From Trash to Cash: Dribbling a river

nixinixi

Right, Dribblers Sweepstake - cut off is 6pm for joining in!!

So far I have:

Nixi
Mabel (Childrens Hospice South West)
Jo
Em
Rosie
NLID (Francis House Childrens Hospice, Didsbury)
Babymoo (East Cheshire Hospice)
Munchki
JoeyGrey
Toots

moneymabel

Glad you're feeling better babymoo :-) the fresh air will help as well.

Cool Nixi-bet i get the team thats knocked out first..thats what usually happens when i get a horse in the grand National sweepstake!

moneymabel

Well there goes the plan to put links o other products on the site. Forgot only the title of the catagory is in Wordpress and everything else is done through the Ecommerce site. You can write a description but you can't put links into it. You can link to a gallery (which is what i've done) but you can't put links on the photos. Oh well thats that.
Think wordpress is a bit of a nightmare when the site gets a bit more in depth...asked NLID what it would take to move the catagories from the sidebar to along the top and it would take about 2 1/hours for him to do it...thats 6 years in my time!
So its atying as it is til i'm rich and famous and then I will get Dilli and NLID to build me a site from scratch :-)

Might take a new photo of the Seren collection stuff for the homepage-dont like the one thats on there, then at least i've done something!

babymoo

Everyone can learn a little lesson from me, ALWAYS make sure you read the small print. I booked ferry for me and DP for next year to go to TT races on isle of man and thought I had got a brilliant bargain at £20 but justified it as it is 12 months in advance. Only I received an e-mail telling me that the rest of the money is due by february 28th 2011, I rang to find out and was told I am looking at another £400!!!!! I am gutted. Luckily I can afford it still but that I was hoping to have it all in for £400 not just the bloody ferry. I feel well and truly bloody stupid. I can still afford it long as I save at the rate I am doing but thats a lot of money to spend and will be all of my savings. DP will be so disapointed Here's me thinking I am being a wonderful girlfriend

nixinixi

oh no Babymoo. it is so easy done, and I am sure you will have a fab time, so mark it up to experience and enjoy!!

babymoo

Well I reckon if we camp I can have it all in for £650 which isnt to bad and I have stopped panicking now. We already have all the camping stuff uncluding a blow up mattress as I refuse to sleep on the floor, i wouldn't get up again lol. Can get excited again now. Have 6 months to get £600 together!!

babymoo

Yeh thats true Nixi and I can't wait now. Tbh if we had gone abroad like planned we would have spent at least that anyway. Should be an interesting experience, DP always on at me to go camping, now is his chance haha. I have till end of feb to pay the £400 and I have rung a couple of camp site and been quoted around £200 for 12 nights, all the camp sites I have spoken with have showers, toilets, kitchens, bars etc so all sounds good, least I wil be able to be clean!! Camp sites have said I can book now for £20 per person deposit and pay the rest by april so all looking good to go

Woo ... TT Races here we come!!

munchki

Goodness Babymoo, what a shock that must have been!!

Right spent about 5 hours in town, didnt do a lot, just wandered around shops, did the food shopping (seriously going to do online as impulse buying is tempting) did not get my nails done as decided in the end did not really want to hassle with the maintenance of them each month, maybe next month who knows lol. So instead I did buy a couple dvd's and 3 new tops, ok so all very reduced but a treat all the same. Home again now, tired and sticky. Currently cursing the telly as unable to tune it in as lost the original remote and can not find an unlock code anywhere online for the keypad, which means I am going to miss the match tonight!!!

Right need to finish putting shopping away, and might even paint the kitchen. Having my son and his gf over tomorrow for sunday lunch but otherwise just chilling the rest of the weekend!

Hope everyone is having a fantastic day!!

JoeyGrey

Woohoo, I did my giant move and danced in front of loads of people! I went a bit early and sat on a wall to eat my lunch and watch the dance group before ours. While I was there I spotted someone I knew from our dance group, so waited till just before ours started and then went and joined him. I just knew that if I didn't, I would stay at the back and end up chickening out. So I was in on it from the beginning and even went and got a stranger out of the crowd to join in when it was the audience participation bit. Thankfully I happened to pick someone who could do tango, totally different dance, but picked it up really quickly. There were loads more people watching than I thought there would be - it was in the Peace Gardens and it was packed!

Was going to do my shopping online again last night, but I have almost everything I need for my next two weeks menu, and didn't seem worth getting it delivered so did myself a little shopping list and called in to Morrisons for it all. I stuck rigidly to my list and spent much less than I would normally.

Also took my first two black sacks from the start of my wardrobe declutter to the charity shop before I could talk myself into keeping it and ebaying it. I need the room and not the hassle at the moment, plus I feel as though I did a good deed for the month.

Now I'm off out to enjoy the sunshine for a little while.

Thanks for the solar panel link Mambury - I just applied and have my fingers crossed.

Hope everyone is enjoying the day.

nikki2804

Yay! Thats my little boy walking !!! I'm pleased now but I'm thinking this could equal disaster lmao.

So skint this month :mad:.