InaPickle getting out of a pickle!

Baby_steps_2

Hi pickle, just wanted to say how motivational Reading ur diary has been. It's really made me consider sorting out my finances and debt. Hope u mange to sort everything out it seems like ur doing really well.

InaPickle

ruby_eskimo wrote: »

Well it's not MY stroke of good luck, more like the boyfriend's. His mum is selling her house and downsizing and she's going to give him some money. But because she gave his sister a lot of money when she sold his nan's house, she feels guilty for not giving him anything. To cut a long story short, it could be enough for a deposit for a house...or well on the way to it! :beer:

Oooh, that sounds great! :j Things are really looking good: uni, work with potential promotion, and now a house! :T I hope it all works out. Best of luck finding a decent house in your price range. I'm so excited for you - I would love my own place and looking round places to buy would be the best type of retail therapy imaginable for me (I'm probably sad! ). Let us know how it goes. x

InaPickle

Baby_steps wrote: »

Hi pickle, just wanted to say how motivational Reading ur diary has been. It's really made me consider sorting out my finances and debt. Hope u mange to sort everything out it seems like ur doing really well.

Hi Baby steps! :wave:

Gee, thanks - that's really kind of you, but all I ever seem to do is moan! At least, that's how it feels. Alas, at the moment I have a fairly limited income so it means that I can't do all the debtbusting I would like, but I am working on getting a new job permanently full-time), so that I can get on with things. I'm going to see if you have started a diary I can follow. I hope you have! *Pickle scuttles off to look for Baby step's diary* Anyway, whether you have or you haven't, pull up a chair, get a virtual cup of tea or coffee and have a biscuit to nibble on and read what we are all up to: you might get some ideas!

*Pickle returns from aborted thread search with comfy chair, teapot, full silver service and a place of chocolate digestives, hob nobs, jaffa cakes and batenberg slices*



P.S. Great login name! Considering the number of times that phrase is uttered on this forum, I can't believe that someone didn't choose that name sooner! :T

InaPickle

Woo hoo! I just got my silver star: look at this!

*Pickle twirls around at a dizzying pace*

edinburgher

*Pickle twirls around at a dizzying pace*

Such a rock and roll lifestyle - hope you're not too dizzy?

EssexHebridean

InaPickle wrote: »

Woo hoo! I just got my silver star: look at this!

*Pickle twirls around at a dizzying pace*

Bah - just means you talk a lot!! :D

InaPickle

edinburgher wrote: »

Such a rock and roll lifestyle - hope you're not too dizzy?

No...I'm quite dizzy to start with, so that might have just sorted me out!

EssexHebridean wrote: »

Bah - just means you talk a lot!! :D

So true: you have no idea!

Still, stop being a spoilsport...I won't get a gold one for a VERY long time, so I need to enjoy the 'new' feeling while I can!

Baby_steps_2

Guess I got lucky with the name!! But as u said it is all about baby steps to being debt free.

Thanx for the tea and biscuits I'll make sure o return the favour.

POSITIVE_AND_FOCUSED

Couldn't agree more Babysteps!

Hiya Pickle, just popping to say hi, hope you are ok, take care. PandF

InaPickle

Pickle is hungover. She is never drinking wine until 4 a.m. again with her aunty.

Aunty has come to visit for a few days so spent £10 taking her to lunch yesterday (my treat), £1.99 on new night cream (am trying the Aldi Lacuna stuff which gets rave reviews: if it doesn't work, I just bought myself a new footcream, so there's nothing lost), and £2.34 on a hair mask as my hair needs it, and £23.something on new nail stuff, on top of the £123 I spent the other day. It literally never ends.

Am still working on the assumption that my overdraft will be recalled, so am doing the best I can to spend everything on my CC and leave as much untouched as possible in my bank. Bills will come out, of course, and some things I have to pay for cash (like lunch yesterday as it was just a little cafe, not a Starbucks or anything, and some drinks at another aunty's birthday bash on Saturday night), and it's painful to do cos I know it's the wrong way round completely, but what else can I do? Am only buying that without which I cannot live, and trying to be a cunning condiment in the finance department. Have to sign A&L forms now and send back.

Need to return 2 nail cutters I bought off Ebay as they arrived scratched. Grr!

Am seriously unimpressed that I didn't manage to list anything in the Ebay free listings days cos I was working all weekend, and had a birthday party to go to as well. I said to myself that I would list everything I have to sell on Turbolister during the month, then just let it all rip (or copy and paste if I couldn't) on the free listing days themselves. I've not got round to it cos of the mess of my bedroom (I feel very bad as Aunty is here), and CD uploading seems to be the thing on the big project list of cleaning up mess which seems to be getting done at the minute, so I'll have to make that number 2 on the list.

Sorry, I'm waffling. Quite a lot of stuff has happened since my last update but I've been too busy to type, and now I've had the chance I'm hugover. Yuck. Bed grapes, bad viniculters!