Exercise Whilst You Earn!

Well, that's what I've been doing these past few days!

Delivering leaflets for a takeaway in a local town. £140 for 2000 leaflets. It was supposed to be about 25 hours work, but I managed it in eleven and a half (thank goodness for terraced houses - makes delivering sooooo much easier!)

It was a good way to: a. make some money; b. get some exercise (never realised quite what a hilly town it was!); c. get to know the local town a bit better; and d. have a right old nosey at people's houses and gardens!

Got some great ideas! And if I was ever to move to that town - I know whereabouts I'd be looking!

Actually, it got me to thinking did all this walking down streets etc. My parents' first house was a semi-detached, three bedroomed home with a good sized garden and a garage. And they were able to buy that on my dad's salary as an electrician - not a fantastic salary. And it was in a good and popular area of town.

And here's me, supposedly in a 'profession' with a good salary - and I'd be hard pushed to afford a terraced house in a half-way decent area! Somet's not right somewhere. Guess I'll stay renting for the foreseeable - at least me rent's cheap!!

So, back to the leaflet delivering. What were the bad parts of it? Well, there was being chased down the road by an angry householder! Narrowly avoiding have me fingers bitten by numerous dogs! Scraping me knuckles and hand on a variety of letter boxes - my DNA is on hundreds of houses now! Walking up flights of stone steps to houses, only to discover a sticker on the letter box saying "no junk mail".

Actually, it's amazing the variety of stickers:

"Neighbourhood Watch";

"In the interests of crime prevention, please ensure all leaflets and newspapers are pushed through the letterbox" (like where else am I gonna push them?);

"No salesmen - we do not buy at this door" (I kept thinking 'OK, well, do you buy at the back door?);

"If you are a salesman, an appointment will be needed and a written recording made of our conversation";

"no junk mail";

"This is a good neighbour area";

"Burglars beware - our property is postcoded" (this confused me at first if I'm honest - cos all properties are postcoded! Took me a little while to work that one out!)

Some people had loads of stickers on their front door - it was amazing! And they weren't home-made stickers, they were all official stickers from the local Police and Trading Standards. But what were really really annoying, were the houses that had the "no junk mail" stickers - on the front window! And I only saw it AFTER I'd posted the leaflet as I had to walk past the door to see the sticker in the window, grrrrrrr. And I thought I was daft!

But I did find a lovely little bakery in a back street! And I had a couple of nice chats with people! I'd definitely do it again! Actually, I'd get Mr DeadTree Para to help me (and split the earnings of course!!) Heehee!!

Para xxx