Its tough, it will get better and guess what its freezing brrrrr!

Kitcaboodle

At one point my sister was holding off on getting engaged to her boyfriend because he 'only' wanted to spend £14k on a ring!!! They are still together (amazingly) and still not engaged for other reasons but still, I can't imagine telling DH that I wanted him to spend more on a ring. In fact, he gave me a cheap placeholder ring (his words) when he proposed and I told him not to bother getting a proper ring as I'd just be wearing my wedding ring after we married anyway and I'd rather we put the money towards our future together!

Personally I believe it should be about the marriage rather than the wedding. If the wedding is the thing that matters most then the marriage is probably doomed!

LannyLee

Kitcaboodle wrote: »

At one point my sister was holding off on getting engaged to her boyfriend because he 'only' wanted to spend £14k on a ring!!!

£14K!!!! :eek::eek::eek:

Our whole wedding only cost £2K & my wedding ring & engagement ring together cost £140.

icelandic_queen

Thanks NualaBula for the tips re the greasy floor! I have vinegar, bicarb and stardrops but I think I was in such a state of shock I forgot!! My leg isn"t very red but feels as though I've been slapped, if that makes much sense! We were talking about it at breakfast this morning and how I trailed the clothes off as quick as I could and my middle DD said "I can"t believe you were wearing a thong at your age"!!! I'm not dead yet!

kidcat

Oh my, where did I go wrong, I obviously brought my parents up all wrong, I such a bad daughter!!:rotfl:

I have just spoke to my mum on the phone and told her I had been to Asda to stock up on flour and store in big box, as flour prices are rising as a result of wheat shortages, she replied, thats ok it wont affect us we dont use flour anyway??:eek::eek::eek: I tried to explain that its not just flour its flour based products too, but she really didnt get it!!

At least I now have a huge Ikea plastic box with about ten bags of flour in store already and will buy more later this week.

Read somewhere last night that Child benefit will be stopping for over 16 yr olds, this will hit us hard, as my DD16 is still in school and would have still been entitled though college too. Have been costing up college and travel etc, and I have to say I am very worried.

kidcat

Kitcaboodle wrote: »

At one point my sister was holding off on getting engaged to her boyfriend because he 'only' wanted to spend £14k on a ring!!! They are still together (amazingly) and still not engaged for other reasons but still, I can't imagine telling DH that I wanted him to spend more on a ring. In fact, he gave me a cheap placeholder ring (his words) when he proposed and I told him not to bother getting a proper ring as I'd just be wearing my wedding ring after we married anyway and I'd rather we put the money towards our future together!

Personally I believe it should be about the marriage rather than the wedding. If the wedding is the thing that matters most then the marriage is probably doomed!

I said to a friend yesterday that more people are in love with having a wedding than a marriage!

katholicos

icelandic_queen wrote: »

Good luck to the Annie56 and AnnieG and everyone else who needs it. Was wondering if you lovely people could help me? Did a roast chicken on Sunday and following the advice on here, stuck the carcas in a pot of boiling water with a carrot and an onion to strip it. Was lifting it off the oven when I dropped it and it spilt over me!! I'm o.k, apart from a red patch on my leg, cos I had thick tracky bottoms on that seemed to cushion the blow and I did do a strip straight away in the kitchen, in full view of my neighbours!! I'm more annoyed at the losing the stock and now the floor is like a skating rink!! I have tried wiping it with stardrops, but it's stilll greasy, what can I use?

Ouch! Do hope your leg is okay. I am a clutz in the kitchen when it comes to burning myself, scalding myself etc so you have my sympathies!

Lindy_-_Loo

Kezlou - the £4.10 calpol is the boots own, its had such a price hike!

Have finally managed to get a chair bed from the charity shop - only £10 and no marks on it so its now in the boys room ready for when their ill and we sleep with them. have been looking since last xmas as we have previously slept on the floor but its too cold!

Its my birthday next month and the in laws have asked via OH what i want, he said argos voucher towards a de humidifier. They laughed and said no they would choose a suitable gift. We dont always get on and this isnt making it any better! They are very weathly and feel that this is not an appropriate gift.

I got married in 2001, divorced in 2002. together 8 years previous we were childhood sweethearts. Had the big white OTT wedding, Im still paying the debt now. So much went wrong the week before the wedding that someone was trying to stop me getting wed but I didnt listen. If me and OH get married it will be when the boys are older and we can afford it without debt and I have said I want to married as late as possible in the day so we dont have a big reception to pay for. ive changed my name by deed pol to match the boys and OH so we may never get married now!

ChocClare

catznine, you might see if you can get Sarah Lugg's "The Handcrafted Wedding" out of the library - she has some really beautiful ideas made out of everyday sort of items.

We went to a wedding a few Septembers ago in a Hampshire village where they'd decorated the village hall with boughs of hops. It looked FANTASTIC. They didn't have anything on the tables at all, and the hops were all growing in the hedgerows at the end of the bride's mother's garden. Not that they were hard up - they weren't - but it just looked like something out of Country Living anad it hadn't cost them anything!

MummyOfTwo

kidcat wrote: »

I said to a friend yesterday that more people are in love with having a wedding than a marriage!

very true indeed.

Margaret54

Oh lovelife thank you for the link. Ken Loach was great in the interview, wasn't he? I was saying to mydh yesterday after seeing the unrest in France, that there just might be civil unrest in the U.K down the line, when we hear what is what tomorrow. Thankfully we have our wee community here to learn from each other and be supportive to each other. I read here almost every day, and always feel part of it, even if not posting, but think it is such a lovely place to be. I feel I am amongst friends. Margaret xx