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Cheery's buttling diary: tea in one hand, plant pot in the other, running shoes on

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  • Karmacat
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    When you're on a roll, you're *really* on a roll :j:j:j

    Keep going on that energy supplier! I joined Martin's club this time round, got a new deal with my existing supplier at £10 per month cheaper, supposedly, plus the cashback deal.
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  • Cheery_Daff
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    Ooh, that's good KC! I confess I didn't even look properly at Martin's email as I knew I was locked into a fixed price thing and was happy with supplier...

    However, now they've annoyed me and everything's up for grabs :rotfl:

    Off work on Friday so will ring again and inform them that I will indeed be investigating my options for switching if they don't at the very least send me the pesky information booklet!
  • starnac
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    Quiet all day then a spate of posts altogether :D

    I must confess I have a magazine subscription. I do enjoy it though. Anyway they take £9.97 out of my account every 3 months. It's easy to miss a smallish irregular payment like that, and I expect that's what has happened with your sister's magazine.

    Oh dear you are not having luck with your energy supplier are you? Hope you get it sorted soon x
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  • Lula-Hula
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    edited 17 December 2014 at 12:45PM
    G'morning Cheery :D,

    well done on that spate of actions, in a spooky parallel, I've just cancelled my subscription to a mag. Whilst a pretty good deal over 12 months, I often dont get the freebies due to Royal Mail postal restrictions and to be honest, now that I have my simplified minimalist wardrobe ... I do not need to be tempted to buy new clothes, shoes, bags, beauty stuff on a monthly basis :eek::rotfl:

    Good luck with sorting out new energy supplier

    ETA : aha now I've gone and joined this energy club thingymajig and looks like I could be saving some coins too :D so thanks for posting about that !
  • Cheery_Daff
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    :hello: hi all :) very jolly to see you :)

    Yep starnac, very easy to miss odd irregular payments! :eek: however i'm currently goig through a spate of intense bank watching so nothing will get past me now... :D

    Magazine subscriptions can be ace, i've loved this one for years, originally bought by a lovely pal :j but i'm paying way over the current 'new subscriber rate and they're getting a bit samey after years so for now, it goes.

    Done a bit of Christmas shopping in Leeds today on the way through. Few things for Mr Cheery plus other bits. Work secret santa limit was £3-5 and people were moaning it was too hard to find things for that little, but I managed to get two things for a grand total of £1.74 :money: bern hanging round here for too long! :rotfl:

    Al anon tonight, not been for a couple of weeks and missed it. And tomorrow we're off to the cinema again with these pesky Groupon vouchers - they run out on Friday and I don't think we'll get chance to use the last one unless I go on my own on Friday afternoon! :eek: That's the last time i buy one of those!! :rotfl: :rotfl: Still, we paid £20 for 5 tickets so even if we only use four that makes them a fiver each, still cheaper than normal! :j

    Think I slightly overestimated how muh we go to the cinema... :o although we've been twice to the independent cinema that you can't use the vouchers in during that time! Mr Cheery was an extra in a film so i figured we'd definitely go to see that but t's only on at the independent cinema too :rotfl:
  • Cheery_Daff
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    So.... where are we?

    Film last night was ACE and I have accepted we're not going to use the last cinema ticket today - that still makes it £5 per ticket which is better than the usual! :j

    Went busking in town today with a pal :j We said we'd be happy if we got enough for a cuppa and a mince pie each - we made a total of £1.51 between us :rotfl: :rotfl: Including a donation from a man who appeared to be homeless and who said he'd not heard the song we were playing for years and who sat listening to us in the cold for a while :o

    So I shan't be handing in my notice just yet :rotfl: :rotfl:

    Been arguing with the budget - tedious internetty connection reasons meant it hadn't synced between laptop and phone since Wednesday evening I had one lot of stuff on phone and another on computer and had to do a bit of fiddling about :angry: Sorted now though and back to doing it every single day! :j

    VERY excited to be off work for 17 days :j :j :j Popping to see a friend tonight, musical things and more friends tomorrow, two Christmas parties and a bit of a wander round York on Sunday, and then not much planned at all :j

    Paid on Christmas eve apparently - getting all excited about doing the new budget :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

    Got 8 days of free software left before I need to buy it if I want to carry on - given that I've probably spent a couple of hundred quid less than usual since using it (about 5 weeks) I think I might just go ahead! :rotfl:

    Right - hot water bottle and Harry Potter for a couple of hours I think :j
  • Karmacat
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    Hello Cheery! Good things have been happening, and continue to happen, from the sound of it, excellent stuff :)

    The really important question, however ... which Harry Potter? :)
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  • Cheery_Daff
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    I ended up not watching Harry Potter at all! :rotfl: Got the Order of the Phoenix recorded off the tv the other day and fell asleep while watching it the other night so there's that to watch :rotfl:

    I have actually got all the dvds somewhere - but at the minute that 'somewhere' is a rather elusive 'somewhere' and neither of us can find them... :rotfl:

    Decided to walk to friend's house this evening - it's probably a good hour each way but I'm feeling rather un-exercised at the minute so it'll be nice to get a good bit of fresh air since I'm not in a rush! :j

    (suspect I'll regret it when I'm walking home at 11pm though :rotfl: )
  • Cheery_Daff
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    Well I DID walk there and back (an hour each way) and I DIDN'T regret it - although I did get rather blown about and a bit damp!!

    Banks done :j

    Final festive flutey outing today and I've got one or two more presents to pick up (we're at a Christmas fair) and then that's it! :j

    ( I hope :rotfl: )
  • starnac
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    Enjoy your Christmas fair. We are off to a Christmas party later so very excited kiddies no doubt!! I'm sure I'd rather the Christmas fair! :rotfl:
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