Making every penny count

taxi73

Glad to see you managed to do the transfer...must be a relief.

40somethingmum

It was :T

mrs_robinson_3

Going back a few pages, I have a Keep Calm and Carry On poster framed in my hall. It looks great. I first saw it via Pedlars where it cost something daft like £200. I bought the poster for about £3.50 from Barter Books in Northumberland (Google them) - in fact at that price I bought 20 and sold them on, as the KC&CO phenomenon was just taking off - had it framed locally for about £30 (though a friend just put one in an Ikea fame and it looked good too) and voila. Take that Pedlars people, with your lovely Scottish lifestyle, all your cool stuff, and your outrageous prices! Hah.

Hope all well with you 40SM - and the diet is going well.....I am not dieting as such but trying to be careful....

Mrs R

scrooge2008

Afternoon 40SM, I hope you've had a good day. It might be worth logging a quick complaint through HSBC's system. It usually generates £30.00.

Love your entrepreneurial flair mrs r.

Here's a throwback to wealthier times. Here I am trying to make £20.00 housekeeping last me until the end of the month and i've just got an invitation to a champagne ceremony at our local Harvey Nichols. Free booze and canapes, make up consultation and a deluxe lipstick of my choice absolutely free with other samples on the house. Their marketing people should be shot, I should have been crossed of any lists ages ago.

I'll be going of course :rotfl:, with my doggy bag.

40somethingmum

scrooge2008 wrote: »

Here's a throwback to wealthier times. Here I am trying to make £20.00 housekeeping last me until the end of the month and i've just got an invitation to a champagne ceremony at our local Harvey Nichols. Free booze and canapes, make up consultation and a deluxe lipstick of my choice absolutely free with other samples on the house. Their marketing people should be shot, I should have been crossed of any lists ages ago.

I'll be going of course :rotfl:, with my doggy bag.

OOh, Can I come to !

40somethingmum

Not much to report here other than that I am busier than a busy person on the busiest day of the week:) I am also stressed:(

Catch you all later when I am less busy ( nearly typed less busty:eek::rotfl:)

40SMXX

scrooge2008

You could come if you were a little less busty lol :rotfl:. That made me giggle.

taxi73

Hope you've managed to get rid of some of that stress and are not as busy.

40somethingmum

taxi73 wrote: »

Hope you've managed to get rid of some of that stress and are not as busy.

I did get rid of the stress with the help of some wine;) The busyness will carry on for some weeks yet:( BUT it does meaning I can earn quite a lot if I a put in the hours.

Diet is not really happening this week due to the stress . I have been buying things like chocolate and crisps, which I never buy ordinarily!

Hope you are ok. I am thinking of you.

Love

40Sm xx

ruby1968_2

Hi Hun

In need of advice having a few problems trying to sort out financial mess, have paper pen and bills and computar but none of it is makng sense.