The End May Actually Be in Sight...

Crumpets

Merry Christmas RT:santa2::xmassmile:xmassign::xmastree: i'm looking forward to seeing what next year brings for you, here's to updating diaries and mortgage busting in 2015 :beer:

C xx

greent

RoaringTwenties wrote: »

Hi greent & merry christmas to you if it's not too late to say that! They loved everything! Hope yours did too?

Mine had a fab time with their pressies Few strange presents from relatives - but that's all part of the fun x

RoaringTwenties

greent wrote: »

Mine had a fab time with their pressies Few strange presents from relatives - but that's all part of the fun x

We didn't do too badly on the strange present front, but my best friend tops the list I think, her uncle gave her some car anti-freeze, which is weird enough in itself, but especially weird given that she doesn't drive :eek: :rotfl:

Crumpets

RoaringTwenties wrote: »

We didn't do too badly on the strange present front, but my best friend tops the list I think, her uncle gave her some car anti-freeze, which is weird enough in itself, but especially weird given that she doesn't drive :eek: :rotfl:

That's hilarious...you have to wonder what goes through people's minds sometimes. It reminds me of when dh and I first got together and his mom got him a pair of red silk boxer shorts with a fake piece of mistletoe attatched to the waistband :eek::rotfl: awkward to say the least

RoaringTwenties

I shall start with a whinge: where does money go?! I worked out our finances on Sun & it seemed like it was going to be an ok month, despite it being a long one, but in two days I seem to have managed to spend a stack of Jan's wonger & its still blooming Dec! All things we need or that will be useful, & nothing exciting or luxurious, for example: an Asda Smart Price chest of drawers to go in the bottom of DD's wardrobe to hold all her clobber as she has no drawer storage in her room; three pairs of pink pjs half price in the sale for said DD who is refusing point blank to wear anything of her brothers even whilst asleep :mad:; a set of half price hair clippers in the Argos sale to shear DS whose hair grows like weeds - & bang, £100 is gone :eek:

I was feeling quite smug too as I've seen all sorts of bits in the sale that I resisted - silly little things like Peppa hair slides or Hello Kitty pens or a dressing up outfit for one of DDs dolls, really sweet & half price but she doesn't often play with the actual doll! I did get some useful bits in the sales - Thinsulate gloves for step-Dad's birthday in March, butterfly compact mirror for Gran's birthday next June, all half price in M&S. As well as DD's jim jams. But I have a feeling cash is going to disappear like water this month...:(

Having said that OH & I are not helping by going out for lunch today . DS is snowed in at my mums (she lives in the middle of no-where so they do well for snow) so we are taking a rare opportunity to have lunch just the girls. I know I've said this before so please forgive the repetition but unlike many people who are trying to cut down on such splurges, we're still really enjoying them, having only really had the opportunity to do so in the last year! Sometimes I think my life is kind of the very opposite of what this board is all about :rotfl:

Anyway, hope everyone has a brill new year whatever you're doing [STRIKE]in my case, nothing[/STRIKE] & here's to a great 2015 :T

RoaringTwenties

Crumpets wrote: »

That's hilarious...you have to wonder what goes through people's minds sometimes. It reminds me of when dh and I first got together and his mom got him a pair of red silk boxer shorts with a fake piece of mistletoe attatched to the waistband :eek::rotfl: awkward to say the least

Oh my life Crumpets that's hilarious! :rotfl:

edinburgher

Sometimes I think my life is kind of the very opposite of what this board is all about

I know what you mean, because we're still DINKYs (well, for a little while), it feels that we're *always* popping out to the pub/a cheap restaurant compared to some on here

Here's to a happy 2015 :coffee: (will come back with the beer smiley when it's not half past eight!)

Crumpets

edinburgher wrote: »

I know what you mean, because we're still DINKYs (well, for a little while), it feels that we're *always* popping out to the pub/a cheap restaurant compared to some on here

Here's to a happy 2015 :coffee: (will come back with the beer smiley when it's not half past eight!)

What's a DINKY? :rotfl:

My Ds's hair also grows like weeds, I've thought about cutting it myself but I'm not sure I'm brave enough :eek: the last time I took him to have it cut it cost £17.50 :eek: I can't afford to pay that every few weeks. Let me know how you get on.

Enjoy your lunch out today, I'm meeting a friend at our powshe garden centre today, it's extortionate to eat there so I'll just be having a coffee and a Danish I'll take a packed lunch for us all to eat en route to see dh :rotfl::cool: we live a glamorous life don't we

Crumpets x

greent

Double Income No Kids Yet (something I was a long time ago!!)

RoaringTwenties

edinburgher wrote: »

I know what you mean, because we're still DINKYs (well, for a little while), it feels that we're *always* popping out to the pub/a cheap restaurant compared to some on here

Here's to a happy 2015 :coffee: (will come back with the beer smiley when it's not half past eight!)

Honestly Ed, take a tip from me - get out as much as you can over the next few months & enjoy meals a deux: sit in comfortable silence or enjoy a simple uninterrupted conversation. Because before you know it, you'll be at the same eatery, with one of you quickly cutting food up into bite size mouthfuls to be eaten one handed with a fork whilst the other is standing up joggling a baby . And fast forward three years & you won't be able to get to the end of articulating an order for a kids meal deal before the wittering for a CBeebies app on the tablet drowns your voice out :eek: <not at all bitter or wistful for former status of DINKYs> :rotfl:

Happy new year Ed, 2015's going to be brill :T