The next chapter ....

benbenandme

Tesco shopping arrived bang on 3pm, no substitutes, very happy with that. £50 shopping, that will come out of February's budget.
As I've done my surveys and I want to watch soccer saturday I will be looking for other moneymaking possibilities for the next hour or two.

benbenandme

£5 profit from a matched bet, added to January's total. I've also joined a couple more survey sites, will see how successful they are.
In other news Bournemouth won today, FA Cup 5th round here we come :T :T

lilmissmup

Well done on your productive day.

I am tempted to get a Fitbit as managing to stick at my exercise classes and have also signed up for bounts, but £100 is a lot when I am worried it will be a gadget I don't use enough.

benbenandme

I've got a fitbit flex, they are about £55 at the moment on Amazon - it's still a lot for a glorified pedometer but *when* I'm being good it definitely helps

dangers

benbenandme wrote: »

I have also been going through the mse email (which I never seem to find time for anymore) and have signed up to Bounts, which basically is a website that will give me points for my daily steps from my fitbit. It will take about 3 months to get a £5 voucher but that's another £20 over the year, which will cover another Xmas present and hopefully will encourage me to get off my !!!! more and get my steps in

Thank you for this - I've now signed up. As I had the charge for Christmas, I wear mine all day every day as a watch.

benbenandme

A few more bits done and crossed off the list;

[STRIKE]Clear washing pile[/STRIKE] DONE
Ironing
[STRIKE]CLean bathroom[/STRIKE] DONE
[STRIKE]Clear all rubbish / recycling[/STRIKE] DONE
[STRIKE]Email re. council tax yet again[/STRIKE] DONE
[STRIKE]Take Mums curtains to dry cleaners[/STRIKE] DONE
[STRIKE]Clear all surveys from inbox[/STRIKE] DONE
[STRIKE]Buy dog poo bags[/STRIKE] DONE
[STRIKE]Collect prescription[/STRIKE] DONE
Help ds plan his revision for exams
Tidy / clean kitchen
Change ds bedding
[STRIKE]Tidy / clean lounge[/STRIKE] DONE
[STRIKE]Tidy / clean my bedroom[/STRIKE] DONE
Clear bits and pieces outside the front door
[STRIKE]End of month banking[/STRIKE] DONE
Food plan for week ahead
[STRIKE]Make a coffee cake[/STRIKE] DONE
[STRIKE]Walk the dog[/STRIKE] DONE
[STRIKE]Collect ds stuff from Mums[/STRIKE] DONE

A few more bits to get done, I'll do the ironing later, Mums come round for a bath (she only has a shower at home and misses her bath), she is taking us out for Sunday lunch too I've also taken a couple of bin bags to the tip as I pass it on the way to Mums.

benbenandme

New month and another new start
I've transferred monies to where they need to be, moved a chunk into savings and adjusted my signature.

Maybe more importantly I've finally decided to get my &rse into gear (again ). This month I have 4 weeks to shift half a stone and get back into the gym habit. I plan to start the C25K app again, I can't believe I was running 5k twice a week just 6 months ago and have stopped doing anything now

benbenandme

Woohoo - do you remember I said I was doing a tax credits application a few weeks back? £638 just landed in my aco!!!! :j :j Wow, I knew it was better being single Off to add it to my signature, I will wait until the letter comes through from them explaining it all, but then I may need to adjust my yearly goal, maybe I can afford to get my new carpets that I want / need too

beanielou

As you weren't expecting the £££'s an excellent use of part of it is to buy your carpets.

benbenandme

Well that was a day and a half .... after the lovely £££ surprise this morning, had a hard day at work with redundancies announced Luckily I'm okay but its been a horrible atmosphere all day. Then tonight I had a huge huge row with Mr S and things have been said that there's no going back from at all, so that's it, he's gone, completely, not even friends anymore Think I might need some vodka tonight