bit of it. I also looked at what money I've gt coming in from other sources this month (ebay / car boot / mystery shops / SS offer / ciao) and once its all arrived I will only need to find another £82 to clear the £500 I was short at the start of the month :T :T :T I will be able to find this from my wages as I am owed holiday pay from my old job so that will cover it and then I can concentrate on my mortgage fund again !!! :beer:

benbenandme

Today I spent £4 in the post office and the £11 as expected on the mystery shop. It was a petrol one and I am new to driving so ended up having to ask a bloke to help me as I couldn't undo the petrol cap :rolleyes: but other that that it all went fine;)
Then we went to homebase to get a mousetrap but they also had those little boxes like renrokil use so I bought them instead, at least theres no chance of trapping my fingers or having to dipose of my furry friend (s) afterwards
That cost £7.99:eek: :eek: and I also bought a bag for life in there which was reduced to 49p. I thought it would be handy to keep in the car for all the random bits that seem to be living there already (spare shoes / bucket and spade / baby wipes etc).
I got a printer in pc world - I went for the cheapest one they had (£30) despite the poor bloke trying his best to persuade me I needed an all-singing-all-dancing one that cost £150 :eek: ... I told him I mainly use it to print cbeebies pictured from their website or to upload receipts from my mystery shops Poor bloke looked petrified and then kept trying to add-on insurance and kept asking if there was anything else he could help with. He then ran round telling all the others and they must have thought I was doing a mysery shop on them as they were all sooooo helpful :rotfl: :rotfl:

benbenandme

My £65 from ss offer has just arrived in my bank account so I paid it off my Next bill straight away before I could be tempted to spend any :A
Today I took ds to an indoor soft play plae and it was £5.50 entrance or £10 for membership which included free entrance on your first visit, so I went for this. It entitles us to £1 off each time we visit and I'm guessing that we could visit quite regularly with the weather being like this :rolleyes: I also spent £3.50 on food / drinks while we were there but he loved it and it was good for him to run about like a loony for a bit It also gave me the chance to sit down with my notebook and write yet another list of jobs to be one :rolleyes:
When we were going to go there I nearly trod on a mouse in the garage :eek: it was lying right by the car door so I bravely shovelled it into a box as Ididn't have a bag or anything to put it into. When we got back I went and found a carrier bag and picked up the box and the bloody thing was still moving :eek: :eek: :eek: OMG, I am sooooo not good at this sort of thing !!! Anyhow, its now safely bagged up and at the bottom of the communal rubbih bin
After lunch the sun came out so we went down to the beach and ds played in the sand for a couple of (free!) hours :rotfl: