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

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  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    £1000! Thats really, really good.... its true, in the bigger scheme of things, we're still miles better off.

    And the water bill - thats true too, it will pay for itself within a year, if the costings I've read about are correct. Its win-win really: either I need the work done, in which case the house electrics are safer and I'll save money from next year, or I don't need the work done, I know I'm safer, and I can start saving money within the next couple of months!
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Karmacat
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    Wow! I'm a bit relieved right now. Just been to check the matched bet I did yesterday - no reason to think I'd got it wrong, just that it was very high odds so hundreds of pounds hanging on getting it right. Fortunately I did, and I got a total return of £22.14 - there was a slight arb on the qualifier, so I only lost 53p, and then these odds for the SNR were humongous (21/21!!!!!) - thats why they were so scary! - so I made £22.14 net from this! I'm dead chuffed to get a return of 88% from an SNR freebie!
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • redsquirrel80
    redsquirrel80 Posts: 12,457 Forumite
    Well done - that's brilliant!

    Any plans for today?
    Debt@16.12.09 £10,362.38, now debt free as of 29.02.2012.
    "I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better."
  • Karmacat
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    Thanks! I'd just been thinking about plans. No trading this morning, cos of the Bank Holiday, tho I will do the Dow this afternoon. So plans today:

    - put dried washing away (what do you mean, iron it first?)
    - empty floor of airing cupboard so the builder can look at the leak on Wednesday.
    - quick vac of bedroom floor, cos of said builder having to walk through :o
    - keep an eye on the trading from 1.30pm this afternoon.
    - clean the bathroom (as I said on your thread, its a bit grotty, not very nice to be in there right now).
    - baking! I started munching on the cooking chocolate I bought the other day, and thats no good - if I bake, it will be healthy! And cheaper!

    - EDIT - surveys too, I didn't finish them all last night. Am in middle of, too!
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • redsquirrel80
    redsquirrel80 Posts: 12,457 Forumite
    Iron? What is this 'iron' of which you speak? :confused: :rotfl:

    Have a good day... mmm yum baking :D
    Debt@16.12.09 £10,362.38, now debt free as of 29.02.2012.
    "I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better."
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    Tee hee.... not got round to the baking yet, am still churning my way through the surveys - I clicked on an email sent on the 18th, and the survey was still valid. Just checked with Valued Opinions, and I had £12 in there!!! So I claimed a £10 Amazon voucher. Excellent - August total is now as follows:
    81.00 previously listed
    22.14 Stan James
    10.00 Valued Ops = £113.14

    Thank heavens for small mercies.

    QUERY: anybody else noticed a weird login at tns? In fact, I can't, they've got spaces for username and password, but nowhere that *works*, to click to enter..... ????
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Wow all this money making going on..i can't believe those totals from quidco, i have only made £220 through them!

    Brill news on the surveys KC..you so deserve those vouchers....on some of them i keep being told part way that i am not eligible to take part in the survey..i was well over half way through the other day as well..do you get this? And do you still get points for a part completion?
    Blackadder: Am I jumping the gun, Baldrick, or are the words 'I have a cunning plan' marching with ill-deserved confidence in the direction of this conversation?
    Still lurking around with a hope of some salvation:cool:
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    Wow all this money making going on..i can't believe those totals from quidco, i have only made £220 through them!

    Yep, I'm at around that too - KM and Hypno have really been going at it. I think it takes time to do everything....
    Brill news on the surveys KC..you so deserve those vouchers...

    Thanks! Some are fun and some .... aren't :rotfl: but I persevere.
    on some of them i keep being told part way that i am not eligible to take part in the survey..i was well over half way through the other day as well..do you get this? And do you still get points for a part completion?

    Oh definitely that *has* happened to me, tho not for a while - I remember somebody put a compaint in about that a while back, it is a bit much. Ciao have sharpened their act up on that tho - I get screened out after they've checked its me, sometimes :eek: or after 3 questions at most, thats fair enough. I just delete their 10p things tho.

    What's concerning me about the surveys I've done is that some of them have really duff websites, I suspect they're taking advantage. As I was going through my emails (and I went through dozens) the only ones I've had actual money/real vouchers from are Valued Opinions, lightspeed and ciao. I *think* tns, toluna and ipoints are legit, not sure about Zoom, ipsos and Harris - but I haven't had rewards from any of them (I'm a bit slow sometimes!) so can't vouch for them.
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • I haven't signed up to them all! I got screened out after inital checks as well..still it all helps doesn't it. That's what i keep telling myself anyway.......
    Blackadder: Am I jumping the gun, Baldrick, or are the words 'I have a cunning plan' marching with ill-deserved confidence in the direction of this conversation?
    Still lurking around with a hope of some salvation:cool:
  • redsquirrel80
    redsquirrel80 Posts: 12,457 Forumite
    What's concerning me about the surveys I've done is that some of them have really duff websites, I suspect they're taking advantage. As I was going through my emails (and I went through dozens) the only ones I've had actual money/real vouchers from are Valued Opinions, lightspeed and ciao. I *think* tns, toluna and ipoints are legit, not sure about Zoom, ipsos and Harris - but I haven't had rewards from any of them (I'm a bit slow sometimes!) so can't vouch for them.

    Ipsos have a really rubbish website but they are genuine, I've had quite a few vouchers from them, although they are a bit slow to deliver. Have had some from ToLuna as well, and iPoints. Zoom, I think they only offer 'gifts' rather than cash or vouchers don't they? Gave up on them anyway!

    Home of Research are worth a go, although I had to chase them up for a focus group I did earlier this year, they generally do pay out ok.
    Debt@16.12.09 £10,362.38, now debt free as of 29.02.2012.
    "I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better."
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