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Skint Spice's journey to being less skinty and more spicy
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What kind?
So you can pinch them?
I'm so old, I remember the days of 10p mix-ups... :eek:
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One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.0 -
I used to pay 2p for a bag of grease coated bits of batter dredged out of the fish fryer at the chippie. The sweet shop on the way home from school used to sell white chocolate mice for a penny each and giant ice pops for 5p. My bus fare home from school aged 6 was 5p but I only lived a mile from school so if I ran all the way home I could use my bus fare to buy sweets and still arrive when I was expected. Unfortunately the evil bus company brought out Kerching-a-saver-strips which meant I got 12 journeys for 50p but my mum paid for them in advance. I was devastated.Saving for a Spinning Wheel and other random splurges : £183.500
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I loved those, we called them scraps...mmmm lovely with loads of vinegar and salt on.Blackadder: Am I jumping the gun, Baldrick, or are the words 'I have a cunning plan' marching with ill-deserved confidence in the direction of this conversation?
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Scraps must have been an english thing - despite what they say about us Scots I don't remember them up here. Scraps were pretty pics you swapped at school;)...
Took DS to Silverburn today (via park and museums) and found a pair of trainers he liked that fitted:j...it's only been a month (ok maybe we haven't shopped very often but we've looked in a few places) so no more shopping for us, you can sense his relief. I did suggest we pop back tomorrow at 5am for the Next sale and he looked like he was going to cry! evil mother I know:rotfl::rotfl:!
Went for a wee drive past the new house site and that's a NO:eek:! village very far out and not too nice either, hadn't been for years but it's gone down instead of up.
and on a MS note I fancied nandos but instead have bought stuff to make fajitas and a bottle of wine for mucho less money;).Mortgage OP 2025 £6200/7000Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000
Mortgage balance: £36,255
Money making challenge £0/400
”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)0 -
skint_spice wrote: »Scraps must have been an english thing - despite what they say about us Scots I don't remember them up here. Scraps were pretty pics you swapped at school;)...
Scraps were fights where I was from...skint_spice wrote: »Took DS to Silverburn today (via park and museums) and found a pair of trainers he liked that fitted:j...it's only been a month (ok maybe we haven't shopped very often but we've looked in a few places) so no more shopping for us, you can sense his relief. I did suggest we pop back tomorrow at 5am for the Next sale and he looked like he was going to cry! evil mother I know:rotfl::rotfl:!
Take him shopping more often. Toughen him up for when he gets a GF.
Get him to buy lingerie on Christmas Eve for the same reason...skint_spice wrote: »Went for a wee drive past the new house site and that's a NO:eek:! village very far out and not too nice either, hadn't been for years but it's gone down instead of up.
So look for some other places - plenty about...skint_spice wrote: »and on a MS note I fancied nandos but instead have bought stuff to make fajitas and a bottle of wine for mucho less money;).
OK...so what ingredients go into a bottle of wine..?"Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
"We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
"Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky." OMD 'Julia's Song'0 -
OK...so what ingredients go into a bottle of wine..?
:p:p (that's me blowing a raspberry at you!) ok the wine was ready made:D! Mortgage OP 2025 £6200/7000Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000
Mortgage balance: £36,255
Money making challenge £0/400
”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)0 -
skint the local uni here (univesity of west of scotland) are running free language courses taking you to higher level and saving about £200 if you have never used them before ...maybe check yours as well you might have some promotion going on round your way as well ...incidently where is your way ?0
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skint the local uni here (univesity of west of scotland) are running free language courses taking you to higher level and saving about £200 if you have never used them before ...maybe check yours as well you might have some promotion going on round your way as well ...incidently where is your way ?
Have PMed you Elantan;). I've never used them before but it needs to be a distance learning thing due to lack of childcare, will have a look see what's available thanks though.
Z, aren't boys supposed to land up with someone like their mother? in which case DS is never going to have to spend his weekends shopping:rotfl:. I only go when I need something but that's probably why I never find stuff cos I get a fixed idea in my head before hitting the shops:o.
and I haven't given up the house hunting but at least I am a bit more focused now and know more what I want.Mortgage OP 2025 £6200/7000Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000
Mortgage balance: £36,255
Money making challenge £0/400
”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)0 -
have you been looking at hypno's !!!!!!?
got your pm have replied ...
they might do a distance course i am not too sure though ...but surely somewhere will ...does the library do spanish book or anything ?0 -
skint_spice wrote: »Z, aren't boys supposed to land up with someone like their mother?
Well that depends on how common babes are where you live...skint_spice wrote: »in which case DS is never going to have to spend his weekends shopping:rotfl:. I only go when I need something but that's probably why I never find stuff cos I get a fixed idea in my head before hitting the shops:o.
You need to do research. So you know what's available *before* you hit the shops.
I tend to go in, grab, and return. It's like a viking raid, but without the mustaches...skint_spice wrote: »and I haven't given up the house hunting but at least I am a bit more focused now and know more what I want.
Location, location, location?"Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
"We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
"Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky." OMD 'Julia's Song'0
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