From Trash to Cash: Dribbling a river

greenpixie_2

I've been making progress, with another £20 amazon voucher waiting to be e-mailed to me from DooYoo some more money to add to the talley!

Have done some work, typed up my documentation, or what I've writen out so far and that was 1500 words :-) Did that with no problems at all and added a few words as well.

Now thinking about going and sitting out in the sun with some juice and music books and making a start on another project, so i get a break from the other one.

Doing my washing and generally tidying and sorting my room as well. I'm lazy with my washing, i just wait until i don't have any clothes left and now i have 3 loads for the washing machine, whoops.

Have a nice day in the sun everyone!

Crafty_Toots

Mabel I filled the sink with boiling water (as high as I could without it all disappearing out the overflow) and added a healthy dollop of Stardrops (Flylady suggests bleach and I may well still do that actually) and let it sit for a couple of hours. Drained, scrubbed, rinsed several times, then dried off with a clean towel. It's stainless steel and now very shiny! I think the secret is in the drying tbh, I'm having to be careful not to be compulsive now though, but I dry it off every time I use it!

mambury wrote: »

merkins!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Joey sorry to hear about your car, grrrr why is it that people are so entirely stupid in car parks???

2cats, sounds like your DD is getting on great! I shouldn't be sitting here, I should be powering on with what I started.... but racing on the tv turned my half hour sit down into, uh, 3 hours :rotfl:

Well done on the dooyoo money-making Greenpixie!

Toots x

jo70mo

sorry to hear about the car Joey. hope you get insurance sorted out.
2cats your daughter sounds very inspired right now. woohoo
Toots less than 3 weeks now and a shiny sink. life is good.
DH made £77 at carboot after pitch fees and ice cream and I found us house and contents insurance for £458 a year less than at the moment. woohoo.
Jo x

Crafty_Toots

Wow Jo, is that a typo??? £458 LESS per year?? that's a ridiclous amount! Well done to DH, every bit helps!

And yes, you're right, less than 3 weeks, can't wait! and while I'm impatiently whiling away the time, I have a sparkly sink to look at. Isn't life grand!!!

Toots x

moneymabel

sorry to hear about your car Joey-what a pillock that bloke was glad you laughed at him, hope you get your insurance sorted.

Well done on the savings Jo thats fab!

Thanks for the sink info toots (am glad its not merkins Mambury...speaking of which i wonder how Dillis doing with her all nighters this weekend?speak to us hun!)

nolongerindenial

I have had a o.k day...

Finished off last night sorting out the tools to start the engine swap today...

Got up, stripped the bonnet etc (basically spent a couple hours on it... and had it ready to drop out of the car) Went to church and then when I got back i finished the job off and now have a running saxo - that isnt the best news...

A friend of my best friend is looking for a small car for his wife - and has said he will take this off me - ok I make about £100 less than I wanted to - but he is collecting it tomorrow and I wont be paying any listing fees or be messed around!

moneymabel

Great news NLID! Well done :-)

nolongerindenial

really gotta thank a couple mates of mine, without them it wouldnt have been finished...

sale came round as My BM (Best Mate) was coming round and speaking to his colleague on friday about what they were doing over the weekend - who phoned him today about coming to look at it in about 20 minutes (just as we had the engine, gearbox, and basically the whole front end not fitted to the car... not a good way to try and sell a car. So BM gave him incorrect directions which bought us 40 minutes or so extra - and whilst the engine wasnt running it gave us time to get the front end looking like a car with the engine bolted in.(not hooked up in any way to electrics, fuel and cooling) - but his wife fell in love with it (I had hoped to valet it before showing anyone) and he said as long as we could get the mechanicals running for a test drive tomorrow - he would take it away with him!

well ive just driven it - and it goes, it stops and has its MOT booked for first thing in the morning - which at a look over it will pass without a problem

jo70mo

Thats fantastic NLID and really quick turnaround. like you say no listing fees to worry about.
glad to hear you are not planning on shining your sink with a merkin Mabel!!
Jo x

nolongerindenial

jo70mo wrote: »

Thats fantastic NLID and really quick turnaround. like you say no listing fees to worry about.
glad to hear you are not planning on shining your sink with a merkin Mabel!!
Jo x

if I could turnaround one a weekend and sell it at this level of profit I would be happy!

Right now to see if that peugot is still available in need of a clutch - I can use the profit from this one to buy it - meaning no matter what we are not down financially other than about £100 for parts to sort out the pug.