Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

lostinrates

Misskool, you will be pleased to know the salveggtionists are doing MuCH better today. And they have ventured outside.


I think we might be about to turn a corner with them, i hope anyway! Trying to decide whether to get some more now!

lostinrates

Today i paid in a cheque in my married name to my maiden name account. Noone said anything, but i felt like a criminal. I really should change it now.....

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

The thing I have is that I've never had a first career, I've always "had jobs". And what do people retrain to? I've no real confidence/interests to be able to pick something and say "I like this... I'll retrain and there'll be a career at the end of it".

I do seriously lack confidence... majorly. And it's got a lot worse in the last 5 years.

If you applied to do a degree now you would have access to student loans and grants

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

What about a 6 month working visa, 6 month ticket to the US and 1000 USD?

But no time. A levels finish in June, Uni starts end September.

chewmylegoff

the only expensive thing we've got is the tv, but that clearly isn't worth anything like what i paid for it 5 years ago and isn't particularly nickable either as although it's a flatscreen, i can barely lift it on my own and certainly couldn't get it down a couple of flights of stairs in short order.

would be a complete waste of a burglar's time, unless they found the car keys, which are well hidden, and if we're away on holiday i take them with me.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

If you applied to do a degree now you would have access to student loans and grants

Oh. I didn't know that. Not for the OU. I thought they were for full-time, proper degrees that you go to a place for... iyswim.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Being recently bereaved, I now realise I have no items of significance as a reminder to the departed. No gift that was bought, nothing they thought of and gave me. It's kind of like a big hole of non-connection.

Maybe you could try to get something he'll still have when you pop your clogs, so they're reminded of you.

That is why I favoured a watch.

I've got a necklace that my parents bought me, that I never wear. I suspect I will inherit more jewellery when their time comes

My grandmother left me her sewing machine. It was a good quality Singer, birth date (yup you can seriously find this out from the serial number plate) around 1946. Now it is big and heavy and in need of a service. It hasn't been used since 1999 and clutters up the spare bedroom. You can buy something that does twice as much for about £50-70 today; she saved up 2 years "Pin" money to buy it. TBH I need to get rid of it.

Aside from that I have memories and photos of all my grandparents.

PasturesNew

I don't have a telly. When I do get one it'll be a cheapo flat panel, small. So, brand new, that should be under £100.

silvercar

Nickable items: TVs 3 smallish flatscreens + 1 too big to carry. 3 laptops, 1 desktop, 3 digital cameras, jewellery, bit of cash. 3 ipods, 4 smart phones, passports, PS3, Wii, PSP, DVD player, camcorder. car keys x3.

Not because we are rich or because we have an expensive lifestyle but because we prefer to spend our money on items than on fancy trips, eating out etc plus we have children of the age that have all this clobber. Give it 5-10 years and half the stuff will have moved out with them and the rest will be 5-10 years old.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Nickable items: TVs 3 smallish flatscreens + 1 too big to carry. 3 laptops, 1 desktop, 3 digital cameras, jewellery, bit of cash. 3 ipods, 4 smart phones, passports, PS3, Wii, PSP, DVD player, camcorder. car keys x3.

You win so far!