Enjoying the Sunshine whilst Saving for the Rainy Day

StressedSteph

Hi DFW,


Glad you are feeling abit brighter, its a beautiful day which really helps. I just went and stood outside, closed my eyes and just soaked up the rays....Fantastic.


On the numerous broken laptops subject, look in your local newspaper - we have a fantastic local guy that repairs laptops for a tiny amount of money. I think I paid £40 last time and it came back like new. Just a thought. It might re-vamp your dead and flagging ones and give them a few years more life.


Enjoy the rest of the day xxx

debtfreewannabe321

Thanks Steph ds and dh were both second hand anyway so didn't cost the earth but mine was new and is around 4 years old it's already been fixed by a local techy guy and it worked well for about 2 months then all the old problems came back plus a few more. I've given up on it though not very mse of me is it lol. I've asked do to either sell or try and revive one (at least) but I bet he doesn't bother.

I've done nothing today so house is a mess. Finally I had a nsd though

shinner

Just had a catch up with your diary my laptop has died need to try get rebooted or something. DS has done something so can't put photos on his ? So I am going to see if I can get his backed up and sorted before OH breaks his also.
I hate Jan-April as my blue days are usually more frequent than happy days I blame the sun. Take care enjoy half term.
I am using kindle to catch up and it drives me mad.

JustAboutThere

Glad you felt a bit better with the sun over the weekend.

My laptop is also on the terminal list. I've had it since 2006 and its basically a very expensive CD player - there's only my iPod music on there, really. It hasn't been capable of loading a CD for a few years - it just 'whirrs', so no new music loaded (and more CDs waiting to go on. I don't download - no broadband). Consequently, I haven't been able to watch DVDs - that's why I've got about eight films taking up space on my Sky planner that I possess on DVD.

Once I know what my regular monthly salary is, I'll get back to looking at getting a new one. Its waited this long, a couple more months won't hurt.

Take care.

amber03

Must be something in the air, my laptop died last month (it was my Ds's old one), treated myself to a new one, mid price. Also not keen on the first three months off the year, breathe a sigh of relief when I have seen the back of 31st march, mind you when we have a lovely day like today it makes all the difference.xx

debtfreewannabe321

Afternoon all thanks for popping in

It's a nice day here today! If only we didn't have a north facing garden.......... :cool:

I've been out shopping today to get the food, i've tried to shop up until next Friday (payday) so we'll see if it all lasts . I hope so because I've got around £30 left in the budget and i'm hoping to spend it on a take out rather than more food for the cupboards

My police check arrived this morning so I will get in contact with the HS people and get the ball rolling :T. I'm seeing my meditation teacher tonight but I feel a little off colour if honest and so tired so I just hope I manage to stay awake

Spends over the last few days have been logged on spreadsheet and budget is still looking ok to do until next week. Trip to mums included paying out entry to a soft play area and some food but nothing too bad and all (sort of) budgeted for. I have put the remaining petrol budget in the car today and it will have to last until next week. If it doesn't then I won't be using the car, simple as that really.

Our new laptop arrived this morning whilst I was out shopping. They left it out in the back garden :eek: (in the shed but door was wide open!!!) we opened it up all excited and it has a funny foreign plug with two pins and a European keyboard i've emailed them as it said nothing on the description to make us think it wasn't English and I don't know whether to send it back or keep it and try and get used to typing on that keyboard. It was £250 which was pretty cheap and had excellent reviews and also has a cd slot and much bigger screen than my note book. No wonder it was cheap though but I feel like this is mis-advertising. We've fired off an email and will see what they say. I may try and find an adapter yet and just keep it if they refuse to change for same price to an English one.

I received my policy money :T :j :T it was slightly more than we'd thought it would be so I took us out (minus ds1 who was at a friends) last night for a meal and also bought us a replacement bluray player after our last one had broken :T the ISA has been topped up to the maximum and I am in the process of trying to open another one before april in DH's name. Then come April I will open another in my name too I will update signature in a moment to show amounts the saving is up to :T

debtfreewannabe321

House Fund to date stands at £8838 (and a few pennies)
:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j

My next mini target is to get to £10,000 as quick as I can :T

JustAboutThere

debtfreewannabe321 wrote: »

House Fund to date stands at £8838 (and a few pennies)
:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j
:T

Yippee! Great news and I hope you enjoyed the well-deserved dinner.

debtfreewannabe321 wrote: »

It's a nice day here today! If only we didn't have a north facing garden.......... :cool:

Could be worse - try a north facing front room. Its not pretty the amount of layers I wear just to watch TV . . .

debtfreewannabe321

JustAboutThere wrote: »

Yippee! Great news and I hope you enjoyed the well-deserved dinner.



Could be worse - try a north facing front room. Its not pretty the amount of layers I wear just to watch TV . . .

We did enjoy the dinner thank you Only a harvester as I knew they had early bird deals :money:. I really wanted an Indian but i'll save that for my birthday treat!

Oh I feel for you with the north facing front room as our kitchen is the same it's freezing! Our front room gets sun in most of the day -well it would all day I think but we've lots of houses around us and they block most of it out.


Well DS2 is asleep. He's come down with a temperature and is complaining of a sore head (headache?) DS1 is asleep after staying at his friend's house last night and not actually sleeping at all (:mad: Teenagers!) I should be leaving for my meeting with my meditation teacher at around 5pm but I don't think I can go now. DS1 won't be woken and if I do manage it he'll be a nightmare so won't look after the smaller two and DH has told me he has to stay and finish something at work and will be home around 6.30 earliest (i've sent a begging text though asking him to finish early and finish off his work at home ) So the only ones awake in the house are DD and myself :rotfl: even the dog has gone to sleep!

I received an email from @mazon about the laptop they have no english ones in stock and none due have offered me a full refund and a prepaid thing to send it back in so will do that I think. Will have a scout round for another laptop and see what I can find, don't want to spend a lot but don't want cheap again which is what we always get and it always lasts around 2-3 yrs tops!

grannyx2

Hope DS is better soon, also hope OH gets home so you can escape for a bit

Great news re savings

Pity about the laptop but think I would send it back too, you'd always wonder whether it's worth trying to put up with the differences

Granny x