Finally Debt Free After 34 Years, But Still Need to Live Frugally

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beanielou wrote: »

I could not cope with the stress of that.
Have you cancelled the DD's so you are not charged?

We cancelled the direct debits years ago to avoid fees. We pay by BACS on the day they're due (when we can ).

redofromstart wrote: »

Hope someone pays you HHOD

the only positive is that at least someone owes you some money I guess.

You're right, it's much worse when no one owes us anything :eek:.

carbootcrazy wrote: »

I hope people who owe you money pay up very soon, HH. I know what a nightmare that situation can be as my Dad ran his own business and had to pay his employees on time even when he was kept waiting unfair lengths of time to be paid by people/companies they'd done work for. Getting paid by some of the 'big' companies was the worst. He always said that individual people that they did work for always paid promptly whereas the bigger the company that owed him money the longer he had to wait for it. These were usually the biggest, higher paying jobs so a lot of his money was tied up for months sometimes. This was his recurring moan throughout my childhood:(


I always envy you, HH, for the amount of Prolific and YouGov surveys you get. I don't think I'm in a very interesting demographic group, being a pensioner, retired, with no children and living in a rural area:(. I was amazed this morning when, being awake ridiculously early, I logged in to my Prolific account and saw a survey that I was eligible for:j. It was quite long but really interesting and enjoyable. The best bit was that it paid £5:T and I received the notification that it had been accepted and pay was credited in about 10 minutes after submitting it:eek:. I can't believe that the researcher was up and about at that unearthly hour, or that he had time to evaluate the submission:rotfl:.

Good news about your PA survey .

jwil wrote: »

Hope you get paid soon.

CBC - With YouGov - have you checked your settings? They ask you how frequently you want surveys. You might have said something less frequent. Mine are set for as often as possible. You might find that doing some of the activities and free surveys on the site gives you more.

Although it's a slow payer, I like You Gov as it never screens you out, the surveys are never ridiculously long, and you often see the results in the press.

Thanks Jwil. I'll log into YG and check.

EssexHebridean wrote: »

I got all hopeful for a minute then, but no, I'm definitely set for as often as possible! :rotfl:

beanielou wrote: »

Hoping you got some money in today.

Thanks Beanie .

Sun_Addict wrote: »

Hope the money is sorted soon. Mr SA used to be self-employed so I know how annoying it can be waiting for people to pay.

You've reminded me I need to do our home insurance PDQ.

Thanks SA. Unfortunately nobody paid us today :mad: but we managed to pay the house/contents insurance. It was the smallest bill and we figured that as our house is our only asset then it's important to pay that bill.

The council tax and NPower will have to be late . NPower don't freak out if we pay a day or two late, but the council turn nasty very quickly .

We have just enough money for the food shop tomorrow, £40 plus £40 food money from DS1 (he gives us £40 a fortnight towards for his food).

We finished a small job and invoiced for it today, so we have three invoices outstanding now. Fingers crossed for tomorrow .

I did my park walk today, it was beautifully sunny, the grass was yellow with field buttercups, the trees were loaded with blossom and wild flowers were springing up everywhere, it was gorgeous .

I also managed to dry two loads of washing in the garden :T.

I forgot to say that DS3 got offered his first choice of accommodation :T. We had to pay a £300 deposit to accept the offer and had to borrow the money from my parents . I know I'm lucky they can afford to lend us money but I do hate having to ask them .

DS2 has said he wants to go to Spain for three months on 1 July to a language school :eek:. He was originally going to go in September but said that the beginners courses start in July. I'm delighted he's branching out and experiencing life but we will miss him.

I'm not very interesting to YG either, but having said that I did get a survey from them today, a 75 points one too . Two PA surveys came in two minutes before I had to go out so I couldn't do them . But I've just done one on my tablet .

Playing with kittens must be the perfect volunteer job