Ladies & Gentlemen, please fasten your seatbelts ...

hypno06

Remember, you are conducting yourself with dignity, and can come out of all this with your head held high, and your own reputation intact.

In years to come, that will pay you dividends from DS, I am very sure of that xxx

benbenandme

Nope, before everything kicked off I used to meet him partway, but now as i don't want to see him at all he comes here to collect ds and brings him back. He has to use his phone to call ds too, but at the weekend told him he's almost run out of credit so doesn't think he'll be able to call now ...

benbenandme

Day 4 of shred done, I so nearly bottled out of it this morning, it was so dark and cold and I was still so sleepy but dragged myself out of bed and am glad now that I did. 26 more to go

Ds has a friend coming round for tea tonight so need to stop off and buy sausages and a couple of bits so today won't be a nsd, but will be sensible with whatever I do spend

redcurlypanda

Hi

Here again! Not very often I know but I just saw this and had to post!

Following on from your great idea for the Advent Calendar I thought your little boy might like this:

http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/special_buys3_16342.htm?WT.mc_id=2010-11-15-11-10

I hope you've got an Aldis near you.

Best wishes

Linda

x

benbenandme

Aww, RCP, thats fab!! Yep, we have an Aldi fairly close by, I will make sure we get there, thankyou so much :T

Spends today = £2.86 on hot dogs, rolls and somw sweets for the kids. They're playing happily in ds room so I'm enjoying five minutes laptop time before tea

Daisy78

Me again............
I could be talking rubbish cos I know nothing about maintenance payments. But will your tax credits be adjusted as you aren't being "paid" by the ex any more or don't they take that into account anyway?

pixiechick99

Daisy78 wrote: »

Me again............
I could be talking rubbish cos I know nothing about maintenance payments. But will your tax credits be adjusted as you aren't being "paid" by the ex any more or don't they take that into account anyway?

Tax credits don't take it into account sadly:(

benbenandme

Millys right, unfortunately they don't take it into account, so thats £340 a month I'm now worse off, which is a huge chunk of my monthly income

I came home today to the lovely letter from the csa telling me that he no longer has to pay me anything, no mention of how much he owes in arrears so I will be calling them up later to chase that, I know he won't have to pay it yet but at some point in the future I want that money :mad:

I didn't do my shred dvd this morning so am going to have to force myself to get it done tonight Other than that its going to be a pretty lazy one

Sea78

Hey BenBen - just noticed your 2010 Mortgage Pot - that's wonderful!!! Well done!

benbenandme

Shreds done :T :T It is definitely getting easier to do, I may try and get it done in the morning tomorrow rather than dreading it all day at school

Thank you Sea, its just annoying because if the maintenace had come through then I should have been able to get it down to £32k Never mind, I think there may have to be a complete overhaul of the whole mortgage free plan