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  • foxgloves
    foxgloves Posts: 12,540 Forumite
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    Our robin loves toaster crumbs. 

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  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 4,291 Forumite
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    Well if he ever fancies a holiday to that London we're more than able to oblige @foxgloves!

    How's your shoulder feeling after the injection @beanielou? Or is it next Tues? (Well, this Tues now!)

    I've spent a large part of the evening trying to gain 30p to get me to the next pound in the flat pot through one of the lowest paying survey sites and keep getting chucked out, can't even make 30p through dedication which says a lot about the state of my life atm 😂
    Did you get your referral points from me and manage to cashout on eureka @Sun_Addict


  • beanielou
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    Injection is tomorrow :grin:
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  • LadyWithAPlan
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    beanielou said:
    Injection is tomorrow :grin:
    good luck Beanie

    You will manifest that extra 30p I am quite sure PIP ;)


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  • lucielle
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    Have you looked down the back of the settee?
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  • Sun_Addict
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    I can't say I noticed any referral points @PennysIntoPounds but knowing them they probably take a year to come through 😆 I just about make the £4 a month required to cash out with them so they're not the best although I only go on it a couple of times a week. I sometimes get a decent paying one though. 
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  • EssexHebridean
    EssexHebridean Posts: 24,421 Forumite
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    I hope you had more joy with Harold's insurers than Redo did and the refund has actually arrived! 

    The issue of getting kicked out of perfectly good surveys is one I get ludicrously frustrated with - it's not like they don't ask all the demographic info in advance - if they actually want a 67 year old male father of 7 from Newcastle then why even offer the survey to someone they know perfectly well is none of those things? Pah! 
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  • foxgloves
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    Oh that annoys me too! How MANY surveys have I had which ask me which of a long list of tobacco products I use, when I have clearly stated in my profile that I'm a life-long non-smoker. Put in a complaint yesterday as I got a long way into a survey which suddenly stopped working. There was no means at all to select an answer or move to the next screen. Fired off ascerbic email about time-wasters. Received an apology this morning - apparently the bloody thing reached its quota of people from my demographic during the time I was filling it in, so it just stopped without any explanation. 
    I also get annoyed with surveys which begin by asking me what age group my children fall into, before kicking me out for clicking 'none'. This info is in my profile. I'm 60, so hardly likely to have be pushing out children in the last few years! I think certain survey sites could defo do with actually using the profiling info. It would save both their time & ours!
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    2) To read 100 books (36/100) 3) The Shrinking of Foxgloves 5.9kg/30kg

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  • badmemory
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    They would probably have more people trying as well rather than saying I can't be bothered with this.  I confess to never having tried them but I have always assumed that an almost 80 year old who avoids spending money & has no grandchildren is not going to get very far.
  • Blackcats
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    PIP - did I read correctly that you are you going to win £20,000 in Al Dee  vouchers?  You will need a very big trolley for that shop!  Please win as it will be a thread all of its own describing your antics spending that much.
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