Tuesday 20th Sept - What Small DFW Things Will You Do Today?!

~Yorkshire_Belle~

kjp wrote: »

Yorkshire Belle - sorry to hear about the window - at least your son is taking responsibility though. I think I'd offer to contribute some - but at the end of the day, the parents were accepting the risk letting the kids play near the window, so I wouldn't pay it all I don't think!

kjb

thanks for the reply; I will offer them something, just trying to decide what is about right. kids ehh!

cattyboo

La escocesa - thanks hope all goes well with your mortgage application, will keep everything crossed for us both, it's a nightmare of a process, so complicated! I'm trying not to read any papers as it's all doom and gloom on the housing front, but then the papers never have anything nice to say do they?! Keep us posted on your progress...

DawnW - it is indeedy! But at least you're buying a little bit more of your house every month instead of lining a landlord's pocket, we worked out how much we'd paid in rent a while back and nearly fainted!

Pernicious

La_escocesa wrote: »

Pernicious - re yesterday's post - yip, that's exactly how I feel - deep down I know it will be better to have more space as there is no way we can stay in the flat until the market recovers. The thing is that if I sold now I'd lose around £20k so we're going to keep it/rent it out and move to a bigger place in the meantime. Plus, the flat is just mine so it'll be nice to move to a place that hubby and I both own together So v excited. Now I'm just a teeny bit annoyed about booking our holiday to South Africa for next April (on a 0% card at the min) but hey ho - what's done is done - we've always wanted to go to and this is our best opportunity (OH's buddy is getting married over there). Guess we'll just need to have even more 'frugal focus' in the meantime

Sounds like you're definitely doing the right thing then as you don't want to lose out on that much! Hopefully you'll actually end up better off when you find someone to rent it.
Aww I'm really happy for you, hope the mortgage plans go well! That was pretty stressful for us & not something I want to go through again any time soon (but may have too after our fixed rate ends next year).
Yup just be as frugal as you can in other ways & it'll hopefully balance out!

Tebheag

Tebheag wrote: »

Good morning all
Thanks for starting us of KJP

Today I have got some visitors coming so got to get house tidy as DHs cousins he wants place spotless aaaah
Going to try 10 things again as got 9 done in the ennd yesterday.

1 [STRIKE]Check bank [/STRIKE]Done
2 [STRIKE]Check Surveys [/STRIKE]Done
3 [STRIKE]Do payroll for a client[/STRIKE] Done
4 [STRIKE]Make spag bol for lunch for guests using my own tomatoes again[/STRIKE] going to try putting in boiled water first to take off the skin!
5 [STRIKE]Make some rock cakes for DH[/STRIKE] as he thinks all I do is sit watching tv all day and keeps asking for them
6 Help kids make biscuits as got loads of flour etc in but no biscuits in the cupboard.
7 [STRIKE]Take kids to toddler group for an hour [/STRIKE]as need to return a dish one of the mums gave a homemade crumble.
8 [STRIKE]Drop a card to a friend from my nice cheap stock pi[/STRIKE]le !
9 Stay away from shops kids did not sleep well this bug seems to be trying to come back and wee ones woke up during the night.
10 Strangle DH just came in and had a laugh at my list think this one would save my the most money lol

Hope you all have a good day

Managed 7 out of 10 again Kids where little horrors so never made the biscuits and was naughty went to the shop and bought chocolate.
Oh and decided to let DH live for now he is too useful for ironing etc:rotfl: