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  • I'd say such a shame about your friend, but that's not a friend is it. Karma will bite her bum, it always does.

    Hope you're feeling better. You seem to suffer so much sickness, are you keeping a food diary?
  • Sorry to hear about the former friend... but think you're right about true colours, and that Willowtree is probably also right about her projecting blame onto you to avoid her own guilt. 
    Just looked at my budget and I've gone for £150/month for the dog and £100/month for the elderly cat, to cover everything and try to build up a savings pot again for each by this time next year.  Both would be more if I hadn't gone for lifetime insurance from the minute I got them, in fact the cat would be uninsurable by this point (she is a rescue with various issues).  They do get really good food because I think it saves on vet bills overall as well as gaining quality of life for them, and the dog is in her first year so has cost more in equipment.    I feel similar to WW and Buffy, they are my responsibility so they get the best I can do for them, if my situation changes then I would have to review it but for now this is where we're at.  They do work out to as much as my entertainment, eating out, clothes and petrol budget all put together though - never dared look at it like that before!  :#
    My petrol is 160  a month now, I don't have budgets for the rest! 

    I daren't think about how much the rabbits cost when I first got them. Really. 


    Nevertheless she persisted.
  • beanielou
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  • beanielou
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    If you remember we had another friend who showed their true colours  :(
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  • I'd say such a shame about your friend, but that's not a friend is it. Karma will bite her bum, it always does.

    Hope you're feeling better. You seem to suffer so much sickness, are you keeping a food diary?
    I think it is stress - I have an earache and sore throat, but am so wound up by the house the rabbits and work. This morning I wasn't going to work tomorrow Also I did spend about 10 years with much worse migraines and was sick at the drop of a hat so it is like a response to any illness... 
    Nevertheless she persisted.
  • Alchemilla
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    I sell hay by the bale but I think you're in the home counties so not much help. Xxx
  • I sell hay by the bale but I think you're in the home counties so not much help. Xxx
    The home counties is such a posh description for where I live but yes!  That is a shame! 

    You know Alchemilla, you could make a fortune out of selling hay to silly rabbit owners ;) 
    Nevertheless she persisted.
  • beanielou said:
    If you remember we had another friend who showed their true colours  :(
    Yeah, that was SO weird. so so weird. 
    Nevertheless she persisted.
  • I'd say such a shame about your friend, but that's not a friend is it. Karma will bite her bum, it always does.

    Hope you're feeling better. You seem to suffer so much sickness, are you keeping a food diary?
    I'd say such a shame about your friend, but that's not a friend is it. Karma will bite her bum, it always does.

    Hope you're feeling better. You seem to suffer so much sickness, are you keeping a food diary?
    Also, do you think it could have been a reaction to taking cocodamol? 
    Nevertheless she persisted.
  • beanielou
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    The feeling sick? YES.
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    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.

    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.
    ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.
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