The ultimate incentive to get debt free, can I do it by New Years?

Cinny91 · 6 November 2008 at 3:29PM

Waxing - ouch! I'm a wuss, I have to pluck my eyebrows. Fingers crossed the weather will fair up for you! I'm cheeky, when the weather's rubbish I use the office's postal system. It's cheaper and seems to get there quicker but (sadly) can't be tracked!

Dinah93 · 6 November 2008 at 3:53PM

Yep, only 8 to go! Not that he's booked his flights yet, going to nag him on that one this evening as they will get more expensive otherwise. Went to get my eyebrows done at lunchtime, then to ask my bank why a letter went to my old address 3 months after I moved out (apparently they package them up up to 3 months in advance!), then I sent my parcels which were £8.66 in total.

Went to Morrisons to get some mushrooms as I'm making dinner tonight (value, not branded as a sneeky show of how quality is the same but they go so much further!), and also got some Frijj as it was 46p on a less than half price offer and I know its about 500 cals a bottle and I can't rationalise it at all but I wanted it so I got it! Also got a big round tub of celebrations, £4 on offer from £7.99 for OH dad, brother and brothers gf as a general house gift for Christmas. Will check with OH this is an appropriate level of pressie however I don't want to go overboard as I don't think they're expecting it and I get the impression his dad isn't big into all the festive stuff since the divorce anyway.

Did a couple of onepoll surveys this morning, and just checked my ebay/amazon email addy and have sold a basket so £5.99 including postage! Bought loads of them last year to make hampers, and had these left over.

Dinah93 · 6 November 2008 at 3:57PM

Nah I think they'd notice me sticking 13 parcels in our out tray! Plus I work for the council, talk about abuse of public funds!

I wax my eyebrows because I find tweasers too painful! Certainly can't do it to myself, this is easy, fast and a lot less uncomfortable, and it lasts longer. That said someday I hope I can afford lasik everywhere so no more waxing ever again! What we do to be pretty and lets face it, its only other women who really notice!

Cinny91 · 6 November 2008 at 4:18PM

haha, they might notice.. maybe just a smidge.
You're right about other woman only noticing! to be honest I think I could drag my OH to the hairdressers with me and him still not comment on the new cut sometimes (but in all fairness I have the same cut.. everytime)

Well done with the basket, that's another £5.99 closer to your OH!

Dinah93 · 6 November 2008 at 4:44PM

I have long hair at the moment, about 30cm past my shoulder blades. I mentioned to OH I was going to the hairdresser about a month ago and his reaction was 'no, don't do it, i love your long hair, i've seen photos of you with short hair and you look like a 12 year old boy' etc. Me having a bit of a wicked streak I told him she'd taken quite a bit more off that I had intended, and when asked how much I estimated '40cm'. He was so worked up about it! He didn't see me for nearly a week, and when he pulled up at the airport, and saw me there still with long hair but with a few layers and a partial fringe he nearly fainted! Still don't think he's forgiven me for that one, laughed about it but he confessed he'd been practicing lying to say how much it suited me!

£5.99 (- postage costs) and I sold a book, so that's about another 40p! I've just been ruthless and gone through all my amazon listings and cut 10% off the selling price of all the ones that have been up there over a month. Maybe if mine is cheapest by a long way but maybe not the best condition up there it'll still go anyway because people are saving? Fingers crossed

Cinny91 · 6 November 2008 at 5:18PM

Hopefully it will work! I know a far few people who aren't too fussed about the condition of books, we only really read them once anyway (the only book I've every really wanted to read twice was chewed up by the beloved office dog before I had the chance)

haha, thats a good trick with the hair! I've done it a fair few times to my OH, it's just the fact he still isn't learning from previous times that gets me. I'm really trying to grow mine out, I got taken in by the inverted bob, but everytime I go for a trim she practically restyles my barnet. I constantly sigh at girls with long hair and think 'you dont know how lucky you are!'

Dinah93 · 6 November 2008 at 5:34PM

I wanted to look more professional when I started this job 2 years ago, so I went from bottom of the rib cage length to bottom of the ear length! It's taken this long to get it decent again. I trim my own split ends if I get any and just get a proper cut ever 4 months or so, but my hairdresser has a bit of a thing for my long hair so never cuts off more than is nessisary. She's nice and MS too, £20 a time for a cut and blow dry as she works from home, used to be £60 when I went to her in the salon!

I'm terrifying with books, I love them, so I hoard them. Still have over 4000 of my personal collection, these 1000 or so that I put up for sale is just a drop in the ocean! My dream house is going to have a library.... and a painting studio... big family kitchen to do my baking in.... and a big garden with lots of lavender and butterflies in.... okay, my dream house may only exist in 1950s novels!

I have to ask, what was so good it is the only book you ever wanted to read twice?!

Tete_en_l'Air · 6 November 2008 at 5:56PM

I want a library too - with one of those slidey ladder things!!
*sighs wistfully*

Cinny91 · 6 November 2008 at 5:57PM

I think you've stolen your dream home right out of my scrap book, missy! A big country kitchen is my dream! *sigh*

It was is anyone out there by marian keyes. I think it's because it was the first proper grown up book I picked and bought that I read cover to cover, i don't think I'll ever get rid of it no matter how ratty it is! Don't get me wrong there are loads of books I love so much it's crazy, like this set of alice in wonderland books my uncle got me afew years ago. And the classics like Jane Eyre, but I can't really say i'd read the latter again because I'm still working through them :rotfl: My mum is a book hoarder too, she's got a bookcase in her room crammed, plus our study is filled with her books and there's always the ones she offloads onto me and my sister.

Cinny91 · 6 November 2008 at 5:59PM

Tete_en_l'Air wrote: »

I want a library too - with one of those slidey ladder things!!
*sighs wistfully*

*joins in with wistful sighing*

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