'Be Happy'...Milly's mission for 2011

determined_new_ms

hi pix - have I missed something? Have u found a new house? Hope u have!

Re the sewing machine - will come in handy for us little-lees! Have used mine to take up some jeans I bought off of ebay a couple of weeks ago. Sewing machine cost me £10 and it would have cost me £9 to take up the jeans so I just have to take I more pair up and I'm in the realms of profit

am so jelly that you have the next few weeks off!

Hope life is happy for u x

pixiechick99

determined_new_ms wrote: »

hi pix - have I missed something? Have u found a new house? Hope u have!

Re the sewing machine - will come in handy for us little-lees! Have used mine to take up some jeans I bought off of ebay a couple of weeks ago. Sewing machine cost me £10 and it would have cost me £9 to take up the jeans so I just have to take I more pair up and I'm in the realms of profit

am so jelly that you have the next few weeks off!

Hope life is happy for u x

Hello lovely - no, no new house:( Not heard from the letting agent in about a week - nothing new but at least no notice given on this house yet:)

As for the sewing machine - mine was less of a bargain - I paid £75 (which I did save one week by having a completely no-spend week!), reduced from £150 but I'm still dithering:o Yes, being a [EMAIL="short-@ss"]short-@ss[/EMAIL] I do often take trousers up - I just do it by hand which takes ages. And my dd's are skinny things so have often fiddled about with stuff of theirs. DD2 bought some lovely velvety leggings off ebay but the legs were too big so I sat and handstitched them in - a machine would have taken 10mins...see, I'm talking myself into it;)

Yes, 2 weeks off - and not much planned...just relax. I'd rather be packing (while I have the time) - but no point if I've not even had my notice yet so could be here til mid-June at the earliest.

Hope all good with you too and that you and dd are happy:)

vasseur

I think you should keep the sewing machine You haven't gone short to get it and it does sound like you'll make good use of it. You could make lots of beautiful soft furnishings for your new house

pixiechick99

polesalot wrote: »

I think you should keep the sewing machine You haven't gone short to get it and it does sound like you'll make good use of it. You could make lots of beautiful soft furnishings for your new house

I like your thinking:D
Ex came in today to pick up girls and laughed when he saw it - seems to be a bit of a theme here, people I know laughing at the thought of me using it...maybe i should prove them all wrong:)

pixiechick99

Woooooooo I have just hit £40 on Onepoll:beer::beer:
So, the 'saving for an iPad money' has £200 in it....some of it being Amazon vouchers. Not that I need an iPad...but I would love one:o Thing is, the next £120 will be hard - so will just keep the £200 aside for now and see what I will do.

Another sunny day here so a washing is in the wachine. I have lots of ironing which I should do soon. We haven't any plans for today - girls are off to the fair tomorrow, which is at least half an hour away. It was all a big headache trying to organise it - I didn't want to drive, but dd2 and friends had 5 of them wanting to go so it needed 2 cars to get them there. DD1 wanted to go on Thursday, but again same problem. Luckily my niece's dad said he'll take them - so I'm going to go too so I can bring them home - and follow my friend over there:o

I really am the most rubbish driver if it involves going somewhere I've never been;) I'd love a Satnav, but seems mad to spend that much when I wouldn't often need it. I shall manage with the maps app on my phone:D

SO tomorrow will be a spendy day - £12 each for girls to the fair, £4 for me to go watch. I'll take some cans of drink for them. If I book online I can get 10% off so may as well do that now.

I have £60 left in my spending account - so allow £30 for tomorrow...I shall attempt to not spend the remaining £30 and it can roll over into next week's spends. Yesterday was my first NSD of April - hopefully today will be too...I don't plan on going anywhere or parting with any cash:)

Keeping_Motivated

If you get a car stand for an iphone and have a sat nav downloaded on it you don't need a sat nav surely as its just the same?

pixiechick99

Keeping_Motivated wrote: »

If you get a car stand for an iphone and have a sat nav downloaded on it you don't need a sat nav surely as its just the same?

The T0mT0m app is £50:eek: I'm sure there are decent cheaper ones - for the time I'd need it that is definitely the way to go. I just liked the big screens on a normal one;) But, in all honestly, I won't need it much, so I won't buy a proper one.

Still thinking about the sewing machine....:rotfl:

Keeping_Motivated

Really? £50! that's ridiculous...

I'm sure someone on here will have given a good review on a cheaper one...can you tell I use this place as the holy grail of advice haha

And as for the screen I have a sat nav and the screen really isn't that much bigger anyway.

Sewing machine...mmm....tricky one...I wouldn't use it but maybe you would haha that helps eh...

Maybe you could start a project like patchwork cushion or quilt of old clothes or something for the girls each as a memory and as a prove the mockers who have laughed wrong?

vasseur

I think the app is called Navfree.....

pixiechick99

polesalot wrote: »

I think the app is called Navfree.....

Great app thanks poles:D I've ordered a dashboard holder for my phone so I can see the maps properly - but yesterday it seemed to be working fine.