Flying gleefully into 2009 - One Fresians adventures in debt-busting

pointypenguin

Well done F_F on clearing the evil Barclay Card

mooomin

*hic*

Went to the pub tonight :beer: with my best friend and an American lad I went to uni with who was visiting with his fiancee. It was really nice to see them

This post is for my online banking in the morning really:

Beer £6.10
Chips for me and t'other half £4.80 (1 x chips, 1 x sausage supper)
Strawberry martini (Om nom nom nom) £5.95
Spending time with a friend you haven't seen in three years - priceless

Did I mention that I paid off my credit card today? :rotfl: Seriously though, thanks for all the good wishes from you lovely People Of The Internet, it's lovely!

*hic*

Night all

tomtombeanie

just another quick congrats! glad you had a lovely night out with old friends. :beer: as we are a right nosey lot on MSE sometimes, are you able to divulge whereabouts in america your friend is from? i grew up in massachusetts.

have a great weekend. i am off to take DS1 to his new swimming lesson in a bit (10am start!!!!! :eek: we don't usually move before lunctime on the weekends), then choose my birthday present for tomorrow (pandora bracelet, not at all MSE ), then clear out more of the garage in preparation for project demolition.

mooomin

tomtombeanie wrote: »

just another quick congrats! glad you had a lovely night out with old friends. :beer: as we are a right nosey lot on MSE sometimes, are you able to divulge whereabouts in america your friend is from? i grew up in massachusetts.

Ooh, Happy Birthday for tomorrow I hope you get lots of lovely presents.

My friend is from Miami originally, we met in my brief spell in uni when he was studying here for six months. He now lives in New York and has invited me and t'other half over there in October for their wedding. I really want to go but it would mean the end of the Debt Free By 30 Challenge for me, and I would be scared that if I pay for a huge trip and then lose my job.....:eek: Much to discuss with t'other half.

Silaqui

Aw that sounds nice but so expensive, I would love to go to NY but even the cheap flights are really expensive. I'm thinking of setting up a school trip so that I can get to go cheaply lol.
It is lovely seeing old friends though. Have congratulated you on the Barclaycard on the DFB thread but another can't help, so CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Have a nice day all
xx

mooomin

Primula wrote: »

Also, nosey old me would be interested to hear, if you hadn't worked so very hard at paying off your debt, would you have added to it and if so, what would you have spent the money on? Sorry I just being nosey I know! It's just I know since coming on this site I have not spent a lot of money I otherwise would have - and it's all mainly on silly stuff - takeaways, clothes I don't need etc etc etc!
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Hey you!

I have no idea what I would have spent the money on tbh. Maybe takeaway dinners and things of that nature, but that wouldn't account for the £2000 I have cleared. Probably clothes, concerts, things like that. In the past it would all have gone on my credit card. I have only spent £16.50 on clothes in 2009 (1 dress from Monsoon in the sale) and the concerts etc I have paid for this year have all been paid cash. Especially when I found out I saved about £12 a time by going to the Box Office instead of using Ticketb*stards.

Weirdly, I feel as though my standard of living has actually gone up, as I'm cooking more home-made food and trying to eat better. I don't feel like I'm losing out in any way as when the debts are cleared I will feel so rich with all this extra money floating around :rotfl:

Busterollie

Just a quick welldone on paying off the Barclaycard.

The_Golden_Goose

Super envious about the credit card pay off. That's just top banana!

Loving the "priceless" comment. Isnt that a CC slogan? Slap in the face to the CC companies as you are now a cash only kinda lady (oh that sounds wrong!!!). You know what I mean I am sure!! Credit cards, no more, eat my dust!

Oooh to the Pandora bracelet - very pricey. My pal has one off t'internet (fake one at a fraction of the price and you can't tell the difference!).....

mooomin

I sometimes find myself having "lazy" weekends where I feel as though I have done nothing, but actually have accomplished a lot. Take yesterday for example:

I spent many a happy hour sitting on MSE (Woo!) and playing on the interpipes. So far, so bad. However, I also did the following:

• Cleaned the bathroom
• Mopped the floor in the bathroom (God only knows how long its been...)
• Emptied all bins
• Dyed my hair
• Washed the dressing gown and towels I may have ruined while dying my hair :rotfl:Why do you think I cleaned the bathroom?!
  
• Made roast dinner
• At about ten o'clock last night I then stripped the meat from the chicken and put the carcass in the slow cooker, filled it up to the top with water and added one carrot, one onion and one leek. I left it overnight on low, blasted it on medium this morning for an hour and WooHoo - chicken stock :T

So, yay to me! This morning is Mr Fresian's birthday (Happy 30th!) and I wanted to do things before he got up, but wasn't planning on getting up super early. My sodding body clock woke me at 6.45 on the bl**dy dot. So, one coffee and an hour on the interpipes later, I started working. I have soup bubbling on the cooker, made with my yummy chicken stock. I have done half the dishes, hung up the washing and have another load on the go. Once I have had my coffee I am going to finish the dishes and make a start on Washing Mountain (Cue doom-laden music) The washing pile is about three feet high in the living room and the one in the bedroom is up to my knees. Lalalalaaaa! All work will stop once Mr Fresian is up though, as then it will be time to pamper him, hurrah!

mooomin

Reminder for myself more than anything!

1. Take yummy stock from slow cooker, sieving it into the muckle big soup pot
2. Strip the chicken carcass
3. Be amazed how much meat comes off the thing, especially as it seemed as though no more meat could be found when it was stripped the night before
4. Chop an onion, leek (if available) and add grated carrot to the mixture
5. Add the broth mix that you (amazingly) remembered to soak the night before
6. Add sweetcorn
7. Top up with extra water if needed and add the bits of chopped chicken from the carcass
8. [strike]Hubble bubble toil and trouble[/strike] Cook for about 90 minutes, stirring occasionally