Making every penny count

40somethingmum

taxi73 wrote: »

The weeks are like that sometimes no matter how hard we try.
Hope you enjoyed the assembly and great news on DHs extra pay.

Taxi, just been catching up on your diary and have read your news:(:( Your week has been far far worse than mine so thank you for being so supportive to me when it really should be the other way round. You really are something:A

Hope you have a good weekend.

40SMXX

40somethingmum

Just noticed that the electricity bill is estimated , so read the meter , recalculated and they have overestimated by £27.43 ! ! so am just about to submit new reading on line:T Funny how I am now excited about a £206 bill:rotfl: The good thing is there will be change from DHs extra money to buy my boxset !!!:rotfl::rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

40somethingmum wrote: »

Do you know what ... I thought the very same thing:mad: Wiped out in the blink of an eye.:( DH said he is going to buy me the "Desperate Housewives " boxset that I have been after for a while:j:jso thats nice as I NEVER buy anything for myself.:)
How are you sweets ?..... Must catch up with your diary:o The last few weeks I have been absolutely pants at keeping up.

40SMXX

Yipppee to overestimated bills!

Glad you're getting a treat - you deserve one - nice to hear your boss saying he appreciates you!

I'm a bit up and down - beginning to stress about work but will get it all sorted - I just need to keep perspective and do what I can when I can.

This juggling stuff - kids/work/family/etc - its sometimes a bit bonkers isnt it? Oh's been up so its been a bit strange (but nice) at home -another adult around is often harder work (sorry!) than you expect.

My mantra is always - 'it will all be fine' - repeat until you believe it!! (I chant it all day everyday)

I always struggle to keep up with diaries often I read and can't post - x

40somethingmum

Hi Fay,

Sorry to hear you are stressed about work:( As you say " You will be fine":)

I know exactly what you mean about it being harder with an extra adult about:) As you know getting DS1 to school can be a nightmare and very stressful for me . I look forward to DHs day off so I can get extra help....but they end up far more stressful!!:rotfl::rotfl:

Hope you have a lovely weekend. The weather has gone from warm & sunny back to raining & freezing here:(

love

40SMxx

scrooge2008

Afternoon 40SM.

Enjoy your Desperate Housewives box set, I love that programme, and well done on your electricity bill saving. The simple pleasures in life.

I have just been to the library, to enrol DS and I. I was feeling very MSE and smug, until she found me on the system with an outstanding fine of £17.50 and DS with an unrecoverable book under his name, which she'd like me to pay for. Both dated from 2002. I pleaded poverty and the fact that surely the debt was now statute barred, but the dragon wasn't having it, and I got a lecture on responsible borrowing .

Needless to say she never got her £17.50+ and we never got any books....

Keep up the good work, glad DS meeting went well x

40somethingmum

Hi Scrooge;)

Your episode at the library made me chuckle. Glad you didn't pay the £17.50.... you could buy a Desperate Housewives boxset for that:eek::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

40Smxx

scrooge2008

- Naughty, naughty do not lead me into Desperate Housewives boxset temptation. I need no encouragement this month.

I was thinking of this thread when I paid out ANOTHER £6.00 to the school on Friday, so that they can take DS to see the Imaginative theatre, put on a production called "Life in Ponds." I ask you!!! Whatever happened to Shakespeare.

taxi73

Sorry to hear about the electric bill but at least in the end it was a bit cheaper and enjoy the box set..hope you get it from a bargainous place online eg..amazon or play.com with quidco cashback

40somethingmum

taxi73 wrote: »

Sorry to hear about the electric bill but at least in the end it was a bit cheaper and enjoy the box set..hope you get it from a bargainous place online eg..amazon or play.com with quidco cashback

Oh, Baby , i am sorry, but i just want to hug you (((:A))):o.

Different_Corner

40sm, first hugs. What a week for you.

On the One Show this week they had a piece abouut the 'Keep Calm And Carry On' posters and propaganda of the war, I'm so tempted to buy a small artifact (but at £8 a tea towel maybe not !) to remind me that that's what it's all about. Positive thinking of the wartime years.

Hoping you have a calm, chilled Sunday ahead ?