Financial faux pas and other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Only one DooYoo done today. Not in the right frame of mind to do any more. Still only 4 to go before I reach 100 reviews and half way to my overal target. 100 more seems a ridiculous number to attempt have to keep reminding myself I do like a challenge.

Have done 2/3 of the laundry. think the tumble drier may begin to melt soon. That or the magic pixie that runs round the electricity meter will go on strike cos its whooshing round at the mo. Treated them to a roast yesterday and did buns and sausages rolls for school lunches whilst the oven was on. Decided against the supermarket yesterday in gale force winds. Was having more fun dismantling project Landrovers temporary house with a very sharp knife after it decided to leapt six feet down the drive and slam into the front of my car (its been in position for 4 months without movement). Will be repairing the cracks to the bumper with nail varnish later. Tis days laike this taht I'm glad its a rust bucket.

OH appears to have enjoyed his holiday. So much so that he spent yesterday browsing flea-bay for a static caravan. I'm sure he keeps forgetting that he only gets 3 weeknds off every 2 months and then he ends up working them although apparently since he gets his days off midweek he could pootle of on his own to go fishing. Yeh right like I'm going to suggest a fella and his smelly fishing gear have unrestricted access to £15K of caravan. You just know the state it would be left in and which ijot would end up cleaning it. Lifes busy enough without having that to deal with too. Still four hours later he was looking at Pinzgauer 8 wheel drive armoured personell carriers - that'll be the trip to the Tank Museum then. Did I mention we spent a day at a tank museum and a motor museum whilst on our jollys. Twas more fun that I expected. Never thought I'd use the words tank, museum and fun in the same sentance. I still have nightmares about the smelly hovel in deepest summerzet that housed a collection of bloodstained memorabilia. I wouldn't have been at all surprised to come across a decaying corpse slung in a corner or wedged in a mangled part plane. It was the stuff of horror films.

Anyway today OH is being helpful and insiting on accompanying me to the supermarket. I forsee several arguments about pretty much everything and a trolley load of carp that he'll insit we buy but then refuse to eat. He bought 6 Frey Bentos pies several years back and then announced they didn't taste anything like he remembered from when his mum bought them in the 80s. Will torture him with the remaining ones when he lest expects it.

Eeek late again and its only Monday!

Lula-Hula

Sounds like the holiday has done you good as well Moo

You seem to be back to your normal chirpy self & full of humour, hurray for that :j. Static caravans are pants, they're just so, well, static :rolleyes: no fun in spending the next 30 years of life visiting the same place over & over.

Now a tank sound much more fun *insert evil laugh smilie* that'll stop the parents parking their cars across the pavements :rotfl:

moo2moo

Grabbing a quick cuppa before returning to the grindstone.

Did everything I needed in town renegotiated lots of things in Mr Ts with OH but still managed to do a Floozie (Intergalactically of course) and blew a smidgen over £135. Everything seems to have lurched upwards again. 3kg of pasta was £4.40 instead of £3.50 a couple of weeks back. Bought shed loads of macarroni instead as that was 70p a 1kg bag. OH still managed to sneak in branded biscuits. Aw well. Got to the checkouts and had a complete melt down. Had left the reusable shopping bags at home. Mr Ts no longer have any free carier bags. Its the 10p ones or nowt. !!!!!! that for a malarky. OH was dispatched in search of boxes. Simultaneously discovered Mr Ts new if you ain't bought it you can't use vouchers for it. Humph I could have saved 35p as well. Mutter mutter. Still I have enough grub to feed a small army for a considerable period of time.

Had a fun morning sweeping up leaves in the sunshine, managed a childish stomp through the bigger piles too much to the bosses ammusement. Managed to fill all schools wheelie bins then got caught jumping up and down insde them like a child on a trampoline. Its much fun and comes highly recommended providing you've recently washed the inside of the bins otherwise it could be a wee bit pong whiffy.Thought I had three very dull meetings to attend tonight but it turns out its only two. Damn shame. Spent the remainder of the morning unpacking all the freebies from the Sainsburys schools voucher thing so was like a kid on Christmas day (no change from normal really). Unfortunately that means tomorow morning will be spent blowing up 30 footballs and popping last years duff ones.

Intergalactic_Floozie

moo2moo wrote: »

Did everything I needed in town renegotiated lots of things in Mr Ts with OH but still managed to do a Floozie (Intergalactically of course) and blew a smidgen over £135.

*feels smug*

moo2moo

I am embarking on a cleaning frenzy. Mount Washmore has finally been conquered so I can start on the pre-holiday bedding that I haven't got round to changing. I know scummy. Having cleaned a caravan top to bottom is an hour I'm convinced minimalism is the way to go. Unfortunately thats never going to happen, not unless otherhalfs tank comes with a trailer although several e-mails were disptached regarding parts for project Landrover. It looks like that might be back on again, either that or I'm about to have lots more boxes of parts to dust around, not that I ever get round to dusting but if I did I'd have lots more to do.

Redundancy looms again. One of the cleaners husbands has been given two months notice and will finish work on New Years Eve. Now need to persuade my boss he can find an extra hours cleaning time in his budget so that she qualifies for working tax credit as shes an hour a week under the minimum at the moment. Todays mission is to irritate him into submission. It will be a breeze.

OH is finally back at work although he'll arive home grumpy. Turns out his boss is off indefinatly having fallen over outside a pub whilst clap cold sober and broken 4 ribs. Hes since developed pneumonia will be off for a while but is managing admirably from his sick bed by sending one of the remaining musketeers overseas for a stint leaving OHs office short handed again. No surprise there. The remaining musketeers are rather cheesed off at being forced to work their days off to mantain minimal staffing levels. Its overtime but nobody wants to work it indefinately without a day off which is what appears to be happening. Again.

So plans for today:

• More laundry
• Change all the beds
• Do the teeny bit of ironing that didn't get done yesterday evening
• Polish halo
• Chuck out tons of carp
• Find a way to list tat on E-bay without paying them a fortune now the money grabbing shysters are insisting on free postage on just about everything I want to list. It costs me money to send it eejots!
• Do 2 more DooYoos to add to the 2 I've already done today taking me to 100. Whoopee. Its non-stop excitement here
• Tidy enough to find the floor then vacuum.
• Purchase food for chinchilla who will starve to death if I forget.
• Clean out chickens if it ever stops raining for long enough
• Make pathway to coal bunker ready for tomorrows delivery
• Wrap lots of X-mas prezzies to send to my folks for distribution this weekend. Only needed to buy two in the end setting me back an entire £10. Still it covers 7 people who I never see and whose only form of contact is a Christmas card and occassionally a birthday card for the DDs. They've never forgiven me for not inviting them to our wedding. OH and I decided that we'd only invite the family that our OHs had met in the five years before we got matrried. He hadn't and we didn't. Harsh but fair. Kept the guest list to friends and those family we gave a toss about which incidently wasn't many.

moo2moo

Waffled too much. Even later than normal. Eeeeek.

mooomin

moo2moo wrote: »

Grabbing a quick cuppa before returning to the grindstone.

Did everything I needed in town renegotiated lots of things in Mr Ts with OH but still managed to do a Floozie (Intergalactically of course) and blew a smidgen over £135. Everything seems to have lurched upwards again. 3kg of pasta was £4.40 instead of £3.50 a couple of weeks back.

Do you have a Morrisons near you? They are doing 1kg of pasta for £1.95 BOGOF and always have half price branded biscuits. I also got 1kg of onions for 30p, 1kg of carrots for the same and lots of leeks for £1. Morrisons are by far the best for my budgeteering purposes. I was shocked at the prices in Tesco the other day.

Welcome home by the way :j

moo2moo

Sadly no Morrisons. Just a tiny Somerfield, an even smaller Co-op, an Asda which is impossible to park at , Sainsburys and Mr Ts.

Reached 100 DooYoos and 68105 points. Bought food for the chinchilla but have been sat on my bum since I got home. Recovering from a morning spent building the worlds most complicated basketball hoop by stuffing my face with fresh bread and lashings of homous. Will tackle the house next.

Holiday spends finally calculated at £303.88. Eeek.Considerably more than I thought. Aw well tis only once a year.

moo2moo

Sure I posted random waffle mid afternoon but it appears to have disappeared into cyber space. Not a clue what it was. Can't have been important in any way. Off to potter some more.

moo2moo

Following yesterdays bout of senility normality (such as it is) has resumed.

Going to get the bad bit over with first. Have updated the updatables and remaining of the 4K challenge is a pathetic £581.30. With 59 days of challenge still to go thats vey pants. My direct debits will pretty much wipe that out before the end of the month. Still its very enlightening. Now I just need to do something about it.

Did a large chunk of the stuff I'd planned to do yesterday and then got sidetracked into a hide it in the tardis like cupboard under the stairs decluttering frenzy. Result is the dining room looks like a dining room. Will need full body armour to venture in to the cupboard under the stairs though. Only 53 hours until the arrival of the step-mother. Need to do shed loads of serious tidying before then.

Still being able to walk into one room and not see piles and piles on carp on every surface is a very nice feeling. Shame about the rest of the house really. Explained to the DDs yesterday thats we're not poor (apparently working people who don't have cleaners are poverty stricken) but the house is too untidy for a cleaner to actually do any work. So we're not poor we're just disorganised. They went to school happy.

My E-bay pile is enormous so I'm going to list everything in it on Saturday whilst I'm child free and OH is at work thus freeing up space and generating funds. School are having a Christmas Fair in 4 weeks time so I can start dumping the unsaleable stuff there for that which gets it out of my hair. I'm giving up on GreenMetropolis. I've had books listed for 10 months which haven't sold. As they're unlikely to sell I'm going to review them on DooYoo and then get rid one way or another just to free up some shelf space.

Have already done two DooYoos off to do the free scratchcard before loading the washing machine for the first of many times today.