Things occupying my time

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

Televisual: http://www.lovefilm.com continue to be great, sending me on average 3 discs a week. Apparently, if you sign up via this link, not only do you get a free 30 day trial, but if three of you then continue to use the thing, I get a free ipod. They do games, too, not just DVDs.

Laundry: I love my ecoballs. My laundry usually gets quite dirty - paint and food and all sorts of stains - but they clean them, and are more economical than chemical things, and I don't have to remember toi buy stuff and carry it home.

http://www.howrse.com: my horse is pregnant!

Silly party games: http://www.the-cbb.co.uk has all the Chalet School based party games I need. Thanks to bookwormsarah for the tip (also has lots of good fanfic).

Oh, and every so often I earn 50p by taking a brand index survey: here's the link if you want to also.

Comments

[alison-lees.livejournal.com]

I used to do lots and lots of surveys, don't have the time nowadays. Try signing up for ciao.com, which also pays out for product reviews (if people read them).
I didn't know you had a horse? John's nieces really to have a real live horse. Must go an see it one time.

[mobbsy.livejournal.com]

I'm very skeptical about those ecoballs and whether there's anything more than possibly a mechanical effect over washing with plain water. The claims on the website don't seem to make much sense.

I'd be tempted to do a blind trial; wash some loads with the balls and with just water (randomly distributed) and get somebody else to determine whether they had the balls in or not. Obviously with the null hypothesis that there is no effect, each time there's a .5 chance of picking the balls, so you'd need several repeats to elimitate randomness and demonstrate that they were effective.

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

I hate the Brand INdex surverys, but quite like the others. I think one I did on breakfast cereals was mentioned in the news the other day (an ambition of mine). I never found time to watch the stuff LoveFilm sent me - maybe I should try again[0] and see if they have any TV series.

[0] Now I have worked out that getting up slightly earlier to do my exercise in the morning gives me more time in the evening.

[thealmondtree.livejournal.com]

I attempted to check out the-cbb but couldn't get past the requirement to log in - to the point where I tried upper case, lower case, mixed case and had me doubting my memory!