The Long, Long Road to Mortgage Freedom

HelenDaveKids

Thought I was extreme till then. Once a month I do farmfoods (with vouchers) for all frozen, then Home B's for toiletries /cleaning / etc then Lidl (prefer aldi but on this shop estate these are near each other) for fresh. Car Boot heaving and is a big spend but my cupboards / freezer groaning and lasts for ages. Plus I do 1 asda a month for all my SP stuff. Other 2 weeks aldi.

Never been in a waitrose..

Used to have asda delivery every week but have learnt the error of my ways.

catshark88

A mixed day on eBay today. Some really good quality, kid's clothes I'm selling for a mate, didn't sell at 99p, but others did. More annoyingly, someone is returning things "as it is marked", when I know it isn't. Hey ho.

Lovely day with family though, and now curled up with dog, DH, woodburner & Ocean's 13 on the box. :-)

Alchemilla

Some people on ebay take the mick. A. nnoy. ing.

elantan

i have just sold my first thing on ebay yesterday and i have to admit i am a bit nervous about it, what if the person decides it has a small mark on it ( when i know it hasnt) etc, i got the £20.50 from them ( will post it tomorrow so that it is away on time) but paypal have taken their fees already and i still have to figure out how to pay the ebay fees, by the time i have posted it i think there will be a fair bit of the £20.50 swallowed up tbh

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Well done El, it gets easier I promise :)

P@ypal do take their fees quickly. Our eb@y charges come through to CC monthly. I can't remember whose diary I read this on, but they suggested taking photos and doing text as you get stuff ready then you only need to load up. It has made life easier for us :)

Night, Tilly

catshark88

Most transactions I've done as buyer, or seller, have been fine. You just remember the annoying ones!

Alchemilla

Thats really true.

catshark88

Highly bizarrely, unhappy customer has now decided they don't want a refund after all....

Sent out 7 eBay parcels today and had managed to misweigh one, which was then too heavy for 2nd class and has cost me about £3 more to send than I asked payment for. Lessons learned and all that....

On the plus side, the bank has finally updated the "OPs last month" page and we managed to OP £1,009 in February. Really pleased with that. Made up of eBay sales and various stealings of money from the current account under a range of guises (rounding down, tidying and just feeling bl@@dy minded at times). :rotfl::rotfl:

cazmanian_minx

Congrats on the overpayment, that's impressive! :T:T:T:T:T

QB_Wolf

catshark88 wrote: »

On the plus side, the bank has finally updated the "OPs last month" page and we managed to OP £1,009 in February.

That's awesome, I can only dream of that sort of OP :cool: