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Mr and Mrs K's New Journey to a Debt Free Life.
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:rotfl: We must try to make a little more of an effort now our son is that bit older, well for his presents at least.
2018 totals:
Savings £11,200
Mortgage Overpayments £5,5000 -
Oh and make sure Father Christmas uses different paper!!Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. -- Sally Koch0
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All presents come from Santa, don't they?
2018 totals:
Savings £11,200
Mortgage Overpayments £5,5000 -
Not with us - Santa gave some - then us and grannies did a few as well.
Nor us, Santa was getting the credit for the good stuff when we only gave some cruddy thing. So it was swiftly changed to Santa does the stockings, other people do the restI wanna be in the room where it happens0 -
Ditto for us as well, Santa does the stocking, and we do the rest.
DD is 11 now, but when she was a "believer" Santa would buy 1 main present and a bag of little things, from bar choc, notepad, pens, felt pens, colouring book, shower gels, earrings, and an annual.
Even now she still has a stocking, we all do...
DD - Main gift - Wii game, selection boxes, fountain pen, pencil case, new pencils, felts, art based gifts, annual, socks, gloves, cd, small smellies set
Dad - bottle beer, choc, book, socks.
Mum - Coffee, mini baileys, chocolate selection box.
Mine - Chocolate selection boxes, socks, smellies, cd.
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When DD was about 4 we'd gone away in the Nov, and at the time there was a TV programe where Alan Titchmarsh - was a gardening gnome, and there was slugs - Les and Des. Were having breakfast and out of the blue she says Les and Des (the slugs) told me what I'm having off Santa - (ok), I'm having a new slide, its orange and wavy......
Ok - mass panic sets in, as Santa is a miracle worker - it was Argos to the rescue, thou we had wait 3 weeks for it to come... then Christmas day all set in the garden for her.
How she had described it - it matched the one in Argos to a T.
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The one year we took her to see Santa - and what do you want for Christmas - she answers beer for Dadda (she called Grandad Dadda...) then she asked Santa for the glass that he had taken the year before as she wanted it back. We'd washed it up, so after that we use to make sure Santa didn't wash the glass up.... xxxx rip dad... we had our ups and downs but we’re always be family xx0 -
Not with us - Santa gave some - then us and grannies did a few as well.Nor us, Santa was getting the credit for the good stuff when we only gave some cruddy thing. So it was swiftly changed to Santa does the stockings, other people do the rest
It was always Santa when I was a child but that was apparently not the case in my wife's family. I remember one year being really :mad: Santa did not visit three days later for my birthday and my presents were "only" from Mummy and Daddy. Yep, they reel that one out every year to tell my wife.
Ditto for us as well, Santa does the stocking, and we do the rest.
DD is 11 now, but when she was a "believer" Santa would buy 1 main present and a bag of little things, from bar choc, notepad, pens, felt pens, colouring book, shower gels, earrings, and an annual.
Even now she still has a stocking, we all do...
DD - Main gift - Wii game, selection boxes, fountain pen, pencil case, new pencils, felts, art based gifts, annual, socks, gloves, cd, small smellies set
Dad - bottle beer, choc, book, socks.
Mum - Coffee, mini baileys, chocolate selection box.
Mine - Chocolate selection boxes, socks, smellies, cd.
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When DD was about 4 we'd gone away in the Nov, and at the time there was a TV programe where Alan Titchmarsh - was a gardening gnome, and there was slugs - Les and Des. Were having breakfast and out of the blue she says Les and Des (the slugs) told me what I'm having off Santa - (ok), I'm having a new slide, its orange and wavy......
Ok - mass panic sets in, as Santa is a miracle worker - it was Argos to the rescue, thou we had wait 3 weeks for it to come... then Christmas day all set in the garden for her.
How she had described it - it matched the one in Argos to a T.
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The one year we took her to see Santa - and what do you want for Christmas - she answers beer for Dadda (she called Grandad Dadda...) then she asked Santa for the glass that he had taken the year before as she wanted it back. We'd washed it up, so after that we use to make sure Santa didn't wash the glass up.... xx
:rotfl: Santa wasn't a miracle worker in my childhood household, he bought what I "deserved". Funnily enough that seemed to correspond with what the parents' accounts looked like, not that I realised at the time of course.
Go on then, you'll have to tell me what this pen is? I did think of your daughter when I was in an antiques shop in town and there was a red Parker Duofold Junior (used in schools in the '20's if I recall correctly) for £8.00 (obviously unboxed, needed restoring) but I remember you saying something about your daughter and pens.2018 totals:
Savings £11,200
Mortgage Overpayments £5,5000 -
Cheapie one - parker Vector - shes got one parker pen, but it won't take cartridges shes wearing more ink than the paper - shes tried mine and likes it - so Santas got her one for her stocking.
Bet when Little K is older your be doing the same with his g/friends.... its amazing what parents remember to embarrass you with xxx rip dad... we had our ups and downs but we’re always be family xx0 -
Thursday 19th December, 2013.
Day 110.
Dear Diary,
Today has most certainly not been a no spend day. I fail to grasp how one could feed a family of three on some of the budgets for food I see banded about here. As we wrote a list and visited the shops, trying to stick to what we had wrote down instead of just buying anything we fancied, still it came to almost £70.00 and will not last the week out. I realised I have not recorded our spending at all properly and certainly not for groceries as this was the first time I asked for receipts.
Anyhow, apart from that little shock we've had a nice day. On the debt busting front nothing has been done. Furthermore, my challenge to cut down drinking has rather seriously gone out the window, even if it has all been social and not through me wanting to merely blot everything out. Even so I'm a little disappointed in myself for not being able to resist.
Summary:
+£25.00 Music Teaching.
-£68.00 Groceries.
-£50.00 Diesel.2018 totals:
Savings £11,200
Mortgage Overpayments £5,5000
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