Mr and Mrs K's New Journey to a Debt Free Life.

Iwillsucceed_2

Yay!!! Regarding the party for little K! Bravo!!

Have a lovely weekend! I am off for girlie night out!

Regards

AlexLK

Mara_uk7 wrote: »

Is this the card you offered F&F on ?

Great news on the birthday party ! Im proud of you for sorting that out ! Consider your head patted firmly

Have you set a budget for the birthday pressie ? And dont go trying to compete with your parents, they can afford it, You cant. Your explorer kit sounds like so much fun ..... I bet Little K will have hours of fun with you playing with that, but beware of bugs in jars in his bedroom ... they inevitable escape ! lol

No it's one of the ones still with the original company.

Thank you.

Budget is £300 to do the party, buy him a present and buy my mother a present for her birthday, so not going to be easy!

EchoDelta wrote: »

Great news about the party

7roland8 wrote: »

Great news of the party too - have you checked out the Amazon bargain thread for toys - some Playmobile stuff on there now.
Playmobil 5247 Native American Camp with Totem Pole down from £33 to £12 - keep checking daily - lots of great bargains.

Not yet but will have a look tonight, thank you Roland . Actually he'd love the Native American camp, will let you know if I buy.

We are going to go and have a look round Sainsbury's tomorrow as they've got a half price toy sale ... my parents will NOT find out about that (as they believe everyone should boycott Sainsbury's, :rotfl:.)

AlexLK

Iwillsucceed wrote: »

Yay!!! Regarding the party for little K! Bravo!!

Have a lovely weekend! I am off for girlie night out!

Regards

Lucky you, I've got a music pupil due at any moment, what a joyous Friday evening I have with pre-Grade 1 piano. :rotfl:

gallygirl

Great news on the party :T, we're all proud of you :j.

AlexLK

Friday 25th October, 2013.
Day 55.

Dear Diary,

I'm pleased to say that for once I have had a thoroughly pleasant day. Work has been quiet but it always is on Fridays mainly because it's my wife's half day and I take the afternoon off. However, the party invites have been sent out, OK well a few phone calls have been made and it appears we have 3 nursery friends plus parents, Mrs. K.'s parents, Mrs. K.'s brother and family and my parents, who are wanting to be involved in organising the day. They did offer to pay but we declined, just got to hope we manage this, his birthday presents and a present for mother's upcoming birthday on £300 now.

Staying with the positive, my wife told me that despite some of my set backs she is proud of me for sticking with trying to sort our money problems out, oh and "astounded" by the fact I manage to not have a drink most nights now. I wasn't sure whether to be flattered by the latter comment or mildly offended that she thought I had a "bit of a drink problem".

On the debt busting front, I had to talk with one of the creditors today. It's not a nice feeling to have somebody demanding money. However, instead of getting too wound up about it, I thought how good it will be when I have paid my debts and never have to worry about such things again. I will not be back in this position, even if I'm posting on here forever, boring you with tales of my dull days. By then, you'll probably be so bored of me that I'm talking to myself!

Summary:
+£50.00 Music Teaching.
-£37.00 Groceries - did wonder if some of the things we bought were really necessary when we got home though.

Yours Faithfully,
Alex.

LannieDuck

Well done on the party

Perhaps you could give your parents a specific task that they could organise? Party bags, or a couple of party games? (pass the parcel?) They obviously want to help, and as long as it's on your terms it would be a nice gesture.

Glad you've had a nice day. Here's hoping for a nice (albeit windy!) weekend too.

AlexLK

LannieDuck wrote: »

Well done on the party

Perhaps you could give your parents a specific task that they could organise? Party bags, or a couple of party games? (pass the parcel?) They obviously want to help, and as long as it's on your terms it would be a nice gesture.

Glad you've had a nice day. Here's hoping for a nice (albeit windy!) weekend too.

I'm sure we can come up with a few jobs for them. We had forgotten all about party bags, looks like another expense we hadn't factored in but we'll only give them to the kids.

Today was meant to be disgusting weather wise here but it turned out quite nice (seems I really am turning into my parents :eek: ) so hoping the same shall happen this weekend as we are looking forward to a well deserved couple of days of peace and quiet.

7roland8

I hate party bags - resisted for a year or two - then had to give in as all the other kids had them at parties - but its only cheap junk and even my sons weren't keen.

AlexLK

7roland8 wrote: »

I hate party bags - resisted for a year or two - then had to give in as all the other kids had them at parties - but its only cheap junk and even my sons weren't keen.

Any tips for doing a party bag with NO plastic junk?

Mara_uk7

Ps .. Theyre only meant for the kids ! All they need is a small sweet, like a kinder egg which has plastic junk inside, maybe some crayons, a mini colouring book, how about a nice wooden yoyo ... Look at Orange Tree Toys .... We stock their products in our shop and wooden toys really go down well nowadays .