Diary of my new life !!!

skint_spice

Glad you're feeling better and I hope DS hasn't caught it now. I'm sure you won't be able to keep him indoors if it does start snowing!

Karmacat

Hi benben

Glad you're on the mend, so miserable with a lurgy and still needing to look after DS too. I was sure I'd get something over the hol, with sitting in overheated/overcrowded trains for hours, but nothing so far. Still got another one today so it might still happen (sounds a bit like Eeyore, doesn't it, permanently expecting the worst).

Hope you *do* have a good day today, or at least don't get snowed on.

benbenandme

I decided that some fresh air would do ds good, so we wrapped up warm and went off to a local country park, it was lovely, a bit chilly but really nice and I'm glad we went. I am going to buy an annual car park pass next time we go, it costs £40 for unlimited usage for the year or £4.50 per visit otherwise. It works out at £3.30ish a month which is very good as there is loads of stuff there, they have a miniature steam railway :rolleyes: , a kiddie walk with loads of activities for them to do on the way round, several other walks of different lengths, cycle trails, bike hire, golf course, lake etc etc ... I reckon it would be a good investment for the summer holidays especially for those days when its not really hot enough for the beach. Its a great place for ds to ride his bike without having to worry about traffic, and he can run and run again without worrying about roads and stuff.

I stopped for petrol on the way (£15) and also nipped into Sainsburys and spent £3.50 but bought 4 selection boxes, a box of matchmakers, a bag of after eight minis, a 2 boxes of luxury choccy biscuits I know, I know, but ..... the selection boxes have 5 items in each and I always take a snack to work for break time, so they will be my January school snacks (£1 in total ), and the biscuits have a best before date of September so they will be put away for when visitors come

Just off to do a couple of surveys that came while I was out and try and earn a few pennies today towards the challenge

benbenandme

Its list-time again folks ....
Before we go back to school on Monday I need to do the following .....

• Bank a cheque
• Haircuts for me and ds
• Send some stuff back to Next
• Ds thankyou letters from xmas
• Get more stuff on ebay
• Re nametag ds school uniform (all seem to have come off :mad: )
• Name ds lunchbox
• Move credit card money from current account to a savings account
• Take xmas tree to the recycling (plonked in the garage at the moment)
• Return a jumper
• Assemble new furniture when it arrives on saturday
• Chase up M&S sale order :mad:

Thats all I can think of at the moment but I'm sure I'll add to it over the next couple of days ...

benbenandme

One of the two items I listed last night has just sold on a buy-it-now for £8 ... I bought it in the sales for £2.99 :j :j ... might just motivate me to stick some more bits on there

benbenandme

Its freezing outside :eek: :eek: Just got back from having ds haircut £6.20 I also bought some cheese, ham and bread £3.50 and a family calender reduced to £1.25 :beer:
Back home in the warm now for a bit more tidying to be done, more ebaying to be done, more vegging on the sofa to be done ......

MushyPeas

benbenandme wrote: »

One of the two items I listed last night has just sold on a buy-it-now for £8 ... I bought it in the sales for £2.99 :j :j ... might just motivate me to stick some more bits on there

That's great benben! Did you buy the stuff specially in the sales to sell on ebay? Well done

benbenandme

I bought it in woolies sale ages ago and stuck it in my present box, and when I sorted through the box yesterday I realised I'd bought 2 of them the same so stuck one on ebay

Just when I had finally got my @rse in gear an decided to get on with some serious ebaying this afternoon .... my camera has jammed :mad: :mad: :mad: It was fine last night :rolleyes:

benbenandme

My other ebay item has just sold now too !!! :beer: I'm really chuffed as I only put them on there last night, I just want to get more stuff on there now :mad:

Keeping_Motivated

Do you put them on as 'buy it now' prices?