Pay off mortgage and start having fun!

JAMIEDODGER

Boo to the loss of wine, Yay to the night in a hotel:D

XSpender

Hope you can get the wine stink out. I dumped a bag and a bottle of wine on my bed once before going out and it rolled off and smashed on the carpet during the night. It took me ages to get rid of the smell and that was a bottle of white.

How lovely to receive all those flowers.

CathT

The York hotel story is amusing.

Your post about your house struck a chord with me as we had that dilemma here for years until we finally took the plunge to extend. We are now perfectly happy here and don!!!8217;t consider moving. My stress over secondary schools has reduced as we are not in the right catchment area for the best schools but they do operate a bus from ny our house. For us it was definitely worth extending but our children were 8 and 5 when we did it. Will the house feel too big once your children have moved on? Could you renovate/rejig the space for much less?

newgirly

Oh dear xspender :eek:

The wine was In the boot and it's a saloon so hopefully it won't filter through too much

Hi cath, we debated over the loft room for years due to the then stamp duty threshold, it was the best thing we did.

Our house currently (in places) is shabby, all the flooring is very old laminate down stairs and is coming up in places, the kitchen is an old b and q value one dh fitted when we moved in. The conservatory was also a cheap one built by dh and a builder for about £3k fifteen years ago.

My main worries are :

Downstairs toilet , no room for this except by bricking up the front and losing lots of light and space in the hall

Kitchen, paying to have a new one and then extending later thus wasting money

Conservatory- needing replacing in the future, would be a waste of money as I don't like them and would replace with some form of extension

However except the conservatory being cold, the space works how it is, its big enough that we have a 12 seat size table that can be pulled out to even bigger.

It the long term cost implications of the conservatory being replaced I guess that's the main issue.

I don't know!

Goldiegirl

I was pleased to see you had some cruises on your to do list!

newgirly

But of course GG

newgirly

Supposed to be on my way to work in a minute but can't seem to get out of bed, it's freezing!

No romantic plans for Valentine's Day, it's the anniversary of when we lost our first Dd so we will leave work early and take some flowers. Not going out tonight so I bought dh some "posh" aldi steak and claret pies for dinner, the kids and dds boyfriend have aldi valentines pink smarties each- not for dinner of course , ds1 says it's weird buying your kids stuff on Valentine's Day but I've not always bought them chocolate of some sort, he doesn't have to eat them

Pancake day as hard work 75 mins after work cooking a huge stack (bearing in mind I can't eat any on my diet!) the two boys had 1 each and were doing to eat some later, until I found dd and her boyfriend upstairs working their way through the whole lot :eek: dh not pleased when he got in, they must have had over 20 :rotfl: how can my dd be such a piglet when she is a size 6/8?

smallholdingsister

Thinking of you today NG. x

try_harder

And me too ,lots of hugs.

edinburgher

What a sad coincidence NG - thinking of you and DH today :grouphug: