New incentive and new found determination - my debt diary!!

thepinklady

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMILY! I hope your having a fab day and getting spoilt rotten.

I'm guessing you love pink? I love pink, especially my pink DS!

Very nice of your family and friends to get you bits ready for your new flat. That will save you money when you move.

Pilchard

Hi Emily
Just to add to eveyone's wishes, hope you've had a fab birthday :beer:
Take care xx

ehallett

hayley_bass wrote: »

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMILY! I hope your having a fab day and getting spoilt rotten.

I'm guessing you love pink? I love pink, especially my pink DS!

Very nice of your family and friends to get you bits ready for your new flat. That will save you money when you move.

Oh yeah - I love a bit of pink!! My sister already had a pink DS and we didn't want to mix them up so I got a white one :rolleyes: . I've seen a gorgeous pink laptop that I would love though!!

Thank you for everyone's brithday wishes. I went for a nice meal in the evening with some friends and my boyfriend. I also got another £10 from my auntie and spent £30 of my birthday money on a pink (:o ) Jane Norman skirt today. My boyfriend's parents also got me a freeview box for when I move out ( no Sky for me ).

I have got my magic wand now too. It's got pink fur on it too so we will see if it brings me any luck with my competitions. Speaking of that, I will go and do some comps and questions now .

Emily x

ehallett

Have been working flat out on AQA over the past couple of days and managed to get £200 so not too bad.

I NEED to do 100 questions a day this month. I've already done 50 today so halfway there.

I received my £300 Toys R Us vouchers through today and am going to be a bit naughty and by myself a Wii. I see it as a little birthday present from my dad from up above - the vouchers were a prize so it won't cost me anything. With the rest of the £300, I'm going to buy Ellie's birthday presents and maybe a couple of DS games .

Emily x

thepinklady

Hi Emily,

I have a Wii, they are great fun. I'm really tempted to buy the wii fit, but thats £70, so not sure.

Well done with AQA, you're doing brilliantly.

Good luck with your £20 a day challenge, £620 is a brilliant amount to be earning extra a month.

benbenandme

Emily I love reading your diary, every post is always positive and you are working soooo hard to clear your debts, you're a star Could you tell me roughly how many comps you enter each week? I am really hit and miss at it and haven't done any again for a few weeks

rog2

benbenandme wrote: »

Emily I love reading your diary, every post is always positive and you are working soooo hard to clear your debts, you're a star

I second that - I may not post much on your threads/challenges, but find them truly inspirational.

ehallett

Hi everyone

Been busy recently with work and Ellie so haven't had much time for money making. Plus I am spending far too much time on my Wii and now have a very aching arm!! .

I didn't spend all my vouchers on the Wii, I also managed to get £50 worth of birthday presents for Ellie. I managed to resist buying her an outfit yesterday too and have decided that I will get a few items of clothes that I no longer wear, sell them on Ebay and get her a gorgeous outfit from there (new of course) that will be half the price of the ones I saw in the shops. Very DFW of me!!

I have also bought a cookbook from the book people at work which I will get tomorrow. It was only £4 and has loads of great, basic meals to make that will ease me into cooking from scratch. I have been lurking on the OS board and will be making my first meal for my boyfriend on Saturday :eek: . Having lived with my parents most of my life, I am not very domesticated and need to be for when I move out :cool: .

I am torn between a cottage pie and spag bol (very exciting meals :rotfl: ). My boyfriend looked really worried when I told him I was cooking for him. He is going to get the ambulance on standby .

Tonight I will be answering questions (not even reached 200 yet :mad: - a lot of catching up to do) and entering some comps inbetween (one question = 1 comp).

benbenandme - all the comps that I do are on www.theprizefinder.com - I enter them via closing date (ie will be entering the ones that are closing tomorrow, today so that I don't miss any) and would say I do 50-100 a day depending on how many are closing.

I don't do any text comps anymore as they are far too expensive. The only ones I do are the ones that come off my free text allowance on O2 and any 10p ones where there are lots of prizes available or a certain number of prizes a day.

I don't do anymore postal comps as I can't afford to spend that much on stamps. I only do internet, email and the text comps that I mentioned now. I am a member of a comping site but will let that expire in June/July and not renew it.

I'm getting good at this moneysaving lark :T .

Emily x

penguin83

Wow Emily - you're really going for it girl!

I was ridiculously spoilt by my parents when I lived at home and as such I am now a hopeless cook 7 years later! (Oh is in the kitchen knocking up a curry as I type after I opened all the cupboards and declared we had nothing in to eat!) x x

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ehallett

penguin83 wrote: »

Wow Emily - you're really going for it girl!

I was ridiculously spoilt by my parents when I lived at home and as such I am now a hopeless cook 7 years later! (Oh is in the kitchen knocking up a curry as I type after I opened all the cupboards and declared we had nothing in to eat!) x x

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No stopping me when I get my cookbook - expect to see me on that 'Come Dine With Me' programme in the near future!! :rotfl: