A Quiet Weekend in Flat Two

Eleven pm, Friday night. You would expect the future rangers to be prancing around hazy dance-floors, perfecting their moves so that by the time they get power ranger outfits they can strut their stuff with the synchronisation of a large shoal of fish.
Instead I am sorry to report that pretty much everyone is in bed, at work or has gone home for the weekend (except me - I'm in the kitchen drinking Rosé and listening to Gerry Rafferty). Further to the bad news, the two pounds which Alex gained from selling a worthless burger-press has not been added to the fund. Said burger-press remains on its cardboard pedestal across the table from me - I am starting to doubt he will get round to dropping it off and collecting the precious fund money.
As well as this, it has been a while since I last mentioned the vegetable spiralizer and wet floor sign that we put on gumtree at the beginning of our quest towards glory. Unsurprisingly this is because no-one is interested in buying them. Their loss though because I used the spiralizer to knock up a wicked stir-fry yesterday.
However it is not all doom and gloom this weekend; I am pleased to report a donation from Oscar's mum, the first person to donate who hasn't been quasi-coerced into doing so from me, boosting the fund by £1.20 - thanks Leah! If you are ever a subject of petty or moderate crime we will be happy to run to your aid. Current total £17.15, all for now x

Minor successes

Good news - someone has agreed to buy Alex's burger press that he got for free. I believe they have agreed on the bargain price of two pounds; selling free stuff is proving to be a lucrative industry. He was supposed to drop it off yesterday or today. Hopefully this is the beginning of the revival of our entrepreneurial success.

As well as this, we are considering participating in economics experiments at Uni for money. There was one today where each person experimented on gets £5 for twenty minutes. Unfortunately though we all went out yesterday and got fairly spangled in a club so we missed this opportunity for easy dollar and spent the day in bed, hanging like a donkeys tail. We also missed Buddhist meditation class, how annoyed am I.

Not to worry though 'cause there are loads of these participation-earns-you-money styled experiments so I'm going to sign up and we'll go next time. Provided we're not all confined to our beds in cocoons of still-drunkenness at four in the afternoon again x

Motivation at an All-time-low

Power ranger fund research has reached a plateau. ASDA selfishly only refunded the bananas instead of giving a gift voucher, and I think AJ is going to buy more bananas with them so no money there. Alex mentioned that someone is interested in a free burger presser that he put on gumtree, though why they'd want it I don't know - hopefully we can scrounge some cash out of them. This weekend we blew loads of money going to Bournemouth for a night on the lash, so everyone is being super-frugal.. which means not much small change is going in the jar.

Fig.10 - the squad hanging out in Bournemouth instead of concentrating on our salient money-raising campaign

My mum said she had told some of her friends about this so we can only hope they will generously donate (hint, wink) to such an eloquently described and worthwhile cause. Thanks for spreading awareness mama.
With this post comes a desperate plea - if anyone can think of cunning ways to make lots of money with not much time and effort then please get in touch. I study economics but at the moment even I'm struggling x

Gift--card Mania

Fig.8 - A kind email from David.

As expected, Sainsburys replied promptly about the poor quality of cheddar despite virtually no evidence that I wasn't lying. Pleasingly David from customer care has offered a free giftcard on this occasion to the sum of five pounds. I didn't really feel bad about supplying my address to accept this well-deserved bonus to the fund as that cheese was mouldy after all. Someone in Sainsburys is going to have a word with the cheese makers as well, so its a good deed for society really. After all, it is our duty as power rangers to improve peoples lives, and reaching out to the hearts of Sainsburys basics cheese consumers is the least we could do.
The voucher has not arrived but the five pounds has been added to the fund total and will be put in the jar next time I go to Sainsburys. As discussed, we will buy stuff we would have got anyway and put the money we would have spent in there. I knew this was a fool-proof plan. We might do the same thing with tescos x

The complaints syndicate

As we tussle with the demands of higher education, the amount of time dedicated to saving up for Power Ranger outfits has admittedly dwindled. However within the last half an hour a cunning plan has materialised.
Anna complained that her cheese had gone mouldy despite being in a fridge bag. Similarly, AJ is concerned that her bananas were not ripe. Seizing this opportunity I immediately wrote wildly exaggerated letters to Sainsburys and Asda respectively demanding an explanation for the poor quality of product. I predict that we will have monetary vouchers in the post immanently. The plan is to do a normal shop, use these vouchers to get money off and put the money we would have spent regularly on curly fries and other student-paraphernalia into the jar. If this idea suceeds we are going to complain incessantly to a variety of supermarkets - there are no conceivable flaws in this plan x

Pub quiz adventures and a donation from my mum

It was decided that we should try extra-ultra hard at this Sunday's pub quiz in order to win the cash prize. As the night wore on we pitched our wits against the other quiz-night dweebs, wrestling with the heavyweight intellectual debates of the day. We stroked our chins with academic valour, and furried our scholarly brows. Alas we came joint twenty second - a valiant effort. Much of this week will be spent discussing how immoral it is to cheat, because we could get most of the money we need in sub-two weeks.
On a brighter note, I am pleased to announce that my mum has donated 1% of the total funds needed - thanks for the £1.80 pal! Next time I'm home I'll do the dishwasher.
Alex is going charity shop-shopping on Tuesday for a minimum of four hours. We haven't yet discussed whether it is okay to exploit vulnerable and well-meaning charitable establishments for power-ranger related profit but it should be fine. Current total £10.95 x

The Sunday Post

As we all know, no man should have to work on the sabbath, so our efforts towards the fund have temporarily ground to a halt today. Instead the future rangers have sat around, bathing in self-induced laziness, dreaming of the day we will all learn choreographed karate moves and burst onto dance-floors unexpectedly.
That being said, some ideas have been thrown around the group - AJ said she might cut off twelve inches of her hair and sell it. Alex got a free t-shirt and a pen so he might sell them too. He just asked "how much do you get for like, organs?" Sperm donation is also a realistic possibility. Pretty soon the dollar will be pouring in x