Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Came home super mega early today.

Walked through the door to the bosses office first thing, got jetted in the face by a motion sensor airfreshener, inhaled, got itchy eyeballs, a swollen snotty nose and was gasping for breath within seconds. Its the most severe allergic reaction I've had to anything in years. Got sent home whilst the building aired to get rid of all traces of it in the hopes it doesn't happen again.

Spent the morning packaging up yesterdays E-bay sales, all £80 of them and I have another half dozen auctions to go.

Have a class set of Ginn Abacus Early Years 2 workbooks to rehome along with a couple of KS1 Ginn Big Books and an assortment of teacing manuals. Tried E-bay, Amazon and freecycling locally without success. Refuse to chuck the workbooks in a skip because they're still in sealed packs but equally don't know what to do with them.

Spent the weekend playing hunt the phone. Haven't a clue where it is and its so long since any one made a phone call that the battery has gone flat so I can't track it down that way either. Have turned the place upside down without success. Tempted to go rummage in the shed.

moo2moo

Rather amazingly the E-bayers have all paid up. Thats another two bags of tat gone. DD2s jumper has cleared a box of yarn ends and DD1is hinting that she'd like a stripey one too, don't think I have enough oddments left over. Still can't get all the yarn in the cupboard though, although if I reduce the jam jar stash I can overflow into the cupboard next to it. A trip to the shed may well be in order.

Am on a roll with the chucking out. Definately way more going out than coming in. Finally starting to have space in the cupboards. Stil tons more to chuck. OH is back at work tomorrow so I'm going to go back to listing an item or two a day on E-bay. Tedious but I feel like I'm making headway and I'm definatley appreciating the extra influx of cash.

Zapper e-mailed to say my cheque is on the way and I've had another couple of Amazon vouchers from survey companies. Still hate doing surveys, especially for YouGov..... I'm lightyears away from payout.

Got a wonderful letter from the taxman who thinks we might have been overpaid working tax credits when they changed the qualifying criteria last year. The letter is so vague its funny.

Plans for today involve much pootling and a road safety class, hopefully not in the rain.

Piquant_2

I've never liked those automated air freshner things. That's not funny getting a reaction like that. Hope you're okay now.

Great news that the e*bay stuff is selling, I've had a run where stuff hasn't sold and I'm finding it hard to get going again. It's not helped by not liking any of the process from photoing, to listing, to packaging either...

...and a potential tax rebate, fingers crossed for you.

Piq

beanielou

You Gov usually takes me two years.

moo2moo

Piquant wrote: »

I've never liked those automated air freshner things. That's not funny getting a reaction like that. Hope you're okay now.

Great news that the e*bay stuff is selling, I've had a run where stuff hasn't sold and I'm finding it hard to get going again. It's not helped by not liking any of the process from photoing, to listing, to packaging either...

...and a potential tax rebate, fingers crossed for you.

Piq

If only it were a rebate. ... the letter reads we may have overpaid you so you might owe us. We'll get back to you. Eventually.

ebayqueen_2

Morning Moo

Eventually get a chance to post .... you certainly are as busy as usual. Love reading your diary Sorry to hear about your letter from the dreaded taxman. Hopefully its a very small amount or you might never hear another thing about it. Keep chucking out..I am trying to do the same.

moo2moo

Got another barage of letters from the tax man yesterday. One says you might owe us £128 and the other says you owe us nowt. Will go with the one with the zeros and argue the toss should they decided they want some money back.

Have more tat finishing on flea bay today so hopefully another £10 heading my way. The weekends paypal money is already in my account which means theres now enough in there to cover Fridays £300 direct debit. Most relieved.

Still turning the house upside down in the hunt for the phone. No success yet but I've chucked a whole lot more tat out in the process and am starting to look in the most unlikely of places on the basis that it has to be somewhere and I've tried everything obvious.

Was planning to go to the park but after the rain the river will be a raging torrent and the steep banks will be even muddier than normal meaning the hound from hell will end up even muddier than normal. May well rethink that idea.

moo2moo

I hate rain. Have been forced to spend the day cooped up and I'm bored, bored, bored. Five hours in DD2s room has made negligable difference although I've chucked out a bin bag of tat, a bin bag of paper, three giant bags for charity and several dozen library books which need returning to school and theres still more stuff to wade through, and thats without having another wardrobe cull although I need her here for that.

The last of the E-bay stuff sold for £25. Need to wrap and post that tomorrow before postage rockets.

Now trying not to get too sidetracked having discovered that you can dye yarn in a microwave using supermarket food colourings. It just so happens that we have an old microwave in the loft which I may feel the need to move into the outhouse in the not too distant future.

moo2moo

The e-bayers have finally all paid up which means I'll be at the post office when it opens with a gazillion of parcels in order to avoid Mondays price hike. After that we're destined for a very very muddy riding lesson and a detour home via the charity shop to get rid of a car boot load of stuff.

Have unearthed more stuff for E-bay having done nothing but tidy for days.

DD2s jumper is almost finished. Just need to seam up the hood and sew in the ends. Debating whether to make one for me next in shades of navy as I have a box full of that. Was hoping that I'd shift a lot of the stuff in the overflowing yarn cupboard to make space for more but thats not happening. Can't think why because I haven't bought any more (apart from last weeks two tiny skeins which clearly don't count), its almost as if whats in their is expanding to fill the space.

Supposed to be going to a BBQ tomorrow but hoping it will be postponed, really don't fancy standing round in the rain. Also need to phone the coal man as we're on the verge of running out which is most annoying as I thought we'd finished with the fires until next winter.

moo2moo

Still sewing in jumper ends. Did get a bit sidetracked and started on a bigger version for me whilst watching XXX2 on the tellybox.

Got loads done yesterday. Despite taking a car boot load to the charity shop I've unearthed more stuff both for them and for E-bay. Have to keep reminding myself that I am making progress although the more progress I make the more boxes of stuff I find that I've previously bunged on one side with the intention of E-baying at some point. My next major plan is to get the sewing machine into a cupboard. Any cupboard as its been living on the floor in Land Rover land for quite some time.

The shed is due in three weeks which co-incides with the demise of Land Rover land. All OHs shelving is moving into the shed and all the tat is going with it which means I have to rehome the stuff I've stashed in there. Hoping to get a head start by having a mahoosive ongoing tidy for the next fortnight in readiness for the great event. May also have to cope with the demise of the overflow freezer as its making strange noises and another drawers has disintegrated.

In v. exciting news the overall debt is hovering around the 2.5K mark with £900 in the savings account. Obviously this will boomerang back up when we pay for the shed but for the mo we're teetering on the precipice of debt freedom. Trying not to get too excited about it though because the shed and OHs new toy mean our revised debt free date is looking like being Christmas 2012.