Financial faux pas and other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

I can't turn down an offer like that. Thank you. I'll give it a whirl if you have one spare. Now I have to figure out how to explain to OH that I'm bonking with the peeople of the internet without it sounding like a key swapping party. Must remember not to mention the DFW Edinburgh meet at a similar point in time.

mooomin

moo2moo wrote: »

I can't turn down an offer like that. Thank you. I'll give it a whirl if you have one spare. Now I have to figure out how to explain to OH that I'm bonking with the peeople of the internet without it sounding like a key swapping party. Must remember not to mention the DFW Edinburgh meet at a similar point in time.

Ooh are you coming to the meet? It would be lovely to meet you in person and share a glass of tap water as we try to stick to our insane budgets :rotfl:

moo2moo

OHs office is like the Marie Celeste, so much so that hes had to go in today. His boss has sucessfully conquered the art of rubber employees stretching them so thin that its all gone tits up. 6 employees. Minimum 2 required at work at any one time which is why two are in Italy, one is in hospital, one should be on a very rare day orf, one is working but incapable of doing 4am - 10pm single handed and being in three places at once and finally the 6th muskateers wife has been admitted to hospital with something rather nasty sounding. Looks like OH will be doing another 13 day stint at the grindstone.

My boss meanwhile is off having a jolly time in a youth hostel with 45 10 and 11 year olds - oh joy. Still having 45 kids less makes my day a tad easier, or at least it would have been had not the little darling broken a toilet seat meaning I need to empty the official disabled toilet which is used as a storecupboard thanks to the council workmen who installed a sink which prevents the door opening wide enough for a mere mortal to slither through. The only way a wheelchair would get in their is folded in half or tossed over the top, neither of which would go down too well with the disabled rights people.

The local Headteachers are descending this afternoon for their quarterly pow-wow which means I'll be dispatched to dust the outside of the school in the vicinity of the main entrance.

Failed miserably *again* *sigh* yesterday. Slapped £36 of petrol in the caar, blew £4.41 on e-bay parcels at the post office and then ventured into Mr Ts for a few things. Left with a heaving trolley and £70 less cash than I had when I entered the store. They'd just had a delivery of value stuff so I have loads of 50p butter, 4p curry sauce and 9p noodles. It was all store cupborad stuff. Honest. I'm completely pants at this frugal malarky although I have identified my many weaknesses. namely : children, OH and food. Not necessarily in that order.

moo2moo

flying_fresian wrote: »

Ooh are you coming to the meet? It would be lovely to meet you in person and share a glass of tap water as we try to stick to our insane budgets :rotfl:

I'm tempted but its totally dependant upon persuading OH to be in the UK at that point in time and themn making sure that him being at home to look after the DDs means hes actually at home to look after the DDs. Its more likely to be a last minute thing than anything planned as everything I plan seems to go wrong. Still I'll be easy to spot thanks to the two whingy children I'll be dragging in my wake.

mooomin

moo2moo wrote: »

I'll be easy to spot thanks to the two whingy children I'll be dragging in my wake.

Museum of Childhood is free and fun [strike]and I can play with the toys[/strike] and is just up the road from the fudge shop which gives out free samples.

My favourite way to spend an Edinburgh afternoon....

I fail at frugal too if it makes you feel any better. NSD ruined by tea again!!

skipton

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moo2moo

Thanks Skipton .

Today is going to be a rather surreal day. After yesterdays acusatory e-mails from the PTA where I stole a huge bright yellow sack trolley and two blue rubber trugs - ie. they weren't where the PTA abandoned them in June - I'm not in the best frame of minds to be helpful. Added to this I'm starting my morning up a ladder repositioning spot lights to illuminate a temporary stage which I have to collect from the church across the road and erect in order to do this. After that I have to connect a camcorder to a laptop to give a direct feed to the projector so that the demonstration on the stage can be seen in all its glory. Not that it will be seen in all its glory as the super bright spot lights will wash out the projected image so that no one will be able to see it. Not that you'll want to see it as I guess performing a demonstration with a light shining straight in your eyes isn't the easiest thing in the world to do. No matter the PTA have spoken. Just the small matter of setting out chairs and tables and trying to do my usual job whilst they ask inane questions about everything. Probably not a good day to be super grumpy. I need more coffee.

Avoided spending any money yesterday - whooppeeee - have a school disco to fund tomorrow evening and an excuse to humilliate the DDs in front of all their friends with my pathetic attempts at dancing.

Will DooYoo later. Can't be arsed at the mo. Its a can't be arsed sort of day. Probably doesn't help that its still dark outside. S'all gloomy. Wonder if I can get away with chocolate for breakfast.

makeup

moo2moo wrote: »

Wonder if I can get away with chocolate for breakfast.

Yes, the French have pain au chocolat and everyone always goes on about the healthy French lifestyle...

Am somewhat curious to notice that amongst your additional earned income on your 'super-scary' mission that you have managed to get some toilet rolls......how did you manage this? Are you now including things that you can [STRIKE]steal[/STRIKE] liberate from work????

missymoo81

hi ya hun have just found your diary and am reading with interest. Poor you with the ebay sales, it seems like so much effort for so little profit but every little helps especially if things were just cluttering up the place.

hmmmm.... not sure what I have walked into the middle of but..... mcvities bonking!!!! indeed!!!!

keep smiling

Missy x

moo2moo

makeup wrote: »

Yes, the French have pain au chocolat and everyone always goes on about the healthy French lifestyle...

Am somewhat curious to notice that amongst your additional earned income on your 'super-scary' mission that you have managed to get some toilet rolls......how did you manage this? Are you now including things that you can [STRIKE]steal[/STRIKE] liberate from work????

Ummm I was more thinking chocolate, actual chocolate in its guise as one of my five a day also known as a Terrys chocolate orange. Rather boringly I had museli instead.

Liberating toilet rolls from school would be a step too far. Theres Tesco value and then theres the stuff they sell to schols which has a multitude of other uses including tracing paper, grease proof paper in fact toilet paper is probably the last use for it I would ever have dreamed up. Instead the 4 in question arrived via the postie wrapped in bubble wrap to prevent them from damage (and you think I'm daft) from a survey company to be product tested.

Am most impressed that you refrained from pointing out that I'm also failing miserably on the afore mentioned super scary mission. Ah well. Things are slowly improving. Turns out we've overpaid our electricity bill so will be getting a lovely cheque for £150. Yeah right far too sensible. Actually they're just reducing our direct debit by £20 so that in a years time they can say bla bla records review bla bla underpayments bla bla increase dircet debit bla bla double your previous figure etc etc.

Finally got home from yesterday evenings entertainment at 10pm to discover OH had had a carpy day which he proceeded to reenact in detail which was no mean feat after 2 bottles of DIY rose wino (one red, one white). The very vague jist of it (I think) is hes suggested his company stick his office on a night shift once a month. Yippee why didn't I see that coming? No sane person would volunteer to work nights just to avoid their boss would they? I forsee him dropping in the popularity stakes in the not too distant future. Meanwhile his boss has been signed off sick for 6 weeks following a not very successful operation which appears to have left him with negligable sensation on his left side and his other collegues wife isn't looking too promising either. The amount of enforced overtime is beyond ridiculous.

DooYoo threw a wobbly yesterday and ate two reviews and all my points. Reviews regurgitated. No sign of the points yet. Not doing any mre reviews until the glitch is sorted although I may be tempted to do some as word documents and upload them later. Not awake enough to do anything other than surf yet though.

Looking forward to tonights school discos like a hole in the head. Spent most of yesterday hunting DD1s wallet which shes sure is in the kitchen cupboard - nope (my cheque book reappeared) - in her desk drawer - nope - all three cars - nope (one school uniform, several water bottles and half a dozen odd socks) - under her bed - nope (mouldy orange and 20+ books). Will continue the hunt later. Appears I may need to do some housework too.