From Trash to Cash: the river overflows

elly68

Felt i had to take control of something and the weather wasn't up for it apparently

jo70mo

When do your kids officially finish for christmas Elly?

EMminently

Hi everyone

Hope your little one's better Nixi, sounds horrible. Glad your Avon's going well.
Skint - hope things are warmer?! Love the cakes on fb!
Elly - thanks for setting up the new page i'll definitely be up for it and am ready to move in
Jo - Great news about your children having an auntie over here, i love reading about all your christmas activities - they sound fun and yum!
Hi to everyone else, hope you're all plodding on happily...

I had a perfect day on Sunday, everything just fell into place - babysitting my nephew and playing rugby in the sunshine, seeing squirrel,s, visiting my nan, cooking a roast, relaxing - all really simple stuff but just perfect. I've been paying for it since though - yesterday and today have been rubbish - nothing major just various things, migraines, redundancy meetings, icy roads... I'm trying to keep recalling how happy i was on Sunday but it's hard to do.

When can we move into our new thread..? I love the idea of a fresh start and the comment re scots joining on 3rd made me laugh out loud - can i join them?!

elly68

23rd december at this rate they might not get back schools of tomorrow have ordered curry for tea and putting blue wkds in fridge !!!!!! it ,felt like e have scrimped for a year .In january i am going to tackle ebay and find places to store local ebay finds and organise the car so i do one carboot weekend a month must say i do like doing these. Need to make a point of doing regular shifts though must be quickest and most cost effective way to get rid of debt as i am fortunate enough to get a good hourly rate.

elly68

hi em we get an extra public holiday you see, wondered if we should wait and see how many newbies we get then hijack them and make them into crazy dribblers ,also wondered if bingo might set up a thread for new year so thats the reason for the name .thought it was polite to let her /him know that its us

EMminently

Lol - 'hijack them and make them into crazy dribblers' - I like it!
I wonder how Bing0 and the others who left did with the challenge - anyone seen their thread? It's a shame it all ended that way.

jo70mo

Hi Em,
really glad you had such a great day on sunday. sounds fab.
We are enjoying advent although I am winging it a bit and, although we are having fun, we still have our "moments".lol.
Really busy time at school for DH as being a music teacher he has so many extra things on at the moment. even things like the christmas bingo have a performance included! crazy!
Sounds like a stressful time at work for you.
Elly it really sounds like you are getting your head round everything and will have a killer masterplan when we start the new thread!!

elly68

last job of 2010 is the ombusman letter doing this thursday in work and remembering to use topcashback with christmas shopping will be welcome in february.also return clothes that didnt fit even if it means gift voucher .i did an order for m&s for mulled wine 12 bottles ,15 cosmetic gifts reduced to £2.50 each and dave the monkey with free delivery came to 70.11 with 3.04% cashback i'm impressed .
think next year i might give myself housekeepin money a bit scared but think we really need a weekly budget

EMminently

Wow bingo with musical performance, sounds fun, although busy like you say. performances to accompany the performances...
Sounds like you're doing a great job of winging it - all the activities have sounded really good fun. How lovely for your children to grow up with special memories of your family time - even with the 'moments'.

mmm elly! mulled wine, you've just reminded me I have some in the garage....off to get some...

elly68

see we cheered you up already music and alcohol lol