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Teetering on the brink

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  • flamingo22
    flamingo22 Posts: 87 Forumite
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    If you're on Facebook there's groups around called before the tip' there's often quite a lot of sofas going around for free.
  • EatingBeans
    EatingBeans Posts: 548 Forumite
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    Well, I am still cleaning the sofa! 🤦‍♀️

    I can’t bring myself to buy a new sofa when I am so desperately digging myself out of debt so I opted to spend £29.99 on a new bottle of good quality upholstery cleaner and have been scrubbing away again with the carpet cleaner. I’ve cleaned it from all sides, including from underneath and I have scrubbed the floor too. It is all just drying and then I will give the seat covers and cushions another wash and dry before declaring it either fixed or in need of replacement. I am beyond exhausted so I’ve not been able to make an Olio run or do any surveys etc but I figured the cost of replacing a sofa was likely more than I could make in the time so it made sense to opt to scrub instead. 

    Oh and I should point out Big Dog has not peed in his crate so there is absolutely nothing wrong with him, he obviously was just having a moment. Normal housebroken behaviour has resumed thankfully. I suspect the second and third night behaviour was because he could smell where he had been before so he thought it was fair game. Unfortunately covid has rendered my sense of smell a bit hit and miss so I have to rely on other people to tell me if something smells. I always know something must smell very very bad if I can smell it! 
    End of
    Dec-24
    Sep-25

    Brother

    5,400.00

    7,800.00
    Overdraft owed 1,349.90 0.00
    MBNA CC 10,534.20 11,481.53
    Barclaycard CC 9,667.21 9,662.17
    Fluid CC 0.00 1,046.44
    NatWest CC 12,018.14 11,705.36
    Aqua 0.00 1,127.94

    Total debt

    38,969.45

    42,823.44
    Paid off in the month 211.33
     

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