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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

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  • Nikkster
    Nikkster Posts: 6,391 Forumite
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    lostinrates wrote: »
    Sleep in each bedroom. It will give you an idea of how best to decorate them more than you'd get just 'visiting ' in them.

    Run around naked.

    Have baths with the bathroom door open.

    Enjoy not living with boys.

    I'm planning on sleeping in pretty much all of the rooms. Just because I can.

    What I think is the natural main bedroom is next to the bathroom - in the other larger bedroom the fireplace has been blocked off and I think I would like to put one back to match the other bedrooms. After that I might make it my room, but I have no firm plans (just lots of ideas) at the moment :)
  • zagubov
    zagubov Posts: 17,939 Forumite
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    Nikkster wrote: »
    So.... I finally have an update.

    Contracts were exchanged at just before 4 today.
    I'm tagging a weekend seeing a friend (and going to see Bruno Mars) as I'm in the area for work this week.
    I return southwards on Sunday.
    We have agreed to complete the transaction on Monday :eek:

    I had a peek through the front ground floor windows on Saturday (couldn't resist), and I am the proud soon-to-be owner of a floral three-piece suite, at least one bed, a wardrobe, desk, dining table and 4 chairs; I'm guessing that most of the furniture has been left upstairs too.

    I am half very excited and half equally scared sh!tless about committing the next 30 years (hopefully less) to paying back a significant sum every month. But I'm looking forward to allowing myself to start making a scrapbook (or similar) of plans for my little castle.
    :D

    Congrats Nikkster!:beer::j:T:T
    There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker
  • GDB2222
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    I had a minor argument with my DW a while ago, that she won. Hands down!

    I was putting out the recycling, and I noticed a credit card receipt for a cashmere jumper for £129 on DW's card. "That's an awful lot to spend on just one jumper," I said.

    Would anyone like to guess what she said next, that made me shut up?


    Oh, and congrats to Nikki. :)
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • Nikkster
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    GDB2222 wrote: »
    I had a minor argument with my DW a while ago, that she won. Hands down!

    I was putting out the recycling, and I noticed a credit card receipt for a cashmere jumper for £129 on DW's card. "That's an awful lot to spend on just one jumper," I said.

    Would anyone like to guess what she said next, that made me shut up?


    Oh, and congrats to Nikki. :)

    Either i) you didn't say that when I gave it to you or ii) but I saved £500 on it :)

    And thank you, GBD.
  • Nikkster
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    zagubov wrote: »
    Congrats Nikkster!:beer::j:T:T

    Thanks :) (not enough characters)
  • michaels
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    Nikkster wrote: »
    I'm planning on sleeping in pretty much all of the rooms. Just because I can.

    DW and I have been working our way round the house although with the DKs opportunities are pretty limited so we still have half the rooms to go....

    I was a bit surprised at the number of beds wondering if your starter home was a 4 bed but then guessed that as a student house it might have had a bedroom in one of the receptions?
    I think....
  • Nikkster
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    edited 1 October 2013 at 12:27AM
    michaels wrote: »
    DW and I have been working our way round the house although with the DKs opportunities are pretty limited so we still have half the rooms to go....

    I was a bit surprised at the number of beds wondering if your starter home was a 4 bed but then guessed that as a student house it might have had a bedroom in one of the receptions?

    Its a 3 bed house (bit excessive for 1, I know) with the dining room currently made into a bedroom (door into kitchen will eventually be re-instated). I will happily give tours :)

    Edit: and by sleepimg, I really do mean sleeping ;)
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    GDB2222 wrote: »
    I had a minor argument with my DW a while ago, that she won. Hands down!

    I was putting out the recycling, and I noticed a credit card receipt for a cashmere jumper for £129 on DW's card. "That's an awful lot to spend on just one jumper," I said.

    Would anyone like to guess what she said next, that made me shut up?

    "I saved £200, it was on sale"
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • GDB2222
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    Nikkster wrote: »
    Either i) you didn't say that when I gave it to you or ii) but I saved £500 on it :)

    And thank you, GBD.

    That was quick. You are a talented lady! :)

    DW reminded me that she'd bought me a cashmere jumper for my birthday. Now, of course, I'm afraid to wear it. All my jumpers have holes in.
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • misskool
    misskool Posts: 12,832 Forumite
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    GDB2222 wrote: »
    I had a minor argument with my DW a while ago, that she won. Hands down!

    I was putting out the recycling, and I noticed a credit card receipt for a cashmere jumper for £129 on DW's card. "That's an awful lot to spend on just one jumper," I said.

    Would anyone like to guess what she said next, that made me shut up?


    Oh, and congrats to Nikki. :)

    it looks really good on you?
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