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Pap attempts to live on part time wage for a year...

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  • Hi Pap,
    I have read all your diaries but have never posted on one of your threads until now.
    I just wanted to say well done for staying debt free and thank you for being an inspiration.
    I look forward to reading your future posts.
    Palema
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  • Oh Hi Palema. Thanks ever so for your encouraging words :A Thanks for reading all my ups and downs :rotfl: Look forward to reading all your posts :)

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    Ok this is bad really bad... I dont think I ever posted it here but on a discussion I had with cafc girl ages ago I mentioned this and this improvement today is so bad. So what is it... well since I saw them released I have wanted an eee pc, they are like so cool. Now I am dfw and I didnt need a laptop did I so before I came back to this website all positive etc I promised myself that I would save to buy one. Well I havent planned it into 2009. So I hear you ask whats the improvement today ~ well they only have them in the new argos catalouge :eek: Now what do I do, do I be naughty and get it on 0% for 6 months or save... If I get it on 0% it will be £44 a month. Now considering I have £98 'spare' acording to tax anyways..

    Any opinions?
  • binnie
    binnie Posts: 995 Forumite
    Hee hee you are a naughty girl Pap.
    Try reading the book I'm reading, "A year without shopping", yikes, I couldn't even do a week.

    lol, go for it.
    xx
  • Lol binne ~ you twisted my arm ~ didnt take much though ;) But I dont see a problem with it, if someone else does hey ho, its not like my savings wont cover it if the worse happens. So I went through quidco so will get 1.5% cashback. However you know when the web page takes forever to load, well thats what happened and then it said we cant give a conformation number just yet but you will receieve it in an email shortly :rolleyes: Anyways it 'should' be here on tuesday... then my brother can set it up wireless' for me so I wont be chained to this computer all day.

    Its Ironic really because I was reading some of my first ever posts on here and do you know how I became debt free. I sold my new laptop on ebay that I recieved as a gift for passing college from my mum... Its like I have gone in a full circle :rotfl:
  • x_raphael_xx
    x_raphael_xx Posts: 4,411 Forumite
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    Just googled it pap, it looks really cool :D
    Debt Free as of 17/01/2009 Turtle Power!!

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  • :rotfl: raph, does hey. I feel in love with it when it was linex but I wouldnt have known how to opperate it. However it wont be coming because its out of stock for home delivery and no store has them yet. I will have to try later in the week :)
  • Hey Pap
    I looked at the eee PC and it is so cute! I was thinking about getting a netbook but my mum works for a stationary company and they were selling laptops for under £200 so I went for that instead. It means now that my dad and I aren't fighting over acess to the PC!
    I would go for it especially as it is small and compact you'll be able to take it anywhere! Plus paying it up over 6 months at 0% is a great deal.


  • binnie
    binnie Posts: 995 Forumite
    Hee hee that is so funy Pap, selling your laptop to pay off your debts, now buying another :rotfl: :rotfl: , Sorry for laughing, but it made me giggle.

    Oh well as long as it makes you happy and you deserve it.
    Me and hubbie have a laptop each and sit on either ends of the settee with them on our knees and sometimes a tartan blanket when we get cold. We look like Mr & Mrs Nerd :D
  • Palema, I know, it looks so much cuter in real life. I saw them in comet before xmas and I was so tempted :rotfl: Oh no more fights ~ sounds good. I just want something I can take downstairs and still be online, because at themoment I am stuck at this pc 24/7 and its annoying when I want to spend time with mum.

    Binnie, I know I had to laugh too but hey at leat this one wont mean i am in 'debt'. Can wait to get it, they will email me when they have stock so hopefully it wont be long. :rotfl: at you two on the sofa, I do hope I get like that some day :love:
  • babes21
    babes21 Posts: 1,665 Forumite
    My little sister as one of those eee pc's pap, they're fab, very cute too :D.
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