Karmacat: I'm passionate about my DFW journey to riches

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

Its counterintuitive, but my business does better in an economic downturn - no idea why, since you'd think therapy and counselling is one of the "frills" that has to go, but that is absolutely not the case with my business, at any rate.

It does better in a downturn because there are greater pressures on people.

It's rather like divorce in that respect, except divorce is an even greater "frill".

elantan

thats some busy list you got going there ..

The_Dragon

Good luck with the list KarmaCat and especially with the matched betting! I do not have either the available income OR the guts for that one!

Karmacat

Hi Z - I'm sure you're right, it just surprises me when it happens....

Hi El, hi Dragon - I love my list! Tho at the mo, I've emailed moneybookers to see that my non-funded account with them is still available for me to stick euros in - my mingey little French bank really couldn't hack the misunderstandings that would follow on from anything on that scale. Thats a longwinded way of saying that I haven't done the "phoning the French bank" thing.

I'd really like to do my gardening now, but the sun is still too strong for me, so it'll have to be... the yougov survey! Ta-da!

Karmacat

:beer: Woo hoo! The sky is completely grey, going overcast, and I have to work all day, and all day tomorrow too and the markets I try to work with are both stuck in teeny, untradeable-for-me ranges, and I don't care!!!!! Just got my two mystery shopping payments in in the last few days, today's is £171.50, thats a total of £192.50 for all that m.s. work I did recently! :j

Just worked out that in the last month I've got actual *money* of £229; and since I've vowed from now on that every £300 I get extra, I'm going to overpay on the loan £300 - its still a lot of money in interest. So I'm three quarters of the way there to that first overpayment.

OliveOyl_2

Yay that's good news KC, :T you and Hypno must do SO much MS-ing to get paid that amount. All I've ever aimed for is £20 per month - which I have managed over the last 2 years. I do find inputting the reports tiresome sometimes, there's a limit to how many ways you can say the same thing
Perhaps I should raise my game?

Karmacat

Hi OO - I've never earned that much before from m.shopping - there were two big research projects going on, and a lot of it was ticking boxes etc. My rate of pay on it is often abysmally low, cos I don't have a car and have to go by public transport to places, which takes a *long* time, but it does mean that if I manage to fit two in in one day, then it can shoot the rate of pay up. As a regular target, £20 is fine, tho I must say, I don't have a target, I just take nearly everything thats offered that I'm eligible for!

Karmacat

Right, am at home today again, and I have a list. This is the dfw stuff:
- Nectar comp done
- YouGov surveys (determined to get that £50 before Christmas!) done one, other is greyed out for now, site problem. Bother.
- shopping update on here. done
- switch my fuel bills, following the emergency email update from Martin - its time, even tho I have a backlog with my current gas supplier...
- do the same fo my water bill.

There's other stuff - cousin email, vacuuming, blah blah, but I'll just focus on the dfw stuff here, or I'll never be off the computer.

Ooh - other dfw stuff:
- peel cook and freeze those damned carrots, before they go off.
- make some tasty snax from storecupboard!

Karmacat

Right, shopping update for the grocery challenge is the easy one.

Lettuce 49p, sugar snaps £1.50 on offer, pesto £1.79, broccoli 71p, bananas 64p, 1kg cornflakes 98p, bogof hot x buns 89p, basics coffee £1.06, 1kg sugar 84p. Takeaway cup of tea yesterday on the beach - bargain 60p! Total £9.50. Looks like I'll make well under £50 - and I don't think my storecupboard contributions would take it over £50. I'm pleased with that, even if it is 100% over the actual challenge total! :rotfl:

Off for brekkie now.

hypno06

I agree on the mystery shops - take what you can when you can - it seems to be all or nothing a lot of the time!

Carrots.....that reminds me, I need to make some carrot and coriander soup today with my glut of "value" carrots in the fridge........would be good for lunches at work too........