From Trash to Cash: the £100 to 10K Dribble thread

munchki

Amber_Sunshine wrote: »

I think an opportunity may come through one of your friends, perhaps indirectly ...

hmmm one can only hope. sat here all comfy and chilled but on the verge of tears.......think the stress is really taken its toll and more too come.....I refuse however to cry, for now anyway!

YummyMummy20

OK, so I got the keys to my flat-house today It's an absolute crap heap

The guy had to go through 3 sets of keys because none of them were right AND nicked off with the key to my balcony (sounds nice but isn't)

My little boys all excited that we have trains in our 'back garden'... I, am not

I was hoping to splash a bit of paint around, have a little shopping spree and be none with it but looks more like i'll have to gut the place a bit more first! The wallpapers already half way off in most rooms so tomorrow is going to be spent stripping and I may have to beg my friend to plaster for me if it's really bad. Everything is wonky and theres a big scary electrical cable coming out of the ceiling amongst other problems. It's far from liveable in and the council have actually passed this place as suitable for a 3 year old

Trying to focus on how pleased i'm going to be when it's beautiful but I honest don't know how it's going to get there. Don't get me wrong, I know council places aren't nice but I wouldn't even want to squat there how it is now. Therefore, no money making for me today

Amber_Sunshine

Council places can be nice, but they certainly should be habitable ... do you have to accept this one? Are there any alternatives? Shouldn´t they make it ready for you to move in before you do so?

YummyMummy20

Amber_Sunshine wrote: »

Council places can be nice, but they certainly should be habitable ... do you have to accept this one? Are there any alternatives? Shouldn´t they make it ready for you to move in before you do so?

That IS there version of 'ready'! I was provisionally offered this place at the start of Dec, I thought it taking so long was because they were making it nice. I've been on the council list for 3 years and tried every single other scheme they do to try and get us somewhere, if i didn't take this one we could be waiting indefinately and I just can't do that. I'm asking for a new front door because it's mostly glass and I don't feel remotely safe there, the downstairs neighbours look scary and one has bars on they're door and another has a CCTV camera :eek: in a block of flats *confused*

The woman who used to deal with my application said there's no way the council would put me somewhere that wouldn't be safe but I have a feeling they've screwed me over a bit here.

HopeAndDriftWood

That doesn't sound good...if there's anything I can do to help, let me know

I'm okay, so far. I'm trying to work out whether tall notebooks, slightly thinner then their height are better then square, which is what I'm doing at the moment...

I've got such a list of ideas! I really hope I can make this a success.

indierocker85

Is there anyway on ebay to check if messages have been read? Or if the user they were sent to has been online?

Amber_Sunshine

Can you take it temporarily and then put in for a transfer? (sorry, no idea how these things work). No way should they be putting you in unsafe housing - that exposed wire sounds bad. I'm mad on your behalf (I'm sure you already are), as I know how much you were looking forward to getting your own place, can you complain to anyone about this? Putting a woman on her own with a small child in an unsafe environment and area just isn't right.

LilacPixie

Sorry I have been MIA, work is manic at the moment.Munchki you up here?? I was in the overgate earlier and kept wondering if you were wandering about.

Indie I know of no way to check that.

YummyMummy20

Amber_Sunshine wrote: »

Can you take it temporarily and then put in for a transfer? (sorry, no idea how these things work). No way should they be putting you in unsafe housing - that exposed wire sounds bad. I'm mad on your behalf (I'm sure you already are), as I know how much you were looking forward to getting your own place, can you complain to anyone about this? Putting a woman on her own with a small child in an unsafe environment and area just isn't right.

It's not even necessarily a bad area, my grandma lives in the flats opposite and that's ok, seems they've just put us in the scummy bit :mad: I've already complained twice today about the keys c*ck ups, I have to go down the council on Monday to tell them my 3 paint colours which i get free and complain about more keys already so i'm preparing a list of things to complain about; the front door being my biggest issue tbh.

I have to stay there for a year to become a 'secure tenant' and be eligable to put in for a transfer which could then take however long to go through.

If it wasn't for the fact I've already worked on my babysitting rota (because i work 4 nights a week, soon to be three and then hopefully 2 for the same money/hours) i'd be really worried about being there just me and DS.

I think my plan for the week should be 'attempt to make friends with the neighbours' I might feel better about things then.

DS thinks it's great though & I love his positivity. If it wasn't for him earlier I probably would have been in tears There's painted handprints all over the walls in his room, he thinks he's keeping them & the writing on the rest of the walls, he's so not!

It's a good job I have some amazing friends, there's no way I'd get this sorted without them :A

evenstarcrafty

Amber_Sunshine wrote: »

I LOVE 70s stuff! What size are they (I´m small).

Mainly size 8 to 10 long will send you pics when I get them done
I was small uptil 5 years ago and gave up smoking year ago so weight went up again:(
I love the seventies as well best years great music:j