The Happiness Fund.

savingwannabe

Just met up with friends and went to see 'Eddie the Eagle' Film and also had a meal and bought some toiletries. Spent £50 in total. (Twenty five pounds spent on toiletries, £6 bus fare, and £20 on food and kind friend bought ticket).

'Eddie the Eagle' was excellent. If anyone wants to see a fab motivational film about hard work, determination & triumph in spite of prejudice & snobbery this is a great uplifting film. A great afternoon's viewing.

savingwannabe

Five sets of jewellery listed at v low prices. Let's hope I make some money. Marking done and no money spent today.:j

Hoping to pack all my carboot stuff into boxes tomorrow so the house is tidy.

savingwannabe

It's a nice dry day and my last week of hols. I am going to finish all the exam papers today and then chill. It rained v badly last night. Some of my jewellery will definitely sell. Hurrah, money for the kitchen fund. :beer:

savingwannabe

Jobs for holiday:
Marking in progress
Planning
[STRIKE]Fleabay my silver jewellery done
Tidy all carboot stuff into a pile in store cupboard done
[/STRIKE]
I was supposed to take my niece to the shops but we cancelled as it rained. I have just put my books into cardboard boxes and have decided I will give them to charity as I can't imagine anyone will pay for them. I can't believe I did. I haven't even read some of them and they cost me so much. So glad I have changed my shopping habits.

All I have left to do is to complete my marking and planning. I think I have had a productive holiday so far. Hurrah. :j

savingwannabe

I bought a top in Primark. I have never shopped there before. I am feeling guilty as it isn't supposed to be ethical. I spent a lot of money over the last few days when meeting my friends and niece in town but I will make up for it over the next few weeks when work starts.

Still have marking to do. Starting it now.

Just checked bank statement which looks v low. Anyway what a fab surprise, Clydesdale bank have just given me £150. This is going in my mortgage fund so I don't do anything silly with it. Yay. I think I can transfer this account to Marks and Spencer soon. OMG.

savingwannabe

I went out with a dear friend for lunch today. We both had a meal for £10 each. It was lovely and bright and then the heaven's opened. I will not spend now on any fripperies till payday as I have been out quite a bit this holiday. I am not going to beat myself up about the spending, most of it was on other people and will carry on saving as I am in this for the long term. I remember when I first starting saving for my extension and I worried how I would do it. I still raised £30,000.

We had a look at some lovely plants at the garden centre and a fantastic swing seat. These are lovely things to dream about in the future when I am financially secure

I have ordered a £1 book from fleabay on trees that is my treat for the month.:o

Aesop

savingwannabe wrote: »

Jobs for holiday:
Marking in progress
Planning
[STRIKE]Fleabay my silver jewellery done
Tidy all carboot stuff into a pile in store cupboard done
[/STRIKE]
I was supposed to take my niece to the shops but we cancelled as it rained. I have just put my books into cardboard boxes and have decided I will give them to charity as I can't imagine anyone will pay for them. I can't believe I did. I haven't even read some of them and they cost me so much. So glad I have changed my shopping habits.

All I have left to do is to complete my marking and planning. I think I have had a productive holiday so far. Hurrah. :j

nooooo there are sites that will pay for books not riches but some income is better than none.

webuybooks, also check for cashback and codes for extra money

fatbrain

ziffit

zappa

musicmagpie - I think

we talk about this sort of stuff on make £10 a day thread. one guy Azzaaa has gone mad for it, he thinks he can make quite a bit of profit selling on books

savingwannabe

Aesop you are a star. :kisses3:

I will investigate. It's freezing. I woke up and just put the heating on.

savingwannabe

Well this is it, the end of my holiday. I haven't completed all my work and haven't done any planning. This is the first holiday ever since I have been at my current employer that I haven't completed my holiday tasks. I don't suppose many other people have either we are all waiting to hear about redundancies and job cuts so I'm not going to work all holiday when I am just a number to them.

My fridge is full. My bookcase looks tidy. My fleabay auctions are ending in the next hour I have made £32. Every bit helps the mortgage fund. The things i sold were barely used and i paid a lot more for them back in the days when i was rich. John the builder reckons we can still carboot my books as someone may pay something for them so I will hold off giving them to charity and will also explore Aesop's sites for money raising. I am in the process of setting up accounts with M&S and also with Tesco to save more money. All in all, it's been a good holiday.

savingwannabe

I started teaching a new course today. It is not my subject area and is v different to what I usually do. It has been an interesting day.

I also did some admin at work. From now on I will be working 5 days a week but at the same pay. I don't mind, it makes life interesting and gives me more time to do my admin. lol :j