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baby gear
Have a friend whose pregnant and looking for best priced second hand baby gear-do you know where you can get the best deals as Ebay now has gone downhill-prams and buggies seem to be all sold by dealers in new gear and the 'genuine' ebayers second hand gear seems way overpriced-£300 for a 3in 1 pram system doesn't seem…
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Cheap and fun ideas for Teenage Sleepover Party
Hi wanted some ideas for next weekend as it's my daughter's sleepover, I'm allowing 3 friends so obviously 4 in total, all 14 year old girls, any thoughts that will save my sanity? Cheers
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Seperation/mortgage/property etc...please advise
Hi All, I need to ask your advice please. Beside the childcare nightmares I have been having this is completely different. My husband and I agreed that we should seperate. Without going into too much detail we don't get along! Anyway, he is aware that I am viewing apartments and will be moving out of the marital home. I…
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Cheap and cheerful good luck pressies
Hi, My son has recently passed to be in the paras :j Now after all the hard work he is due to take his first parachute jump next week. We want to send him a cheap and cheerful box of goodies/gifts for good luck but am a little stumped of what to put in. :( I need to buy/make and post it tomorrow so it reaches him on time…
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Financial embarrassment on sons 18th birthday
My son was 18 a few days ago and had a great birthday. We spent £500 and bought him a car from someone I know, we thought we had really done him proud with that and we also lent him the money to pay for the insurance. We don't earn a lot of money between us but I think we manage it quite well ( thanks to this site).…
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Advice on changes to employment terms?
Hope this is the right board for this sort of query. I should start by saying I'm not your average militant worker, I don't stick to my contract like glue or work only the hours I'm paid to. I'm pretty flexible about when I take holiday and so on. However, my employer has decided to change the date we get paid on to the…
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Need Some Advice For A Friend
Hoping someone on here can give me some advice so that i can pass it on to a friend of mine. She has recently split up with her girlfriend of 4 and a half years and things are becoming quite nasty, her ex girlfriend has become quite spiteful and vindictive and is clearly just using her for everything she can get. For the…
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Huge dilema over my job and my dreams.
Hi, I dont often post on the families board but i do read most days! But tonight i find myself in a real dilema.... firstly let me explain the long and boring background: I have been really unhappy in life for a while now.. im only young (21 on tuesday) but i was bullied so badly in school i tried to commit suicide when i…
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How to cope with friend's pregnancies
Hi, I am a regular on here, but for this one i registered again as didnt want anyone to know who i was. Basically, we have been trying for a baby for about a year now. Since then, four of my friends have become pregnant one after the other. Although i am really happy for them, I can not help but think "why not me?" I am…
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Rented carpet cleaners vs professional carpet cleaners
Me and all the ooobsters are moving into a new house soon, I want to get the carpets cleaned(in the new house-new to us that is) but as I am pregnant and Mr oob is away all week and will be doing all the manly things at the weekend(moving beds and sofa's etc) I plan to take the day off and hire a carpet cleaner(rug…
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She saves everything... I mean EVERYTHING
Looking for some opinions and ideas that might help me with a serious issue. In a couple of weeks I'm visiting my mother and I know it's going to be hard because of her stuff. The thing is, she keeps everything for as long as possible and does not discard useless stuff. Lately the situation has worsened so much that she…
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Prep school vs state primary
Curious if anyone can comment on the advantages of private primary schools (aka prep schools I think). We are about to move, possibly to Woking, and it will be to an affluent area with a good state primary school. However, I'm not short of money, making six figures a year, and obviously it's an option to send my son, now…
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Help with low cost pirate costume for 4 year old
Seriously lacking inspiration here. My DD has been invited to a pirates party and needs a costume. I don't want to spend too much money and would like to do home made rather than bought...any ideas???
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IHT and post-nuptial agreements
My dad died earlier this year, and unfortunately, did not know enough about inheritance tax avoidance. Both his and my mum's intention was that when they are both gone, their house (currently worth about 250k) goes to my sister and I. They made mirror wills which wasted my dad's IHT allowance as he was not aware that he…
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Pulling my hair out with DD
I am feeling so !!!!!! at the moment DD (nearly 4) is being such a nightmare. Her behaviour has become awful in the last few months and nothing i try seems to work. I took her in to town this morning and it was just awful she wont hold my hand or the buggy so i end up having to hold her arm whilst she's screaming for me to…
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How and what am i going to tell my 2 boys?
:( :( Hi guys, Well my dear old Gran died today at the grand old age of 93, it was sudden as she had only been a little off colour for a few days. Everyone is as you can imagine devastated and i really need to be there for my Mum (gran lived with her for past 22 years). But what im dreading more than anything is explaining…
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Xmas prezzies
I read today that the xmas film is going to be charlottes web. Get out there and buy the book or anything else now while you can before the shops put the prices up! Simone
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new baby on the way and i dont know what to do
advise please.i found out 2 weeks ago that i was 6 weeks pregnant and as soon as i saw the test results i knew i didnt want it.ive got a 14 month old with my husband and because of complications with the birth i nearly died so i feel extremly lucky to have him.we tryed for a year for him and i knew straightaway i wanted…
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Kid's sizes/stores
Hi What a difference between stores. Are you finding the same? Or perhaps DS is larger than life? He is just 7 months..:confused: Bought a top in Neck and Neck, for 12 months, it won't fit!! How annoying! At least it was in their 70% sale and paid peanuts. It won't even fit my 5 month cousin!! Bought a top in Petit Bateau…
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Fun free things for couples (not that...!) ;)
Not sure if this has been covered (so many posts to search!) but my boyfriend and I live in a small flat and we both work from home, so tend to get a bit cabin-feverish somethimes. We have no money to spend on ourselves right now, and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for anything fun we can do outside the house for…