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MSE Parents Club Part 10

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  • Mazcabs
    Mazcabs Posts: 2,108 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Dont think I'll qualify for the flylady thread but I have taken dog for walk, sorted 5 draws of clothes etc out and got rid of things I dont want/need, applied for Credit crunch vouchers, got a deal of Orange for new phone - just need to pop into CW and see what they can do, at the moment its

    Orange -Unlimited landline calls
    400 crossnet mins
    1300 crossnet texts (dont send that many at all)
    £21.00

    CW Unlimited landline calls
    600 crossnet mins
    500 crossnet texts
    Free Nintendo Wii and Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort
    £35.00
    Mum to 2 lovely boys who keep me busy.
  • Sami_Bee
    Sami_Bee Posts: 14,555 Forumite
    edited 25 February 2010 at 4:57PM
    SugarSpun wrote: »
    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    On a slightly more serious note, the Germans have laws about the names you can give children to prevent this sort of thing happening. If you're not a German citizen and you want to give your child a name related to your own country or language of origin you have to provide evidence that your chosen name is a given name in your country.

    We went to register the monster with a copy of Harry Potter, printouts of the lyrics of Molly Malone and the IMDB page of Molly Ringwald :rotfl:
    As it happened we had more trouble getting them to accept OH's highly unusual first name. She refused to believe his passport and such, kept telling us how it would be illegal to name your child that in Germany, and called in colleagues to be astounded along with her.

    Ebay seller has offered me free p&p on any other item she has for sale. I am off to see if she's selling any lead bricks :angry:
    did you tell them that although your OHs name is a little unusual, its like so boring compared to half of ammericans :p

    Maz - are they 18mth contracts? will you use the minutes/txts? the 'free wii' isn't so free when you add up the total cost of the contract, the £14pm difference over 18mths is over £250
    you can get that Wii bundle with an extra game for £180 on tesco direct
    The very best is sometimes what nature gives us for free.
    3onitsway wrote: »
    I think Sami is right, as always!
  • SugarSpun
    SugarSpun Posts: 8,559 Forumite
    Sami_Bee wrote: »
    did you tell them that although your OHs name is a little unusual, its like so boring compared to half of ammericans :p

    That's a FB pseudonym, his real name is even odder :rotfl:
    Organised Birthdays and Christmas: Spend So Far: £193.75; Saved from RRP £963.76
    Three gifts left to buy
  • searching_me
    searching_me Posts: 18,414 Forumite
    :hello: everyone ... just sorting dinner just thought id pop on and see how you all are .. i see you're all well (sorry if i missed out i just quickly looked through) ..

    my shrink person says im doing very well (told her i owe alot of it to you guys :)) ... she wants me to stop thinking so negative and always thinking everything is bad when just one thing is bad ..

    philip saw i woke in not a happy mood so gave me a tenner (he knew i was gonna bargain hunt today) and told me to treat myself :D ... so got a couple of tops and a belt from primark there was a shirt with a belt last one hidden right in the back for £4 instead of £12 :D:D:D ..

    right off to feed the brood .. back later and i will bring :coffee: and biscuits :D x
    :)Still searching .....:)
  • tiamai_d
    tiamai_d Posts: 11,987 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Oh yeah, I meant to stalk SS on facebook to discover her OH name. Is he American? I'm also being really nosey :D
  • Glamazon
    Glamazon Posts: 8,401 Forumite
    SS - OH won an item for £10 (only bidder) and they set postage at £5. cost them £12 to post!!!

    have text BIL to go to ASDA for me! I CBA, I need a shower.

    Maz - I joined flylady this week :eek: I've managed 2 stars and that will be it until we get a wardrobe and sort our clothes out. oh & get BIL to move out!
    A very busy Yummy Mummy to a 1 year old gorgeous boy :smileyhea

    Where does the time go? :think:
  • Mazcabs
    Mazcabs Posts: 2,108 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Sami_Bee wrote: »
    Maz - are they 18mth contracts? will you use the minutes/txts? the 'free wii' isn't so free when you add up the total cost of the contract, the £14pm difference over 18mths is over £250
    you can get that Wii bundle with an extra game for £180 on tesco direct

    I always knew I could rely on you Sami for sense when it came to these things... Yep 18months contracts,...just said to OH would we really use Wii as well (even though we probably should do more exercise)
    Mum to 2 lovely boys who keep me busy.
  • Hi peeps!
    Hope everyone is well, I do try and catch up but all myVodafone dongle picks up is crappy GPRS :(
    I'm ok, Aston is doing so well at his new school, and I've spoken to a couple of the Mum's too, but I have actually made the effort to just involve myself in conversations so they have no choice :rotfl:
    Ryry is driving me mad with sleep/lack of it, 9pm he finally went down last night but then he did sleep throught until 5.30am then wwnt back to slepp until 7am.
    I've got court on monday, pooing it!
    Get my money then too, so hopefully will have a car by then?!

    When and where is the next meet?
    I cant say exactly where I am but lets just say it's not too far from the place which hold the horseracing and ladies like to dress up and get fancy hats for!!

    Will be back on later to catch up, tata for now :D
  • tiamai_d
    tiamai_d Posts: 11,987 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    yeah... that is a bit unusual! You been stalked!
  • Buttonmoons
    Buttonmoons Posts: 13,323 Forumite
    OH has a weird name too, well it's weird over here, probably not so much in Asian countries.

    "IDRIS" It's really easy to say, but everyone messes it up, he hates it when people say it like "EYE" "DRIS" It's said like erm actually I'm not sure how you would write it down, the start of it is said like a little "i"

    He seems to have no problem with the people in call centers knowing his name, but as soon as I speak to them they call me "MRS STEP HEN"

    Dude, I'm not a chook!
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