Financial faux pas and other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Most bizarely OHs chasis is now completely stripped, all the mud has been eradicated from its interior and its booked in for a minor repair, shot-blast (£75) and re-spray in the stuff they use to paint oil-rigs next Wednesday which is conveniently the day I have to deliver the offspring to their grandparents.

Tis most amazing how much work the OH can actually get done when he really wants to. Even persuaded him to prune all the fornt hedges too.

DD2 had a great time with her friend only saw them four times throughout the day all of which were requests for food. Most peaceful. Could well be persuaded to allow a friend a week to visit over the holidays.

Lots of watchers on fleabay and bids on stuff that didn't shift last time. Looking rather good. Unfortunately OH is home alone with a Land Rover manual which is likely to result in a large order of parts from Padocks. Aw well. Whilst hes enthusiastic.....

moo2moo

Another day, another £103 and 13p spent. Fortunately its for school and I'll be reimbursed. I've e-mailed the boss to admit to this splurge in the hopes that he'll have calmed down by the time I see him again. Twas only yesterday that I told him I'd blown up Henry #4 and persuaded him that two new Henrys were required asap. Meanwhile todays purchase is a rather bargaintastic half price £200 SDS drill with a "free"12V cordless drill and some good quality drill bits which came in at a very sensible price thanks to a variety of on-line promotions and discount codes. Its only taken me since April to find one I like.

Half the fleabay tat has bids already. Still cleaning cupboards in the hopes I'll find lots more tat to get rid of. Sadly Music Magpie don't want anything thats left in the drivel drawer but flea-bay are removing charges on all media categories from September which means I can list all the PS1 games without paying 5p per listing. I'm such a tightwad. Need to read a bit more with DD2 so that I can get rid of another batch of Oxford Reading Tree books which go for significantly more than I paid for them whilst also freeing up rather a lot of shelf space. Still not got round to listing the Ipod either.

Have today off to spend quality time with OH and DDs. Meanwhile OH is at work on overtime and its pouring with rain so we're off to an indoor play centre with a few friends for the morning, well whats left of it.

Intergalactic_Floozie

Is fleabay your nicknamr for e-bay, or is it an actual site?

moo2moo

Flea-bay is just plain old E-bay. It reminds me of the really dodgy Piece Hall flea market type shops that used to lurk on the very top floor full of dusty moldy books and the odd badly stuffed dead bird. When I was little one of the dress shops was full of fox fur stoles complete with eyes and feet which used to scare the pants off me. Unfortunately it was one of my dads elderly aunts favourite shops and she used to take me in there as a treat. Her hall cupboard had to be the scariest place on earth. You opened the door and all these eyes starred at you and then the smell of mothballs hit.

Intergalactic_Floozie

moo2moo wrote: »

Flea-bay is just plain old E-bay. It reminds me of the really dodgy Piece Hall flea market type shops that used to lurk on the very top floor full of dusty moldy books and the odd badly stuffed dead bird. When I was little one of the dress shops was full of fox fur stoles complete with eyes and feet which used to scare the pants off me. Unfortunately it was one of my dads elderly aunts favourite shops and she used to take me in there as a treat. Her hall cupboard had to be the scariest place on earth. You opened the door and all these eyes starred at you and then the smell of mothballs hit.

Euwwwwwwwww!!!!! She used to take you in there as a treat!!!! :rotfl::rotfl:where would she have taken you if she hadn't have liked you LOL. I have only been to the Piece Hall once in my entire life about 13 years ago!

makeup

Hi Moo

I was thinking of you and your OH tonight.

I was out on a very random night and this guy I met had an electric cigarette.

He'd been to the launch of one yesterday and had managed to get his hands on one.

I even had a go! I managed to start coughing so didn't look super cool!!!

It was very strange but apparently all good as less nicotine as comes via vapour etc etc.

Really expensive though, but I think once you have it, only about £8 a time to stock up on 'filters' or whatever they were called!!!

Is your OH still going on with it?

moo2moo

Hi Make-up,

Yep he still has the fake fag and has converted most of the chain smokers in his office too. Annoyingly though hes still smoking roll ups too although a pack of baccy seems to be lasting marginally longer so perhaps its making a difference.

School have aquired an indoor boucy castle, a giant ball pool and a dozen autistic children with 1:1 carers for the 2 days a week for the remainder of the holiday which is making life quite entertaining. Its one thing trying to clean carpets in an empty building but quite different when people keep randomly walking across the wet bits despite the mountain of furniture barricaded against the doors to keep the out. I'm dreading the disaster thats bound to happen once the decorators arrive next week.

I'm back painting again today, this time a library. Spent yesterday cleaning two classrooms and moving several thousand books in anticipation.

£10 finally withdrawn from the free scratchcards after an eternity and I've reached 1000 points on Global Test Market so I'll be able to claim that again too. Also discovered that Nescafe Beans are worth double until the end of the month but they've ditched all the freebies in favour of %age off vouchers for very obscure shops. Most disapppointed. Currently trying to work out just how many people I can give £2 kitchen scales to as Christmas pressies. If anyone can use the discount codes PM me as I have 64 beans to use up.

Intergalactic_Floozie

My DH is attempting to give up smoking too. He's going to a local pharmacy this afternoon for a smoking cessation consultation!

moo2moo

Remind me again why I've listed shed loads of stuff on flea bay - surely it wasn't because I wanted tons and tons of hassle. Perhaps my user name translates to "I am a moron please treat me with utter contempt" in icelandic. Of course "will post to UK only" does not mean that postage to Germany is available at the same price. Neither does it mean that postage to Germany will be cheap. I could say exactly the same about the person from the Republic of Ireland and one from France and one from Italy. They're driving me nuts. Although the abusive e-mail I got from someone locally takes the biscuit and indeed the whole cheeseboard. They want to collect something tomorrow before they go on hoilday for which they've paid 99p. I've told them collection would be fine but must be before 7am as I have commitments after that. Apparantly thats a ridiculous time to suggest and If I didn't want to sell the item I should have said before hand. Umm hellooo I have a life!

On a very positive note 26 out of the 27 items listed have sold for a whopping £72 plus postage and the last one has 4 watchers. Better still I've wrapped those that have already paid and still have tons of free stamps to use so perhaps total profit will scrape in very much closer to £100. Well a girl can dream.

OH had a really really crappy day yesterday. He was supposed to be going to Sweden on a 2 day jolly departing Monday but they can't get him home until Wednesday (too disorganised to book the tickets in advance) when he has his chassis booked in to be shot blasted and the DDs need chaufeuring to Yorkshire. Because of that his trip has been canned and instead of him and 3 engineers from other sites going they're sending five contractors and his supervisor leaving his site short handed so hes been told he'll need to work Wednesday in the UK anyway. Umm no. I don't think so, not on his day off and not when the reason they're short handed is because his boss is off to Sweden instead. Theres a similar argument for the bank holiday weekend when we're off camping - perhaps he could go into work for the day anyway, it only adds an extra hour to his drive into work - umm no the idea of a family holiday is just that.

Todays plans:

• Package up as much E-bay tat as humanly possible and post Blitz the slum that we live in
• Sort through 2 bin bags of school uniform that I was given yesterday to see what will fit the DDs and then rehome the rest
• Clean out the chickens
• Go food shopping before we starve to death or OH decides to feed us pasta bake
• List more tat on flea-bay in a vague attempt to clar the pile under and around and on top of the computer desk
• Wash and pack the clothes the DDs want to take on holiday to stop them wearing them then announcing the day before they leave that they want to pack the items they are currently wearing
• Contemplate placing a £20 free bet before midnight
• Clear out my e-mail in-box which has reached 5 long pages of survey invites.

moo2moo

Bored of packing parcels but at least I've done everyone thats paid so far. Off to drag the demonic daughters away from the tv before the last postal collection departs.