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Popperwell

quintwins wrote: »

Just aslong as you'll use it, my granny got one about 6 months ago, spent £1600 and has only used it in her garden the day she got it, now she has a wheel chair like i said she'll never use it, thankfully she can afford it, but it's onlya good investment if you need it and will use it.

Fair point, it could be handy for shopping trips locally and avoid paying taxi fares if my condition gets worse. I do try to walk all but slowly and if it's a really bad day struggle or stay indoors. If I stay on the town I can just about manage via a taxi, they charge approx £3 just to travel two or three streets so one journey can cost approx £6. And a return journey on a bus can cost approx £5.

quintwins

Popperwell wrote: »

Fair point, it could be handy for shopping trips locally and avoid paying taxi fares if my condition gets worse. I do try to walk all but slowly and if it's a really bad day struggle or stay indoors. If I stay on the town I can just about manage via a taxi, they charge approx £3 just to travel two or three streets so one journey can cost approx £6. And a return journey on a bus can cost approx £5.

If you spend say £500 which seems cheap but you wouldn't use it in winter assuming you go to town once a week, and would use it 9 months of the year, thats £216, so it would take 2 years for it to pay for itself, before you take into account electric, and when buying it my granny was advised to get insurance if she intended to drive it in town incase a child ran out infront of her or she drove over someones toe ect which was £12 a month (this was a seperate company so it wasn't like the person who sold it to her was trying to rip her off, this alone is around half the price of your taxi's) Thats also assuming nothing happens to it, brand new ones come with great warranties (think hers was 5 years) where as a used one might not. If you need it and use it and it will encourange you to go out and socialise more then great it's worth every penny, if it's just for shopping you need to make an informed decision and it may not really be worth it.

gailey_2

Thanks quintwins

Problem im having with this specific scooter is they go nearly as much 2nd hand as new as been stalking ebay for last month.
Have discount code for £20 off a new one plus free delivery only valid until the 12th.

Its her main present they having 2big presents
few smaller 2nd hand things
primark pjs-have to get down town
stockings approx £10 each again need to get down town for poundshops.

we he have brought elder sisters main present
need to get her 2nd present new school bag
promised new party dress for school disco again she hasent got one and spotted one cheap ebay 2nd hand.

i have few 2nd hand bits for her
needs new pjs
stocking-tend to put practical things stocking new gloves, hair accesories, socks, chepa chocs, bubblebaths.

baby boy-brought him few 2nd hand bits
watching few otehr bits ebay.
spending very little as hes 20months so long as he has a few things to open and play with then he be happy.

We have had tighter xmases in the past.

trying to enjoy the free stuff carols, nativity,girls like to wander streets and see peoples ott xmas lights.
seeing santa tommorow and hopefully doing skating least once.
Girls have their xmas school partys to look foward to.

I love baking and making stuff and dads greatful for my homemade hampers. need to get idea soon more nice jars.

There is stuff think he like but too pricey so waiting for his birthday.

I know we very lucky was reading about how so many use foodbanks yesterday and we maybot have much in cupboards but we have stuff.

I need to carefully plan december budget as think easy to go ott.

New year need to start meal planning more and reveiwing shopping habits as found last few months really challenging .
If it snowed tommorow i be worried.

Had to take bus twice this week and its really expensive.

quintwins

If it snowed tomorrow i'd be worried aswell but not because we'd starve but because i'd have to drive in it, if the worst comes to the worst you could prob shop online for basic's

If your need shampoo/bubble bath try homebargains i got my kids batman shampoo a couple of weeks ago, a huge bottle for 89p they had lots of others aswell, maybe try ebay for a bundle of hair accessories aswell.

We don't bother with stockings, we did but then last year we didn't have anywhere to hang them, they didn't miss them and still got plenty they get selection boxes from everyone, and socks and mil has hats and gloves for them wich is all i would have bought anyway other than a few cheapy toys that would have broken by new year.

craigywv

morning all, hi POPS glad your night out went well, i have not been here for a few days been sooooooo busy with coming and going am ab shattered now . Trying to keep my eyes open to go collect son from school @ 2.45. Had to put heat on as saw own breath in kitchen checked its 0 outside so feel drowsy now heat on. i would be fine if weather gets too bad as we live right in center of town well 5 min walk to the town. I have given up with gloves on ds as he hates them keeps hats on but gloves and mittens no way. hope your all well i know some of you are having troubles at the minute my thoughts are with u all. take care and i enjoy reading your posts xxx

Uniscots97

gailey wrote: »

Thanks quintwins

Problem im having with this specific scooter is they go nearly as much 2nd hand as new as been stalking ebay for last month.
Have discount code for £20 off a new one plus free delivery only valid until the 12th.

Its her main present they having 2big presents
few smaller 2nd hand things
primark pjs-have to get down town
stockings approx £10 each again need to get down town for poundshops.

we he have brought elder sisters main present
need to get her 2nd present new school bag
promised new party dress for school disco again she hasent got one and spotted one cheap ebay 2nd hand.

i have few 2nd hand bits for her
needs new pjs
stocking-tend to put practical things stocking new gloves, hair accesories, socks, chepa chocs, bubblebaths.

baby boy-brought him few 2nd hand bits
watching few otehr bits ebay.
spending very little as hes 20months so long as he has a few things to open and play with then he be happy.

We have had tighter xmases in the past.

trying to enjoy the free stuff carols, nativity,girls like to wander streets and see peoples ott xmas lights.
seeing santa tommorow and hopefully doing skating least once.
Girls have their xmas school partys to look foward to.

I love baking and making stuff and dads greatful for my homemade hampers. need to get idea soon more nice jars.

There is stuff think he like but too pricey so waiting for his birthday.

I know we very lucky was reading about how so many use foodbanks yesterday and we maybot have much in cupboards but we have stuff.

I need to carefully plan december budget as think easy to go ott.

New year need to start meal planning more and reveiwing shopping habits as found last few months really challenging .
If it snowed tommorow i be worried.

Had to take bus twice this week and its really expensive.

What kind of scooter is it?

Play.com have lots reduced like this one

http://www.play.com/Toys/Toys/4-/26565497/Ozbozz-Zhu-Zhu-Pets-2-Wheel-Scooter/Product.html?searchstring=scooter&searchtype=&searchsource=2&searchfilters=s%7Bscooter%7D+c%7B2317%7D+&ob=4&urlrefer=search

gailey_2

Its a maxi micro in purple.

co-op chemist has some cheap bubblebaths

sadly homebargains few miles away and would have to drive.


slowly putting plan for next foodshop im sure will get it all done just pain being paid so late.Have to be very careful between now and next payday.

Think will spend next 2weeks being quite basic and frugal with meals.
soup and pudding that kind of thing.

we should be ok as we been careful so glad we staggered the present buying but find xmas lovley but stressful every year.
Every year I think next year be better.

Must stop watching news far to bleak and depressing.

missrlr

We just had the conversation at work about pay day, it's always the last Friday of each month, so this year it's 28th, and had 3 people so far asking if we can pay them early on 21st! I can't think of anything more disruptive to the whole finances thing as trying to make the Dec pay packet last all over Christmas and then all of Jan .... or is it me?

Hope all those making plans to get out and about make it there and back safely.

We are not doing Christmas presents between us, or for sister and BIL. That said we decided to treat ourselves to some H0tel Ch0c0late things instead, small is beautiful. Did small presents for rest of family already and that as they say is that - nothing more. Doglet will get a special chewy bone (from his usual stock but possibly with a wrapper on it for giggles).

nuatha

quintwins wrote: »

We don't bother with stockings, we did but then last year we didn't have anywhere to hang them, they didn't miss them and still got plenty they get selection boxes from everyone, and socks and mil has hats and gloves for them wich is all i would have bought anyway other than a few cheapy toys that would have broken by new year.

When I was little, we got stockings, actually long boot socks which became my Dad's work socks. After my second brother was born we started getting a Christmas carrier bag left on the bottom of our beds. I remember being told that Santa thought socks were old fashioned and he'd decided to modernise. A couple of years later Dad was bemoaning the fact that he'd forgotten to buy new winter work socks that year.
I remember the socks always contained whole nuts in the toes - but the nut cracker were downstairs (forbidden territory on Christmas Day until everyone was up) the heel was always an orange, there would always be a small torch and a few satsumas. I can't remember what else.
Thank you for prompting some rather pleasant memories.

shegar

Popperwell wrote: »

White stuff still here, well it's a mixture of ice and snow so a lethal combination. Coming home from Aldi's and my little chat with mcculloch(I won't use your name as we are rightly being careful unless you say otherwise);)it was a biting wind so it seems as though we're in for a few days of it...

We had a real sharpe frost last night at _4:eek:........Then it snowed on top of that, so it was a winter wonderland this morning, its still -1 now, and the snow is laying on the fields and shed roofs , its too cold to thaw.........

We have a flake or two falling right now, the sky is grey..........

Ive had the heating on since 5.30 this morn and its still on, its too cold not to have heat, our health is more important ...I did get plenty of coal in the summer, so we have a good store in, plus ive paid extra on the gas and elec DD all summer, so at least we can afford the heating on, im well prepared, we get winter every year , so we do know its coming...........

We have cut back again this year on christmas, and mainly doing cash as gifts, that way I dont have to spend ages shopping in the cold, just as long as we have plenty of food and heat , thats all that matters to us.........

Budget was terrible yesterday , all doom and gloom for low wage earners and benefit claimants, so unfair, just how we all manage ,espeically hard for under 25 s on low wages and rent and ct to pay and poor !!!!!!s cant get any help housing benefit, ive gotr some young people I know in this real situation , not knowing if they will be able to keep going, and may have to move back in with their mum and dad...............Sheila....