Cheery's country living adventure

Cheery_Daff

:rotfl: :rotfl: Yes, a bit of a trek to get rid of some old bits and bobs :rotfl: :rotfl:

Made it as far as breakfast - that's progress, right?! I just WISH it would stop raining all the time! It just makes going outside to do anything grim, everywhere is muddy and soggy, and my attempt to fix my wellies with Sugru has FAILED sadly (held up for a few days, but the crack was right on the bend on the top of the foot, and obviously it hasn't sealed properly with all the bending). Leaky wellies are NO use to me.

Right - that's what I'll do first - order some new wellies, and do YNAB, and then I'll tog up and start sorting out the rubbish and the car :j

Cheery_Daff

Ok, wellies ordered (for £15 including postage, not bad), YNAB done - and only £8 in the budget fiddling category! :money: Been pretty good about entering things as I buy them lately and it made a HUGE difference :j

Karmacat

Yep, basics done: wellies are crucial! YNAB is extra-extra-helpful. I wonder if you've given yourself enough treat days this holiday? Cos it *is* holiday, after all. Difficult with all the rain thats going on, though

rtandon27

I too was wondering what "the Rio"was!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

"the Tip" is much more mundane!

Cheery_Daff

Certainly is :rotfl: and we didn't end up going anyway after all that! :rotfl:

I think I struggle with the idea of treat days sometimes as I basically feel like I do whatever I please most of the time anyway :rotfl: but of course I don't, there are plenty of chores and 'must do' things in there too.

Anyway, we did manage to get all the rubbish out of the house, and I did all YNAB and bank-checking, a bit of MB, and then miraculously we managed to get our favourite seat in our favourite cafe even though it was just after lunchtime so we whiled away a pleasant couple of hours plotting and scheming and reading about gardening :j

And then nipped to get diesel, and raided the reduced section of the supermarket, so we now have three different salads for tea and an assortment of other things for a grand total of £2.56 :money:

Oh and I picked up a cost jumper in a charity shop for £2.50 :money:

All good, and a nice cosy evening is in order :j

Cheery_Daff

Anyway, in case it's interesting, here's a run down of MB for the day... (I won't do this every day, I promise!)

This morning there was a facebook post with a few offers in, so I did those

* Bet £10 get £5 tomorrow (-22p but will likely get about £3.70 from the free bet)
* Bet £15 get £5 free bet if it loses (-34p, and if it does lose, I'll get about £3.70 from the free bet)
* Bet £10 get £5 free bet (-£2.24 - unusually high - will get £3.70 ish from the free bet)

I'd also got a £10 free bet that I put on yesterday which is on a match today (so counts under today's profits) which got me £7.69.

So far today I'm at a grand total of £5, which is £201 for the month, and £4414 in total.

Just about to do the casino offers, so we'll see how we do on those... :rotfl: :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Ok...

* Offer 1: Wager £10, get 10 free spins (but you have to wager the winnings 40 times) = down £6.96
* Offer 2: Wager £10 get 5 free spins = down £1.15
* Offer 3: Wager £10 for 10 free spins = up £1.23 (took forever as site wouldn't load on laptop so had to do on phone)
* Offer 4: Wager £10 for 5 free spins = up 80p
* Offer 5: Wager £10 for 10 free spins = lost £8.10! For goodness sake!
* Offer 6: Wager £5 for £1 bonus = down £3.10

Well this is just ridiculous :mad: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Now standing at £13 DOWN for the day :mad: and back down to £4397 overall :mad:

Hope this is useful to someone :rotfl: Lots of people doing MB don't bother with casino offers, but I don't do anything involving horses, which a lot of people seem to rely on, so I've ended up doing quite a bit of casino over the last few months.

But it does go up and down - it's interesting actually. There's a graph on the Team Casino site showing the expected value of all the offers, and how what you actually got compares to that. Mine does actually roughly follow the expected value graph - but I've had a long streak of pretty much maintaining, which means I've gone from being over expected value by a couple of hundred quid, to being under it by about £100.

Still not too bad overall and you have to look at the longer picture rather than daily, but it's still quite vexing :rotfl: Going to make another cuppa and do some of the daily free games to see if I can claw anything back!

Cheery_Daff

Right, well that was worth doing! :j

Free games played on three sites, won nothing.

Fourth site needed me to wager £2 in the last 7 days, which I hadn't done, so I did - but lost £1.75.

Fifth site it turned out I'd registered but never actually registered my card or played anything, so I had their welcome offer still to do - wager £10 for 30 free spins

Came out £23.58 up :money:

So that's rescued the evening :rotfl: Means that (after about 2 hours of p*ssing about) I'm a grand total of £9 up today, £205 this month, and £4419 overall

:money:

Stopping there before I go back down again :rotfl: (also I'm hungry and need to go and get my reduced yellow stickered tea! :money: )

Karmacat

I can really understand the frustration, but on a per hour basis (two hours gaining £9) you're streets ahead of anything else on here - SB, YG, onepoll, the lot. Enjoy your tea!

Cheery_Daff

You're right, of course! :money:

Today is Monday Finances Day :j :j And of course I did YNAB yesterday :rotfl: But today is payday :money: Going to do MB first though so I might do a run down post like I did yesterday.