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vandanfc wrote: »

Hi again

I am doing okay, had parents in law visiting for the weekend, so taking a rest now.

Have been busy reading this thread, it won June's post of the month :

Very long, but full of wonderful ideas, when you have 24 hours spare, sit down and have a read, its fab, will help with costs too.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=826653

Thanks hun,

had a quick look but realised i may need to concentrate so will have a look when the girls are in bed:D

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My beautiful, fabulous daughter didn't get through to her final, she was sooo upset:(

she is much happier now though, we have had loads of play and fun and i reminded her that the day after the finals she is off to disney world:D

We have just had a fab hour making a book for their daddy, its both hubby and my birthdays in the next two weeks and as we have no money, we are making him a book

the girls have done loads of pictures and stories about why they love him and we have put all the important dates down with photos.:D and i'm sure he will love it.

need to update my to do to list:cool: not that i have actually done anything on it.

Plus the tennis is finally back on, so i may need to roll this list over:D

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CHEAP_AS_CHIPS wrote: »

thought i should prehaps do a to do list, as slice the pie is off and i can not make any money:( . and the tennis is rained off:(

so to do

[STRIKE]do a load of washing[/STRIKE]

[STRIKE]put all clothes away upstairs[/STRIKE]

post ebay parcel

prepare listings for tommorow on ebay (so boring!)

prepare tonights dinner

[STRIKE]tidy bathroom[/STRIKE]

clean downstairs loo

how exciting am i!! :rolleyes:

Oops, didn't quite finish it then:rolleyes:

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CHEAP_AS_CHIPS wrote: »

i also need to make a list of all the things i need to do reclaim some charges back.:D

i will leave it until after the holiday as there is so much to do in preperation for that, mainly making money:rolleyes:

right so

Littlewoods

Next

Studio

Egg

northern rock

right i'm going back to my film, its a bit creepy:eek:

just thought i would update this a bit more


revist all my cashback and click sites as i have left these alone for ages

sign up to more survey sites.

keep all recipts and do a proper:o spending diary

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yeah, the tennis is back, boo andy is getting beat.

this is a hard one for me as i love nadal:o

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Morning all,

its friday!!!:D

got an email yesterday from that survey company we can not mention to say i've been accepted:beer:

Still really struggling money wise and its three weeks til payday and one day until our holiday.

i just wish our holiday spending money was sorted so that i could look forward to it as at the minute, iam just so worried and frightened about the money

we are doing a carboot sale on sunday, and we were hoping to get enough to last us the rest of the month for food but with the nursery fees, i just dont know what we are going to do.

i wish the scount rooms would open soon on slice the pie, i know its not alot, but if i can make £5.00 per day thats one weeks shopping:o

other than that i have a load of houswork to do, but i have run out of claen things:o i should hopefully be able to do a very small shop tommorow, about £30.00 for the 5 of us for the next week.

vandanfc

Hi

Hugs to your fab daughter, she at least had a lot of fun getting through to the stage that she did. There is always next time.

Don't forget that the dollar is at a good exchange rate just now, £1 is nearly $2.

Can you work out approx how much you will need and this may help put your mind at rest. I know you are going a long way and will want to do as much as you can, but if you haven't got the money you can't and getting stressed over not having the money will spoil the trip.

When you are deby free you can go again and splash out big style.

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vandanfc wrote: »

Hi

Hugs to your fab daughter, she at least had a lot of fun getting through to the stage that she did. There is always next time.

Don't forget that the dollar is at a good exchange rate just now, £1 is nearly $2.

Can you work out approx how much you will need and this may help put your mind at rest. I know you are going a long way and will want to do as much as you can, but if you haven't got the money you can't and getting stressed over not having the money will spoil the trip.

When you are deby free you can go again and splash out big style.

Thank you hun,

i have a bit of an update about the holiday...

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well, we have been given $1000 dollars from my parents in law:D :j

its a huge weight of our minds:o and obviously the more we can put to it the better.

now the ONLY problem is getting through the next 3 weeks, and when i worked out what we need i've realised how expensive we are.:rolleyes:

we will have £120.00 going into the bank next thursday and a chq should clear for £38.00, we have £100.00 in the bank and we are doing a car boot sale on sunday, so hopefully that will be

£360.00 if we make £100.00 at the boot sale and is that enough, no it blinking isn't:o

because of the situation with the nursery fees, that £150.00, hubby needs £70.00 per week petrol and his company is making him to go to derby on monday for which he needs £60.00 for one days petrol!, if i only spend £40.00 on food for us five than , that £320 for next week alone!!.

we the hell do we do for the other two.

my darling hubby has scared me by crying a while ago and saying he can not live like this any longer. we do we go from here

vandanfc

Maybe you will have to put the debt busting on hold for a while.

I know it won't help much, but do another soa.

Does hubby get his petrol costs reimbursed ? If not he may be better looking for alternative employment - not easy in this climate I know, but something has to be done to take away this pressure. Have you spoken to anyone like CCCS or Payplan about the best way forward with the debts ? Also double check with a Welfare Rights organisation that you are in fact getting maximum everything you can. If hubby's salary has gone down CTC should increase. What about childcare vouchers ?