Polesalot's Climb to Debt Freedom

vasseur

3 CDs and an old Vogue magazine sold on fleabay. I'm a bit disappointed because the Vogue mag was up to £4.40 and then they cancelled their bid so it went back down to the £2 I listed it at. I always thought once you'd bid you were committed - apparently that's not the case now.

I will list some more CDs - I've got loads I don't listen to and if I put them at 99p it won't cost me to list them.

Been really busy at work today. I've hoovered all through here. Still cooking dinner now

Speeding fine sent off and ASC fees paid. I'd underestimated by 1 day grrrrrrr....

vasseur

We got our food shop done for £31.89 yesterday. Still need to get milk and a few easter bits today. I actually sat down with dd and we planned what to have for the whole week. In a bid to get away from eating too much red meat she agreed to try tuna steaks

I booked up the cinema and we went to see The Pirates in 3D. I managed to get 10% off and 4.5% through Quidc0. It still cost £16 though :eek: As ever we took our own drinks and popcorn that I'd made beforehand. The film was really funny but I still managed to nod off for 15 minutes halfway through it - I seem to do it every time we go, I just can't help it

When we came home dd watched Grease (again) and I made butternut squash soup. I think i need to rethink my recipe - it seems to have lost its mojo . It's still good enough to eat and 3 servings are now in the freezer for whenever.

Plans for today, once I've cleared and got my hair dried and face on will be to pop up to the Post Office (it's only up the road) for some parcel paper, back here to wrap parcel up, back up to the PO to send off. Need to pop to sainsbugs - my mum and dad don't want easter eggs so will get my mum some flowers and my dad some large bars of chocolate. Mustn't forget the milk and some real eggs too...

Then back here to strip beds have lunch and pop into town in the afternoon. I desperately need to get my eyebrows threaded and just generally want to have a mooch round the shops.

Lula-Hula

Good work on the food shop & meal planning. Hope you got yourself a treat while shopping

vasseur

Lula-Hula wrote: »

Good work on the food shop & meal planning. Hope you got yourself a treat while shopping

I certainly did. I knew it was a bad idea to pop into town. It was all stuff I either wanted or needed though :whistle:

Got some nail varnishes from primarni - it was a set of 4 for £2 but one was missing so it was £1.50 - gold, silver and bronze, some cheapo foundation (£2), some more moisturiser and a face scrub (£6.88 :eek:), parcel paper and paddded envelopes, some reeds and diffuser oil for the bathroom - orange and ginger (I love ginger) and some white vinegar and bicarb for cleaning. Rock n roll....

We came back here and I unclogged the dispenser drawer in the washing machine with the vinegar and bicarb. How glamourous my life is right now

I spent most of the afternoon listing CDs on fleabay. At least they're on there now. I have about another dozen to go.

vasseur

I know I've spent too much money when I'm reluctant to update my little red book. I will do it this morning but I'm banking on the maintenance money being received in a timely fashion this month. Please.

I have about 7 items ending on ebay this evening and in total I listed 43 yesterday. I relisted my unorthodox item and am now thinking it's 3rd time lucky. It has 2 watchers already .

We're off to my mum and dad's this afternoon for lamb tagine. My aunt and uncle will be there and also my sister and nephew. Looking forward to it.

If [STRIKE]the weather's good[/STRIKE] it's dry tomorrow I am going to drag dd round a boot fair. Not been to one for ages and I love the idea of picking up unusual stuff for next to nothing.

I also want to pop to A1di for some of their baking specials. I have my eye on a porcelain cake stand and a traditional mixing bowl....unless I find similar or better at the boot fair

I'm going to have to admit defeat and realise that after nearly 40 years I am going to join the 20% of the population who suffer from hayfever. My eyes have been playing up for weeks, they have been really itchy off and on and I have been sneezing for days and it's not a cold.:cool:

And the blasted washing machine is still getting clogged up :mad:

RosaBernicia

now that was a nostalgia trip, my mum has one of those mixing bowls and I suspect it's older than me! (so is her Kenwood Chef - on my wish list for one of my own and thinking I should have bought the half price offer Prosperos that Sainsbugs had a couple of months ago).

Loads of places seem to do cake stands now, I have a couple of plain ones from Wilk0s for the cupcake kind and also some white porcelain flat ones that were on very cheap offer at Sainsbugs. This is why I have all white crockery - matching doesn't matter

Sympathies with the hayfever - my asthma has been rotten the last couple of weeks and I suspect it's the pollen

Rosa xx

ZTD

polesalot wrote: »

If [STRIKE]the weather's good[/STRIKE] it's dry tomorrow I am going to drag dd round a boot fair. Not been to one for ages and I love the idea of picking up unusual stuff for next to nothing.

You must like going to nightclubs then.

polesalot wrote: »

I'm going to have to admit defeat and realise that after nearly 40 years I am going to join the 20% of the population who suffer from hayfever. My eyes have been playing up for weeks, they have been really itchy off and on and I have been sneezing for days and it's not a cold.:cool:

Adult-onset allergies are a rising problem. A tip to determining if it is a cold or not, is that colds normally start in one nostril and travel to the other. Something systemic normally hits both at once.

polesalot wrote: »

And the blasted washing machine is still getting clogged up :mad:

Is it clogging on the input, or the output?

Have you tried it on a cleaning cycle? It's essentially a boil wash, but without any detergent or softener.

vasseur

ZTD wrote: »

Is it clogging on the input, or the output?

Have you tried it on a cleaning cycle? It's essentially a boil wash, but without any detergent or softener.

The fabric conditioner isn't going in! All I get left with at the end of each cycle is the FC compartment filled with water leaving a water down version of what I put in. I don't think there are any blockages on the output because the washing powder goes through good as gold and I have checked the filter too.

I've done a boil wash with nothing in, a boil wash with white vinegar in the drawer and the drum, a boil wash with soda crystals, I've had the drawer out and completely cleaned it with white vinegar and bicarb and there are no blockages - I can see where the FC should be passing through but it just isn't happening. Even when I've just done a wash with vinegar the FC compartment doesn't drain away.

I've just done another wash and added the FC halfway through and the same thing has happened.

I've got insurance so I've booked an engineer to come out on Friday. I suppose till then I should just use washing liquid with FC already added...

vasseur

We had a lovely day yesterday despite the weather. We never made it to the boot fair - I'm all for a bargain but we both agreed that traipsing round a muddy field in the rain wasn't going to cut it no matter how much money we saved so we went to the local shopping centre instead.

I bought my friend some earrings for her 40th, an umbrella, a magazine - £5.50 :eek: "£5.50???" I squeaked and almost fell on the floor when the shop assistant rang that one up, although it does have an article on Rory Gallagher that I really wanted to read and a 12 track CD so not quite as bad as it sounds - I might sell it on afterwards.

We left and went on to A1di's congratulating ourselves on missing the 3 car smash that was on the other side of the motorway. We went in with the sole aim of buying a cake stand and a mixing bowl. Before I knew it we had bisuits, wooden spoons, cake essences, quiche, goats cheese and ham in the basket so we made our way to the till before we could do any more damage to my bank account.

We had a really pleasant afternoon in the warmth watching Flushed Away and playing Monopoly which I won - I was all ready to start helping dd mortgage off all her properties and houses but she flung the contents of the board at me so it was game over.

Today i have got up early and booked an engineer to look at the washing machine and another one to look at the oven (my bottom oven hasn't worked for over 2 years and I am fed up with trying to shoehorn everything into the top one when I have all the family over. I have cunningly arranged for both engineers to come at the same time (well, the same 'window' of between 11 and 6, b*ggered if I am going to waste too long of my holiday time with dd waiting for repair men to turn up).

I've cancelled my home insurance renewal (easy peasy), booked my car in for Thursday morning for the new exhaust and sent off 2 fleabay parcels that bidding finished on Sunday on.

We've just made mushroom soup, it is simmering away nicely, dd chopped up all the mushrooms and she has made herself some ice lollies. She's now doing the washing up bless her - all the time she thinks it's a novelty I'm not going to stop her

Plans for this afternoon are a walk in the woods with my friend and her daughter, off to mum and dad's for tea and pole class later.

Right -off to whizz up the soup....

vasseur

Well we had a lovely long walk yesterday - 7 miles to be precise. We parked up (free ) and walked through the woods, through a village and right along to the country park near home and back again. And it didn't even feel like exercise (although it does today ).

Pole class in the evening so a good day for exercise all round.

Today we are off to the next town. It has a lovely high street, loads of really nice charity shops and knick knacky shops, a cathedral and a castle which we will probably go up because we haven't been since dd was about 4 so i don't think she really remembers.

Hoping to go looking at bikes this afternoon. I am also bidding on a pole that i hope to win too so fingers crossed there.