Resourcefulness: The budgeter's friend

Makingabobor2

joedenise said:

I'm also finding PA very slow at the moment.  I usually manage £40-£50 a month but this month I'm struggling to get half that - have got £18.90 cleared and £1.18 waiting to clear.  At this rate I'll be luck to make it to £25!

Yes, I am only doing about half what I used to. Think maybe more people have signed up now, so its harder to get them

foxgloves

Just in case anyone else has a similar prob with PA, I thought I'd just pop back to say that my email to their support dept worked & my account was unlocked. It was a little patronising in tone in that it included helpful suggestions as to how I might like to avoid getting locked out in future, but tbf, I didn't mention that I had been locked out after one silly mistake, instead of getting the usual couple of further chances to correct it. Anyway, job done & managed to pick up a couple more surveys, bringing my Feb earnings so far to £41-21. At least I know that there are people at the other end answering emails from occasional password-mistyping numpties!
F

Makingabobor2

good to know you are back in again.  After saying it had been slow, I just had a lovely one chatting to an AI and managed a good cash out today, so all is not lost...onward and upward, slow and steady. 

2Scratters

Well I'm in and out of here today and on other threads I am on and not even got dressed   

Plenty of time spent procrastinating - 
3 things I am grateful for today - DH not nagging at me to do anything = priceless
2 Birthday cards from home shopping
Finding out I have already sorted my ISA move around.

I had collected some Kim Chi cabbage that is Thai chilli - never had fermented cabbage before, not usually a fan of Thai. How ever this free product from an Olioer is amazing and very versatile. Goes really well with corned beef hash. Also a throw together this afternoon with pasta macaroni and tuna and due to not having any mayo left threw a couple of generous teaspoons into that - it too was surprisingly lovely.

2 Scratters xx

Sun_Addict

One of my many ad hoc roles at work is reinstating colleagues access to IT systems when they’ve messed up with their password. I love doing it as it’s super easy and they’re always very grateful 😆

Suffolk_lass

Speaking of cleaning products, DH spilled a slop of coffee on my (secondhand FB MP acquired) desk which has a leather inlaid top and wooden frame. The wood had discoloured so I have tried my HM furniture polish (olive oil, beeswax and lavender essential oil). Then of course I needed an evenly clean and shiny top so I part-cleared it, and wiped it with a UU product that our old cleaner insisted we needed (Pledge soapy wood cleaner) - I omitted to dilute it so need to start again. I think that product might be 20 years old. She stopped cleaning for us before we moved house (long story) and that was 19 years ago. I should have just stuck with my hm product!

foxgloves

@Suffolk_lass - I love beeswax polish. I bought my first jar from the gift shop in a castle shortly after my parents bought me a big pine dresser as a housewarming gift when I bought my first little house. I remember that I loved the smell of it so much that I ended up using far too much & having a sticky coating! A little goes a long way, so it is pretty economical. I don't make that mistake these days, although I am currently trying to utilise the half-used cans of spray polish I brought back from Mum's house - not nearly as nice to use, but as with all the cleaning products we cleared, it did seem a terrible waste to bin stuff which could be used. Will be glad when I am once again dipping my polishing rag into my jar of beeswax!
F

foxgloves

Evening to all Saturday Savers, whether regular readers or lurkers,
Not a lot to impart today to be truthful, but a pleasant day which contained no lapses from the path of the hallowed budget. Today's small money-saving positives:
*Enjoyed our deferred trip out to a local-ish gorge. Our extremely well-priced annual parking pass dealt with that side of things & as planned, we used £10 of the recent workman underspend to subsidise breakfast & coffee, which meant we each only had £1-05 to pay from our Personal Spends. A sub-£5 spend in the gift shop - key ring for the spare bedroom (man cave) window key so it is less easy to lose & a couple of pencils from Yours Truly's Spends. I bloody love pencils - it's ridiculous how much pleasure I get from starting a lovely new one, having first sharpened it to a proper scary point!
*Picked up a free coffee on our way home when we stopped off to buy my newspaper (Spends) & a couple of grocery items.
*Watered seedlings.
*Started latest library book - Janice Hallett - I do like her innovative narrative style. I read 'The Twyford Code' first, really enjoyed it & have been borrowing her others from the library. This will be the 4th one I've read.
*Checked for surveys late afternoon, but nothing doing. Mr F had a couple of good ones though.
*Started an new Annoying Jobs List. I do one of these every so often. For me, an Annoying Job is one of those things which we keep seeing & walking past, despite the fact that many of them would take less than 10 minutes to do. I then go through the list & put a green dot by all the tasks which will cost absolutely nothing to do. The others have a red dot which means that they are likely to involve a sub-£15 spend. When I have done this in the past, not only have the vast majority of Annoying Jobs on the list cost me nothing to tackle, it has been eye-opening just how many of them took so little time that I actually felt MORE annoyed that I'd procrastinated about doing them for so long! So I have a double page in my notebook & have started noting down Annoying Jobs (in no particular order) when I see them. I mentioned my latest Annoying Jobs List to Mr F, as he wondered what all the writing was, & he asked if I would please write him a list of any of the heavier type jobs which it would help me if he were to do them. I love it when he volunteers for a list. I am going to be on that starting tomorrow.
Ah well, that is me done for the day. It's not my cooking night, cats have been fed but I can hear that they are on the scrounge for seconds. I have a magazine, knitting & a Norwegian TV series lined up for tonight plus a biscuit & a glass of malbec.
Peace,
F x

Sun_Addict

Ooh I love a good Malbec, enjoy 🍷

no_more_spending

oooooooo I love the Annoying Job list idea. I will be pinching that!