Financial faux pas and other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

.... and the difference between a French raspberry and an English rasperry is....... ? Don't answer that. T'was a dumb blonde moment. Fresh raspberry not French raspberry. Duh. I had a head full of images of French kissing rather than brit peck on the cheeks. Must get a grip.

Edited to add: oooooh errr ugh. Actually there is such a thing as a French raspberry. Thanks to the urban dictionary I am now enlightened, although I wish I wasn't. Will be suggesting OH remove his goatee before this one crops up in conversation.

mooomin

Aaarrrrgh....why did I google that, why?!?!

*Gets the Brain Bleach*

tomterm8

moo2moo wrote: »

. I've dropped a brand on everything and can report back safe in the knowledge that I will never ever ever buy Value loo roll ever again. I like my home comforts too much. The less said about Value coffee the better!
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Value loo roll is not what I'd use for it's alleged purpose, but it's ok for random cleaning tasks around the home (i.e. dusting, wiping up spills etc). Value coffee is virtually undrinkable, so worth using only on people you don't want to come back (i.e. if a debt collector ever comes round, "you want a lovely cup of coffee, dearie).

Do not experiment with value cola. Least said the better.

moo2moo

I've never had a visit from a debt collector. Not one of my own at any rate. I have had numerous visits from them for other people. We live in a very confusing location where its very esay to mix us up with houses several miles away thanks to a Tom Tom programming glitch. If you stick in our postcode you end up ten miles away in a different village on the same street with the correctly named and numbered house on it. Helpfully there are three other houses on the road with the same number too although there are only 8 houses here and the road is half a mile long. Its easy to see how people become confused.

The funniest one has to be the debt collector who placed an enforcement notice through the door for the wrong people at the wrong house in the wrong village and had incorrectly assumed that the number plate on the trailer was somehow connected to the vehicle behind it and posted a notice of seizure through the door for something which doesn't exist. That did get quite funny. The police were most helpful. Advice being to give them the keys so they didn't do any damage and then take them to court for theft having informed them in writing that they had made a mistake. of course it does help when your friends are solicitors and police officers.

moo2moo

Its the closest I could find to a whoop whoop smiley although I really shouldn't be feeling so smug. I am a satanic moo. This mornings unmatched and very badly semi-rectified bet has ended up winning at the bookies making a very nice £8.41 profit obviously the unmatched part was a mug punt which is a huge no no. Lesson learnt: Don't risk unmatched bets on obscure teams in far flung corners of the globe. Almost all of todays bets have ended up winning at the bookies. My free £25 bet has also been credited and I'm 3 bets off a further £75 free bet but I'm out of money at the exchange. I've withdrawn my cash from the bookies leaving just what I need to complete the offer in the account but it'll be a few days before it materialises in my bank account ready for using at the exchange.

I've sorted out four lots ready for photographing and listing on E-bay. The freezer is almost defrosted so I'll be cleaning that next ready for tomorrows mammoth shop. Off to stick on the oven and pop in tonights roast dinner which should appease the OH.

tomterm8

Personally, when I was (briefly) matchbetting, I alway stuck to champions league, premiership, and first division. You lose a small % profit on those bets, but you can guarantee liquidity - meaning if things go wrong, and you need to rectify a bet, you won't be stung too badly.

moo2moo

I wrote a very long post yesterday which my PC decided was remarkably dull before throwing a major wobbly and eating it. Probably just as well. Suffice to say project of the mo. is reducing the domestic fuel bill which is perilously close to £300 a month even though the house is like a fridge.

Lots more money winged its way to me yesterday, unfortunately even more departed and OH is having another mid-life crisis, this one involving £1500 of off road trailer tent. E-bay is not my friend! Fortunately he hasn't placed a bid yet so hopefully I can talk him round, that or I'll resort to disabling the phone line for the next 48 hours.

Quidco paid out a very nice £42.73, a further £9 materialised from a Mystery Shop, £1 from a survey company and another survey I did has been rewarded with a £10 Gap voucher rather than the £3 I was expecting as an apology for delays and hassles with the survey. Promptly went to Mr Ts and blew £77 but both freezers are now jam packed.

moo2moo

Lovely e-mail from one of the bookies who misses me *aww* offering a whole £4 if I deposit £7 with them, obviously I've done this and placed it on a match tomorrow for £3.55 profit. Still nothing much with SB so can't complete there.

The postie lot have decided to favour me and have upgraded me from junk mail and religious offerings to the vaguely tolerable mainstream gossip mag Salutations! Will read that with lunch before I log it and send it back to them.

I've spent a happy morning assembling a grands worth of fabulous childrens toys. DDs had loads more fun product testing them which kept them quiet before school. Escaped early as today is day 1 of road safety training teachnig 5 and 6 year olds to cross the road without actually crossing the road. Its two hours in the fresh air.

Still haven't photographed the stuff for E-bay or had a response from Germany.

moo2moo

Panic over. OH is a very disappointed little boy. Doesn't help that he fell over in the dark putting my hens to bed and has two huge bruises on his shins. Someone with rather too much cash paid the £2750 asking price for the off road trailer so I can breathe a huge sigh of relief. Why is it men always set such huge expensive goals? I'd be happy with a big white Toblerone, ecstatic if there was a book to go with it but he doesn't seem to consider anything that has any less than two zeros at the end a treat.

Got Martins E-mail about the £20 free from ING and went to open an account at silly o'clock this morning when I couldn't sleep. Unsurprisingly their site was unable to process my request.

The jobsworth at school attempted to make my life miserable yesterday. Its amazing how she knows in detail what conversations went on on her days off. She just doesn't like me (or any one else) and is a truly obnoxious person prone to bursting into tears and running to the boss at the slightest whiff of anything that isn't in her favour. Will be spending today avoiding her, fortunately thats rather easy to do, she doesn't like slumming it with the working class.

mooomin

Hey Moo

Might be worth trying ING again, as I have managed to get onto their site and apply ok. I can't find the bl**dy chequebook now though to send off my deposit...