Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Washed up, had a surprisingly quick tidy and threw a roast in the oven ready for OHs return. Spent far too long wrapping parcels and am still waiting for one person to pay.

OH has done nothing but complain since he got home. Show in London wasn't worth the entrance fee, his siblings bored him, the big smokes nowt like he remembers, bla bla bla. Sheesh. On the upside because it was dull and expensive he hasn't spent much (note in this context "much" is still a small fortune but its not as disasterous as it could have been).

Today is a running around kinda day. Need to drop a large box and some packing material at a friends, post shed loads of parcels, visit the dentist and pop to Mr Ts for essentials. Should keep me occupied for the vast majority of the day.

moo2moo

Today is shaping up to be a mega spendy day. Blew £42 at the post office which means this weeks fleabay profit is an outstanding £83 with one item still awaiting payment. Sold another book on Amazon which means next weeks payout is a whopping £5 of which half has already gone on postage. Still its more clutter out of the way.

Have to have another go at cleaning my teeth to dentist standards after spending rather too long with a pair of pliers trying to remove the snapped off tip of the tiny interdental brush from the gap between my teeth. Hoping I can find another one otherwise I'll get an earbending about my lack of flossing and between teeth cleaning.

moo2moo

Trip to the dentist was covered by the dental plan so I didn't have to fork out anything. Overall its working out cheaper to fork out a tenner a month to that than it would be to pay the equivalent NHS charges but I suspect thats only because I'm a frequent vistior to the torture chamber.

Paid a tenner for DD1 to have school dinners. Shes really enjoying them and it makes life much easier on the nights I have to work v. late. Got a request for £50 towards cub activities for the year and blew £60 at Mr Ts although that did include a kilo and a half of extra mature whoopsied cheese, five boxes of emergency pizza and much whoopsied instant veggie food. Lazy yes but its restocked the freezer and should happily see us through ten days or so.

Accidentally figured out how to magic loop with minimal stitches which meant I didn't need to buy a bigger set of suuper pointy needles to continue the sleeves.

OHs mother phoned and was not impressed that the DDs chose to spend their x-mas money on pyjamas so has verbally given them more (not that we've seen the cash for the first gifts yet) and told them to buy something that mummy wouldn't normally approve of *insert multiple swear words here*. The fact mummy normally says no is done for boringly sensible reasons is totally irrelevant and the mere fact that shes given them enough cash for a hamster does not mean one can take up residence in DD2s bedroom despite what Nana has said. Wish people wouldn't say stuff like that.

Igamogam

Sympathise with the problem of MIL telling DDs what to spend their money on. When my DD1 was 3 she was taken into ELC my MIL and told she could have anything she wanted.She chose a very modest tool set. Never seen a tantrum like it.............from the MIL :rotfl:

beanielou

Eeek to mil and hamster :eek:

Knitting_Nora

moo2moo wrote: »

OHs mother phoned and was not impressed that the DDs chose to spend their x-mas money on pyjamas so has verbally given them more (not that we've seen the cash for the first gifts yet) and told them to buy something that mummy wouldn't normally approve of *insert multiple swear words here*. The fact mummy normally says no is done for boringly sensible reasons is totally irrelevant and the mere fact that shes given them enough cash for a hamster does not mean one can take up residence in DD2s bedroom despite what Nana has said. Wish people wouldn't say stuff like that.

Oooo, this sort of thing REALLY gets my goat. :mad: If you give money as a gift, then it's no business of yours what it gets spent on!! (and I'm not even getting started on not having fronted the money yet...). Did they want the pjs? If so, then she can burger off and play with her cauldron and broomstick...;):D

And she can always give a physical gift instead of money if she must be all controlly about it....though there's the same risk. My Grandmother used to ring up, ask what you wanted for xmas, and if it wasn't something she liked then she'd just say "oh no, I'm not buying you that...I'll find something else" and hang up. And sure enough, you'd find yourself with some expensive but horrid and useless tat on Christmas morning...when all you wanted was a new little teddy bear.

And as for hamsters - if they want hamsters, and they can afford them, then fine...but they live at her place.

'nuff said *folds arms, stamps foot and goes off to make a cuppa*

peaceandfreedom

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

Oooo, this sort of thing REALLY gets my goat. :mad: If you give money as a gift, then it's no business of yours what it gets spent on!!

.... snippety snip

'nuff said *folds arms, stamps foot and goes off to make a cuppa*

Yeah, what Nora said. MIL is totally out of order.

As Nora said, when money is given as a gift, it's up to the recipient how it is spent, otherwise it's not really a gift, is it? Same with actual gifts, come to that. Once given, the giver has no further rights over the gift. All they can do is hope the person receiving it likes it.

As an aside, Moo, you have the patience of a saint and you get so much done, it makes me dizzy. :T

Bitsy_Beans

OMG shes complaining about what money, that she hasn't even given yet, has been spent on. Oh my you just couldn't make it up!!!

alibob30

My mil v similar, we told her we don't like dr reading horrid Henry books (she's horrible enough without learning more!) mil now makes a point to buy HH books at any opportunity.
Mil bought dd a guitar (a guitar) and found out from dd that it was on top of the wardrobe, she tore a strip of dh about it, just aswell eye didn't talk to me about it as she wouldn't have liked my response which would have ended in off!

moo2moo

Ahhhh tis just as well kids are very pliable and easy to point in the right direction which is why DD1 is using Nanas cash to take her friend to the flicks to see War Horse which ticks every box from the one for "will it really annoy Nana?" to the "is it something DD1 really wants". More importantly its something I'd let her watch anyway (obviously haven't let on to that) but this way shes getting a very grown up treat in that I've promised to drop her and a friend at the cinema, hang around the shopping complex for 140 minutes (nothing to do with it being opposite Hobbycraft) and then pick them up at the end.

OH has spent his allocation on a book a horrendously expensive book which retials at almost £200 second hand on Amazon and almost as much on E-bay. Fortunately after a little searching I've ordered a new one from Germany for £45 plus whatever exchange rate and fees the bank decide to apply. Still a heck of a lot for a book though. Ordered DD1 a copy of War Horse from Amazon for a most sensible price just before the Book People's offer turned up which is most excellent as otherwise I'd have been v. tempted to spend another £22 on books which I realy don't need. Holding off on buying anything for DD2 or myself for that matter simply because theres nothing she needs or wants and we'd be buying stuff just for the sake of buying it.

Hoping for another day like yesterday. Pottered about a bit. Washed up, did a couple of loads of laundry and the ironing, sorted the clean stuff into piles, swept a floor, cleaned out the fires and then sat reading in an armchair by the fire for quite some time. V. pleasant way to spend an afternoon.
Had an order for another hat from school but have run out of cables so have to finish a sleeve before I can start on it. Still its an incentive to get a move on with the jumper and not an excuse to buy more cables. Really. No really.