Financial faux pas and other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Three long days to payday. I'm seriously tempted to try Hypnos £20 note challenge and see just how long I can make one last. I suspect that normally it wouldn't be all that long however since the cash point is unlikely to let me have one it will be at least Wednesday before I'm in a position to start the challenge.

A quick rumage through the DDs school bags brought with it a request for £105 :eek: apparently we can pay for next years residential trip in a lump sum now or in installments over the next year. No surprises which I'll be opting for. I need to return the letter to confirm her place no later than today. Wonder just how long its been lurking in there.

5 more days until the end of term. It should be a relatively fun week. School have a talent show, a drama production and a leavers service to cram into the remaining few days. Haven't heard anythng about the crack team of professional decorators who are supposed to be appearing to do three classrooms with 25 foot high ceilings. But have been told that the corridor I painted last holidays is due to have a new doorway fitted so I need to move two notice boards, two coat rails and then repair the walls before painting agin. Hopefully by the end of next week.

moo2moo

Strimmed the weed patch yesterday, played golf with a stone and am now awaiting a quote for replacing a 1.5m high security glazed door panel. Still the sun is shining and the E-bayers have all paid up.

moo2moo

Its Payday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cue the somersaulting around the room smiley and I finally got £50 from Its Your View! (but we very rarely want it) after a mere 3 and a half tedious years. Busy spending it already. Have ordered 5 cubic metres of logs for winter due to be delivered on Saturday bye bye £180. Still thats £70 less than everyone else wanted. After standing orders, direct debits, childcare, pocket money and car tax I have the princely sum of £188 to cover everything else, £70 of which I anticipate being required to replace the windscreen to pass the MOT and theres a car service to pay for too. No price on the glazing yet either. I forsee this being a beans and lentils month. Its rather a good job the cupboards are heaving, although mostly with cans of dog food.

DD1s flea bay chaps arrived. Brand new but a mini-Large rather than Large. I doubt these would fit the average 3 year old. Have e-mailed seller. The body protector arrived and is fab so I'm pretty darn happy with that.

Today is the day of schools talent show and end of year concert and its commercial oven cleaning day too. Yippeeeee. 3 days to the end of term. DDs are now moaning that I've booked them into the wrong days at holiday club. I've avoided Wednesdays since these are holiday clubs outing days and carry a £10+ surcharge per child for trips to the zoo and the like. Clearly I am evil.

Off in search of my mojo.

moo2moo

The fleabayer with the wrongly sized chaps has replied offering me a refund on reciept of the chaps. Normally I'd take them up on this but fleabay have been in touch too warning me of the seller in question whom they have booted out. Have asked the seller to forward the refund first. Heres hoping, probably not though. So if anyone out there has a 3-4 year old who'd like bargaintastic new blue chaps for Christmas drop me a line.

Off to find some the right size.

moo2moo

Today can't possibly be any worse a day than yesterday, well not unless something explodes. Went back to work early safe in the knowledge that the classrooms were empty thanks to all the children being in the hall for the entire afternoon. Did everything I could physically get done so that the instant they vacated the hall I could set out 180 chairs for yesterday evenings drama performance. It was all going so well. Then the phone rang. Turns out one of the little darlings has managed to contract a rather obnoxious and potentially contagious superbug. Several fun filled hours were subsequently spent disinfecting anything the child might possibly have come into contact with just to be on the safe side. Fortunately a few of the teachers and the Head mucked in too so it didn't take quite as long as it could have done. Not surprisingly we couldn't get hold of anyone from public protection or environmental health so we were guessing wildly at the correct course of action to take which made it all the more entertaining. Its one thing cleaning 40 computers in a computer room but what do you do about an entire library full of books? Similarly in a classroom you can disinfect walls and tables and chairs but do you need to dispose of pens and pencils and excercise books? Can you just dispose of the ones in the immediate vicinity of the childs seat or do you do the whole class to be on the safe side? Do you need to dispose of anything at all? So many questions and no answers at all from those in the know.

Broken window is being replaced tomorrow for just over £180. Easy come and far far far too easy go at the mo. I need to list a lot more on flea-bay to get through the next month.

beanielou

Oooops that was a difficult day then.

moo2moo

School is finally over (for the kids at least). I have a huge list of things to get done between now and September which will be made infinately more interesting by the arrival of a team of crack decorators complete with scaffolding at some point in August. Its pointless me doing anything in the third of the school they'll be occupying until they've finished so I get to tackle the nursery and infant departments (the Early Years unit and KS1 to those under 20). Unfortunately KS1 is also home to the messiest teacher in the school.

Our spending seems to be out of control again. OH purchased a new mobile phone yesterday for £50 and a waterproof coat (£65) and a pair of shorts, two jumpers and two fleece jackets for the DDs and a pair of binoculars (£45). At some point during his shopping spree his boss called. Turns out the planned trip to Luton at the end of the month (which I was told about yesterday) is off and instead hes off to Sweden a week earlier - so that'll be next week then. I'm truly glad my childcare plans for the summer didn't involve him in any way. Still at least while hes away he gets a very generous overseas allowance which should cover yesterdays purchases.

I've sold a few more bits on flea bay. Need to relist the stuff that didn't shift last time using the good old cut and paste technique that saves me a whopping 5p a time in listing fees rather than simply clicking the re-list option.

Plan for the day:

DDs to horse riding (£20)
Delivery of 5+ cubic metres of hardwood logs for next winter (£180)
Lots and lots of laundry. Far too many wet beds this week will be raiding the DDs rooms for cups.
Attempt 1,000,000,001 project de-carp the kitchen
List as much stuff as possible on flea-bay before losing the will to live
Get mince out of freezer for dinner
Clear out fridge. We really don't need 3 out of date squeezy mustards (all freebies).
Locate my mojo. Its been awol for over a week.

Intergalactic_Floozie

I'm not talking to you...bike indeed!

*wanders off muttering death threats and tutting**

moo2moo

Ooooooh cyber death threats. Wonder if thats an actual criminal offence. Would be most appreciative if someone could shove a protective hunky man in uniform in my direction. Any hunky man in uniform would do, type of uniform irrelevant.

Intergalactic_Floozie

moo2moo wrote: »

Ooooooh cyber death threats. Wonder if thats an actual criminal offence. Would be most appreciative if someone could shove a protective hunky man in uniform in my direction. Any hunky man in uniform would do, type of uniform irrelevant.

Like a Parking Enforcement Officer? If you were into S&M, he could slap you with a fine. Heh heh geddit?