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  • ginnyknit
    ginnyknit Posts: 3,718 Forumite
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    Aww Goldblend, lovely to see you allexcited and ready for your new adventure. Your friend is right flowers are nice - you have to be good to yourself and have a little treat now and then. they sell flowers off cheap too remember.

    You are going to slowly but surely build yourself a lovely home xx
    Clearing the junk to travel light
    Saving every single penny.
    I will get my caravan
  • Join all the selling pages and free pages local to you on F/book, another great source when building up a home. x
  • Popperwell
    Popperwell Posts: 5,088 Forumite
    Hi Ginny and Goldblend,
    You know why most of MSE works and the OS area in particular is for the reason you cite GB...
    Goldblend wrote: »
    She told me ..lucky I am still young (ish) gorgeous (trust me i dont feel it ) and really nice so not to put too much pressure on myself and that money doesnt buy kindness and even though i havent got anything else..:rotfl: i have plenty going for me as i am positive and kind.

    I have found here and recently so many of the nicest kindest people seem to be having the most difficult times...life seems to deal them a big blow or they are stopped in their tracks and end up doing so much for others and sadly many are going back to a home alone.

    It's great that you are finding things going your way Goldblend.

    There are so many...I bump into a lady sometimes in town she's looking after Mum as a carer. Somehow when I visited a SM I don't usually go, I don't how I got talking to the guy who is in charge of the fishmonger's. He lives away from home, Mum and dad live out of the area. His life is work, then he goes home to a house alone(I know the town that he lives)nothing happens there.

    Chances are the wage isn't brilliant and knowing the cost of rent, CT, utility bills, travel to/from work and the hours they make you work, I doubt he's well off and the impression given was that he was lonely. And he seemed very sensitive and not that old either.
    "A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!" ~Thomas Jefferson

    "Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in" ~ Alan Alda
  • Chris25
    Chris25 Posts: 12,918 Forumite
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    just thought - a local newspaper is good for info too. Trouble is, they can be expensive if you live in an area where they are published every day - if you can find out what day they have a 'what's on' page, that might be useful (and it's usually one of the newspapers provided in the library). Otherwise I think Thursdays or Fridays seem to be the norm for publishing.
    You might be able to view online!
    Good luck with the move.
  • Hi Goldblend,

    Good luck with it all, looks like you have some fab advice here!

    Not sure if you are working at the moment, but if not maybe you could take up some volunteering? It means you'll be out somewhere warm and sometimes they can reimburse you for your travel and or lunch costs, and there's usually free tea and coffee involved!

    Lily x
  • Liz3yy
    Liz3yy Posts: 1,301 Forumite
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    I remember when I bought my first flat. I was single and had no furniture of my own having lived with my parents - Mum wouldn't let me take my bed with me saying they needed it as spare :/

    The weekend I moved in to the flat I had the grand total of....

    A blow up bed
    Kettle
    Toaster
    Small kitchen items like cutlery
    Two suit cases full of clothes

    er...that was it!

    My new neighbours on seeing me move in took pity on me and donated two chests of drawers and TV cabinet they didn't want which I was thrilled to accept.

    I had to build things up gradually and didn't have a proper bed or TV until three months later.

    Mum and Dad couldn't help me out but said at the time that the struggle would teach me to appreciate what I had....they were right.
    They have the internet on computers now?! - Homer Simpson

    It's always better to be late in this life, than early in the next
  • Good luck with this new chapter of your life Goldblend.

    It sounds like you have already been given plenty of good advise. We have central heating here but I loathe putting it on especially when its just me so I have a calogas heater i got off freecycle. I was unable to find a curtain for the door in any of the local CS when we moved in so used a fleece across the door. I also a made draft excluders with old tights filled with old carrier bags and newspaper. I have collected over the last few years various throw , cheap sleeping bags and hot water bottles for when we are in bed sitting around and when the weather is really cold I also not adverse to wearing my hat and gloves in doors.
  • anguk
    anguk Posts: 3,412 Forumite
    When my DD started university we got things like sieves, chopping board, scales, utensils, baking trays, little casserole dishes etc from Poundland, the quality isn't great but they're fine for just starting out and you can replace with better quality as and when you need to.
    Dum Spiro Spero
  • Hope you are all well, Thank you will be updating soon.. I might try to take some pics too so you'll all be in for a laugh am no david bailey :o

    Having trouble sleeping tonight bit worried still which is insane but maybe just because its nearly D day . :happylove

    Thank you all

    :kisses:
    :(
  • I find that B&M is good for cheap-but-nice-looking things. Like the flowers idea, it's uplifting to have some stuff that's just there to make the room look better!

    And for keeping warm, I wrap a throw round me, and I'm after a hot water bottle as well. The throw makes me feel thin, whereas two jumpers makes me feel fat :rotfl: I'm sure it doesn't make a jot of difference to how I actually look though!
    "Most of the people ... were unhappy... Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy." -- Douglas Adams
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