Eating a Vegetarian Elephant

Cheery_Daff

Gosh, sorry to hear about your lung infection Chigle, sounds nasty! Hope you're on the mend soon. Good to hear your £s not lbs plan is going well too! 

Still only had one survey from Populus here - I clicked the link 3 hours after they sent the email and it was already closed, not had another one since! Don't think I'm going to make my fortune from them  

Karmacat

That infection sounds horrendous but a weight loss so you can fit back into clothes you already own sounds great (thats the main reason I watch my food intake, other than health, so I can keep on wearing my existing clothes  )  Necessary walks and necessary spends are also good things  

Chiglepig

@Cheery_Daff , it sounds like the lurgy is doing the rounds of your department too   hope it's reasonably light for you - all that fresh air and sything should give the germs what for!

@Karmacat, it's a real incentive, especially as I looked on a few sites to see if there was anything I liked - why are dresses so ugly and unwearable (if you're short and curvy) at the moment? I checked out Boden, which is where most of my work dresses came from between three and six years ago - OMG   They are SO expensive, I knew my dresses weren't cheap, but there was almost nothing under £100, and most over £120 - fine for occasion wear, but not everyday.

Still off today, but very much improved (ie managed to get dressed).

And making a tiny over OP - Current Account Rewards of £9, and now I know how to do it, that go straight to the mortgage account - I think it's just a bit less that a day's interest.

Chiglepig

For those of you waiting for Populus, bear with it. I had nothing for about a month, then over the last couple of weeks was screened out of I think five or six, and now I've done two in two days, £3 and £1. The £1 said five mins, and it really was! So that's £7 of the 50 I need to cashout again.

This probably tells you something about our very loose budgeting habits , I thought Sept had been really expensive , but the credit card bill just came and was our lowest for months. I think more slipped into the previous month's bill that I thought would be on this, I know it's not going to be on November's bill because we've been to ill to spend anything (silver linings ).

themadvix

I’m with you on  Populous, have reached £31 already and only signed up after you cashed out last time. Funny how profiles must vary though considering Cheery and SC haven’t had much!

 Good news about the cc bill! Hope you’re feeling much better soon.

Chiglepig

Wow! that's really good progress, @themadvix

Chiglepig

And I take back my Populus figures, I actually have £10 with them

But I can guarantee that today will be expensive, eye test and I know I need new reading glasses.

South_coast

themadvix said:

Funny how profiles must vary though considering Cheery and SC haven’t had much!

I've had a few more coming through, so am persevering. They do upset me though by having so many attention checking questions early on - and then once you get through all of those you then get screened out and you're 30%/40% of the way through by that point 🙁!

themadvix

I take your point about being screened out so late - have only been screened out once and that was this week and I did feel a little cheated.

Chiglepig

Another week done. It's been tough catching up after being off, and I still have some classes that will need to be rescheduled, but we have Graduation week coming next week - posh frocks and happy smiley graduates and their parents - albeit we've been told no handshaking or hugging! I need to find a mask that coordinates with my academic gown!

A little bit of free money - £25 JLewis voucher from the credit card to add to the £30 we already have, I expect that will go on fripperies for project bedroom, if it ever gets done!

Other than that, nothing much to report.