The Ultimate Hard and Fast debt clearing mission

Birdie85

I got paid yesterday and it was very welcome! I got £265 more than last month too so I was :j

It is the pancake race today and I'm a bit nervous about running down the street with loads of people watching me :eek: Just to make me feel better my knee is all strapped up (I'm lucky that OH has a stash of knee related paraphernalia to borrow ) as it is really sore but don't really know what's wrong, it's just feeling Not Nice On the plus side, it's an hour or so out of the office and they're giving away free pancakes!

I like your sig Flower

N.I.M

tinkerbel wrote: »

im a numbers geek!! but i dont understand what you want to know! All I know is that OH's 1.7 diesel was about 10.7p/mile which i think is about 55mpg and my 1.6 petrol was never less than 15p/mile, about 40mpg no matter how hard I tried! (this is up to date till september, haven't bought fuel since then and dont know how the prices have changed)

Basically that, cost per mile to run each car given I saw diesel at Tesco today at £1.40.9, not sure diesel is cheaper to run than petrol anymore.

Flower08 wrote: »

I'm always waiting for payday :rotfl:
I'm nervously counting down the weeks until my SMP finishes

Dinah, Wendz and CMD - not sure if you have seen but Boots have 3 for 2 on alot of the baby stuff.

Can't be fun Flower.

Went to the Mothercare baby event last night and won a pack of sleep suits. Got a lot of good advice too so I'm a happy camper today.

Flower08

Birdie85 wrote: »

It is the pancake race today and I'm a bit nervous about running down the street with loads of people watching me :eek: Just to make me feel better my knee is all strapped up (I'm lucky that OH has a stash of knee related paraphernalia to borrow ) as it is really sore but don't really know what's wrong, it's just feeling Not Nice On the plus side, it's an hour or so out of the office and they're giving away free pancakes!

I like your sig Flower

How could I forget it was pancake day! I know what OH will be doing tonight now
I hope you have fun in the race, and make sure you eat your whole body weight in pancakes :rotfl:

Dinah93

Aye the babycare event was good, if anyone else has one in the area and is a pregnant lurker, get yourself down to the local one. I read a lot of baby books, go on various forums, but it was fab having lots of people in one place to answer our questions. And I do love a good freebie which we got in the form of 2 mothercare hats, a load of Avent creams and lotions, and then won 3 sleepsuits in the free raffle. I really wish there was an online discount code though, I have a full basket on their website but I refuse to order until I get a discount!

How long left on SMP Flower? Are you going back then or taking the full year?

Good luck on the pancake race Birdie x

Dinah93

Dinah93 wrote: »

1. Call T-mobile
[STRIKE]2. Photograph ebay items to list and which go live tonight[/STRIKE]
3. Answer ebay questions
[STRIKE]4. Book couriers[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]5. Go spend a few hours with granddad, make sure mum goes out the house to have some time off [/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]6. Sort out back freezer, take some of the easy to cook boxed food over to granddad to restock his supplies. [/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]7. Put a load through the washer[/STRIKE]
8. Fill in forms for an in-date driving licence
[STRIKE]9. Check bank accounts[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]10. Package up ASOS return to be sent Monday. [/STRIKE]

I thought I'd be skulking on here with my tail between my legs for getting nothing done over the weekend as I didn't check the list, but it actually went okay all on it's own!

1. Fill in forms for a new driving licence
2. List anything and everything ebay in the lounge
3. Tidy all the listed ebay stuff away so lounge looks decent again
4. Answer ebay questions
5. Get NIM to bring me some more ebay boxes from the attic before he goes to football
6. Hang all damp washing on radiators
7. Put another load through the wash
8. Convince NIM to take huge kit bag from hall upstairs
9. Check all bank accounts
10. Call T Mobile

Flower08

Dinah - I wish I had known you were looking for a voucher! I had a couple of online codes but they ran out last week, I got Noahs highchair with one of them.

Taking the full year off work, although to be honest dont even want to go back after that. It will be a struggle not getting SMP (it finishes end of April) but I know I am just not ready to leave him yet!

Dinah93

I don't think I'd go back if we could afford it, but my salary is the one we rely on unfortunately. If NIM could only get a job interview where he wasn't always second to someone they already thought they were going to hire, or with a company where actually trying to discuss the salary offer gets you the cold shoulder it would be great.

I woke up this morning feeling better than I have for a long time. I can only attribute it to taking the blood pressure tablet at 6am, so when I woke up it was much lower than normal. I feel clear headed and healthy for once.

N.I.M

Flower08 wrote: »

Dinah - I wish I had known you were looking for a voucher! I had a couple of online codes but they ran out last week, I got Noahs highchair with one of them.

And women say men don't commumnicate. Pish. :rotfl::rotfl:

Yes I am well aware thats the only time in my life I'll get to say that.:D

magikpurple

<comes out of lurkdom>

With regards to the petrol and deisel thing it is now said that due to the price difference and you have an economical petrol car that you would be better using petrol, you have to do an awful lot of miles to make it worth it to change to diesel.

If you google mileage calculators then a few good sites come up.

Hope that helps and a woohoo for the dbing and baby news

<scuttles back to lurkdom>

Dinah93

*Waves at friendly lurker*

Does anyone else's brain automatiacally go 'ARGH!!! LURKER!!!' when an MSE email pops up saying there is a new post by someone with an unfamiliar name?! Just me then? I'll get my coat. Oh wait, no I won't, it's my blinking thread

(starting to worry it wasn't a blood pressure tablet I took in dark during the night but some kind of happy pill, I am very oddly giddy today)