Reformed shopaholic? please can you give me the benefit of your advice

ThinkingOfLinking

Hi all...

More ruthless binning of items, taken 3 bags of stuff to charity AND decided to f*** it and sell that breadmaker for £20 as I need the money and it's too heavy to move to the new place and storage etc....

Did buy 5 pairs of girlie boxers from Primark for £8.50 but they're needed as I've done an underwear and sock cull. There's a load of socks and pants which I am going to wear one last time before binning, saving me money on washing and time on that too.

Busy, busy, busy this week. More decluttering to do tomorrow and packing of stuff ready to move.

CompletelyLost

Welcome back LC. What's this thing you call sunshine..?
Actually the sun was out for a few hours here but by mid-afternoon it was dull again.

Ugh, I'm bored tonight & the tv is rubbish I've been looking for things to sell but haven't found much - just a few books, but have looked on Amazon and the lowest price is 1p for a lot of them, so they're hardly worth selling

Also have been looking at my bank accounts and am slightly confused. I could have swore I had a certain amount altogether... but have looked today and my balance is about £200 less than I was expecting. I haven't bought anything and there's nothing weird on my statement so maybe I just remembered it wrong last time I looked?!

NGlady

Thats rubbish isnt it CL - I checked my balance earlier and there was 60 quid less than I thought in there. Not as much as £200 but I am now having to be extremely money saving expert until a week on fri lol.

Anglea

Hi girls,

Welcome back LC.

Completelylost - nothing good on tv? So you're not into Holby and Young Apprentice, Desperate Housewives? I'm annoyed as I started watching DH and realised that I had watched it on E4 last week believing it was the previous episode I'd missed when in fact it was the new episode.

FE, I just can't belive how good you are with all the de-cluttering -inspirational.:)

I haven't done any exciting shopping in ages, only groceries and those pints of scrumpy at the weekend. It seems that everytime I'm up the shops I have some annoying errands to do and can't be bothered looking at clothes - especially as I mentioned before, nothing seems to fit that I buy in any case.

Still haven't unpacked the handbag from months ago. Ridiculous. :mad:

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ThinkingOfLinking

Anglea, I've filled 8 wheelie bins!!!!!!!!

But still going to need a !!!!!!!g removal van...no way around that. At least I know exactly what I have now, and won't have piles and piles of boxes and stuff everywhere.

Anglea

FE, I think you could give Kim and Aggie a run for their money.:)

CompletelyLost

NGlady wrote: »

Thats rubbish isnt it CL - I checked my balance earlier and there was 60 quid less than I thought in there. Not as much as £200 but I am now having to be extremely money saving expert until a week on fri lol.

It is I really don't understand it, I'm usually good at keeping track... I write everything down. I'm looking through my accounts trying to figure out whether I've missed something being paid out, but it doesn't seem like I have.

What happens a week on Friday? Your London trip?

Anglea - they're not really my cup of tea tbh. I'll probably watch a bit of 'My name is Earl' or something on Dave later. I like the soaps (eastenders, corrie, sometimes hollyoaks) but that's about it.

Oh, & you really need to unpack that handbag, otherwise it's going to just torment you.

NGlady

Ooo I enjoyed Holby tonight - disappointed there was only a small bit with my sexy dr Joseph byrne on though!
WB Little chicken, I was thinking about you the other day and whether you recieved the book?

NGlady

CL - I finally get paid YAY.
I am really skint atm but I am still manging to put the odd pound into my money tin. Toying at the moment whether to be REALLY good and keep the tin until November for my Holiday spending money, there must be about £30 in there already at the moment, I think I may do rather than blowing it in London I figure, because we're going all inclusive I wont need much money in Tunisia, so
continuing how I am with the odd £1 every day ( I have a £3 per day work budget and I put whatever money I dont spend into the tin) I shall have a nice little amount for any spending money and taxi to the airport etc etc.

When you go on holiday, do you find you spend a bomb at the airport even tho you dont intend to? I do!

Yes Angela, I think you need to go unpack that Handbag, my challange for you now Mrs do it before bed!

Anglea

CL - I don't know what's with that !£&* bag that I can't take it out the carrier bag. Or it may be that I thought I might have made a mistake with it. Also I can never throw out any of my old bags even if they are broken (collection in the bottom of the wardrobe)

So you watch Dave (scratches head LOL). Mock the week repeats?

Hollyoaks, sometimes watch that but get confused with all the characters. Furious with that girl pretending she's pregnant.

NGlady - why don't you use the Holby thread? You can't keep me away from that.