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debtfreewannabe321

:mad::mad: Well I've just had a proper Oh My God :eek::eek::eek::eek: Moment!!!!!!!!!!

Have just paid £518 for the car to be fixed :mad::mad::mad:

£320 for a !!!!!!!g service :mad: and £200 for other stuff that needed doing.............AND there is more to be done :eek: the auxillary belt needs changing, a brake disc or something needs changing and some thing on the power steering :(:( NOT a happy camper right now!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Took the money out of the 'rent' account so I am now short for the next few months unless dh gets his owed back pay sometime soon!!!

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On the plus side i got my Approved Food order and it was fab!!! Like xmas day :rotfl:it was !! 2 huge boxes full of goodies. I have enough gravy, stock cubes, shampoo, conditioner, pasta, poppadums :rotfl: and herbs to last a year!!! And enough peanuts, snacks for kids & a few other treats to last at least 2 months so the order was deinitely worth the £86 quid :T also have lots of little bits in the order for this month just awaiting the rosspa delivery now and i should have enough food for a fair bit!!!

Also towards my goals for the year, i've been to the dr's and reduced my anti depressant dosage. I hate the side effects they give me and would love to be off them completely by the end of the year

PinotGrigio41

Oh no what a nightmare day for you ! Thats the problem with older cars isnt it, but then again when our credit rating is shot to pieces we have bob hope and no hope of getting a newer car !! I had same problem last year with mine, quoted £2500 to fix. We left it sitting in the garage and shopped around for a bit, eventually got recon parts delivered to the garage ,got them to fit it and cost us £500 in the end. Mr Pinot manages to change our brake discs adn easier things now on the cars if he is around to do them and that saves a fair bit of cash. Usually orders them on ebay I think. Is Mr DFW handy with car type problems, or has a friend who is ?

Glad you have lots of lovely food in the house though thats one consolation at least ! And well done with reducing the anti depressants, I will keep my fingers and toes crossed that you will feel well enough soont to come off of them completely xx

debtfreewannabe321

Thanks Pinot

I've just redeemed another £5 voucher ........I am too impatient to wait until it reaches £10! Also have £2 coming from Gfk ;)again too impatient to wait until i have a nice amount to get out :rotfl:

So have £62 on it's way to me or sittting in my cupboard right now

Oh and 1 delivery out of 2 is here! yay! just awaiting the one with the actual food in it now *doh*!

PinotGrigio41

Yey ! Well done, I too am impatient, I would rather have the odd £5 here and there than wait ! I'm sure you have posted it on here somewhere, which surveys do you do ? I must get into the habit, I get them coming through everyday but dont get around to doing them. They are sooooo boring !

Is your delivery coming today ? I havent shopped since before Xmas other than bit of fruit and milk, I'm determined to drag out what we have until next week if we can ! DD2 baked some fairy cakes after school last night , I think she was desperate for some goodies nin the house !

debtfreewannabe321

my other order arrived :j this one from rosspa! It was packed excellently and i now have several dozen egg carton packing things which i don't know what to do with :eek::rotfl: I thoroughly recommend them :T cheap, deliver to you, and the fresh food was fab! much better quality than te$co.....admittedly i have only ordered- bananas, kiwis, apples that were fresh to see the quality. And i'm not disappointed :T

We have lots of food in now but hardly any meat and with the car clearing out lots of funds we have no money till monday (CHB) so will have to live off mince & pizza till then !

Have been to hairdressers and am back, going again tomorrow to have it cut, dyed & conditioned :Tcan't wait! Only thing is DH doesn't know if he will be off work now so i may have to take two toddlers, that is hardly going to be a relaxing 90 mins

But seems as a stay at home mum, i'm not allowed a day off till they no longer need me!!

Have just signed up to a thingy on a survey site which means i download something onto laptop and it stays there for up to a year. i'll get paid up to £26 i think so not too bad, could be better though;)

happy_but_skint

Sorry to hear about your car, thats a huge cost what a nightmare. Hope the rest of the year improves and is more prosperous x

Itsadogslife_2

I would love to be a stay at home mum, I work part time but still get lumbered with all of the domestic chores including DD, there again, I don't think OH could cope if I left her with him

I have never heard of Rosspa, off to google

debtfreewannabe321

Itsadogslife wrote: »

I would love to be a stay at home mum, I work part time but still get lumbered with all of the domestic chores including DD, there again, I don't think OH could cope if I left her with him

I have never heard of Rosspa, off to google

OOh if you had a look at rosspa hope you found something you liked i have a cupboard full of bargains now :rotfl:

And you're right i shouldn't moan, i remember being at work with ds1 and at uni, and looking after the house, and being heavily pregnant :rolls eyes: so i should really remember how hard it was then and stop the moaning :silenced:..........but oh how i love to moan :whistle:

i feel for you though, i will be back at work once kids are at school and i'll be moaning twice as much then no doubt :rotfl:!!

debtfreewannabe321

Well it's nearly the weekend :j

Have this morning had my hair cut, washed, conditioned (with posh conditioner that stays in your hair i'll have you know ) and dyed! feel very nice and relaxed and i didn't have to take kids :j got a friend to collect dd from nursery & dh had ds and he had to go to work 5 mins after he collected me which was cutting it short but all worked out in the end :T

I've been screened out of nearly every survey today so given up on that today! Need to check bank account as i need some margarine & other lil bits from shops. May just go without until monday though! Would have been a nsd but i tipped the hairdresser £5 (bit extravagant really but the groupon deal was such a good price so £30 for everything including tip i thought was good )

DH is off on Sunday for a month or 2 (hummmm i know i should know where my husband is and when he will be home but such is the life of the army, you eventually give up asking )

Will try and catch up on some diaries today have been popping in and out but not had much chance to post yet!

I spent an hour de-cluttering my kitchen last night by de-cluttering i mean i have added a juice machine to the side & emptied a bookshelf of c.d's off and filled it with books instead :rotfl: really think i might need some coaching on this 'de-cluttering' lark !!

debtfreewannabe321

happy_but_skint wrote: »

Sorry to hear about your car, thats a huge cost what a nightmare. Hope the rest of the year improves and is more prosperous x

:Tme too :rotfl: