When life sends you Lemons, just bake a cake

Uniscots97

Happy New Year LT, hope you feel better soon

Lemon_Tree

thanks Uni, it comes and it goes, i'd be happy if it didn't come back again.

money things, can't remember if i've done them yet this month:

paid £250 to Mad Mavis this month, balance outstanding £4,150. Current plans mean that this won't be paid off until August 2013, but i'm going to start plotting to get this cleared by end Dec 2012. It should be doable, i've been clearing twice this for the last 2-3 years! Only difference is the things needing doing round the new house.

talking about the house - about time i did a house update:
solicitors are back open - yay!
Mr LT has made some appointments with some removals firms so by this time next week we should have some quotes for when we get our dates.
packed a couple more boxes when i got home today, still got a long way to go

mrsmoneybee

Hello and Happy New Year! I'm an new oldie (old newbie? anyhoo, changed my name and snuck back in with my money saving tail between my legs) to your thread so have had to read a bit to catch up. Fab news on the house (and the strength in resisting the kettle, I couldn't have but I'm weak!) but bad news on the gall bladder (hope the pain goes quickly and stays away). You've made such a great dint in Mad Mavis since I was last here, big cheers to you :T:T:T.

Lemon_Tree

hello mrs, trying to place you.... the housework comment seems familier but i'm terrible with names, it may come back to me though lol. glad to see you back, you shouldn't have your tail between your legs, it's harder to come back after an attempt so my hat is off to you. Have you started another thread?
can i tell you a secret? the kettle won in the end!

Uniscots97

LT, can you move some of the stuff yourself or rope friends in to help? It means then you wouldn't need as big a van. I got friends to help me when I moved and managed a smaller van for a the furniture.

Dont beat yourself up over how long Mad mavis will take to pay off you've done really well! I've been lurking on the 'pay your debt off in a year' thread and although I have no chance of paying off what I owe in a year it is inspriational so off the back of that I've listed something on Ebay, only one thing for now but I'll see what else I have and I think a visit to the 'rag and bone' man this weekend (with the bag of old clothes that the charity shop didn't want as it wasn't designer) is in order. I should get £20 for my stuff.

Uniscots97

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

can i tell you a secret? the kettle won in the end!

woohoo!!!!! a shiny new red kettle per chance?

Knitting_Nora

unixgirluk wrote: »

woohoo!!!!! a shiny new red kettle per chance?

Oooooo....pictures!! We demand pictures!! :j:j

Lemon_Tree

would post piccies but it's been packed lol

Uni will your charity shop really only take designer? I know i've railed on here before about how they can be pretty picky round here but that takes the biscuit.

Uni, normally i would rope in family and friends, but this time, both my sister and BIL will be working and aren't allowed time off other than school hols, and the friend i would ask would probably be helping her SIL who's the person buying our place. To be truthfully i honestly think that the removals men are some of the few people who do earn their wages, when i think about how little service we've had from the estate agents and how much we have to pay it just drives me mad.

Uniscots97

hope all goes well tomorrow LT.

LexieLou

Hello Everyone,

There are so many of the above posts that made me laugh out loud (LOL as the young ones say) I'm currently balancing my laptop on my knee with a very dodgy (code for crackly) power cord, I need a new one and can't afford one just at the minue.

UnixgirlUK...ebay, at least you have something listed, be good to yourself, it takes forever to list on ebay and as for the charity shops...they make you feel as though they are doing you a favour taking in your old clothes etc, especially as you have gone to the trouble to make sure that they are clean and good quality. I love Mary Portas, but she has a lot to answer for at the minute.

I also need to find the thread you have mentioned about 'paying off your debt in a year' sounds like something I need to at least read if not aspire to do.

Right I'm off.

Love and Hugs.

LL xx