From Trash to Cash: the river overflows

Rosie

Wow elly you have been busy well done.

Amber_Sunshine

OMG Saucy - I hadn't realised it was THAT kind of makeover, where they try to sell you thousands worth of photos ... Report them to Trading Standards and name & shame them on the Vents thread ...

SaucySecrets wrote: »

Quite possibly the worst experience of my life...
It all went wrong, though. The bus didn't come, then the train broke down, and I should have just gone home. Instead I battled on, got there a little late but offered to rebook and apologized alot and they said it was fine. Stylist was supposed to comb my hair, and stabbed me in the head with scissors. It took a while to stop bleeding, and he just said "Don't worry, we'll wash it off before the photo" in a really evil way. He said he wasn't going to cut my hair after that. Make up looks nice, but they tried to put £180 worth of make up through on my card with me not present because I said I liked it and they said people usually buy what they put on them....luckily it declined as my card needs the PIN entered. Manicurist had quit, so no nails done, and the photographer was nice but the room was absolutely filthy. She didn't want to touch anywhere and I didn't want to sit anywhere but we took a few photos and she said she was disgusted, and it was her first day.

Then I left for two hours as they told me they weren't ready, they didn't have food or drink like they'd advertised, and I was feeling rubbish. Didn't want to go back but I'd left my coat, so I had too. Spent two hours wondering the heaving town centre before going back, when they locked me in a strange room with an angry man who wouldn't let me just take the free pictures (the experience cost £125 and had three free prints) and tried to get me to sign a credit agreement. Wouldn't let me go until I did, was very angry when the card declined again (I put the wrong PIN in as I didn't want it to work) and sent me to the bank. He even wrote £550 on my hand so I didn't come back without it! I was really scared...ran to the train station but just missed the train so had to spend ages waiting, same happened with the bus.

I really, really wouldn't recommend it to anyone, ever.

Amber_Sunshine

Oh, and my new kitty is here :j

HopeAndDriftWood

Amber_Sunshine wrote: »

Oh, and my new kitty is here :j

Awww, what is he/she like? I'm still hoping to get involved with cats when we settle there in a few weeks, I miss them like crazy!

I need pictures!!

elly68

good news amber
rosie looks good my list but so far i've only did no1 lol i've given myself a month to complete .
saucy maybe if you give yourself a list for spain it will help with packing.

HopeAndDriftWood

My list would be pages and pages long...literally. I have so much to do!!!

(And I'm still not packed. Gaahhhhh!)

You seemed to have a really productive day though, Elly! Your list looks great too. I will try to make one.

elly68

we have always used lists for moving
boness to germany germany to woodbridge woodbridge to brantham brantham to linlithgow linlithgow to polmont polmont to grangemouth
i find it helps document list clothes list and then boxes how are you moving your stuff or are you just taking clothes

elly68

hey jo we could do actions for august whether that be an relaxing activity or updates on etsy websites ect for those selling and then selling for september ie find an item a day that youve not used shoes smelly socks ect lol and try and flog it just a thought

elly68

rosie you do well on the £10 a day challenge how do you do it

Rosie

Hi elly,
This month I doubled up on tesco vouchers on 2 pair of new glasses which I needed anyway. (well I didn't really need 2 pair but it was BOGOF) That was £80 saved. I got £7 from a mystery shop. £20.73 from qidco from joining the National Trust and clicks. I banked my £2 coins which was £50 (been saving these since Jan) £10 voucher from woohoo bingo, a £5 voucher from GFK. £10 in voucher from Argos for spending £50 a couple of weeks ago. The rest was from ebay oh and I doubled up on tesco vouchers for dog food by using £10 in vouchers I got £20 of dog food and joint chews. So for all my total looks good I haven't actually made much effort lol