Financial faux pas and other disasterous decisions

Intergalactic_Floozie

moo2moo wrote: »

Saving the best news for last school want to hatch some chicks but the company they've appreoached want £300 to provide eggs 2 days off hathing and dispose of chicks at 48 hours old. Boss has agreed to purchase the auto-turn motor for mine (which I couldn't justify buying myself) and cover all the costs if they borrow mine. Will also get paid to look after them whilst in school and take them home for weekend visits. Best of all I get to keep the chicks. Am most impressed. Now have to decide what breed to go for as I can't hatch from mine, they're nearly all related. Am possibly more exicted than the children will be.

Ah that's really good!!! Nice one.

moo2moo

Must remember never ever ever to declare that things cannot possibly get worse as that appears to be the one thing guaranteed to make the god of fate go yeah right just you watch matey and so it was with cheerful optimism that I answered works doorbell at 8:20am to a very cheerful lady heading a large delegation of people intent in taking part in a workshop which had been cancelled the previous week.

It was much like an episode of the Benny Hill Show. Endless strange cars streamed into the staff carpark and were turfed out again to enable staff to get to class on time. Due to a mahoosive lack of parking spaces some ended up driving round the village one way system several times getting lost rather a lot and not materialising until almost half an hour later by which time we had a very cunning plan. Left them what do working out the minutiae of this and went outside to continue moving several tons of bark chip under the climbing frame. Still have another couple of tons left to shift but the pile is definately goping down. Unfortunately that means I now have to work out how the heck I'm going to sort out the knackered greenhouse.

Building was still full of extra people when I returned for part two of the day despite their earlier claims that they would be gone by lunch. Abandoned all hope of actually doing any work around them and took a crowbar to a shower tray instead. V. therapeutic. Sadly it eventually gave way so I didn't get the opportunity to smash it to smithereens with a large hammer. I did try but it was made of plastic and wasn't as co-operative as I had hoped.

moo2moo

In other exciting news OH repaired and returned the vac, never quite getting as far as tidying the shed.

Had an eek moment as my eldest baby declared she'd aquired lady hair. Had to have the impromptu chat, the one that goes now this is nothing to worry about dear but you're turning into a gorilla, one who bleeds to death on a monthly basis but thats really nowt to worry about as you get to be really really grumpy and wander round muttering about PMT and eating chocolate which unfortunately will make the imminent zit explosion worse. Welcome to the sisterhood. Can't say she was overly impressed.

moo2moo

Spent £1.08 on a birthday card yesterday. All the 50th ones were dire featuring golfers and sailing boats. A gravestone would be just as appropriate then with a donation to a funeral plan of the recipients choice. Opted for a really naff joke instead for the jetsetting international playboy who is amillion miles away from having one foot in the grave.

Days to payday: 10
Money in purse : £29.00 (in anticipation of horse riding)
Money in emergency jam jar: £0.02
Money in bank: £44.28
Money spent in February: £131.60
Money remaining of this months portion of the live on £20K challenge : £1535.40
Part used smellies used up and disposed of: 8

My £10 gift voucher from Shop & Scan arrived as did an e-mail telling me I'd won £2 via another survey company. Only another £450 or so of vouchers to go to see me through the many birthdays and Christmas 2010.

moo2moo

Spent over an hour yesterday evening clearing my inbox of surveys whilst OH watched Mad Max. Can't stand the film. Got screened out of almost everything. Felt like a total and utter waste of my time. Wasn't awake enough to waffle about anything for DooYoo but thats so much more rewarding. At least at the end of it you know you've exactly how much you'll be paid.

Should really do more mystery shops but the time involved to get too and from them plus the petrol used makes them eat into my day should look on it as a positive thing rather than a negative one. If I spend the hour and a half going to and from a shop and entering the info then thats a guaranteed £whatever whilst the same hour and a half doing surveys pays a fraction of that, especially if lightspeed are involved.

For the mo. my time is more productively spent decluttering as thats making things more positive all round. The house is tidier, when I get round to E-baying stuff it generates cash, I'm going fewer places and spending less money which is working miracles on the debt as we're currently just over £17K and everyone seems happier that the house is more homely.

Eventually got round to scrubbing the shower and its glass doors which now sparkle, they haven't done that for years. Bet the limescale drips are back with a vengance in under a week though.

Helen105

Hi Moo & friends

Currently catching up after being frantically busy at work & a laptop short at home.

Home has also been subject to intensive decluttering in preparation for influx of midwives etc. Eldest sister (cow!) helpfully told me that if the midwives think the house is filthy they could not only take the baby into care but DD too as she is under 16. This was a pile of codswallop as the house is nowhere near that bad but it still upset me. However I have noticed when all the clutter has gone & you can actually see things that it is actually rather dirty. I am now doing unaccustomed things like washing kitchen cupboard doors.

DD is currently annoyed that someone at school asked someone else if DD could be pregnant. As she is now 33 weeks, I'm not sure why she is surprised or how long she thought she could get away with it but there you are.

Work sounds like bedlam Moo, but the chicks are something to look forward to.

moo2moo

Suffering another bout of insomnia. Have been wide awake since 1am. So thought I'd do something productive and worte a DooYoo only to discover thats its not on the website, pretty sure I requested everything I aquired from the school fayre to be added but perhaps not. Pants. Still need to write another one to claim the next £50.

Wow Helen only 7 weeks to go. I'm amazed your DD is still managing to go to school every day. Fairly sure by week 33 I felt like a beached whale and spent 90% of my waking life hovering near the loo, the remaining 10% was spent chowing everything in the fridge. Perhaps the nesting instinct will kick in soon and she'll help with the cleaning.

Helen105

No chance of any help with the cleaning as she seems to spend all the time not in school sleeping. She hasn't been going everyday either, I've had to let her have odd days off to catch up on sleep but she is being very mature about getting her coursework up to date. She will finish school at half term and work from home sending stuff to teachers via e-mail & then the baby is due at Easter so all being well, there should be no reason why she won't be able to take her exams in June. Apart from Art which for reasons known only to God & exam planners is held in April.

Bet your glad it's the weekend & you can escape from the builders. I can't think of anything worse than a primary school with only one toilet. Could they not have provided a portaloo? How many children are there?

moo2moo

Not that my lot are awkward or anything but their favourite sausages are only available at Makro, having exhasuted the freezer of them I went to stock up. I emerged victorious quite some time later £44.87 lighter having purchased:

8 enormous barms (thats bread rolls to those from the south) 50p
8 x 400g packs of Pilgrims Choice mature cheese £11.96 (BOGOF)
1/2kg of garlic (20 or so bulbs on a plait) £1.49
25kg unwashed spuds £2.99
126 v. posh and apparently v. tasty Westaways sausages £27.93 (22p a sausage)

I was rather surprised to find that these were their normal prices. The reduced section was even cheaper but I couldn't figure out what to do with 50 green peppers (£1) or 5kg carrots (25p) kicking myself that I didn't get them to cook and freeze but theres always next time.

Days to payday: 9
Money in purse : £29.00 (in anticipation of horse riding)
Money in emergency jam jar: £0.02
Money in bank: £44.28
Money spent in February: £176.47
Money remaining of this months portion of the live on £20K challenge : £1490.53
Part used smellies used up and disposed of: 8

DD1 arrived home clutching lots of requests for cash from school averaging £40 a month until July and then said her cello needs repairing because her teacher thinks it needs regluing. Oh joy.

OHs friend phoned at 5am to say he was just leaving and should be here by 9am. Have to do lots by then but far far far too tired to give a toss.

moo2moo

Hiya Helen!

Staff have comandeered a bank of childrens loos complete with urinals at kneecap height, now means the older boys are sharing two loos and a urinal whilst the male staff pretty much have one each, much better than sharing the on-site portaloo wth the builders, especially as it doesn't get cleaned and has only been emptied once that I know of since it arrived almost 2 months back. At least the ladies are now happy, not that you'd know it from the number of post it notes that I seem to walk into each day.