The Golden Goose's Quest For The Golden Egg - AKA A Debt Free Life!

savingholmes

Hi GG sorry you didn't get the job. Like you I always think they should offer it me as I'm the greatest LOL even if secretly I eye the prospect of doing that job there and the way they do it with dread!

Congratulations for signing on - I'm proud of you. :T claim your £64.30 plus interview expenses with pride girl! I put in a claim for more interview expenses for Tuesday this week myself. I signed on again today - but I have a friend that works there which does help. Ours is also in a reasonable, non-smelly location! I should get my first payments through next week!:j

My DD said to me "how much is it again is it over £100?" I said "yes" - "wow over £100 is a lot of money we will be rich then won't we" :rotfl:Aww bless - a 5 year old's perspective on money!!!!

If your hormones are playing you up remind yourself that is all it is a chemical imbalance and then go and have some fun, ride your horse or whatever ! Try not to eat too much chocolate - afterall you need to share it round all of us lot too!

mrscmr

hi mrs gg

sorry about the job thing... i know what u mean though. i always expect that if i go for an interview then i will naturally get the job.. .cos in years gone by i always did. but these days when there are huge numbers of peeps going for one itty bitty job its a different story.

i must confess i sit with laptop and watch tv or mario kart with 4 yr old screaming at it whilst working/surfing/reading forums and sorting my ebay. well thats until my laptop overheats which is often.
i would never buy another one cos if one bit breaks then you cant easily replace -at least with a desktop youcan replace the bits more easily.
well have a nice weekend. im really hoping we sell a car this weekend so my little heart is beating faster than normal.. we can pay off an 8k loan and have some left over.. unfortunately i have 'allocated' that left over bit for a holiday aggrrrrhhhh ... no i hear you cry - be strong and pay of debts.. but a holiday you hear me cry... a little lie down in the sun.... surely i could just squeeze one in? in my head im planning a big one!
ha ha
delusionally yours...
mrscmr

The_Golden_Goose

Awwww - you girls are too kind to me. But I love it and you make me feel better!

Re: the holiday - one of the best I ever had was a LM.com one - package deal. Was suuuuuuuuuuuper ace. If you do holiday make it a cheap one or get a cracking deal. As long as you carry on your MSE Savvy ways on your hols I don't see the harm. It will rejunvenate you.

Gotta dash - dinner burning!!

The_Golden_Goose

Back!! Close call.

SH - I'll take your proudness and raise some back at you! Your motivation at the job hunt is catching!!

savingholmes

The_Golden_Goose wrote: »

Back!! Close call.

SH - I'll take your proudness and raise some back at you! Your motivation at the job hunt is catching!!

aww your too kind!:A

I am determined to get my next job - and altho I have done a lot of fixed term contracts in recent years this time I have decided to go back in for perm jobs and to try and take a step up in my career. It does mean that the interviews etc are "super hard" as I am trying to take my career to the next level but the ones at my previous level I also find hard as I sit opposite the interviewer and find myself thinking "I could do your job - I need to apply for your job not this one" :eek: I do have a sneaking suspicion that it sometimes comes across. So I've been trying really hard to go for jobs I consider to be the "right level". Doing that in the middle of a recession is however even more challenging.

I hope you get the right job soon GG - I am sure you will - but I am equally sure that it is an odds game and sometimes it is just a matter of applying for the right number of jobs at the right level before your number wins! Keep pressing on - you will get there.

The_Golden_Goose

Today's installment

Hello Campers! Hi-De-Hi and Lo-De-Lo!

Been a relatively non-event Saturday for me, nothing new there then.

Really not done very much, except for exercise the dog and my horse. Hardly a chore as the sun is positively glorious today. Shame the same cannot be said for the indoor chores that await me.

The house is such a mess that I am procrastinating like mad about even making a start. A case of there is so much to tackle that its easier not to tackle any of it. Utterly ridiculous I know. There is clean washing to put away. Immense amounts of dog hair (dog is still moulting heavily), the duster should really come out of hibernation, not to mention the bathroom floor needs a damn good cleanse, tone and moisturise session. Puke!

Yesterday I bought some bin liners as we'd run out, well would you Adam and Eve it, they are too small. Frustration city. Damn you bin bags. I can't take them back (and it was BOGOF). So now have 80 bin bags for a bin that is too big for them. Shall just have to make do.

Saturday night in the Goose household MSE styleee will involve storecupboard dinner, leftover red wine and rubbish Saturday night TV. Exhilalirating or what? Bet Posh & Becks wish that they had such interesting lives like we do. Yeah, I reckon. NOT on your nelly.

In a couple of years time when we have hopefully zilcho or reduced debt, then we can do the social thing again more frequently. Realize it was our social situation that has partly put us where we are now.

At the beginning of the month, we'd have our nights out and without really knowing how much disposable income I had (which is actually nothing!), we'd go out for a meal and I'd pay for it either by DD or CC. If by DD it would end up me going over my OD, so that meal would really become just another flipping debt.

Mr GG wanted to take me out tonight. I asked him if we could afford it, he said No but it would be nice. Though I don't really think I would enjoy eating MBNA's steak and chips as much as I would if it was being paid for by cash. Lets face it - a £45 meal on a CC, could end up costing a lot more than that once the APR hits in as we can't clear the balance every month. So sick of throwing dosh away. Thankfully we don't any more.

Mr GG is being particularly annoying today. Won't go into details. However, he knows I am cross (perhaps its the steam coming out of my ears whenever I look at him) and so he is now making a start on the housework and I can hear the vacuum being kick started.

Off to take the dog out for its second walk of the day, and I quote "to spend some quality time together" - that is Mr GG talking...... talking about me and him, not him and the dog. Though in the fowl (get it!!) mood I am in, I'd quite happily let him take a long walk off a short pier. Sadly we can't afford the petrol to drive to any piers, so looks like I am stuck with him. Men, who'd have them?

Spent hours on here last night. Crusing the OS board, so I was. Cut and pasted a few recipes that I'll be making, esp those that feed two for 50p. Right on sirreeeeeee. Making me feel hungry just thinking about it. Guess it is almost munchie o'clock. Again, that'll be the hormones!!

Hope you are all having a super Saturday and if you've been hitting the shops, that you been hitting those that have Sales on and that you've not been hitting the credit card. CC's are bad. Very bad. Bad for your health, wealth and your wardrobe. It ends up costing you twice as much as when you change your mind about your purchases and go back for a refund, then you have had to make an extra journey to take the dratted items back to the shop. Save yourself the fuel and parking costs, don't buy it in the first place.

Impulsive use of CC's when you can't repay the entire balance and stay interest free is very naughty. I rest my case.

Til the next installment.

mogchops

With you there on the Sat night telly Mrs G-G. Britains Got Talent here we come.......:rotfl::rotfl:(with a bottle of cheap red to make it bearable.....)

Know what you mean about the "eat out/takeaway when just got paid" syndrome. We used to do that too - without even thinking about it. Wouldnt even consider it now!! Mental mindset totally different!

savingholmes

Hi GG - my oh even joined as ohofsavingholmes to give his side of the story... I don't think he lasted 48 hours on here!

2 meals for 50p sounds good - what were they? Save us going to the old style board do.....

Hope the fresh air and quality time does you both good

Stay off the munchies... they have the same effect on your waist as aprs do on your cc balance! (Sadly I have found this out for myself too!)

mrscmr

hey mrs GG where u gone? we are all missing you on here... whats been coooking?

have you had a good weekend?
hope so
mrscmr

Swinstie73

The_Golden_Goose wrote: »

Hope you are all having a super Saturday and if you've been hitting the shops, that you been hitting those that have Sales on and that you've not been hitting the credit card. CC's are bad. Very bad. Bad for your health, wealth and your wardrobe. It ends up costing you twice as much as when you change your mind about your purchases and go back for a refund, then you have had to make an extra journey to take the dratted items back to the shop. Save yourself the fuel and parking costs, don't buy it in the first place.

Morning GG, wish I had read this on Saturday before I ended up spending £66 yesterday and guess what, half of it is going back! Tried to tell myself it was ok, it was holiday clothes, but still I had been doing so good. My laptop is coming this week (hope it doesn't break down mrscmr) so will hopefully stay away from the shops at the weekend!

Hope everyone had a good weekend, the weather was lovely!