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Now and Then - April 8th
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Thanks for the fab reply Queenie! - have mailed myself a copy so I can refer to it when am getting a bit world weary!
Now I have started looking carefully at everything I buy, re-assessing what I need or want - I have noticed that its very difficult to discern what I want from what someone else is pushing in my face! Money Saving turned out to be a bit more extreme than expected!
I've made my debts bite-size too depressing to look at all at once so am handling them one at a time - first up Graduate Loan £1720 paid off! only £280 to go!!!
Money to raise for tuition fees: £3000
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Bargain_Rzl wrote:
Or you could just put that board on top of the fish tank... kill two birds (but no fish) with one stone :rotfl:
Which actually wouldnt be that innapropriate as the goldfish started out life as a table decoration! My flat mate rescued it from a catering event where every table had a bowl of flowers with a goldfish floating around the stems - defo very cruel and wasteful! (they wouldnt tell us what was going to happen to the fish afterwards but it didnt look good) we managed to abscond with one of them in a lunch box and now it swims happily around a big goldfish bowl next to the kitchen sink!
I've made my debts bite-size too depressing to look at all at once so am handling them one at a time - first up Graduate Loan £1720 paid off! only £280 to go!!!
Money to raise for tuition fees: £3000
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OMG!! For real?? Caterers put Goldies as table decorations!!!???? Sheesh!
Hang on ... just thought ... you missed a real money making opportunity there Eliza ... you should have put a couple of dozen in that lunchbox, bred them and then .... resold them back to those caterers
Nah, too cruel on the Goldies
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yea I know I was horrified! Fortunately someone made an official complaint and they havent done it since I've made my debts bite-size too depressing to look at all at once so am handling them one at a time - first up Graduate Loan £1720 paid off! only £280 to go!!!
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Eliza252 wrote:yea I know I was horrified! Fortunately someone made an official complaint and they havent done it since
*puts clairvoyant head on* .... :shhh:... :think: ..... :idea: wouldn't have been *you* by any chance ... would it? :silenced:
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Then: Plastic bags ... never thought about them except trying to think of ways to use them around the house (ie, bin liners, cycle seat protects etc).
Now: Got a bee in my bonnet at some of the startling statistics about landfills sooooo ......
Put the cool box in the boot of my car; making cloth shopping bags. Instead of packing my shopping from trolley to bags, I shall simply put it all back into the trolley (Lidl style!) and pack it all in the car in my cool box/HM bags.
Bin liners will now be drawstring bags, made from some shower curtain material I have, so they can be disinfected and reused to line the bathroom bin, waste paper baskets.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Going off the subject, when people refer to family etc as DS, DH ..... What does it mean? Could someone brief me? Thanks, Bev0
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Ds= dear/darned/dratted son
dh = " " " husband
dd = " " " daughter
SIL = sister in law
MIL = mother in law
FIL = father in law
SO = significant other (ie: partner)
HTH (Hope that helps) Bev ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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OP = original poster
It took me a long time to work that one out
Use words that are soft and sweet in case you have to eat them.0 -
Queenie, Thanks for putting me out of my misery, BJ.0
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