Debt Free by 40 Debt Diary

oakdale_minx

oooh, the post above was my 1,000th post!!

Glad it was a positive one!

Had my hair cut and blow dried at the on site hairdresser yesterday for £14.50...oh dear........I felt like the missing member of the Nolan Sisters circa 1982........

robnye

oakdale_minx wrote:

oooh, the post above was my 1,000th post!!

Glad it was a positive one!

Had my hair cut and blow dried at the on site hairdresser yesterday for £14.50...oh dear........I felt like the missing member of the Nolan Sisters circa 1982........

are you implying you had loads of hair cut off......?

wheres your MSE ethos...... should have taken the hair home and knitted it into a jumper..............:rotfl:

oakdale_minx

I only had it trimmed, which was scary enough! It is long (kind of Kate Bush length) but it feels very 80's now. I like big hair/80's etc but I kind of look like an 80's American newsreader without the gloss! I got a bit worried when for some reason she turned on one of those old fashioned hood driers you see in the 60's films! I thought - oh, my god, is she going to make me sit under one of those??!! Luckily not though!

Bet my OH moans that I've sold the car. He is still trying to sort out the mess that he has made over his son's 'bargain'. I have said many times that his son can buy it off me and could have had it for £275 but my OH dithered - engine too big, insurance too high (extra £20 a month as he is only 19) clutch is high, water has tobe kept topped up......I said this morning it would probably be sold to the garage owners daughter and he got a bit huffy 'we'll talk about it tonight'............bit late now, I wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to sell it and I had given him lots of chances.

Craftyscholar

oakdale_minx wrote:

and I had given him lots of chances.

????????????? Understatement of the century????????????

oakdale_minx

yep, he had a strop.

He just phoned and said 'well, how much did you get for it?' and then went silent when I told him. I said I was happy and he said he wasn't because he thought I should have got more. He said he had called the insurers and sorted out a price for his son to drive it - but I would have been lending it until I was paid for it (if my OH decided that his son should have it!) so the tax and MOT would have been ticking down and if my OH had sorted the Rover quickly I expect I would have had it back within a few weeks and still having to sell it. He said he 'wouldn't have been happy' if I had known last night what she was going to pay. I didn't know. He thought it was 'suspicious' that I took the car to her and then let her drop me back. I explained that her dad was working at the garage where he was going to give it the once over and so asked me to take it over to them. It is a 2 minute drive so hardly a big problem and I can't uderstand what is suspicious about it. I think he was narked that he didn't make a decision a few days or weeks ago. I did say again this morning that he had to make a decision one way or the other quickly, but even this morning he couldn't, even though he knew it was being looked at.

'oh well' he said huffily 'that's that off the agenda then'.

Bunnyinthelights

Shame......................................



Bunny

SirSaverOBE

Wow! Like so many other members, I spent two hours reading the entire diary! It is incredible! O_M - the change! You sound so happy now and have done amazingly well.

I am new to MSE and although not in serious debt, I do have quite a lot to shift (£11500 plus student loans that I am trying to ignore), have got stuck in the cycle of revolving credit, Balance Transfer rejections etc. Want to buy a house this year if possible but need to chip away more!

I have been feeling really fed up with my debt recently and you have really inspired me to get a shift on! Plus, my wife and I mystery shop and I love hearing about it in your diary!

Thank you and keep posting!

ZTD

oakdale_minx wrote:

I only had it trimmed, which was scary enough! It is long (kind of Kate Bush length) but it feels very 80's now. I like big hair/80's etc but I kind of look like an 80's American newsreader without the gloss!

Kate Bush is not necessarily a bad look.

http://www.leninimports.com/kate_bush_gallery_39.jpg

Did anyone notice the hair? :rolleyes:

oakdale_minx wrote:

Bet my OH moans that I've sold the car. He is still trying to sort out the mess that he has made over his son's 'bargain'.

He is just taking the absolute biscuit. Unless there is something you're not telling us.

oakdale_minx

Wish I did look like Kate Bush (complete with hair!!!)

Nope, nothing I'm not telling you?? He has dithered since I got my back pay. Every day he goes off to try and sort out the damn car for his son. Every night he now sits trying to get inspiration from Google or a Rover forum he has recently joined. He son still has his original car which needs £150 of work to get it through its MOT (an escort) and his (kind of) step brother has said he can have his old Escort as well which has no MOT!! So my OH is now messing around with 3 old bangers and getting nowhere because he is too stubborn to realise he is losing a battle to get one going 'cheap'. In reality it has taken 3 weeks of his time, 1 failed MOT, some welding and a trip to buy the Rover. And he is going backwards.

I know what would have happened. I would have lent his son my car (his son is lovely) and my OH would have said that his son likes the car and will have it. My OH would promise to give me the money and it would never ever materialise.....maybe that's the bit I wasn't telling you perhaps.......

SirSaverOBE

If he is dealing with an old rover, he will be going backwards - maybe literally!! It's so good you didn't buy one!

I had a second-hand one and it cost HUNDREDS of pounds to keep on the road. Everything was replaced. Eventually sold it for less than the cost of getting through its final MOT.

I may as well have paid a chauffeur to take me everywhere! Now there's a thought!