My Debt Diary, the ramblings of JCD

JCD_Capulet

Thanks hon x

I called Debenhams HO in London and spoke to a young man named Alex who was very nice and helpfull. He told me that they did stock Elie New York over two years ago but all he could do is suggest I try searching google.
I think in the mean time I'll just put the jacket on Ebay and offer it world wide, the americans will be bound to know more about its origins than I could possibly find out.

**Ebay Update**
Biker boots - 5 bids - 12 watchers - 85 viewings - £5.50
Tesco clothing couchers - 1 bid - 3 watchers - 19 viewings - 10p
Smelly found boots - 0 bids - 3 watchers - 74 viewings - 0
Elie NY jacket - 0 bids - 0 watchers - 5 viewings - 0
[strike]Job lot of makeup - 0 bids - 0 watchers - 18 viewings - £9![/strike] SOLD!! :j

**questions asked**

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JCD_Capulet

Righty. *thinks*

I listed the jacket on FEE-bay for a starting bis of £1, reserve of £50 (aparently you can't do reserves below £50 anymore) and a big fat this-is-so-cheeky-but-I-hope-it-works Buy it now of £250 It'll either work in my benefit by making folk think 'oooh, maybe I'll just bid to about half of that to see where the reserve lies', or it won't work at all. Hey ho, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

AND, what day is it folks?

**~~Urban Scavenging Day!~~**

The bins get collected tomorow so I'm heading out shortly to go have a looksee at what is laying unloved and awaiting the dump.

I have £7.95 in the bank, £2.10 in my purse and £4 in the electricity meter. it looks like I'll need to break into emergency credit because I don't recieve my benefits untill Wednesday next week. Tomorow I need to pay £3 to the rent debt, buy a pouch of tobacco which will see me through until Tuesday and then on Saturday I'm going to try walking the 13 miles to my boyfriends house which will save me £2 so that I have that to come home with on Sunday.

I'm sure I had other things to say but can't remember.
Bed at 11pm tonight. Got to save the power!

x

skint_spice

Good luck with the jacket, sounds a good idea so hope it pays off. Dying to see what happens with the boots... I was down the beach today and spotted a rotting old shoe and immediately thought of your thread!
Good luck with the walk - has shades of Tom Weir and his cronies climbing the hills cos they were unemployed and skint.

JCD_Capulet

HA! Thanks skint spice! People often think of me when they see rotting old shoes.... you know, if I wasn't such an odd critter I'd probably take it as insulting. BUT, if there's a way of making money from litterally nothing then hell yeah, I'll give it a try. I DO draw the line at doing the horizontal hoke-koke for 'ginger' bottles, clubcard points or tesco till spits tho!

Hmm, Time for bed, I seem to be loosing my marbles.

x

JCD_Capulet

I logged on to ebay to see if anything had changed.

As I scrolled down I saw "You have one item to post"


I damn near pooped myself thinking it was the jacket!

No such luck (yet!), the makeup lot sold for £9! :j
Which brings my Electricity savings up to a healthy £33.10 This is just what I was needing because I was beginning to feel a bit down.

yay!

hypno06

Good news on selling the make up - hopefully that jacket will go soon x

Seaxwyn

Well done Joanne! Great News!

Hope a bidding war will start on the white boots soon.

Does the make-up sale mean you won't have to walk to the boyfriend's? A 13 mile walk sounds nice if it's sunny! and you could maybe pick some blackberries or old footwear out of the hedgerows if you're lucky.

Hope you have a good day, joanne.

taxi73

Morning Joanne...I have just read your entire thread and am amazed at your resourcefulness....good luck with getting rid of your debts

JCD_Capulet

hypno06 wrote: »

Good news on selling the make up - hopefully that jacket will go soon x

Thanks hon x

Seaxwyn wrote: »

Well done Joanne! Great News!

Hope a bidding war will start on the white boots soon.

Does the make-up sale mean you won't have to walk to the boyfriend's? A 13 mile walk sounds nice if it's sunny! and you could maybe pick some blackberries or old footwear out of the hedgerows if you're lucky.

Hope you have a good day, joanne.

I too hope a bidding war will start on the boots otherwise I put carrier bags over my feet and modelled them for nothing! :rotfl:
I could probably scrape up the busfare to my boyfriends house, but I'm trying to cut corners everywhere. I could walk there in about three hours (bad knees) plus it will likely help me get a bit fitter since I mainly stay indoors whenever possible.
I can imagine his face looking something like this if I turn up with a black bag of old boots and a purple stained face from munching blackberries! But it might very well happen! :rotfl:

taxi73 wrote: »

Morning Joanne...I have just read your entire thread and am amazed at your resourcefulness....good luck with getting rid of your debts

Thanks alot Taxi, every little comment from everyone is helping me get through xx

JCD_Capulet

Wee update:
The £26 off tesco clothing vouchers auction is now up to 76p hahah

They've another five an a half hous to go, oooooh so that's another possible ....estimated £1.50 sale to add to the pot later *crosses fingers*