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  • alt80
    alt80 Posts: 4,675 Forumite
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    Thanks all. 

    Will see what’s in store later from in-laws lol I doubt they will have listened to me ha. Son will like it tbf. 

    @getmore4less we are for the most part closing over the time between Christmas and new year. Always have. Hoping to finish off a drawing of my house alongside spending time with family.

    I’ve all but given up with getting her anything of a real source of income tbh is what it is. 

    @ladyholly I just want to give her a lifestyle she wants to have but I know where you’re coming from. Do have a bit of a sweet tooth tbf and not something I have often so I’m not complaining about cake might be after today though the count is already at 2 haha.
  • Grumpelstiltskin
    Grumpelstiltskin Posts: 5,806 Forumite
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    Happy birthday Alt, keep it up, watch the shops in Harrogate.
    If you go down to the woods today you better not go alone.
  • Purplelady65
    Purplelady65 Posts: 303 Forumite
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    Happy Birthday! 🎂🥳 Enjoy your special day! Enjoy people wanting to make a fuss of you and mark the occasion. 
  • Willowtree222
    Willowtree222 Posts: 8,341 Forumite
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    Happy birthday 🥳 
    September 2017 Debt = £25330

    Starting afresh.

    You can do anything if you put your mind to it. x
  • Four_Seasons
    Four_Seasons Posts: 940 Forumite
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    Happy Birthday Alt have a brilliant weekend.
  • theoretica
    theoretica Posts: 12,691 Forumite
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    Happy Birthday and Day 168 (168 = 24*7 the number of hours in a week!)
    But a banker, engaged at enormous expense,
    Had the whole of their cash in his care.
    Lewis Carroll
  • capuchin
    capuchin Posts: 94 Forumite
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    Happy birthday! Hope the next year brings good times. I love how you manage to stay so damned positive and put a spin on everything. Perhaps you could become an MP as a 2nd job haha.

    Re: the below: Is she all for show, or does she have a passion about something? (art, wine, whatever) Met the daughter of a rich dude once. She seemed like a spoiled brat to start, but once you got talking about her passion, she was really into it. Ended up not going far as a relationship, but she did set up a trust to get disadvantaged kids into art history and seemed to be working 24/7 on that.
    alt80 said:

    I’ve all but given up with getting her anything of a real source of income tbh is what it is. 

  • HoneyRoastedParsnip
    HoneyRoastedParsnip Posts: 67 Forumite
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    Happy Birthday and well done for your journey so far.

    The influencer life style looks hard to maintain but it's mainly fake. 
  • dawnybabes
    dawnybabes Posts: 3,592 Forumite
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    Happy birthday x
    Sealed pot challenge 822

    Jan - £176.66 :j
  • poppy811
    poppy811 Posts: 540 Forumite
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    Just Happy Birthday and a big well done!
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