New and scared but so determined

freebyfifty

Oh no, oh no, oh no......
My bank's website is down and I can't see my bank account *draws in deep breath* :eek: What am I going to do now? :eek:
Looking at my bank account and updating my spreadsheet is like an addiction now. Is there some kind of patch I can put on?
I know what I am going to be doing all day. Work???? No chance. I will be constantly checking and rechecking to see if I can get into my account. Surely when the lovely IT people at my bank get their hairy backsides into work they will work extremely hard at letting old freebyfifty see her bank account and then she will be able to stop hyper ventilating!!!!

Okay......so I need to remember to keep breathing.........anyone got a brown paper bag (why does it have to be brown????)

Knitting_Nora

Ok...*offers cup of tea laced with valium* take a deep breath.

The bag can be any colour you like as long as it's paper....plastic ones do less constructive things to your ability to breath/oxygen ratio. Though I personally favour a plain one - afterall, who wants to be looking at a multi-coloured swirl-fest when they're.....

Oh! *ahem* sorry - got caught up...you breathing properly yet??

Stuff work - checking your bank account is far more important. Unlesssssssss, you've seen Martin's video on the fact that your bank account lies...in which case, you may want to use this as an opportunity to check your account every other day rather than every day and the minutes in between?

Either way, be a brave little toaster - for tomorrow is another day (anyone else have a sudden urge to demand the violent removal of those curtains and the sewing of a new dress?? Pah! - if only my curtains were denim...I could do with new jeans).

Nora.

GreenSaints

I've subscribed too

I don't get to post as much as I would like, but I do keep up to date with your progress.

Keep up the good work

freebyfifty

Ohhhh thank you so much for reply and subscribing. My utterings are not very entertaining (must try harder) but I am relying on all of you to keep me on the straight and narrow.

After running around the place yelling 'Don't panic, don't panic' Corporal Jones style, I eventually had to breathe and then Captain Mainwaring and the other one whose name I can't remember (Scottish, John something, is giving Pike's mum a bit on the side?) came up with a cunning plan............wait!
So I did and when I did eventually got into my bank account.........no change...........still skint

No such calamities this morning, which is a very good thing as I don't think the children/dog/postman(sorry)/workmates/other roadusers could cope with another frantic freebyfifty!

Guess what..........no change this morning........still skint:)

Today I am definitely positively and absolutely having a NSD. I seem to have been haemorraging money these past two days, a tenner here, 20 quid there and all on stuff I really really couldn't avoid. The post office does require payment should you wish to post a parcel, my friend would have been mortally offended if I hadn't bought her something for her birthday (albeit much cheaper than I have spent on her in the past) and if I hadn't paid the window cleaner I had visions of him throwing muck and stuff at my windows in a fit of revenge! I have £3.62 in my purse and in my purse it will stay.

I am quietly chuffed (pah- never been quiet in my life) with my ebay sales. I am never going to make my fortune but I pleased with what I've got so far and I have more [STRIKE]stuff[/STRIKE] items selling at the moment. I am accumulating a nice little pot in my paypal account. Christmas presents from ebay all round me thinks :think:
Trouble is, I have begun looking at everything that's not nailed down in the house and wondering if I can sell it...........so the kids and the dog better keep moving!!!!!!!

Igamogam

freebyfifty wrote: »

. I am accumulating a nice little pot in my paypal account. Christmas presents from ebay all round me thinks :think:
Trouble is, I have begun looking at everything that's not nailed down in the house and wondering if I can sell it...........so the kids and the dog better keep moving!!!!!!!

Bit like that here............... I tried selling the kids and the OH. Think I was greedy and set the reserve too high:o:D

freebyfifty

Good Morning everyone :hello:

Igamogam - I love your signature.

Well what will Thursday bring? A nice healthy maintenence payment into my bank account I hope. Trouble is it will go in.....then it'll go out when I pay some cc's. But I have to look on the bright side here - at least they'll be paid

I had my NSD yesterday :j and I am really hoping for another one today :j We also had our dinner out last night very kindly paid for by my partner/bf/not sure what to call him and tonight we are going to my mum and dad's for dinner. I know it sounds awful but this means that the two meals I was planning can be saved and used next week therefore cutting down on the shopping bill next week. I am already mental planning next weeks meals and know I have loads in the freezer to choose from now!!! It makes me feel a bit guilty though that these lovely people are feeding us and all I can think is 'great, now I have two extra meals and I don't have to spend as much next week'

I have bids on my ebay items :T More cash into the paypal account at the weekend. The money will stay in there as a small Christmas pot and I've seen some things that I can buy on ebay for prezzies which means I don't have to use my bank account to pay for them. Every little helps (I have a feeling I've heard that before). I have some more things to list as well. I say some but I appear to have tonnes of bits and pieces that I've never used/worn that I will gradually get on. At the beginning I could have sworn I had nothing that anyone would want but now I have a small "Must Get On Ebay" pile growing beside my computer.
I think I might take the books off Amazon though. Two weeks they've been on and no-one wants them. Is there anywhere else that will sell practically new/read once books????

Well I must go and get ready for work, which is easier said than done! Why is it everyday it takes a little bit longer to make myself presentable to the outside world??? My dog even recoils in horror :eek: when I appear every morning to let her out but I refuse to put a full face of make up on just for the dog!!!!!!!

Knitting_Nora

Good morning Freeby :hello:

Just stopping by. I love your plans with the ebay money, paypal and Christmas - may well pinch that if you don't mind?


Ahhh, and selling books. I have a local market bookseller who takes a few, but I've not found anywhere yet that will take the rest. So if you do find somewhere national - spread the news!


Have a goodun'

Nora.

freebyfifty

I'm back........I'm the only one in my office at work today.........can you tell

I have been scrutinising my outgoings (again) and noticed that for about the past 2 years I have been paying Weightwatchers £9.95 a month. Now, that's all very well and good when you actually are trying to lose weight and need the planner/boards etc, but once you have resigned yourself to being a curvy size 14 for the rest of your natural then what the blimmin' heck do I need to continue paying for.??
I am so stupid that I haven't even noticed it disappearing every month. It was just another DD!!!!!:doh: So it's been cancelled and I'm another tenner up every month - woop woop :T

Igamogam

Well done on the WW LBM - I gave up on weight watchers many moons ago......got fed up with the same old same old spoutings from the class leaders and the repackaging of a tired brand TBH. Everybody knows ( or should do by now) to lose weight you eat less and you move more.............. So that is the diet I follow now - ELMM;) Saved me a fortune and given me a massive boost in confidence. I did lose lots of weight when I first went but cant believe how sucked in I became with all the carp/books/gadgets etc etc. Now I eat what I want ,when I want and how I want and the weight is very slowy shifting down and my fitness and energy levels are going up - I weigh myself once a week - sometimes it stays the same but NEVER goes up - and I post it on the diary - suits me and keeps me sane

Oooh sorry FB50 - hijacked your diary

PS I sold all my WW books and gadgets on Eb*y and they did quite well :rotfl: Have you tried Gumtree for your books - also there might be a Facebook group set up for your area where you can sell stuff too

firesidemaid

remember to go thru quidco when you BUY from ebay;)