Calm after the storm

Valentines

Well the last few days at home and in work have been terrible, a few things going on at home have made a horrible atmosphere. It seems to be all the stress with buying a new house, and generally not having any spare time to spend with the missus. It seems to be taking its toll on home life.

Anyway having tried to build some bridges and spend some time together on Valentines day things seem to be looking up.....well a bit better anyway.

back onto the main reason for the blog...

the last week has been slow but Quidco paid £1.58 for some train tickets I bought for travel with work. every little helps. it is going to take ages to raise this £1000 for help with the matched betting.

I do have some items to Ebay aswell...I just need to get to the post office to find the cost of some postage.

updated totals are as follows

Source	Total
Matched Betting	16.87
Cashback websites	7.61
Ebay	0
Savings account interest	21.8
Money saved	235.39
Total	281.67

Man flu and other problems

Its been a tough few days to be honest

So since my last post I have purchased for 7.99 the Betfair trading book made simple and I actually got quite excited and ended up reading it on the train last week, although it gives me some useful information it has not helped me understand how to get straight into horse racing trading. I think this is going to take time and I am going to have to study the markets myself and see how and what effects the horse racing prices. the book gave me some tips but I really am going to have to spend some time studying the markets myself. The 7.99 has came out of my totals.

Another expense that I did not foresee has the alarm in my house would not stop after a power cut and the code did not stop it, I was so annoyed at this as it has been a large outlay that I have not allowed for. £144 + £50 = £194 

small profits transferred this week from the interest on my current account £21.80

Matched betting totals from a Betfair offer and a Betdaq offer total £16.87

I have also bought merchandise for the tuck shop at work which totaled £15.98

Cashback site Quidco paid £6.03, i usually use Quidco to buy all my accommodation and travel for all my work trips which adds up over time

So the total is

saved £60.68
spent £217.92

The amount has gone down because of the alarm issue, there should be no more unknowns now going forward. Hopefully there will be a few more matched betting offer to start doing and I also have some headphones to sell on Ebay.

Source	Total
Matched Betting	16.87
Cashback websites	6.03
Ebay	0
Savings account interest	21.8
Money saved	235.39
Total	280.09

2nd Post

Brrrrr

Britain has been hit by snow and Ice and after a really mild winter its bloody freezing, it was -5 when I got in the car yesterday.

Whilst also debating paying off my mortgage I have decided to make more time for the tings I want to do....one of them coincides with earning some extra cash, but it will be a long journey and will not be a quick fix.

Learning how to trade horse racing....its like the stock market but with horses. It comes from dabbling in matched betting a few years back and after reading forums and reading other blogs I have decided I want to get into it. The only thing that has held me back is time, having my own time to do the things I want to do has been very limited, my job is stressful and very demanding. To over come this, I have to be better at managing my time between, work commitments, home life and myself.

Due to the large amount of travelling I do for my job I am going to start reading more, I will begin reading 3 books :-

1) Micheal Carrick - Between the lines

2) Reminiscences of a stock operator Livermore

3) Betfair trading made simple - Caan Berry

Yesterday was payday and although I am trying to save money I will need to buy the Caan Berry Book to help begin research my trading, I searched the internet and the cheapest I found the book was £7.99 from ebay so I have took a chance and bought it. Hope fully it arrives before I begin my travels again next wednesday 7th Feb. The link for the book is below for anyone that is interested.

Caan Berry book

I still cannot find my remortgage statement outlining my debt, I will look this weekend and update this blog with the totals.

So to help begin paying off my mortgage and to use matched betting I need approx £1000 in my account to be able to lay off a large stake, so do date I have saved £429.39 which I wont break down as it is a combination of me saving money from what is left over from my salary, interest on savings account and from cashback sites like Quidco.

At the bottom of each post going forward there will be a running totals of money saved and once I begin making a payment off the mortgage I will also add a running total of mortgage debt.

Source	Total
Matched Betting	0
Cashback websites	0
Ebay	0
Savings account interest	0
Money saved	429.39
Total	429.39