The Ultimate Incentive part 10. The only thing holding you back is you.

Dinah93

This morning:

Music Magpie £18.72
Ziffit: £29.65
Zapper: £11.19

Total: £59.56

Gutted you can't trade clothes in on music magpie anymore. Also gutted I wasn't in the right frame of mind a month ago to just price up all the baby clothes and send them to the nearly new sale, next one isn't until April so now I need to faff about listing them all on ebay.

Dinah93

Really glad to hear things are looking up for you Flower, having somewhere safe and dry for your kids is the only important thing, and it kind of puts all our niggles into perspective.

Flower08

Dont know if you have anything similar nearby Dinah, but we had a shop open last year that buys and sells second hand baby clothes. Prices arent amazing, probably about the same you would get at carboot sales (say about 50p per tshirt, £1.50 for a full outfit etc). I tend to take out anything I think will sell better on ebay and then I take the rest down to the shop every couple of months.

Dinah93

If we did that would be great but I haven't heard of anything.

I don't know if I posted on here, I think I did, about the mouldy babies R us mattress. Well I'm shocked to say they just called to say they'll issue a full refund. Very pleased, that's another £35.99 back in our pockets.

Flower08

Dinah93 wrote: »

Really glad to hear things are looking up for you Flower, having somewhere safe and dry for your kids is the only important thing, and it kind of puts all our niggles into perspective.

You're telling me! We are in no palace at the minute, but its dry, warm, the kids have their owns rooms instead of all four of us squashed in one small room, and we have signed a 12 month tenancy so I can breathe a sigh of relief for a while. Would love to have the security of knowing where we'll be in 5 years time but unnfortunatly that doesnt happen when your renting.

One major thing I have learnt is our council wont help with anything! You can be homesless with nowhere to go, but they still wont help because we are not deemed a priority!

Dinah93

I thought anyone with kids was considered a priority?! That's awful

Flower08

Dinah93 wrote: »

I thought anyone with kids was considered a priority?! That's awful

According to them we intentionally made ourselves homesless. We were given our notice of two months because the landlord intended to sell, apparently we shouldnt of left because that is making ourselves intentionally homeless. We should of basically squated and waited for it to go to court and the bailiffs come round - because I was really going to put the kids through that!!

ruby_eskimo

Glad to hear the house is sorted for now Flower. I know what you mean about the Council; when my dad lost his job 20 years ago and we lost the house, the council told my parents there was a 7 year waiting list and that was that! My mum even worked for the council housing department in the repairs department and knew that there were a few empty properties! Luckily we had friends that helped us out but not everyone does.

I'm in awe of the amount of money you're raising Dinah (hopefully if all the sales go through). You've inspired me to ebay and amazon / trade in the clothes and books that have been waiting to leave the flat for a couple of months now. Right that's this weekend's task. Just need to get through the next hour and a half at work.

Hope everyone that's been ill is starting to feel better.

Tete_en_l'Air

:hello: ¡Hola! I'm just writing a few lists and trying to get organised, and whenever I do that I gravitate back to MSE - I guess it's my 'organisation mecca'? I'm searching for a new ISA as my rate reduces at the end pf the month and I'm also making Xmas card and present lists.

Dinah if you could let me know the name of that agency that would be ace - I've decided I'll stick it out until the end of the year and earn my full qualification as it could come in handy in so many ways in the future, but after July I WANT MY LIFE BACK. I think I did meet your friend - didn't she have a few things to say about my training school, about how hard they work you? She wasn't wrong!

Flower that's absolutely shocking and just proves how 'the squeaky wheel gets the grease' - you get nowhere in this society by complying with rules anymore

Loving the sound of a diety/fitnessy challenge - I have been back on the wagon for a couple of weeks and only managed to lose one pound despite being really good. Then I had an observation on Thursday and of course had to eat a load of junk while I was preparing for it *rolly-eyes* so god knows what the scales say now I'm convinced I'll never lose any weight while I'm teaching because a) I don't have the time to do as much exercise as I'd need to, b) I'm not getting enough sleep, and c) I'm going to be driven to comfort-eat crap at least once a week

Hope all the poorlies are feeling better!!

Dinah93

You probably did meet her I think I tried to make sure you met knowing you were training and she'd just done it. Name begins with an A. I'll get the agency name out of her in the next few days.

That really is terrible Flower that if you abide by the law then you're considered to have made yourself homeless, I'd never think to stay in somewhere I'd been told to leave.

Bairns are slowly improving here, it's my grandads surprise 80th on Saturday so I hope they're all recovered by then. It's been booked at a crazy expensive hotel near here and it's £160 a head for 3 courses - not including any drinks! Some people are coming from Australia and Canada for it though, so I guess it's 'cheap' for us in comparison as we're some of the few who can hop in a car and stay in our own bed at night, most of the family are at least in London if not abroad. Mum has kindly said she'll pay for NIM and I and my brother and his girlfriend, if we buy the drinks, which thankfully means we'll only have to pay £50 or so (cheapest bottle of wine is £42) as opposed to maybe £400. I honestly think I'd have said we couldn't go at that kind of price, my aunt and uncle booked it without consulting anyone and said it looked like the best place in the area, and completely forgot to think we don't all have multi-million pound companies to fund our socialising and that maybe we'd all love to celebrate with Grandad but don't have that kind of money for one meal out.