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  • hypno06
    hypno06 Posts: 32,296 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Morning Seaxwyn, I hope that today is productive.....for both you and OH.
    Successful women can still have their feet on the ground. They just wear better shoes. (Maud Van de Venne)
    Life begins at the end of your comfort zone (Neale Donald Walsch)
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Hugs, Seaxwyn - when you're at odds over the debtbusting, it must be so difficult to cope.... glad about the work, but the rest sounds so frustrating. All the best.
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • SarahNeedle1872
    SarahNeedle1872 Posts: 6,166 Forumite
    Sorry your haveing troubles with OH Seax.....

    I have to ask though, what is the £74 'voluntary contribution' for? Doesn't sound very voluntary if they're chsing you for it!?!
    'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars' - Oscar Wilde
  • mizmir
    mizmir Posts: 3,710 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    Sorry your haveing troubles with OH Seax.....

    I have to ask though, what is the £74 'voluntary contribution' for? Doesn't sound very voluntary if they're chsing you for it!?!

    Very good point! Send them a dictionary instead! ;)
  • Seaxwyn
    Seaxwyn Posts: 4,896 Forumite
    I know! I keep composing letters in my head explaining why I can't/won't pay the 'voluntary' £74, but they get a bit ranty.

    I have just noticed I've passed 3,000 posts and become a 'Fantastically Fervent' etc. That makes me feel Fantastically Foolish. If each post represents 10 mins lurking and reading (a conservative estimate), that means I've spent 500 hours or 71 working days on MSE.

    I've had a busy day and am enjoying my new hard-working persona. I hope I can keep it up. Still have deadlines whistling past my ears but I'm coming to accept I will always be like that and at least I get things done in the end.
    Total debt: 1 January 2007 £[strike]49,387.79[/strike] 1 January 2012 £[STRIKE]19,312.85[/STRIKE] 1 August 2012 £11,517.62



  • mizmir
    mizmir Posts: 3,710 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    Well done on your extra medal! I thought you got it at 2000 and was getting all excited that I was getting close (well only 250 posts to go!) .... but it is 3000?? Ah well - a few more to go for me then!

    Love the 71 days MSEing - and very profitable time spent I would suspect!
  • Seaxwyn
    Seaxwyn Posts: 4,896 Forumite
    Well some of it was productive, for sure!
    Total debt: 1 January 2007 £[strike]49,387.79[/strike] 1 January 2012 £[STRIKE]19,312.85[/STRIKE] 1 August 2012 £11,517.62



  • hypno06
    hypno06 Posts: 32,296 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I will not even begin to work out how much time that equates to for me then!!

    Glad the work is still going well.......dare I ask if there is any news on the OH/Job front?
    Successful women can still have their feet on the ground. They just wear better shoes. (Maud Van de Venne)
    Life begins at the end of your comfort zone (Neale Donald Walsch)
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Yep, some of it is downright chatty - like now! Hi! :hello:
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • taxi73
    taxi73 Posts: 20,815 Forumite
    Thats a scary thought about how much time we have spent on these boards but the justification is that time is pretty well spent as we are paying our debts off and gaining great friends and that we are all learning lessons for life!!!!!
    I'm loving this new persona thingy and am so happy that you seem to be achieving a more work/life/happier balance..have a good day xx
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