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  • Pooky
    Pooky Posts: 7,023 Forumite
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    Suzy - I'm excited for you!!! Hope all goes well tomorrow and that you have a lovely, lovely time.
    "Start every day off with a smile and get it over with" - W. C. Field.
  • clairewop
    clairewop Posts: 8,007 Forumite
    I've paid him butti
    Boiler pot £30.92/£1000
  • Butti
    Butti Posts: 5,014 Forumite
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    tenmah wrote: »
    I have been appointed to loads of opening and counting of postal votes, being a poll clerk on the day and then counting the next day. Will be tiring but will keep thinking of the money!

    Take a lot of varied things t. Books, puzzles, knitting, assignments, lots of food and drink. Generally if you are in a rough area it will be quiet, if you're in a posh area I tend to think it will be really really busy. I think people are going to come out to vote this time.

    B
    Debt LBM (08/09) £11,641. DEBT FREE APRIL 2021.
    Diary 'Butti's journey : A matter of loaf or death'.
    Diary 2 'The whimsical tale of the Waterbed of Debt'         48% off mortgage
    'one day I will be rich and famous…for now I'll just have to settle for being poor and incredibly sexy'. Vimrod Member of MIKE'S :cool: MOB
  • Butti
    Butti Posts: 5,014 Forumite
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    You could always try small claims. We paid our contractor before all the snagging was sorted and you couldn't see him for dust!!

    B
    Debt LBM (08/09) £11,641. DEBT FREE APRIL 2021.
    Diary 'Butti's journey : A matter of loaf or death'.
    Diary 2 'The whimsical tale of the Waterbed of Debt'         48% off mortgage
    'one day I will be rich and famous…for now I'll just have to settle for being poor and incredibly sexy'. Vimrod Member of MIKE'S :cool: MOB
  • elfen
    elfen Posts: 10,213 Forumite
    A lot of the time, I just can't do this...I can't live a lie any longer and it feels like I'm going to crack in two. It's just...everything....it's so overwhelming and I'm trying to ope but I can't any more. I'm falling back into bad habits, bad things...bad me
    ** Total debt: £6950.82 ± May NSDs 1/10 **
    ** Fat Bum Shrinking: -7/56lbs **
    **SPC 2012 #1498 -£152 and 1499 ***
    I do it all because I'm scared.
  • Butti
    Butti Posts: 5,014 Forumite
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    Elfen you might have bad habits but that doesn't make you bad. You've managed 13 days without chocolate so you must be redeemable. Do you have any very positive friends - I think you need to go for a dose of positive friend.

    Don't be too hard on yourself you're just a fallable human like the rest of us

    (((Dodgy hug)))

    B x
    Debt LBM (08/09) £11,641. DEBT FREE APRIL 2021.
    Diary 'Butti's journey : A matter of loaf or death'.
    Diary 2 'The whimsical tale of the Waterbed of Debt'         48% off mortgage
    'one day I will be rich and famous…for now I'll just have to settle for being poor and incredibly sexy'. Vimrod Member of MIKE'S :cool: MOB
  • elfen
    elfen Posts: 10,213 Forumite
    I'm not just like everyone else, I'm never going to be like everyone else, ever.

    Everything I am is a lie, everything I do is a lie....
    ** Total debt: £6950.82 ± May NSDs 1/10 **
    ** Fat Bum Shrinking: -7/56lbs **
    **SPC 2012 #1498 -£152 and 1499 ***
    I do it all because I'm scared.
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 99,669 Ambassador
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    elfen ~ Sorry that you feel like that.
    Is there anyone in RL you could talk to?
    I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.

    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** in ~~Japanese proverb.     ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger.
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan. 19months left.
  • Ames
    Ames Posts: 18,459 Forumite
    You're right Elfen - but that doesn't mean you're worse than everyone else. I've spent years thinking how different I am to 'normal' people and trying to change, but I've recently started to realise that in a lot of ways I'm happier than being 'normal', that my way is actually better than the 'normal' way.
    Unless I say otherwise 'you' means the general you not you specifically.
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 99,669 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    elfen wrote: »
    I'm not just like everyone else, I'm never going to be like everyone else, ever.

    Everything I am is a lie, everything I do is a lie....

    Im never going to be like everyone else either for totally different reasons to you.But thats ok~For you & for me.It doesent make you bad or your life a lie.Take care of yourself.
    I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.

    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** in ~~Japanese proverb.     ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger.
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan. 19months left.
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