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The Ultimate Incentive to have an amazing 2010.
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Aww you both have really cute cats! They seem very helpful around the house too.0
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Where do you get such great fabrics Tete?!Debt January 1st 2018 £96,999.81Met NIM 23/06/2008
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Err, are they that great? The stripy one behind Mavis's head is an old top, the pink spotty one is an old sundress - £4 from H&M a couple of years ago, I have about 1.5 metres of fabric from it! Bargain! - the brown flowery one is a 70s curtain from ebay and the yellow flowery one is just a massive bit of fabric I got in a ch shop - no idea what it is!Weightloss: 14.5/65lb0
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Bit of an update actually. NIM spoke to both his parents tonight. His mum is still being a pain, she offered to pay for flights and the like to fly him over for the weekend (bear in mind this means flying to Dublin 7am on Saturday so realistically getting up at 4.30am to get to the airport in the nick of time, getting the train over to Limerick and arriving there at around 4pm, then at about 1pm on the Sunday starting the whole thing in reverse, and getting back home by about 11pm.... ready to get up for work at 6.30 in the morning....) which while I understand she wants to see him, its just a HUGE hassle for less than 24 hours there and the one time he did it he swore never again, he was wreaked for a week. So he suggested she come this way, since she doesn't have a job or anything she could come for a couple of days, see more of him. But this seems to be too much of an inconvenience and she keeps mouthing off at him that he's ungrateful.
Anyway, in amongst all that, she throws in 'well this e30k your dad is giving you for a deposit should help that'..... so this is the first mention of an actual figure we've had. Now that'll be euros, but still, thats about £28,000. Which is more than we thought we'd be looking at. Awesome part is that would pay for the deposit in full, stamp duty, conveyancing, survey, the last little bit we need for the wedding, and the moving costs. I'm trying not to get my hopes up. However this would make it a much more realistic possibility that we'd enter our marriage with either no debt, or all the work to the house such as the new bathroom done, and only about 5k debt. Must. Not. Get. Optemistic.
NIM also spoke to his dad who sounded more certain apparently about the deposit, asked us to send a copy of the surveyors report once we have it. However seems the crazy busy at work time still isn't enough to turn it around for him, and he's had to lay a second person off, which means he's now lost 1/3 of his staff. Horrible situation for both him and the guy laid off.Debt January 1st 2018 £96,999.81Met NIM 23/06/2008
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oooh Dinah that all sounds good! were you thinking it was going to be 20K before that?! I can't believe how ucky you are to get this money for your house! Is it from his dad as a gift or a loan (sorry I can't rememeber!)
textiles tete.. well its all about aeroplanes at the moment and composites, dyeing (so loads of chemistry) and also about materials and high tech weaving, knitting, medical stuff, yarns, spinning.... All sorts! But not actualy very creative and fun0 -
Lulu your reviews are so good!! How do you do it!!? You must be early at a cheque now?!
Awwww:D:D Cheesy grins all round, thanks Tink!
I find it really really hard! I just waffle on about things, but i spend half my life at the moment reading and rating! Cant wait for the cheque (only need about 5000 more points) but gotta make sure i dont lose momentum after i reach it lol.
Woke up to find i've won £10 on the free bingo, so thats been withdrawnNo temptation
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However seems the crazy busy at work time still isn't enough to turn it around for him, and he's had to lay a second person off, which means he's now lost 1/3 of his staff. Horrible situation for both him and the guy laid off.
Oh gosh, I feel so sorry for Papa-NIM! When my Dad had to lay off some men last year (which I think was about 1/3rd too) that was the worst and lowest I've ever seen him. Hope things turn around soon, we had a crazy-busy period at work before Christmas but were still stuck in a rut but we're pulling out of it now. So there's always hopeFingers crossed over the deposit, good idea about not getting your hopes up. NIMs Mum might have been beefing the figure up a bit to make more of a point!
Lulu - You're doing so well on your moneymaking/debtbusting! Well done on winning the £10
Got home last night to lots of freebies! A 100ml (I think) verison of this with Glamour magazine - the April issue - which smells like bluebells! Plus things like sample foundations and skincare. Vair happy!!0 -
Oh wow, cool freebies Cinny!
My sister has caught whatever bug my niece had yesterday and not sure if they have all got it, but i am about to be invaded by three probably poorly children and one very poorly older sister, so i can look after to them.
Lol one more reason to put off ebaying :A0 -
Ah lovely kitties!
That sounds like a step forward with the deposit Dinah! You're very lucky; it's a shame that it's not as easy as it might be... Is NIM's dad definitely still in a position to give you the deposit if his business isn't going well? Fingers crossed
You guys are all doing so well with your money-making! What a pain in the bum about dooyoo - it seems so unfair to be taking miles off you retrospectively!
Nice freebies Cinny! And nice blog tooI got the hair stuff with Glamour too - one of my friends bought me a subscription for my birthday last year and I wasn't sure you still got the freebies, so yay!
LBM Sep 2008 debt: £27,927.04start weight: 140.2, week 2: 1380 -
Ah lovely kitties!
That sounds like a step forward with the deposit Dinah! You're very lucky; it's a shame that it's not as easy as it might be... Is NIM's dad definitely still in a position to give you the deposit if his business isn't going well? Fingers crossed
I hope so, mainly because if he felt he couldn't tell us I'd find that really hard as he watched us plough our money into it. He lives off interest on his savings, rather than needing the business, so I presume he could afford it still, but it's been his business for about 20 years, so its a real shame its struggling so much now.
Have ordered 14 albums from Tesco so far (10 unique, some duplicates), going to try to do another 4 or so today before the offer ends at midnight.
My mind keeps drifting back to going back to work. I wish I had the guts (and money!) to be able to do something for myself. I'd love a catering or baking business, or obviously to be able to make money from painting. But sadly I just don't hvae the confidencce (or possibly foolhardyness) to go for it.Debt January 1st 2018 £96,999.81Met NIM 23/06/2008
Debt September 20th 2022 £2991.68- 96.92% paid off0
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