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Diary of my new life !!!

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  • mollymunchkin
    mollymunchkin Posts: 956 Forumite
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    Good luck with the car boot, I might do one too if ex-OH will have DS. Are you taking your DS with you? If you are he must be an angel because I'd never be able to take mine with me (he's 3).
    Cos I don't shine if you don't shine.
  • benbenandme
    benbenandme Posts: 12,365 Forumite
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    Yeah I will be taking him with me, he's supposed to be at his dads this weekend but he's still on holiday so I get an extra weekend :D I took him with me last time and he was pretty good, he saw it all as a game of shops and I took his play till and kept giving him the odd penny to put in it ;) He helped bring people to the stall and they chatted to him which then gave me the opportunity to sell ;):D The only problem is if he gets hungry / wants the loo etc ... I'm going to take some food with us ;) The only other hiccup is when he sees me selling some of his old toys and of course he deides he really can't live without them, even though he hasn't played with them for yonks :rolleyes: At the moment he wants a new train for his train set, so I will tell him that if we get some pennies for his old toys then he will have some pennies to get new toys :D
    Mortgage Total: £51,549 / £75,000
    Mortgage Overpayments Pot £1263
  • mollymunchkin
    mollymunchkin Posts: 956 Forumite
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    Ooh he's good if he lets people have his old toys. Mine always seems to find my pile of car boot stuff and drags most of his old toys back out.:rolleyes:
    Cos I don't shine if you don't shine.
  • benbenandme
    benbenandme Posts: 12,365 Forumite
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    We've had a lazy afternoon, I spent most of it listening to the footie on the radio, but my team were relegated :confused::confused: After that we made some fairy cakes to cheer us up ;):D

    I've had a bath and done some washing too, and am all set for the car boot in the morning. I'll be going to bed nice and early tonight as we need to leave here by 6:30am :eek: :eek: then again, ds is normally awake about then anyway, so we'd probably be up by then even if we weren't going out, but it does seem a criminal time to be out and about on a sunday morning :rolleyes:
    Todays spends have just been €2.49 on bread, ham and alphabetti :D
    Mortgage Total: £51,549 / £75,000
    Mortgage Overpayments Pot £1263
  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,485 Forumite
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    Good luck tomorrow at the car boot, I'm just starting to get things sorted out for one myself. really need to get into DS's room and chuck out all the broken toys while he's at his dad's...maybe tomorrow...
    Mortgage OP 2025 £6750/7000
    Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000

    Mortgage balance: £35,463

    Declutter 16/244

    Money making challenge £58/400

    ”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)
  • benbenandme
    benbenandme Posts: 12,365 Forumite
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    I've been playing around with some numbers while Britains got talent was on.... please excuse the following geekiness, but it is all handy stuff for me to know :o:o:o .....

    My mortgage currently is €340 a month, of which €236 is interest :eek: This works out at €7.61 a day in interest (31 day months) / 32p an hour or €7.86 a day (30 day month) / 33p an hour.

    Including the repayments to the actual mortgage debt, my mortgage costs me €10.96 per day (31 day months) / 45p an hour or €11.33 per day (€30 day months) / 47p an hour.
    Mortgage Total: £51,549 / £75,000
    Mortgage Overpayments Pot £1263
  • tigzem
    tigzem Posts: 2,361 Forumite
    Good luck for 2moro.... I'm all packed and ready. I'm leaving at 6.30 too, why do car booty's start so early????

    xxx
    "Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." Edmund Burke
  • benbenandme
    benbenandme Posts: 12,365 Forumite
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    Good luck to you too Tigz !! :beer: Lets hope we both come home with lots of money and empty cars ;):D
    Mortgage Total: £51,549 / £75,000
    Mortgage Overpayments Pot £1263
  • Keeping_Motivated
    Keeping_Motivated Posts: 3,653 Forumite
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    Yeah good luck to you both. I hope people are not grabbing things before you have chance to unpack them :eek: :D

    KM x
  • hypno06
    hypno06 Posts: 32,296 Forumite
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    Good luck for the car boot! you will make loads of 47p's :D
    Successful women can still have their feet on the ground. They just wear better shoes. (Maud Van de Venne)
    Life begins at the end of your comfort zone (Neale Donald Walsch)
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