My journey to a debt free life

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Happy Birthday 🎉🎂🥂

Onebrokelady

Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone. I had the loveliest day yesterday and it was lovely to see DD1 at last. We had a really nice evening in the garden chatting about everything under the sun. There was a very funny couple of moments, my patio table and chairs are very old but seemed ok, anyway I sat down on my chair and it broke 🙀 the bottom of one of the legs snapped right off, then a few minutes later DD2 sat down and hers broke too 🙀I know we have both put a bit of weight on during lockdown but not that much 😀on further examination I discovered that they were just rotten. We brought the dining table chairs out instead and thankfully the table didn't collapse. I am going to have to invest in new chairs now because one was already broken, luckily the chair that DD1 sat on is a newer one that I bought from a local shop, it's a better made chair so is really sturdy

Today it's actually raining so I won't be doing much outside,I was hoping it might brighten up later but it doesn't look like it's going to. We have been out for a walk with B which was much more pleasant for her than the last few days have been, she was getting a bit too hot. I also have house stuff to do,I still haven't hoovered so will be doing that and I might try and clear the top of my craft desk today, it's looking very messy and the cat has taken to sleeping in amongst all the stuff that's on there, he can't be comfortable because it's mainly paper and plastic packaging 🤷‍♀️🙄 

I also need to do my banking and budgeting today,I need to pay the window cleaner and move some savings across into the saving accounts, it will be a reduced amount this month because it's DD1s birthday on the 8th, I gave her her card and money last night so it's already gone from my account, I just have to account for it now, I've also adjusted my signature to show the Stepchange payment has come out 😊

HairyHandofDartmoor

Onebrokelady said:

Omg I am so happy to report that DD got the job 🎉🎉🎉and was in fact top out of all the candidates. She is so happy and I am so pleased and relieved for her 😀 she really needs to start believing in herself, best birthday present ever 😀

That's fantastic news, well done to DD 🎉🎊. It will make her learn to drive too 🙂. When does she start?

HairyHandofDartmoor

Happy belated birthday for yesterday 🎊🎉🎈🎁🎂🍾🍸🍷🍰🍹. Your presents sound lovely and really thoughtful 🙂.

Onebrokelady

HairyHandofDartmoor said:

Happy belated birthday for yesterday 🎊🎉🎈🎁🎂🍾🍸🍷🍰🍹. Your presents sound lovely and really thoughtful 🙂.

HairyHandofDartmoor said:

Onebrokelady said:

Omg I am so happy to report that DD got the job 🎉🎉🎉and was in fact top out of all the candidates. She is so happy and I am so pleased and relieved for her 😀 she really needs to start believing in herself, best birthday present ever 😀

That's fantastic news, well done to DD 🎉🎊. It will make her learn to drive too 🙂. When does she start?

Thanks Hairy, She doesn't have a start date yet, she told them she could start at any time because although her degree isn't technically finished she was allowed to join the pre register for her governing body due to the NHS wanting people to work during the covid pandemic. They sent her lots of paperwork to fill out and then they will let her know, she has to have a DBS check and that can take a while, I dont think she will start before the end of june.

As for the driving she has been intending to learn for a while but doesn't particularly want to own a car because of the impact on the planet, unfortunately it's hard nowadays to get by without one, if she moves to Bristol like she wants to she wouldn't actually need one but for this job she will, I told her she could always get a little moped 😀

ladyholly

I dont know what your dd new job is but I did community care for a while and nearly always used a moped. It worked really well and the company paid my fuel exesl at the car rate as i dont think it ever occured to them that someone would use a moped. They did know I used the moped. It also had the advantage that it was much easier to park in crowded streets than a car.

Drawingaline

Congratulations to your dd!

Onebrokelady

ladyholly said:

I dont know what your dd new job is but I did community care for a while and nearly always used a moped. It worked really well and the company paid my fuel exesl at the car rate as i dont think it ever occured to them that someone would use a moped. They did know I used the moped. It also had the advantage that it was much easier to park in crowded streets than a car.

Thanks for the info,I will tell her of your experiences, she is going to be an Occupational Therapist 😊

Onebrokelady

Drawingaline said:

Congratulations to your dd!

Thankyou, I've been passing on everyone's best wishes 😊

Onebrokelady

Another grey day here but thankfully no rain. I have been really tired today so haven't done a lot apart from a load of washing and we went shopping for food. DD1 bought me some Montezumas giant chocolate buttons in my birthday hamper and they are sooooo nice,I can't stop eating them 🙀

In other news our tv packed up yesterday, my friend gave it to us a few months ago and it was old ( big clunky plasma tv) she gave it to me because it had a much bigger screen than the tv I normally use, it's been great but recently had started making a weird noise, we tracked this to where the cable plugged in and you would have to wiggle it to get it to switch on. No amount of wiggling would work yesterday and then I noticed a slight burning smell, so the tv was swiftly dragged out to the front garden, I've previously had an electrical fire in the house before this one that gutted my kitchen so I'm very paranoid around electrical appliances
I have never had a new television so today I decided that I would treat myself, my Mum had given me £200 for my birthday so I have used that to buy a new one,I put £99 towards it from my savings, we ordered it this afternoon and apparently it will be here between 19.00 - 23.00 hrs