January 2008 Grocery Challenge

tattycath

Lililou, I'm so sorry that this christmas has not been a happy one for you, and that the end of 2007 has turned out like this for you. However... If you hit rock bottom... the only way is up. Ring out the old and ring in the new and all that. So I sincerely hope that 2008 is a fantastic year for you and your family!!!
Take care and I hope everyone is now on the road to recovery.

tattycath

lililou wrote: »

Oh and our freezer defrosted in the middle of the night too so we've lost a lot of food that was in there. Do I sound miserable or what?

Yes you sound miserable, but if you were dancing on tables and thinking what a wonderful life after what you've just been through I would have been thinking
a) you're [STRIKE]pi[/STRIKE] drunk
b) you're mad
c) I should know you coz I'm mad too!!! lol

MRSMCAWBER

Lililou

Can you claim on your insurance for the freezer contents?

Hope thing improve for you soon..and hope little one is much better!

lililou

Thanks Tattycath
I should be more thankful actually because at least the baby is at home now and well on the road to recovery. Christmas just didn't happen this year:(

lililou

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Lililou

Can you claim on your insurance for the freezer contents?

Hope thing improve for you soon..and hope little one is much better!

TBH It just seems like too much hassle right now. The value wasn't great as a lot of it was homemade, just going to take a little while to build up again. I think it had been left open while we were in hospital. Think it's best to just write it off and not lose any claims bonus, if it works like car insurance????

lililou

Do you want to know what else happened while we were in hospital? Someomne hacked into my ebay account and listed a load of UGG boots, changed my contact eaddress and password....also hacked into my hotmail account and I''m still not into it yet. I am so annoyed with rip off merchants. I had to spend 3 hours changing all passwords, contacting bank, paypal and every website I had ever joined including all the cashback sites I had just joined on here recently. What an annoying waste of valuable time right now! Sorry just had to get all this off my chest. Fee better now:)

tattycath

Lililou:eek: what can I say. That's awful. You have had it rough haven't you. but as I said when you hit rock bottom-you can only go upwards!!!
Pleased you feel better now you've got that off your chest. If you think of anything else you'd like to share with us... only I'm going to bed in a minute :rotfl:
Seriously though. you take care. That's what we're here for - to support each other in bad btimes and be thrilled for each other in good times...
oh and err...
what was it now... err ...
oh I know do the grocery challenge of course!!!:rotfl:

lililou

oh yes, grocery challenge £60 a week! I'm determined to make this month really work!

rosieben

Lililou, what a rotten time you've had. I'm pleased that the lo is home and getting better now, and you'll get everything else sorted in due time. Read several posts on the ebay boards about the ugg boots scam, they must have had a real beano over the last few weeks!

When you're recovered and feeling more positive. how about planning a special late-christmas weekend? - have some nice eats, and a few pressies and just catch up a little of the christmas celebration you missed out on.

edited to add - link to ebay igg boots thread is here http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=653897

Doom_and_Gloom

EagerLearner wrote: »

Doom-and_gloom - that is just so sweet, made us both go 'aaaaaaw, 'me and 2 mice'! Well, I swear we have a mouse at home that eats all our leftovers, chocolate and wine

Well it's 2 mice at the moment. Unfortunatly it may go down to one (we did have 3 a while ago ) as the female has cancer and in a place we are sure is unoperable and if it is we don't have £50 we can pay for it :( so will have to pay £10.50 to put her down humanly instead of going through pain and the rest by letting her live with it (it's nearly the size of her head as it is unfortunatly).

Hehe about the mouse eating leftovers, chocolates and wines. I know mine eat my veg pealings (one reason I love having them) but I don't let them at chocolate or alcohol :rotfl: . Don't want a fat drunk mouse around aimlessly lol, might end up eating more than just left overs hehe.