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Memoirs of a Sista.......

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  • Aamberle
    Aamberle Posts: 559 Forumite
    Morning Sista,

    OOooh a camper van - whilst not really for me, I get the attraction..I know a few people who would do just that. infact our local landlord has just brought a mobile van/camper thing ..not a camper van ( VW) as such of the bigger ones - and he has sold up - lease changes Christmas day and he is off to enjoy his retirement travelling with his wife..they hit France in Jan, Spain in Feb etc..and they have a full plan and reckon they may be back travelling the UK in a few years , but if they are not they are not...its all a bit too unorganised for me, but the idea I definately get...

    Well done Sista on your numbers - you really are hitting these hard..it wont be long and you will be playing with single digits...

    Anyway have a good day xx
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    2017. Lets start this again shall we?

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    Debt 2 100/598
  • Camper van....i'd have one of those pimp my ride motor homes :cool:
    With room for a ferrari underneath :D

    Well today i have had a mare :( see my thread on ebay forum for all info :(
    That time of the month and a 12 hr shift...not good.

    I hope the week ahead gets better, well i can't get worse surely.....

    Imagine that Aamberle, single figures....i would be :j all over the place:)
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  • Aamberle
    Aamberle Posts: 559 Forumite
    Morning Sista. Happy Friday - hope you have a better day than yesterday!

    XX
    2012 The year I started dealing with my debts.
    2017. Lets start this again shall we?

    Debt 1 Cleared 2/1/17 £480 Gone forever :j
    Debt 2 100/598
  • Fae
    Fae Posts: 664 Forumite
    Just read through your ebay thread, the seller sounds like a nightmare:mad: think you have done the right thing sending it back insured just in case, fingers crossed he just gives you a full refund.

    Fae
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  • MummyRivett
    MummyRivett Posts: 424 Ambassador
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    BTW i love this smilie :grouphug: looks sort of 'rude' and always makes me :rotfl: when i see it....see how childish i am...


    Same sense of humour as me, I love it. I've subscribed to your diary, we have simular sensibilities :)
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  • Fae wrote: »
    Just read through your ebay thread, the seller sounds like a nightmare:mad: think you have done the right thing sending it back insured just in case, fingers crossed he just gives you a full refund.

    Fae
    That's a polite word for him Fae :D hope i get my money back before christmas....
    Same sense of humour as me, I love it. I've subscribed to your diary, we have simular sensibilities :)

    Always nice to have a new one on board:cool: x



    Well my day didn't get any better....
    Woke up this morning not only to find the dog had been sick on the carpet....in 3 places :mad: (cream carpet) but youngest DS is ill and off school. Great.
    So shopping bill was more today not only did i have to buy carpet shampoo and cloths but had to buy bubble wrap (brown paper out of stock....would be just when i bleedin need it!) and parcel tape to send back evil ebay item :mad:

    I am not going to say it can't get any worse because it could and probably will if i say it....


    Hope everyone else is having a better day :D
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  • MummyRivett, i saw on another one of your posts about music magpie, we used them to sell some cd's and games and got £83 :T Well worth doing, you need to find a box to put it all in though but they collected on time and you can track the progress too.
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  • Fae wrote: »
    Well I wouldn't laugh, :D we also would love to buy a camper van, and one day we will get there I'm determined
    Camper van....i'd have one of those pimp my ride motor homes :cool:
    With room for a ferrari underneath :D

    *sigh* see - you're never alone on here!

    It's on the "dream list":)
    Aamberle wrote: »
    OOooh a camper van - whilst not really for me, I get the attraction..I know a few people who would do just that. infact our local landlord has just brought a mobile van/camper thing ..not a camper van ( VW) as such of the bigger ones - and he has sold up - lease changes Christmas day and he is off to enjoy his retirement travelling with his wife..they hit France in Jan, Spain in Feb etc..and they have a full plan and reckon they may be back travelling the UK in a few years , but if they are not they are not...its all a bit too unorganised for me, but the idea I definately get...

    Ohhhhhh that sounds absolutely heavenly ..... :) Some of those big bus type ones are absolutely amazing
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  • Coco114
    Coco114 Posts: 770 Forumite
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    Hey Sista :)

    Fantastic debt busting progress as ever - go girl :D

    Not so great on dog sick and poorly child though.

    I too love the camper van idea. Though for me, I would park it in the bottom of my garden and live there - maybe visit my boys as the weekend :rotfl: in fact , I am loving the idea .... Hmmm I think I will start a new saving pot for this today :D

    Have a good one xx
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  • Betty_Crumble
    Betty_Crumble Posts: 609 Forumite
    edited 8 December 2012 at 11:26AM
    So shopping bill was more today not only did i have to buy carpet shampoo and cloths but had to buy bubble wrap (brown paper out of stock....would be just when i bleedin need it!) and parcel tape to send back evil ebay item :mad:


    hi there, just a tip for future I take the bubble wrap from the fruit and veg in the supermarket and store it til needed :o
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