June 2010, 80 payments to go............

tootallulah

Hi SmiSave, someone at work suggested there may be a battery if my timer is wireless. I am about to investigate.

Coffee £2, Mondays at work are a bit odd at present, everyone is a bit out of sorts. We are waiting to hear what the cuts will be on Thursday. I am not sure if my job will be at risk in the first phase but I expect that it will be in the second so I really do need to get as much paid off the mortgage as possible. Out for dinner tomorrow, Wednesday and Friday which will be a saving although I am sure that by Saturday I will be longing for a night in.

Lynn11

I would second the comment about the batteries. In our new house which we moved in June I was trying to get the heating to work also - hubbie away with work overnight and woke up and it was cold. Tried the instructions and they did not work, so eventually replaced the batteries in the digital temperature box and it worked.

tootallulah

Thanks Lynne, there are batteries so I will buy replacements today, fingers and all other extremities crossed that it works as it is quite chilly in the morning.

tootallulah

Coffee £2. Changed batteries, still no heating, I am trying to view it as an EXCELLENT MONEY SAVING SACRIFICE. It's not worth it, give me warmth every time.

Lovely dinner at a friends last night, out with other friends tonight. I am doing some planning for next year "in case, in case", I guess that I will be with many people on these boards and in the real learning how big the cuts are tonight. Should be pretty clear by tomorrow if my job is there for the next two or three years or will be gone by April. I feel strangely calm it all seems so unreal. Still it isn't worth stressing about thongs I have no control over.

CathT

I hope you manage to get the heating sorted, it's quite frosty here this morning.

All these cutbacks are so worrying and it seems to happening across all sectors. Hope the decision goes your way.

greent

Hope you can sort the heating asap! x

tootallulah

Dinner with friends last night, great to see them it's been a long time however £25.80, but no coffee in the morning. I am now a terrible scrooge and was genuinely a bit taken back at spending this amount mid-week. Still it just means I need to be steady for the rest of the month and keep my daily money at £5 then it is affordable. I have no desire to be mortgage free and friendless. Mind you as the last bit of home improvements is on its way the mortgage total is going up, up, up.

I am at a work event all week-end and then off to Heathrow on Monday I am not sure how spendy I will be in San Francisco. Come on guys it's SAN FRANCISCO home of the greatest second hand shops on earth. Note to self I must only ever have $20 in my pocket..............

greent

lol! You can't NOT buy whilst you're there - enjoy

We're off up to Edinburgh next week - I'm planning on some fairly serious shopping spends

tootallulah

Hi GreenT, I am sure that if I see something that I fall in love with in SF I will buy it. a friend has asked me to get a couple of Japanese magazines in Japantown and it is always interesting there.

Coffee £2, today is teh start of a three day conference for me which will be enjoyable and where I am hoping to learn a lot.

gallygirl

Did you ever get your ebay seller account sorted? I just saw this on another threads & thought of you:

"In the meantime do you think the Universe is trying to tell me something I have been trying to set up a sellers account on ebay for the last few days with no joy have emailed them but no answer just used their live chat and what have they said

The error message you are being displayed is actually an online bug on the site and many other members are also facing similar issues. I appreciate your patience in this regard and request your cooperation until this gets sorted out. I have also forwarded your account details to the technical department in the list of affected users on our site.

Meanwhile of course I can't sell :mad: and they cant say when it will be fixed:("

Doesn't get you any further forward but at least you know it's not personal