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

Silaqui

"head feels like it's full of cottage cheese"

At least cottage cheese is nice and healthy! :rotfl:Food diary is looking good, a fry up is apparently quite healthy if you turn it into a grill up instead - but you can't beat nice crispy fried bacon...

Well done on ebaying - I need to have another look through the house agains, especially now that listing is free. I might risk putting some of my junk on as i wouldn't lose too much if it didn't sell!

Good on the massive Quidco payment from before aswell, I'm sure that has come in nice and useful! My quidco payment this week was 8p :T

xx

Primula

Evening f_f and all f_f diary followers!
Just catching up with your diary, have had a hectic couple of weeks so not had a lot of time on here and really missing my MSE fix!
Good news on your friend's wedding front and you getting to dress up in a lovely dress for the day, how exciting for you. :j Also a good incentive to keep up the healthy eating. Have you thought about looking into the Slimming World Plan - it's a good easy diet and I think easy to do on a budget, and it does work, I know, coz I lost a stone on it, but I fell off that wagon too and need to start again! :rotfl:
Really chuffed tonight - I won £5 on OH's free scratchcard, and then £5 on a Take a Break one for me with some money left in that account. :T
Also, 4 weeks tonight I will be on holiday. Can't wait.:j
Good luck with your Ebay sales and your car bootie. I am so lazy for doing either, I just wait for the charity bags to come round the doors and get rid that way. We did a car boot sale once many years ago but I really didn't like it. I was shocked at all the folk trying to get really good stuff for next to nothing. Good luck with it.
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PS Sorry rambling on so long. Told you I missed my MSE fix though!

mooomin

Five more items photographed and listed on Turbolister this morning, waiting for upload later on today or tomorrow. No further bids so far this morning.

Ebaying is a lot easier when you do little bits at a time - if I sat down and tried to list 20 items I think I would cry :rotfl:

mooomin

Something else has a bidder on Ebay now, and one item has two bids.

I got home from overtime (3 hours, taking the total for the month to 8 hours - £81+ before tax etc) to find nice things in the post.

I had a Post Office letter sizing thingie from a nice Moneysaver It is Welsh too, and I am going to have hours of fun figuring out how the hell you say some of the words :rotfl:

I also had a packet from the Times - I filled in their Style survey and was one of the 1st 1500 respondants, so now have a new lash-curling Clinique mascara. EBAY!!!

I bought jiffy bags today for things I don't want to break in the post, and got a couple of bargains in the Boots clearance to use on Ebay too. It's all very exciting!

moo2moo

The key to Welsh pronunciation is alcohol and a total lack of self conciousness. The Welsh alphabet is 28 letters long and some of the letters have 2 letters. Confused? You soon will be: [FONT=arial,helvetica]A, B ,C ,Ch, D, Dd, E, F, Ff, G, Ng, H, I, L, Ll, M, N, O, P, Ph, R, Rh, S, T, Th, U, W, Y[/FONT]. Its also acceptable to have a word without vowels so zoo is spelt Zw even though the leter w does not exist within the alphabet. What other country could have a language which uses letters which it won't admit exist.

A basic pronunciation guide:

LL - Say cl (as in clap) whilst trying to clear your throat of phlegm
DD - is pronounced "th" in month

After that its all a bit random. But this may well help:

[FONT=arial,helvetica]Gwd lwc. Ai hop ddat yw can ryd ddys and ddat yt meiks sens tw yw. Iff yw can ryd ddys, dden yw ar dwing ffaen and wil haf no problems at ol yn lyrnyng awr ffaen Welsh alffabet.[/FONT]

pointypenguin

moo2moo wrote: »

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A basic pronunciation guide:

LL - Say cl (as in clap) whilst trying to clear your throat of plem
DD - is pronounced "th" in month

After that its all a bit random. But this may well help:

[FONT=arial,helvetica]Gwd lwc. Ai hop ddat yw can ryd ddys and ddat yt meiks sens tw yw. Iff yw can ryd ddys, dden yw ar dwing ffaen and wil haf no problems at ol yn lyrnyng awr ffaen Welsh alffabet.[/FONT]

This really made my head hurt

mooomin

Another five items uploaded to Ebay. Some of them are MAC cosmetics, so they should hopefully sell well. I'm being ruthless with the stuff I'm throwing out If anyone wants the cutest cow hand puppet in the world, look for me on Ebay! (My seller name is the same as my name on here)

Ebay activity is now:

18 items listed
5 will sell - current total is £9.16
Watchers are looking at 9 of the items (Out of the 13 listed before today)
6 of these have multiple watchers (2 of these end tomorrow, hoping for lots of bids!) A Nina Ricci perfume I'm selling has 5 watchers

I have eaten quite well today, but think portions are still bad I'll post more info before bed.

mooomin

Food

Breakfast - Snap, Crackle & Pop
Lunch - ham roll x 2
Dinner - rump steak burger (M&S goodness, I love Dine In For A Tenner!)
Pudding - M&S chocolate pot (109% of daily saturated fat allowance )
Snacks - strawberries x 3 (Massive ones) teacake

Drunk about two and a half litres of water as well. Must have gone to the loo five times in the three hours I was in work :rotfl:

Ebay

18 items currently listed.
8 items have people watching, 7 of those with multiple watchers
6 items are being bid on - total of £12.96 so far

One of my items with multiples watchers has 7! Some have 4-6 as well, which is good and makes me think that I might make some ok money out of this

I have also taken pictures of about another 5 items to list tomorrow morning, then I will be packaging up the stuff that finishes tomorrow and taking it up to the Post Office in the afternoon.

Nothing else to report, spent most of the afternoon asleep as I was up early for work.

How is your weekend going, People Of The Internet?

Intergalactic_Floozie

Hello there, just reporting in before I turn into the world's oldest paper girl. (DS1 has an early start footy match today so I get to do his paper round - mind you, i get £4 out of it)

mooomin

Intergalactic_Floozie wrote: »

Hello there, just reporting in before I turn into the world's oldest paper girl. (DS1 has an early start footy match today so I get to do his paper round - mind you, i get £4 out of it)

*waves*

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