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milann said:Hope you enjoyed the daytime drinking session 😳…..I’ve heard it all now😡
Whats a water flosser 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)4 -
That water flosser sounds like a brilliant idea & would solve my 3 different sizes of flosser problem.
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Today didn’t pan out as planned. The GKs have a sickness bug so the Christmas market trip was abandoned. Mr SA suggested we go anyway but I wasn’t keen. It’s on every weekend until Christmas so we can go another week.I was a bit disappointed but it can’t be helped.I got the Christmas decorations out but I’m not putting them up until tomorrow. It feels a bit early but next Saturday is the Covid booster so fully expecting to feel dire again. I usually put the decorations up the first weekend in December. However the Christmas duvet is on🎄I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)3
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Mine will probably go up around Dec 17th. They used to go up Dec 24th but I've gone soft, but they come down 6th Jan. Any longer and I'd be taking them down on Boxing day. By 23rd Dec I am sick to the back teeth of hearing about Xmas, but by 24th I'm usually beginning to enjoy. It just seems to go on for so long I get really bored. But I mean really Xmas movies from 25th Sept is just really a step too far. My sons birthday is early Oct & getting a card seems to need to be done earlier each year. Not that it is as bad as his first few years when buying a card for a boy was virtually impossible. The week he was born the births locally were 6 boys to every girl. I landed up having to buy in Aug but once we moved up north I could go back to buying end of Sept.
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People have had their houses dressed up for Christmas since the Halloween gear came down here!
It's become a bit of a local "landmark " here. People bring their kids in by car to see the Christmas lights on the estate.
We put ours out today but we are far from the first.4 -
Sorry you missed the fair.
I was at a garden centre with a friend today & you have to walk through the garden centre to get to the cafe.
The stuff was so blooming expensive.I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.
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One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.3 -
I havent seen any Christmas decs up yet but I know a friends DD put hers up this week. Mine go up approx 5 days before Christmas and come down 1st Jan. This started when we used to have friends and GKs for new year and by the time the 1st came it was just easier to clear everything after visiting my Mum for her birthday on new years day and dropping the children at home.
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Can't believe Mr SA has managed to damage his scooter yet again.
We don't put our decorations up until second weekend in December otherwise I am sick of them by the time we get to Christmas Eve. Not many up around here yet.I’m a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on the Debt free Wannabe, Budgeting and Banking and Savings and Investment boards. If you need any help on these boards, do let me know. Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any posts you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button, or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.
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I’m normally fast asleep as this time but unfortunately wide awake waiting for an ambulance for Mr SA. He has fallen in the bath yet again. Estimated 7 hour wait for an ambulance. I woke up at midnight to go to the toilet to find him in there. I’m so annoyed with him 🤬 He’d had an accident and was trying to clean himself up, he knows this it what happens when he starts showering late at night, why does he keep doing it. I’m getting so fed up of the constant stress he causes.I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)4
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SA I am awake , I am so sorry you are having to deal with this yet again . Hope it’s less than 7 hours waiting time and that Mr SA is ok .Life is an adventure, never stop exploring.3
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