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  • clairewop
    clairewop Posts: 8,007 Forumite
    my sponge bars have arrived :)

    sat eating chicken curry at the moment

    been to post office to get my money, went to charity shop and got a newpurse cause mine broke and the manager gave me a bag full of wool to practice with, was just asked if my practice bits were good enough would i donate some.
    Boiler pot £30.92/£1000
  • SuzySu
    SuzySu Posts: 3,478 Forumite
    Hi all

    SRM - that's rubbish news. Poor poor woman and her family...I really don't know how I would cope.

    Bun - good to know you can get home on the day you've planned. As someone on the radio said, it's a bit different choosing to extend your holiday than being told you can't come home.

    Elfen - enjoy your last day being 26 (so young!)

    Ames - glad to hear you've had a good day.

    LMC - enjoy the time with your OH

    Need to read back to see who I've missed.
    YOUR = belonging to you (your coat); YOU'RE = you are (I hope you're ok)

    really....it's not hard to understand :T
  • elfen
    elfen Posts: 10,213 Forumite
    Young now...but in three years I'll be thirty! But at least I'll have a degree!

    Also, I'm actually wearing my glasses whilst on the computer....this I never do....but I might not have a headache this time.
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  • Ames
    Ames Posts: 18,459 Forumite
    I'll be thirty in eight and a half months (eeww I was two weeks early which means that thirty years ago now, ewww) but it doesn't really bother me. It does in terms of how much I should have achieved and haven't, but the number's not really a bother.

    Mum keeps going on about it, how awful it is that I'm so old, how terrible she felt at thirty, worse than forty and fifty...
    Unless I say otherwise 'you' means the general you not you specifically.
  • SuzySu
    SuzySu Posts: 3,478 Forumite
    Nothing like making you feel good eh Ames? Thirty wasn't so bad....40 was (and still is) fabulous. I love every age I have been but would not want to been a teenager again for ANYTHING.
    YOUR = belonging to you (your coat); YOU'RE = you are (I hope you're ok)

    really....it's not hard to understand :T
  • schoolrunmum
    schoolrunmum Posts: 2,689 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    Actually Ames,I agree with your Mum. 30 was a much bigger deal for me than 40 was......I'll be 50 in 2014....(FIFTY ! Sounds ancient!!!I still feel 17 if that counts..)
    Debt-free...and staying that way...
  • tenmah
    tenmah Posts: 2,209 Forumite
    I will be 50 next year SRM and funnily enough I was ok about turning 40 and though not worried about turning 50 (can't really stop it!) I do think that 50 sounds really old and grown up!
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  • Ames
    Ames Posts: 18,459 Forumite
    Suzy, I wouldn't want to be a teenager again, although as I was pretty much housebound for three years in my teens I missed out on a lot of growing up experiences which has affected my confidence I think.

    Tenmah, that's my big problem about 30 - if it means I'll have to be all grown up and sensible!
    Unless I say otherwise 'you' means the general you not you specifically.
  • katsu
    katsu Posts: 5,029 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Mortgage-free Glee!
    Hi All,

    Ames - turning 30 was fine for me, no different to 29.
    Debt at highest: £8k. Debt Free 31/12/2009. Original MFD May 2036, MF Dec 2018.
  • Pooky
    Pooky Posts: 7,023 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Evening all

    SRM - Sorry to hear about your friend.


    I hated turning 30 it was a real issue for me.....I felt I'd missed my late teens and twenties by being "settled" and married so young..turning 30 was a huge stumbling block. I'm over it now though. I shall be 37 in June which seems far to grown up.

    Had a lovely morning out with Inlaws and then a nice lunch, the waitress was really nice and brought DH extra cutlery and a straw for his drink without being asked....we left a nice tip :D

    Came home and promptly fell asleep on the sofa (seems to be a habit lately - must be my age :D) Had to put the heating on for an hour too as it was sooooooo chilly, DH was nearly blue with cold.
    "Start every day off with a smile and get it over with" - W. C. Field.
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