Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

flying_fresian wrote: »

Weirdly, I used to hate Next, but now buy a lot of clothes from there I like their jeans a lot.

I'm counting down till the post-Christmas sale so that I can buy clothes that fit as the unfortunate side effect of doing Fat Club is that you have to buy new clothes more often than any decent moneysaver should

Just think of the money you've saved living on a diet of lettuce leaves and lentils.

moo2moo

Further post shopping trip confessions should have included a trio of Dork Diaries, Three Magic Animal books, The Great Hamster Masacre (and two other instantly forgetable titles) for a tenner. Thats a chunk of my christmas shopping for the DDs done. Also planning to order the Diaries of a Wimpy Kid from the Book People and a whole lot of other books for my various nieces and nephews but wasn't organised enough to do it on Saturday when they had a 10% off promotion. Will wait for the next one, its not like I'm in a hurry.

Back to work today. Feels like I've been away forever. Need to zap up some enthusiasm as I could quite happily go back to bed and read for a couple of hours.

Made sure the DDs packed their bags and sorted uniform yesterday which meant writing a cheque for £16.50 to cover school photos as Christmas gifts for the grannies all of which brings my spends for the November (which hasn't yet started) to a rather astronomical £141.50.

ebayqueen_2

Morning Moo
You are up with the lark this morning. Our schools are off the week so only hubby heading out to work this morning. It certainly is a dark and damp one here. I would love to see my kids faces if they got an envelope full of stamps ..... :):):):) Good one Moo.

I find Moo when you start spending its hard to get stopped especially if you are gathering up pressies. As mine are off this week I am hoping not to spend as much as normal but I am sure something will turn up!!!

Our 2 eldest went to Belfast yesterday to 'audition'...I do not joke... for the pit audience for MTV award concert next Sunday. They were taken in groups and asked to dance and scream ... my 2 were very successful :):) and are so looking forward to it. That's a late night for me as DD has to be in school next Monday morning. So I look forward to parking my car and walking a few miles to facilitate all next Sunday night. Ah the things us parents do!!!

Hope work goes well for you today. How is your ebay coming along. Did you get many more listed. I got 6 listed yesterday, all items at about £5. So I hope they sell for more.

Take care
E

Igamogam

ebayqueen wrote: »

Our 2 eldest went to Belfast yesterday to 'audition'...I do not joke... for the pit audience for MTV award concert next Sunday. They were taken in groups and asked to dance and scream ... my 2 were very successful :):) and are so looking forward to it. That's a late night for me as DD has to be in school next Monday morning. So I look forward to parking my car and walking a few miles to facilitate all next Sunday night. Ah the things us parents do!!!

E

:rotfl::rotfl:

My DD2 asked in all seriousness the other day - 'did you and dad have a life before me and big DD came a long' - not sure whether this was acknowledgement of just what we do do as parents or a complete disbelief that we are of capable of doing anything else than to be a constant supply of money and a taxi service at a moments notice!

Wouldnt have it any other way

moo2moo

A life... now theres a novel concept......

The saga of the pregnant illegal immigrant continues. She showed up late yesterday, did very little, had a coffee break 30 minutes into what should have been a three hour shift and then came to find me to say the consultant that she saw at some point last week says she must rest until her test results come back and so shes not coming in for the rest of this week. Of course once again theres nothing in writing to back this up. Other cleaner has a funeral mid week and the relief cleaner is on holiday. Did wonder if it was April 1st instead of November 1st. Am bracing myself for the week from hell and then some.

In vaguely more exciting news all the holiday laundry is done, the laundry basket empty and apart from half adozen itmes the ironings out of the way too.

OH helpfully spent the day pottering with project Landie managing to melt his new fleece the first time he wore it. Why is it men are incapable of changing into old clothes to do stuff thats guaranteed to be messy and then act all surprised when they end up covered in paint splatters, oil stains and wot not.

Finished knitting the christmas pudding hat. Its awful. Just a couple of holly leaves and some berries and then its done. Won't be making another of those. Ever.

Got e-mailed a linkie to print off a 25% off everything in store voucher for use at Hobbycraft this Thursday from 2pm onwards. Obviously thats the only night I work really late and definately can't make it so short of shopping early afternoon and being first in the queue at 2pm in order to leg it to school I can't use it. Not that thats a bad thing.

ebayqueen_2

Morning Moo

How does the cleaner get away with it? Does the Head not ask for doctors note etc.

I have tonnes of ironing and washing to get done but I will get around to it I think it is time for tumble dryer to help me. Will have a good chat with it today. :)

Am losing it moo

Marg

Moo - I'm usually found loitering on this thread and I'm sure they'd be delighted to try out a Hobbycraft voucher. Could I ask you please to post it there? - Thank you.

moo2moo

Marg wrote: »

Moo - I'm usually found loitering on this thread and I'm sure they'd be delighted to try out a Hobbycraft voucher. Could I ask you please to post it there? - Thank you.

Tis done

moo2moo

ebayqueen wrote: »

Morning Moo

How does the cleaner get away with it? Does the Head not ask for doctors note etc.

I have tonnes of ironing and washing to get done but I will get around to it I think it is time for tumble dryer to help me. Will have a good chat with it today. :)

Am losing it moo

Hmmm could it be the language barrier or the "I am not understanding you" that accompanies all such requests. Hoping that this time round we can enforce maternity leave. Shes barely been in work for the past month as it is.

Found a basket of wet laundry I thought I'd dried yesterday. I'm convinced the stuff breeds.

moo2moo

Hideous hat finished. Half of upstairs vacuumed. Sweet FA else done. Am in major can't be faffed mode. Need to kick myself out of it and so I'm going to grab a bin bag and lob all those clothes which DD2 has grown out of and those of mine which really annoy me into a bag. Then tomorrow I'm going to go to the cash for clothes place and convert the three bin bags that are loitering in the hall plus todays rags into riches for a Hobbycraft splurge on Thursday. Thus I have an incentive to declutter.