Reeling from the Reality Check

gallygirl

Ebay and charity shops HB. I often get complimented om my clothes and most come from there :rotfl:.

Historybuff

Thanks galley, I already thought I would have a look in the charity shops. Well both job applications have now been submitted. Hope I get one of them.

in_need_of_direction

I need to look professional when at clients etc. oddly enough, it's the blouses recently purchased from matalan that attract compliments when teamed with plain suits. Also, they have a 20% off offer that ends today. They may not last as long as the m&s ones but you get good value from them. Can you borrow some shoes from offspring just for the interview?

Historybuff

Yes, INOD, I'll get sorted, hopefully for next to nothing. It's blouses I need. Maybe I can get some cheap shoes from Matalan as well.
Just been to stock up on basics as the cupboard was nigh on bare and really pleased I did it for just over £50. Lots of own brand basics. It was funny in the checkout queue having a conversation with the young man on the till about his ambitions to make his fortune as a buy to let landlord. Great to hear a young person actually thinking about their financial future! Wish I had...

Brogden

Historybuff wrote: »

Yes, INOD, I'll get sorted, hopefully for next to nothing. It's blouses I need. Maybe I can get some cheap shoes from Matalan as well.
Just been to stock up on basics as the cupboard was nigh on bare and really pleased I did it for just over £50. Lots of own brand basics. It was funny in the checkout queue having a conversation with the young man on the till about his ambitions to make his fortune as a buy to let landlord. Great to hear a young person actually thinking about their financial future! Wish I had...

Now, now HB! Behave yourself !!

You're doing great.....and there are millions of us....and you are thinking about your financial future ......so there :p:p !!!!

Brogden x

Historybuff

True, Brogden. Just appreciating a quiet five minutes before work. Worrying a bit about the wrist. I googled it last night and all sorts of surgical horrors came up...screws and pins in the bone and pot up past the elbow! I must say I got a bit rattled. The splint has been bad enough, never mind a massive pot! Anyway, today I'll know.

in_need_of_direction

Never google when there's something wrong with you. A case of the sniffles can come out as tb or pleurisy.

Historybuff

All OK. Nothing broken, just soft tissue damage that will heal over the next few weeks. Phew! I had visions of a plaster cast. Onward and upward!

Knit_Witch

That's good news! so keep it strapped up and wait?

Historybuff

Yes, got to do some exercises as well.
Payment review with N*wide went OK. Basically they seemed happy I was able to keep the same payment going, so hopefully, I can relax until next April till they start all over again. Re Christmas presents, I'm racking my brains trying to think of cheap things that don't look too rubbish. I really wish I had spoken to people and got them to agree to no presents or £10 gifts or something like that. I have got to get 18. 8 immediate family and ten for wider family, some of whom I don't see from one year to the next! It's a pain. I want to just buy for the little children. I might just do that and get the adults a bottle of wine to share or something. Hmphhh! I sound like a right Scrooge!