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

tomtombeanie

love love love the blog link - i miss the apprentice already! x

mooomin

Evening folks!

I'm flipping knackered and it's only Monday Don't know what's up with me at all :rotfl: Here is the news from Fresian Towers...

Food news

Breakfast - Snap, Crackle & Pop (Semi-skimmed milk)
Lunch - ham sandwich on brown seedy bread. Home-made vegetable soup
Dinner - grilled chicken breast, peas, parmentier potatoes (Last of the Dine In For A Tenner)
Snacks - teacake, Classic biscuit, apple, banana x 2, strawberries (4 or 5 I think), scone

I'm doing ok on the 5 a day front, but suck at resisting the biscuits. Snacking is the bane of my life. Thing is though, even with the constant snacking, I'm still hungry when I get home. It's very odd.

Ebay/The Great Declutter

£20.13 was withdrawn this morning, so I would think I would have that by next week at the latest. My awesome spreadsheet says that I have made £16.09 in total after postage. Not bad for four items :T Mr Fresian was very nice and took the items to the Post Office for me today, so extra Brownie Points to him.

I have nine items ending on Thursday though which could be a little mental in terms of packing and posting. I think Mr Fresian will be a little stressed out posting all that for me

Current stuff:
19 items listed
7 with bids on
14 items have watchers including 8 with multiple watchers.

Nothing sold from Amazon/Green Metropolis so far.

I had a guy get in touch tonight asking if I could change an auction to Buy It Now as he needed the item earlier than the auction was ending. I said no as someone else had bid on it and I didn't think it was fair to do that. I don't know if I was being too soft? What do you think?

Not a lot of other news at Fresian Towers. I think I could get overtime this week if I wanted it but I'm tired and I have a lot of Ebay going on so I think that answer is no from me!

The Edinburgh Fringe programme is released on the 10th and I can book tickets from the 12th, so I think that I will be spending a good amount of my emergency fund soon :rotfl: I have nearly £200 saved for "emergencies" thanks to PAD so I will use this to pay off any tickets I buy and then next month's PAD money will have to go to the Debt Free By 30 Fund.

This may be the longest post in the whole world....

*edit* Nearly forgot, I have my 1st appointment at the dentists tomorrow for a filling. This filling came out two years ago when I was eating a Curly Wurly and I never got it replaced, oops! Next week is Root Treatment Week (Insert scary music here) That appointment is due to take an hour. I really must ask why tomorrow...

5*shopaholic

i cant believe that someone asked for a buy it now on an item that has a bid on
did not know you could add buy it now wjen they had a bid on!!!

tomtombeanie

just to add to above, i am fairly certain that you *can't* add a buy it now once there is a bid on the item...he'll just have to wait if he really wants it! x

Primula

MellyB wrote: »

I'm sure I read somewhere that you are popping to York?!
I'm from York!! small world!!

Hello everybody
Sneaking on at work for an update on my favourite diaries! You doing great with your Ebaying f-f but then again we knew you would!

MellyB, yeah we are going to York for our hols - 4 weeks and we will be there, and I am so excited already, been there once about 10 years ago and I loved it. Can you recommend any touristy things or nice restaurants (we just luuuvvv food!)?
Hope you all having a good day, better go back to work now I suppose! :rotfl:
P
x

Edit - PS Apologies f-f for hijacking your thread.

5*shopaholic

my mum and dad live in york and the rave bout the food in the masons arms quite reasonable and BIG portions yum yum
we did a river trip last time we were up and that was really worth it
york dungeons is just funny
and the yorvick centre is very well the only word is smelly but it is an experience
lots of good shops but that is not very MSE lol
you will have a fab time x:j

mooomin

5*shopaholic wrote: »

lots of good shops but that is not very MSE lol
you will have a fab time x:j

Last time I was there I got an amazing pair of shoes for a fiver :rotfl:

I love York! It's such a fab city to visit - historic and modern all at the same time

MellyB_2

I was born in York and still live here as there isn't really anywhere else I've wanted to live! (well maybe Australia..)

It is a nice place to live though. Watch out for those cobbled streets near the Shambles though - you could do yourself a mischief if you're wearing heels!!

The amount of times I've lost a shoe as it's got stuck in some cobble pavement...

I think York is a city made for flat shoe wearers...

x

MissKJ

or perhaps it was made for ......horses MellyB??? Perhaps you should get shod instead!

MellyB_2

Well I do usually plod around....;)