#Make Upto £10 a Day March 2018 #

shariann

Good to hear things are better with your little ones Jess and Mike. Hope you both manage to catch up on some sleep

cufc_mike

carbootcrazy wrote: »

Brilliant! Well done to your DD:T:j. It's great too that these days such special events can be filmed and shared with others:T.

And today we have a video of her riding her bike with no stabilisers for the first time. It's been quite a week!

She loves watching videos of herself back. We have tons, and some memorable moments including her first steps. I use an app called Timehop on my phone, which sends daily pics/videos of things you've taken 1, 2, 3yr ago etc. Brightens up every morning for me.

Edit: Just waiting for the boxing to finish to tot up my totals for today. £122.98
I've absolutely smashed my target this month, and actually made more than I have done from my full-time job. :j

QueenJess

cufc_mike wrote: »

Evening all. Thanks for the well wishes, and sending get well soons, and chin ups to everybody who needs them. Things are on the up. Both the kiddies are just about back to their normal selves now. The youngest is still a bit of a grump, but think he's on the verge of teething. I'm having an early night tonight, hopefully catch up on a bit of sleep. I need it!

Swimming tomorrow morning with the 4 yr old. Always look forward to watching her. Don't think I've mentioned it with all that has been going on. So we went swimming last Sunday with the grandparents, as we do once a fortnight, and my daughter decided she wanted to "swim without armbands". She enjoys swimming, but only very recently has started putting her face in the water, and is by no means confident or strong enough to be swimming without armbands yet...or so I thought. So she took her armbands off, lowered herself into the pool and I stood off her, about 4 feet away. I told her to push off the wall, and expected one or two frantic splashes before I'd catch her. How wrong was I. She pushed off, and started swimming. I found myself backing away, further and further...until we reached the other side of the pool. She'd swam a full length, unaided. PROUD DADDY! So we did that 2 or 3 more times throughout the 45 mins or so we were in the pool, and video recorded it too for the other grandparents at the opposite end of the country. Originally I thought all the water she'd be swallowing had led to the tummy bug she ended up with on Monday; however by the time she was back in nursery on Thursday, we found out that most of the kiddies that had been at a birthday party on Sunday afternoon had all been off nursery with a sickness bug too.

£30.76 matched betting today for me.

Have a great weekend all.

:T:j:) Brilliant

QueenJess

shariann wrote: »

Thanks for the hug Aesop

Totally agree with you on the above. When my boys were small I hated talking to other mums as it just made me feel inadequate. They weren't particularly bad sleepers, once I started them on solids, but were late developers and very difficult toddlers. It can be very isolating when you are already tired and emotional.

Thanks both Aesop and shariann. I am very aware and worried about myself and PND, but I really don't have it. I am just very tired and really just have a lack of people to talk to. When I go to stuff with other mums I just feel like I can't talk about it as I only ever seem to find people with perfect children or people who think everything is always brilliant. Also don't feel I can talk to hubby, so it's just a bit isolating to never be able to have a glass of wine and a bit of a whinge.

Also I am prevented from doing the things I love best and relax me (sport) as everything is on in the evenings and I am stuck with a baby. If only I could go back I would feel better... it is social as much as anything else. In the meantime I am filling my time with moneymaking instead, which is good in a way.

Had a bit more sleep this weekend and organised some things to do with baby which I really enjoyed. He's almost 14 months now and very interactive. It feels good to be able to do a bit more with him. We are planting, looking after and eating things (mainly cress / salad), going outside to walk to the park and go on the swings and I have ordered a few craft things we can try.

Also the extra light in the day is lifting my mood a little. Am looking forward to finishing saving for the garden (the work starts in May) which will include a swing for baby and so we can play outside and then will start on storage saving for our downstairs... I plan to then buy a fish tank as baby loves fish and I used to keep some. The little things I am looking forward to.

On another note, I just got £50 from a family member as a late birthday present and had a bit of a MB surprise free bet and a small win. All in all I am at £684.29 for the month with a bit more to come!

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QueenJess wrote: »

.... I am just very tired and really just have a lack of people to talk to. When I go to stuff with other mums I just feel like I can't talk about it as I only ever seem to find people with perfect children or people who think everything is always brilliant. Also don't feel I can talk to hubby, so it's just a bit isolating to never be able to have a glass of wine and a bit of a whinge.

You sounded much more upbeat in your full post:j. Things will pick up for you:). Try to be thankful for something every day, however small it is. Something as simple as the sun shining or seeing buds on the trees. I know some of the advocates of this technique suggest finding 3 things every day but in the past when I was going through some black times, many years before the 'mindfulness 'thing' took off, I was hard-pressed to find even one thing sometimes at first:eek:. I usually managed it even though at first I was struggling to find anything in my life to be grateful for. In time it becomes second nature to end each day feeling I've been really blessed (in a totally non-religious way). That doesn't mean I go around with a constant smile on my face or that I wouldn't change loads of things about my life if I could. It just helps to make the bad times seem not totally awful.


Sorry about the sermon (again in a non-religious way):o


As for missing someone to talk to and have a glass of wine with, I empathise totally with that:kisses3:. I've never been able to talk to OH about anything important or involving emotions. He just doesn't 'get' how people tick:(. He doesn't want to know how they are feeling. I'm not a big crier but when anything really awful has happened in my life and I've actually cried anywhere near him he's just lost his temper and stamped out of the room. Giving a hug to someone who's in emotional distress (even me, his partner of 40 years) is just something he'd never do. I do understand how isolated and alone you feel at the moment. Just remember you've all those wonderful years ahead, sharing things and having fun and memorable times with your son:j.


We're all here for you on this thread. Drop in and have a good 'whinge' whenever you need to. You're not whinging at all by the way, that was your word;). We can't supply the wine:( but we can 'listen', maybe offer some words of advice and reassurance, and definitely send virtual hugs your way:grouphug:

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Just checked internet banking and see the cheque for items I put in a local auction weeks ago has now cleared. I wasn't selling any treasures, just run of the mill stuff but it was bulky and heavy and no use for sending by courier. No use for car booting either, it would have filled up the car for very little profit:(. Also, living in the back of beyond I was so fed up with supposed buyers never turning up when I tried to sell on Facebook or Gumtree that I stopped doing it:mad:. Worth it to me paying auction house fees just to get rid:j. Made £112.70 after fees so I can't complain can I?


Just been to Morrisons and used a £5 MOC


I'm still nowhere near my target and unlikely to reach it unless a miracle happens:o


The sun is shining here although there's no warmth in it. It's shown up how grimy the windows are after all the wind and rain so it looks like my next few hours are going to be busy:(


I hope the sun is shining on everyone else and that we all have a good last week of the month:beer:

Aesop

I am so sorry I have just left you all in the lurch since January.

life is crazy hectic for me at the moment, even my moneymaking is going out of the window with things going on in reallife.

hoping after this weekend, things will start becoming a bit more normal and less stressful.

LL annoyed me. so much I had a go at him over the internet via whatsapp. Its an app where you can talk to people for free like texting.

he never responds to me when i call or text except if it involves him so I gave him both barrels. He booked an appointment on sat mornign for purple bricks to come round. he conveniently forgot to ask me if it was ok and then said he thought it was for next sat. even worse as we aren't here then.

I told him we had agreed he could have estate agents to value the house but we had to agree when they would be coming, time, etc. I reminded him he had an obligation to give us advance warning, we both work, have a child who has activities, and a life!!! We don't sit around on the off chance he may have booked an appointment for someone!

I was going out and there was no chance of someone coming in for an hour and half anyway. so he got turned away.

have rearranged it but said i want them out of the house by 12pm on the dot otherwise i am kicking them out. not happy as we are away this weekend and that means monday i have to spend cleaning, tidying, making room for them to measure walls, check windows and all that c££$£p.


I cant wait to just move and be over and done with all this. It has got to me now. DH said I wish we had asked him for a year, I was like no... you are constantly moaning about neighbours, who I complained to and then the other side has started. staying another year will not make a single bit of difference. we need to go now.


anyway. I promise to try and be more involved with postings about money making in April.

well done to everyone who has successfully smashed their targets, made any kind of money this month and doing well.

I have got son into habit of moneysaving at last. He said to me can I trade in my old games at Game? How does it work? I explained it, he went round collecting old games and even some of our stuff without asking deciding he didn't use it, so could trade it in. I made him put 2 of them back but agreed on the third to trade in. He found a new game for the switch he wanted and we worked out the trade in would cover it all :T:beer::j

so we went to game on sunday, traded in, he got £39 trade in and a new game from that trade in money. With £11 left on a gift card. He said ok how do I earn money to go with that gift card so I can buy another game? a mser in the making......

alicemarie

I know we are nearly at the end of March, so I won't be joining this challenge. But I'd like to ask, do you all declare the earnings from surveys etc? I'm one to worry about not doing things correctly. So don't want to start until I'm legally ready to. Help please!

Aesop

alicemarie wrote: »

I know we are nearly at the end of March, so I won't be joining this challenge. But I'd like to ask, do you all declare the earnings from surveys etc? I'm one to worry about not doing things correctly. So don't want to start until I'm legally ready to. Help please!

its a bit of a grey area, depending on who you speak to at HRMC, some say yes, but as your earnings will be usually under the threshold, it wont affect you. Others say no at HRMC and some say count cash but not vouchers.

there is a guide about it here

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Aesop. It sounds as if you've been having a horrendous time with the house and everything, I hope the Purple Bricks assessor gets everything he/she needs to do finished with the least disruption to you and the family. Have you found another house yet? It must be very difficult finding the time to get things sorted with everything else you've got on at the minute.


Your DS's success with his games trading made me smile. A real chip off the old block there, Aesop;). He'll go far. It's never too soon to learn the value of money. You've trained him well:T


Don't worry about leaving us in the lurch for a while. The thread isn't the same without you but we know you've got a lot of real life stuff that has to take priority in the bit of spare time that you can squeeze out of each day. We'll still be here when you can come back more often:beer: