**The going nowhere Weekend Chat Thread 28th March 2009*

prophecy_grrl

Hi, I vaguely remember seeing a dfw red/green support thread - can anyone tell me if that's still going please?

System

Morning everyone, not much going on today. Son was sick last night and he's been up most it chucking up. But hes still asleep and has kept some water down so hopefully he will perk up today. Weller posted on last night's thread towards the end; was good to hear from her. Have a good day y'all Len x

bank_of_slate

Good morning all! :wave:
...Linda xx

spud30

Morning

Off to read last night's goings on :cool:

Ellidee

Morning all ! Still no Bookie or Buffy ?

spud30

Aww, only read Weller's post, and I'm already filling up.

Nice to know you're still lurking Weller hun :hello:

Bunny, so sorry to hear about your friend's children. Off to give mine a much needed (for me, not them) hug xx

LouiseJ

prophecy_grrl wrote: »

Hi, I vaguely remember seeing a dfw red/green support thread - can anyone tell me if that's still going please?

It has gone very quiet in there and most people have moved over to the SW thread here

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=20168431#post20168431

Blackruby

Morning all, things might have changed again. I will do a big long post in word and post it to avoid loosing it.

Blackruby

As you know, my girls came over yesterday afternoon, so we were sat there chatting about it all. Then two of my housemates came home from visiting and work. It felt like a summit, I’ll tell you that. None of them wanted me to go so they were all talking through what’s happened, I was honest with them with the amount of trouble I am in and how I have been feeling. They lectured me slightly for not telling them about it, even though it’s all my own doing.

So anyway, they’ve encouraged me to hold on until my tenancy runs out here. Get myself on JSA, housing and council tax benefit. They insisted that Fi would rather he get his money somehow than loose the last 2 months rent if I moved out. I wasn’t happy with that, because it’s ok for them to say to just stand up to him. But I am scared of confrontation and would rather not. But anyway, by the time the girls left, I had gone from being totally sure of what I was doing, to being very confused and unsure what was for the best.

As I was mulling all this over, an idea came to me last night. Really, if you strip it down, it's just Fi and the rent that has thrown me for a loop. I've applied for JSA this morning and I was thinking about how much I would get and how much I could live on when I came up with this idea. If I could get a hold of £330 (two months rent) I could give that to Fi and that would be us square for the rest of the time I am here. I worked out that I could pay back £40 a fortnight to whoever lent me it and in the worst case scenario, it would take me four and a half months to pay it all back. But I'm really thinking that I would have got a job, any job before that point. I was running the idea by my housemate, and he said he could lend me May's rent as he gets his loan through in late April, so that's another option there. But I haven't quite worked out how my repayment plan would work for two people.

[FONT=&quot]So I’ve sent an email to my mother with the above plan. She’s gonna get back to me and we’ll see how it goes.[/FONT]

sammy115

Ruby I am confused as to why you can't apply for housing benefit......

When would your new job start, when do you get your first pay packet and how much will you get paid..

sammy x

ps i have to go out in a minute but will reply later