DFW Advent Calendar 2007/Daily Chat Thread -12th Dec

Burlesque_Babe

HUGE HUGS for you Weller!!

always_amazed

hey weller,

thats great about the debt freeness, just sad you've had to go through all that... huge hugs!

and lucy, yep, I too smoke in this weather.... crazy scots.

Lucy1982_2

Ah being scottish is different, my Grandad is Scottish and he's a right hard nut! Loves going out in the cold. You not crazy! (well Scottish men do wear skirts so.....)

mrsspendalot

Oooh hubby has just come in and said we have £20 M&S vouchers from his work for Xmas pressie

Burlesque_Babe

good grief. I've had 5 calls in the last 2 days from companies offering consolidation etc. I thought they had all stopped a few months back (I've been TPS registered for a couple of years but it didn't stop the indian ones)

I do hate it when they say 'can I speak to Mr Keren29' - I said 'no Mr here'........'oh, what about Mrs Keren29?'........'nope not one of those either'........she sounded very flustered that she was talking to a Miss with a mortgage!!!

On a much less exciting note than Weller and Mrs Spendalots news - the spare bulbs arrived- and the donated tree lights work!!! I ended up using all 8 bulbs along the string and there are 2 still dead but they work luvverly!! There is someone selling a big mixed bag of them on ebay and the item is currently 6p and finishes tomorrow. I might go as high as 50p to snaffle them for Christmasses to come Just need to shove OH up the loft to get the tree.

I'm quite ashamed that at some point in my dim and distant non money savvy past I casually just dumped them in a box and went out and bought new ones just because a few bulbs had gone. I'd have been gutted if my ex had chucked them and then mentioned it - especially after I only paid £20 for some last week!

mrsspendalot

yay on your spare bulbs Keren!

always_amazed

I would love to be a Miss with a Morgage (sigh)...
....maybe one day! Was just chatting to my Dad, he bought his first house for £3000, which he paid for in full there and then. Sounds insane to me; just can't imagine it!!

Burlesque_Babe

My first house cost £45,000 and that was in 1992 - and that is a figure I now can't imagine being able to pay again - and we (me and the ex who donated the infamous tree lights) struggled like hell to keep our heads above water (some dark and desparate money related memories pop into my head now)

I have just realised I missed a trick - the third set of lights was dumped whilst I was there as the transformer rattled (oops) and they didn't work at all.......I should have had those as well and pulled all the bulbs out and sold them on Ebay!!!

Snaggles

Our house cost £36000 in 2000, and I am so glad we did buy it then, because there is no way we could afford it if we had to buy it again today (I think it's worth £110k-ish). It must be a complete nightmare trying to get on the property ladder at the moment. We live in an area where houses are still reasonably 'cheap' too (if you can call £110k cheap :eek:), so goodness knows how people in more expensive areas manage.

Toto

It's a flippin nightmare snags, this house would cost me around £330,000 and it's only a 3 bed town house... sigh.