A Payment A Day Part 5

Paulgonnabedebtfree

Greenbynature wrote: »

"Oh, thank heavens," sighs the drunk.
"For a minute there, I thought I'd gone deaf."

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

bisselljk1986

Just a quick (and small) one for me....

£1.08

Paid to Littlewoods!! :D

sashanut

Hi all!

Popping back on to report another PAD of £279.68 to O/D please FJo :j

Update on DD - seems today she is hungover but managed to make it to first days' induction! Apparently Manchester is hellish expensive (!) but her flatmates are 'wonderful' today - go figure anything that doesn't say 'come & get me I want to come home NOW' is a vast improvement IMHO :T methinks it will be better once she gets her internet connection....or gets her mobile back/replaced.

Paulgonnabedebtfree

Eager_Elephant wrote: »

DH has a Halifax c/c (formerly Amazon) with a balance of £1800ish @ 22.9%, we need to get this paid off so he can do a BT as his limit is £6000. We could move the money to another card and incur a 3% fee and then BT it back with another 3% fee but not sure if it is worth it. Not sure what deal he would get on BT but hopefully at least 6.9% for life.
We have BT'd around before and with the fees I don't feel like I am getting anywhere so am going to try to pay this off in either 9 or 18 weeks so needing £100 - £200 per week.

Today's PAD is £20.21

EE

P.S For those addicted to FarmVille just wondering if you wish to have a go in real life!! I have so many animals to look after and it's hard work so am thinking about getting rid of them all and getting my farming fix from Farmville!!!

This reminds me of something. If anyone is skint and needs a cheap holiday then you could do a lot worse than I did a few years ago. I went up to the N. Yorkshire moors and spent a week on an organic farm. There is a village up there that has five organic farms. Some of the residents are workers and others are "villagers". The villagers are people with varying degrees of mental handicap who have been placed there. Probably their families can't cope etc. I found it a very rewarding experience. The break is free but of course, you have to work your keep. You are fed and watered and supplied with sleeping quarters. It wasn't anything too difficult really and just having such a change was restful. I did start to get a bit bored towards the end of the week as I was rather younger and more restless then. No problem. I just took a drive into Middlesborough for an evening out. Whitby is a reasonable drive away too. So long as you do your work in the day the evening is yours. I found it interesting to get to know some of the handicapped people. It helped me to face one of societies big taboos and realise that it's no big deal.
Having written this i'm wondering if it still happens that way. Probably these days you have to go through ten layers of checks to ensure you're not a pervert/axe murderer. Plenty of sheep for anyone so inclined anyway.
I'm not sure that viewing it purely as a cheap holiday is really such a good approach. It's actually something more than that. I'm not sure that I want to try to define it because each person will bring different things to it and take different things from it.
To this day I still have a black pebble with pink swirls on it given to me by one of the villagers. I gave him a WWF promotional poster for it (I worked in advertising back then). WWF = World Wildlife Fund - nothing to do with the wrestling.
This all happened way back in 1991. After getting back I had a message to contact the advertising office and was promptly made redundant. Best thing that ever happened to me because I have been window cleaning practically ever since. Flexi time with decent pay and don't have to put up with anyone you don't want to. I really would hate to have a "proper" job

Moneytroubles_2

£200 PAD for me today, should have only been 166 but seems as though I didn't PAD yesterday I thought I'd round it up!

macgirl

Greenbynature wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek: wash your mouth out mac!!! :rotfl::rotfl:I don't do running!! anyway I live in Middlesbrough so far too far for me to go

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Come on! I'm thinking of entering next year - fancy it?!!

jo41 wrote: »

You're right particularly the Saturdays.
Perhaps I need to get heavy:rotfl::rotfl:

I did find that SHOUTY helped Jo! :rotfl:

:j:j:jWell, I'm happy to report I've got a new car!!!! (Well,new to me):j:j:j
It's relatively low milage for it's age, 6 year old VW Golf.
Best of all, it was less than £5k, so as MSE as I could muster.
There's not a mark on it inside or out, so I am really delighted!!
Thanks for all the kind words of support and helpful advice everyone :beer:

Paulgonnabedebtfree

jo41 wrote: »

You're right particularly the Saturdays.
Perhaps I need to get heavy:rotfl::rotfl:

The problem for me with weekend PADing is that no money clears into my accounts and no DDs go out. Therefore, I have to PAD within what I've already got in the bank.

joeyjimbles

Farming PADDers - can you tell me why there is a sheep (a black one) in the balloon I bought for 10 coins yesterday?

pippo

Omg ..I've been away too long ..can't remeber how to do the quote thing!!
I'll be back!
Pip
x

Silaqui

Hello everybody!

I haven't posted properly on here for ages, been really busy and just shattered! I'm trying to catch up with things because as soon as I can but the start of term is always busy.
I really want to go to the gym tonight but dunno if I can muster up the energy...

No pads recently (sorry farmer Jo) as I've no money, I'm up to my overdraft thanks to paying for the b/f's car repairs so I don't really want to pad into my overdraft, not really any point is there!

Hope you are enjoying your course so far Danko, I remember my primary experience it was horrible! Can't be doing with little ones. And the work is soooo hard! They do it all in a completely different way to how I remember doing it!

Yay for new cars Mac!

Hope everyone is ok!
xx