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What's the BEST thing to happen to you today????

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  • icka
    icka Posts: 216 Forumite
    Well done Lucy, it may not be alot but its above average these days. And a pay rise is still a pay rise no matter how small.
    Thread softly becuase you thread on my dreams
  • Uniscots97
    Uniscots97 Posts: 6,687 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Meeting up with a good friend for lunch (I haven't seen her since Christmas) and she gave me my favourite body lotion as my birthday present!
    CC2 = £8687.86 ([STRIKE]£10000[/STRIKE] )CC1 = £0 ([STRIKE]£9983[/STRIKE] ); Reusing shopping bags savings =£5.80 vs spent £1.05.Wine is like opera. You can enjoy it even if you don't understand it and too much can give you a headache the next day J
  • candygirl
    candygirl Posts: 29,455 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Finishing work at 3.20pm:D :D
    "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf"

    (Kabat-Zinn 2004):D:D:D
  • singingsea
    singingsea Posts: 4 Newbie
    Reading these and realising there is light at the end of the debt tunnel!
  • *MF*
    *MF* Posts: 3,113 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    *MF* wrote: »
    ... taking someone home from hospital.

    I was wrong...

    I don't own the newest nor flashiest of cars, but it has one over-riding good point - it is reliable.

    So ... on the way to the hospital (30 miles away), what happens, it stalls, overheating, push to the side of the road, text ahead - I'll be late.

    Get it going again, get to the hospital, then have to find a wheelchair, hospital is a rabbit warren, find out that there are two lifts, one goes to some floors, the other lift goes to every other floor - finally get wheelchair, having been on every floor, and nearly every ward in the hospital (some more than once, lol), finally get back to the car - and just pray it starts, in fact pray for every inch (and I mean every inch) of the journey back, particularly at traffic lights, roundabouts, and junctions as I rev the engine to keep it going, while watching the temperature gauge climb.

    What was the best thing to happen to me today - making it back safely without breaking down again - or maybe - I should spend some time consideringthis - it was having every prayer answered.

    Tough as life often is - I hope YOU have your prayers answered - the important ones.
    If many little people, in many little places, do many little things,
    they can change the face of the world.
    - African proverb -
  • JAMIEDODGER
    JAMIEDODGER Posts: 4,339 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    recieving a letter to say my application for clubcard plus has been accepted!!!:D this means my points should rise even quicker!!!
    November NSD's - 7
  • jack92
    jack92 Posts: 244 Forumite
    Couple of good things have happened to me today. I received a few compliments at parent/toddler about the blouse I was wearing :D Also, was offered a mystery shopping assignment which I accepted :j - I haven't been offered any for ages and I really, really need the extra cash at the moment.

    Nicola
  • Cornishpixie_2
    Cornishpixie_2 Posts: 756 Forumite
    I was informed would have to pay for course I wanted to do. I didn't have the money, but today I was paid back dated Tax Credits, hence just enroled:j
    Grocery challenge june £300/ £211-50.
    Grocery challenge july £300/£134-85.
  • purply
    purply Posts: 391 Forumite
    Today my ex landlady rang me and told me that she is going to send a cheque to me and OH for £105 because we recommended a friend to them!

    We've always raved about our ex rented flat and now we have been paid for it-I have to say they are a very good company.
    Thing is we didnt even know that they had this scheme going, so its a really pleasant surprise.
    Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
  • Holeypockets
    Holeypockets Posts: 470 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Got accepted for a Capital One card with 4000 limit at 0% for 10 months.
    This will help my debt free planning.
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