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getmore4less

smallholdingsister wrote: »

WELL DONE on the weightloss.

As a 20 something in a new job with a new boss...just after my lightbulb moment he suggested buying me and another newbie a pint in his local. We all had separate cars, he showed us where we should park et.c

Emerging from the pub, I had a £25 ticket, which at the time was a week's grocery money.

His response was "oops a daisy, I have always parked there"

Had it been my fault I should have offered to pay, but nope.

Is it council?

if not don't pay it.

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Muser1

I might be wrong but did you once say your parents still have a mortgage etc late into their 60's? If so don't let them make you feel guilty. You are doing this for a secure future for your family. If they don't get that then it really is their problem not yours.

Good work on the OP's! Well done slashing the holiday budget I know that will have stung!

Muser. x

smallholdingsister

getmore4less wrote: »

Is it council?

if not don't pay it.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=163

It was in 1998.

newgirly

Hi muser, yes they do however they have other properties and are pretty well off. Maybe I come across too harshly sometimes, they don't intend to make me feel guilty, I just do lately Yes the lack of holiday saving in the budget is a bit miserable, but I will find a way to have some breaks somehow

I did have lazy day in the end, ironing a trip to mr t £51 on food and £5.50 on a value double duvet set, blue ticking stripe, autumn bedroom decor sorted! Now watching quamtum of solace with candles lit and baileys 2 calorie coffee :beer:

Food budget 4p under what I've allowed £10 a day, everything else and petrol budget £10.46 left until 10th oct , but I have a full tank and £35 cash in my purse, so it may be ok.

I have been invited out by my best friend , 2x nights out both in dec. one is a carol concert at the albert hall (I am sure thats on my bucket list!) and the other is going to see phantom of the opera. The Phantom tickets are a treat for us both from her dh as a belated 40th (apparently, I think it may be perhaps she wants me to go and knows I can't afford it) either way its very generous and I am very excited about going.

The albert hall one I shall pay for from, well I'm not sure where from yet :rotfl. But I will find the money as I've always wanted to go and dh would not go last year.

newgirly

Oops naughty spur of the moment night out last night, ds1 invited friends over to watch the west ham game (using my little brothers sky sports code on his ps 4, plugged into the big tv :money:) - great result btw anyway i suggested we go out for one drink in town and it turned into a meal at prezzo courtesy of dh's birthday money. It was his idea , he did insist , but I did feel guilty

We took eric out yesterday, a little trip to the shopping centre , for his birthday dh recived an "interesting" sleeveless knitted gilet type top from his parents ?! He is 43 not 93 :rotfl. So he returned it and got some nice leather boots instead. Now he has seen lots of rather expensive clothes he wants! He didn't buy any mind, but I think he is wistful of his youth, he used to dress well and even did some modelling. Twenty years with me and he is mostly in primarni I shall keep him away from the shops just incase

Its the dunton classic car show today, its a small charity one to raise money for the local hospice.There are a few good vintage stalls, last year I bought a phrenology (sp?) head for just £20. There is a good local ford club that attends , I do love capris being an essex girl! I'm taking eric and plucking up the courage to put a for sale sign on him , however I'm very tempted to put a very high price so nobody wil buy him.

smallholdingsister

You should have the right audience for it.
I like crapis too. Bodie n Doyle!

newgirly

Or cap-ri ghia like del boy had

Wombatchops

Hi ng, I'm sorry you are having to knock people back and feel guilty if they offer to pay for you. I know how that feels. I had to say no to a good friend's hen do because it cost nearly £200, and my best friend offered to help pay for half of it as a very early birthday present, but I said no. The bride-to-be isn't impressed. What people don't realise is that the birthday party for my 6 year old and her class cost as much as my friend's hen do, and that party was cheap compared with what the parents of most of the other kids in her class have forked out, and they invited far fewer children. I can justify spending that kind of money on my kids, but not on just myself for a couple of days away.

Your parents might still have a mortgage in their 60s, but you will hopefully be mortgage free in your 40s, and just think how sweet that will feel.

I'm glad you had a good night last night. We all have to let our hair down occasionally.

How is nanny newgirly doing? Is she recovered from her op?

newgirly

Hi wbc, weddings are a nightmare nowadays, why can't people just go for a meal out and have too much wine as a hen night.

Gran still in hospital, visited this morning and she is more confused than ever, she will not be able to go home and they have said she needs to be in a nursing home, her home will have to be cleared and sold soon to pay for it, which will be quite a task.

Car show good, plenty of cap-ri ghias also fiestas , some great escorts including a few nice mexicos and plently of cosworths , essex car heaven :rotfl: unbelievably no minis or e types though tut tut.

Have been looking on flea bay and there are loads of cheap mini mayfairs , there never were when i was looking to buy, typical!

I think I may sell the zafira too, I'm probably having some kind of mid life crisis car wise, but I fancy a change, it will have to be a low cost changs though

smallholdingsister

Ugh. People demanding you go on £200 hen nights...
I had a mark 1 escort NG in dayglo yellow!!