~Make £10 a day May 2015 challenge ~ in memory of PrincessMelody2009

Azzzaa

After a quiet long bank holiday weekend in Devon i'm back in action and this evening have made £35 in Facebook sales and put 3 more items up on eBay PAYDAY TOMORROW!!!

Surfchik80

Juststartingout - so sorry. Never easy, but glad you managed to acquire some (useful) memories

Aesop and carbootcrazy - well done! Just goes to show what can be achieved.

Been busy packing and selling this end too. Another £20.94 from sales, £5 swag bucks payout and the mobile expressions app I downloaded a week ago has credited enough for a £5 Amazon voucher, but I think I'll wait another few weeks to get the £10 one instead. I'm thinking it will help keep my momentum up when I start all over again for June!

Move on Monday, so hoping I can shift a few more bits and bobs before then. Less to haul around...not that I'm allowed to haul much at 5 months pregnant! Tea maker extraordinaire

Final push over the weekend everyone - good luck!

Emzilla

Another £32.67 overtime earned today.

Emz xx

Samiszel

£67 extra work today

JustStartingOut

thank you everyone for your condolences
Didn't mean the post to sound so money grabbing!:o
Just thought it was relevant to this post with money saving etc as was going to buy some of those things anyways!
OH decided to make lasagne in the large pie dish I acquired. He can wash it...everything has stuck to the bottom :rotfl:
Think I may ban home made lasagne, hasn't worked out well for us recently!

End of the month (almost) and have to say well done to everyone. you have all been an inspiration to me. :T
Need to make up enough next month to make up unpaid leave for my time off, and for the funeral in a couple of weeks, one day bereavement leave is ridiculous for a grandparent (not immediate family apparently) :mad:


Looking forward to the new challenge
xx

Aesop

your post didn't sound money grabbing!

You sounded very sensible and you have memories of your Grandad by having some of the items he used, and why waste what you can use?

I think it is fab you found stuff that you could take and use. When mu husband's Nan died, his sister was giving away a brand new sofa as they didn't have time to sell it or store it. She offered it to us but as we live a long way, she said to send it in a van would cost too much money.

Well done on all you have achieved. And agree about time off for funerals, employers have very strange rules.

JustStartingOut

Aesop wrote: »

your post didn't sound money grabbing!

Thank you! It was one of those moments, where I read the post back and was like oh no that sounds wrong, what must they (you lot) be thinking of me :rotfl:

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I don't think anybody would have thought anything bad at all, JustStartingOut. In fact it shows what a nice person you are that you're even worried that we might. It's nice to have things to use that belonged to someone special. I still use some of Mum's kitchen odds and ends most days, they never fail to bring back happy memories of her:).

I agree with Aesop on employers' having strange rules for bereavement leave. My aunt and uncle were both teachers in the same Grammar School (in the early 1970s) and were not allowed to take the same day off together when my uncle's cousin died! Obviously my uncle went (with loss of a day's pay as not a 'close'relative), it was his cousin's funeral, but my aunt couldn't go. Neither of them minded losing a day's pay, they just wanted the time off to go together as this cousin had been very close to them (was their best man at their wedding, godparent to one of their children etc). But the Head said "no":eek:. It was only for the one day but he made a big thing about getting cover for them (can't think why, there were always plenty of Supply Teachers about) and they taught different subjects anyway so it wasn't a case of a whole department being decimated. Jobsworth:mad:

Surfchik80

Totally agree with the others JustStartingOut - not all all money grabbing! I think people tend to put a lot of pressure on themselves when they lose a loved one to be seen to be handling their belongings in a whiter than white way. No personal gain or profit for example, as if it's somehow disrespectful or a 'dirty' thing.

In reality, I've never spoken to anyone on the subject that hasn't expressed a wish that their personal things not be either put to good use after their time, taken as memories or simply and with quite a blase attitude usually, for it to be "just get rid of it!"! I know I certainly wouldn't want my stuff wasted or binned if it could help someone.

If they're loved ones, they'd want it to benefit you, not burden you! Your approach is 110% acceptable

Emzilla

Another £41.74 overtime added today.

Emz xx