The Ultimate Incentive to have an amazing 2010.

poddle911

Lol, it wasn't me this time, but I totally want one! I think your style is brill, congrats on the sales! Once we've finished gutting and re-decorating the flat, then the bare walls need to be addresed

Cinny91

Dinah93 wrote: »

(At first I thought it was poddle as its a really similar name, but its a lady in the US! I have a real buyer who isn't just buying to make me feel better!!!!!)

*sulks as custom isn't valued*



So happy for you!! Excited to get mine now. Tumtetum!

Alllllmost the weekend. OH is getting into birthday mode today as he's going out with a couple work friends for dinner and drinks. Trying to figure out where to take him tomorrow (on his proper birthday!) We're hopefully going to see Alice in Wonderland though, so I'm pretty excited.

Poolie

Pilchard wrote: »

I checked before it was to do with my student loan. That's now going to be a bigger problem as my current complany won't take student loan repayments out of my salary despite me telling them about it and indicating it on my P45 when I started there. They keep saying they need an end date to do that and I've told them that it's amazing that other companies have managed to sort it, including them when the wages were outsourced to a company that could do payroll properly!!!

Pilchard,

Give student loans a ring and tell them you are earning over the threshold and your employer is not willing to take the deductions from your salary. Ask SLC to contact HMRC to check if a start notification was every sent out and for it to be sent again. Your employer has to action all notifications from HMRC failure to do so will result in fines for them. Also ask SLC for the employers helpline number and they can speak to HMRC directly about this problem

Dinah93

Course your custom is seriously valued Cinny - I was just excited someone found me all on their own!

From looking on some Alfa Owners forums we've discovered my 'engine management failure' warning might actually not be such a big deal. Apparently most of the time its actually that the battery is low and not delivering a consistant supply. Well that'd be fine, I know the battery needs replacing, has for nearly two years now!

However NIMs car looks shot. It would cost more to fix than its worth. So this weekend we're going to push it onto the drive, and declare it SORN (as the tax expired at the end of Feb), then take any parts off it that are better than the ones on mums identical car, and replace them with the poorer parts, then thoroughly photograph it and list it for spares or repairs on Ebay, hopefully we'll get £50 or £100 for it or something, and someone will come to take it away.

So the plan is that hopefully mine will keep going until October at least, and we just share that one car. Then in October time we buy me a newer, safer car using my employers essential car user loan, and NIM keeps running the Alfa. If the Alfa dies or can't be fixed, then we'll get the car from the employer earlier and get NIM a new runabout in October, but it would be nice not to have that outgoing until we absolutely have to.

Cinny91

Dinah - I know, I was only joking Must be weird to think within the next couple weeks one of your prints will be hanging in a strangers house in America!

Shame about NIMs car but it sounds like you have a good plan! Hopefully you'll be able to sell it on ebay for something - my sisters old car which could hardly make it off the drive and broke down at least once a day sold for £800 so there's hope!

Pretty excited for payday tomorrow, all my little savings pots are ready to be paid in to! Need to figure out how to budget in all my monthly beauty stuff (I hate calling it 'beauty' blergh) decided I want to have my hair done at the Salon each month so I've got to figure out which stuff I need to cut back on. To be fair, it's only about £10 a week I need to put to one side, which is pretty easy! (she says..)

Dinah93

Even if it only makes £20 to sell the thing, we'll save about £300 in insurance, £300 minimum in repairs, £120 in tax, £50 a month in petrol.... it certainly all adds up!

I hadn't thought about my print being in the US, that's kind of cool!

lulu984

Wow, two sales already! Thats brilliant Dinah!! How is your website coming along?

My OH is getting on great in his new job, he needs to take a course in a few weeks and if he passes he'll be getting a pay rise BUT he has to pay £210 for the course!!! :eek:

Dinah93

Hoping NIM will finish my website this weekend. Guess he might have a busy weekend with fiddling with the car, building a website and he was hoping to start MB too!

Tete_en_l'Air

Dinah93 wrote: »

Off to dance some more now :j

Careful, someone might take pictures and send them into the council! :eek: Well done on the sales, has tempted me to try and peddle some homemade stuff on there! Out of interest, how do you make a print of a painting, I'd have thought you'd need some sort of big machine?

Glad you made it home OK last night, was a bit of a confidence boost to old Bluey to have given the flashy Alfa a jump and not the other way around! (Though I didn't dare stop for petrol in case he conked!)

Cinny, no point denying yourself the things you want if you have the money to pay for them, you sound like you're being very sensible. Your nails look nice too, nice and natural, I'm not keen on the big square WAG nails tbh. I also like your scarf, might have a wander to Primarni myself later.

Birdie, how did you get on last night??

Dinah93

Lol I've perfected waist up dancing!

Aye NIM came in and said 'Tete had to give Bu a jump' and I said 'don't you mean the other way round?!'. Even if its not just the battery thats shot on the car, I think its worth a punt for £70 replacing the battery and see if that fixes it. It is sort of overrevving too, so I'll have to see if that stops, but at least a new battery should stop the failure warning and make it easier to sell/trade in.

I do like the nails too Cinny. And I'm not going to say anything about denying yourself since you bought one of my prints (now ordered so will be ready tomorrow and will post Saturday morning)

I thought I would need a mega machine too, but everyone on Etsy said its just a case of photographing the pic with a high quality camera (6mp+) and doing it in the right light so there is no light flare.