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  • missrlr
    missrlr Posts: 2,192 Forumite
    I am in shock SEVEN INTERVIEWS.

    The HR process must cost a FORTUNE all those man hours lost! Hope you succeed though!

    And great news re Piq and your garden be nice to each other now! Perhaps I should come and labour for Piq on this job?
    Start info Dec11 :eek:
    H@lifax [STRIKE]£13813.45[/STRIKE] paid Sep14 paid 23 months early :T
    Mortgage [STRIKE]£206400[/STRIKE] :eek: £199750 Mortgage £112500
    B@rclays £[STRIKE]25000[/STRIKE] paid 4 years 5 months early. S@ntander £[STRIKE]9300[/STRIKE] paid 2 years 2 months early
    2013 8lb lost 2014 need to lose 14lb. Lost 4 so far!;)
  • brizzledfw
    brizzledfw Posts: 7,302 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    Seven sounds excessive...just sat through a day of interviewing...hard work but knew from start that no one was up to it. We didn't need 7 stages that's for sure. Maybe it's to keep someone in a Job??!!

    Fingers crossed anyway x
    MFiT-T4 Member No. 96 - 2022 is my MF goal :D
    Winter 17/18 Savings Rate Goal: 25% [October 30%] :T
    Declutter 60 items before 31.03.18 9/60 ** LSDs Target 10 for March 03/10 **AFDs 10/15 ** Sales/TCB Target 2018 £25/£500 NSDs Target 10 for March 02/10 Trying to be a Frugalista:rotfl::T
  • *Robin*
    *Robin* Posts: 3,364 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Stoptober Survivor
    brizzledfw wrote: »
    Seven sounds excessive...just sat through a day of interviewing...hard work but knew from start that no one was up to it. We didn't need 7 stages that's for sure. Maybe it's to keep someone in a Job??!!

    Fingers crossed anyway x

    ..That's what I thought. Somebody's inventing work [and wasting resources].

    Well: Best of luck in the next four stages then, NewLeaf. :)
  • NewLeaf_2
    NewLeaf_2 Posts: 2,116 Forumite
    I know it we are the most inefficient inept bunch of emotionally autistic people on the planet in mathematics!
    Mortgage: £280,752/ £262,515.84
    hmrc:£16760/£5,480.20
    evil credit cards: £41,208/ £37,841
    Car: £18,800/£13,101.18
    Weight 13.9/ 12.6 -1 stone 3
    saving for refurb £2000/£700 1 July 2013
  • NewLeaf_2
    NewLeaf_2 Posts: 2,116 Forumite
    Wait: Did Piq Agree to come!!! I have to pop over there and plan a date. Any time from a week today until the 9th of April suits me just fine
    Mortgage: £280,752/ £262,515.84
    hmrc:£16760/£5,480.20
    evil credit cards: £41,208/ £37,841
    Car: £18,800/£13,101.18
    Weight 13.9/ 12.6 -1 stone 3
    saving for refurb £2000/£700 1 July 2013
  • NewLeaf_2
    NewLeaf_2 Posts: 2,116 Forumite
    ok up and down day today
    retrieved mother. new yoga mat arrived. had breakfast. counted coins and had £30 to deposit on Monday. Saw a photo of myself looking like beached whale.
    Mortgage: £280,752/ £262,515.84
    hmrc:£16760/£5,480.20
    evil credit cards: £41,208/ £37,841
    Car: £18,800/£13,101.18
    Weight 13.9/ 12.6 -1 stone 3
    saving for refurb £2000/£700 1 July 2013
  • NewLeaf_2
    NewLeaf_2 Posts: 2,116 Forumite
    I should point out that Depeche Mode Played live on David Letterman in NYC on my birthday. I think it is a sign!
    Mortgage: £280,752/ £262,515.84
    hmrc:£16760/£5,480.20
    evil credit cards: £41,208/ £37,841
    Car: £18,800/£13,101.18
    Weight 13.9/ 12.6 -1 stone 3
    saving for refurb £2000/£700 1 July 2013
  • jo91
    jo91 Posts: 269 Forumite
    Hi NL
    De-lurking to say I have finally figured something out. After reading your diary (and those of a few others over the last few weeks since discovering this wonderful part of the forum) I can honestly say that if your diary were a phyiscal place, I would want to sell up and move there ! Your honesty and camaraderie here with your diary friends is so heart-warming, I love to read how things are for you (and cheer you on silently with your challenges with your mum, work and your battles with HMRC). In turn your diary has had me in tears laughing (I refer to the anecdotes about your OH's changing room experience with your mum !) and moved by the concern over your mum's current state of health.
    Your friends in the box contribute so beautifully and with such genuine support it feels like a real community. If it were a phyiscal place, I would love to live there :-) (Obviously with Piq crafting everyones' gardens to perfection and Captain living in a field just off the communal estate !)
    ....that's all really (Jo now bu55ers off back to lurking ! :rotfl:)
  • brizzledfw
    brizzledfw Posts: 7,302 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    Hi lovely Jo:wave: NL's diary is a lovely place...we all like hanging out here..:T and she makes us laugh which is always a good thing!;)

    NL...yoga mat..blimey that's keen. Best of luck with that!! And with your mum..really really hope it's all positive for all 3 of you.( I am slightly amazed she's turned up at all if I am honest as I thought she might bottle)....do keep posting so we know how you're doing!

    Have a great weekend x
    MFiT-T4 Member No. 96 - 2022 is my MF goal :D
    Winter 17/18 Savings Rate Goal: 25% [October 30%] :T
    Declutter 60 items before 31.03.18 9/60 ** LSDs Target 10 for March 03/10 **AFDs 10/15 ** Sales/TCB Target 2018 £25/£500 NSDs Target 10 for March 02/10 Trying to be a Frugalista:rotfl::T
  • grannyx2
    grannyx2 Posts: 3,455 Forumite
    Ninth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Happy holidays my dear friend

    Hope the time spent with your dear mom puts your mind at rest and her in a better place.

    Agree with Jo91 that if your diary were a real place I'd move there in a flash too.

    Good luck with the next 4 stages of interviews, though why anyone would waste their time seeing anyone else when they clearly have the best person for the job right here, I do not know.

    Now make sure you remove the packaging from that yoga mat as just looking at it won't get you fit :rotfl:

    Granny x
    Targets
    Trip to Australia (On hold until 2022 now) to meet new grandson born jan 21!

    Lose 84lbs. Update (minus 65lbs mostly during lockdown as of 18.05.21)

    LBM : July 11 - £56,962
    DEBT FREE 21-05-21
    MORTGAGE FREE 13-06-18

    Loving my kitty cat

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3958715/return-to-solvency/p1
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