We`ll be donating a fiver, can`t use a bankcard cos we can`t have one since our finances are screwed, so we`ll just have to find a collection box. On the 15th we were in court for eviction, and there was a very real chance we could have lost our home and ended up on a caravan site. The case has been ajourned until the 8th Feb. We`ll get to keep the house because of this years events (tough year) and we are working with a debt charity, but know matter what our situation is, I know we are lucky enough to be living in a country where if the worse comes to the worse, we won`t be looking at complete homelessness and all the diseases the people who have been hit by this disaster are looking at.
So I`m damn well going to make sure we can spare a fiver.
Venusxxx
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With you on that Fruity. I`m so fucked off with organising everything for everyone else, I`m blowing off everything and everybody on New Years Eve......and that was supposed time for me to have some fun. I just can`t be bolloxed to wipe everyone elses arses for them in order to get some fun for the New Year.
Fuck it all.
Venusxxx
Fuck it all.
Venusxxx
I love Christmas.........done with the right spirit. I`ve had too much going on on the sidelines to have been able to put much effort in this year (not enough hours in the day) but I intend to make future Christmases count, in a way which is valuable to me and mine. Presents will be restricted to home made, or purchases from charity shops, and we will get together with our immediate family, and play games, make deccys and generally eat ourselves stupid, regardless of the marketing, or religious connotations!
I`d like my kids to grow up appreciative of what they have, and not whether they can go back to school in January to tell thier mates that they recieved an Xbox for Christmas!
Venusxxx
I`d like my kids to grow up appreciative of what they have, and not whether they can go back to school in January to tell thier mates that they recieved an Xbox for Christmas!
Venusxxx
Quote by Alexandra
Alex hun,i know what you just got the text saying that she had to put the message on,so she did.
They'll probably be back tomorrow,but for Calista a day away is a long time
BTW Clare says don't shoot the messenger :shock:
S'ok Steve - I wasn't having a dig.
Just seemed odd to start a thread just about being absent for only a day or so.
Oh, it always starts out as a day or two...................
Venusxxx
Quote by VixWhen I was over there, I horrified my sister in law by the way I treated the money. Screwed up in little balls in my pockets. I just couldn`t take it seriously! Ah well, they feel the same about our notes.
I thought it was interesting.
On a similar note, US coins are a pain in the butt as they have no numbers on them, other than a year, sometimes.
OK, they call one cent coins 'pennies', but then there are dimes and nickels. WTF are they? I could figure out what a quarter is, but you shoulda seen me trying to buy cigs (not fags) over there. Money? Feck it. I told my brother-out-law that it didn't matter, as it was just Monopoly money, anyway. He's just about speaking to me, now.
Horrified her by telling the waitress at a bar in NY that I was stepping outside to have a fag too
This would be the Irish bar which didn`t sell Guinness or Murphys.......
Venusxxx
Quote by steveg_nw
The post count is a very useful tool to some people and I wouldn't like to see it disappear but when I see threads started with "I've reached the big 50" I do tend to despair. I despair even more when I see people congratulating them for it.
Steve
And now I`m back! Life can`t get much better can it Steve?! :bounce: :twisted:
Venusxxx
MQ, you are a bad person and must be punished!!
Well as much as I stand on my soapbox slagging off the latest commercialised aspect, I will hold my hand up to hating one `traditional` Christmas sentiment...............
I really hated hanging the decorations the kids made at playschool on the tree....
THEY LOOK LIKE CRAP!
Venusxxx
Well as much as I stand on my soapbox slagging off the latest commercialised aspect, I will hold my hand up to hating one `traditional` Christmas sentiment...............
I really hated hanging the decorations the kids made at playschool on the tree....
THEY LOOK LIKE CRAP!
Venusxxx
That`s kinda how it worked with us when we started out.........still does 17 years down the line!
Some of my Aunts have gotten wise to me spending monetary gifts on stuff the kids/house need, so they tend to stick with pampering gifts for my birthday, and cash for Christmas!
This year is going to be good. I replaced my dead father-in-laws armchair with a Christmas tree (I loved the symbolism), and am finally able to give MIL the Christmas she deserves
Er yeah, goodwill and all that!
Venusxxx
Some of my Aunts have gotten wise to me spending monetary gifts on stuff the kids/house need, so they tend to stick with pampering gifts for my birthday, and cash for Christmas!
This year is going to be good. I replaced my dead father-in-laws armchair with a Christmas tree (I loved the symbolism), and am finally able to give MIL the Christmas she deserves
Er yeah, goodwill and all that!
Venusxxx
What the hell is wrong with people?! 1000 pound loans to cover Christmas expenses?! Entire news items on the cost and stress of `keeping up with Christmas`?! Does anyone have any idea what the average child has spent on them for Christmas presents?! Of course you do, some of you who are spending this amount are reading this now! STOP IT! 
I`d like to add at this point that I am spending less than 100 quid on the season, and my electricity bill is safe for all my decorations are on the insideof the house whereIcan enjoy them. If the neighbours are somewhat alarmed at the `black hole` which is our house at the end of the cul-de-sac, they are more than welcome to fork out for the cost of running all that tack!
Even the school news letter referred to Christmas as `coming back with a vengence`! WTF?! :shock:
Is everyone trying to provide thier kids with the kind of Christmas others are providing thier kids? If so, when does it end?
I haven`t done my shopping yet, can`t be arsed, but when I do, I know I can fit it into a day. I have bought one present, and a pack of cards, and for practical reasons the kids are getting pretty good presents.....two of which are unwanted items from friends, hasn`t cost me a penny.
They`ll be bloody grateful too, for that`s how I raised them, they were grateful last year too, when one recieved some lego, and another a coat, and some Claires accessory crap. The PC I am currently using was from a Christmas where we decided noone in the family would get a present, we would all chip in for the PC instead.
So Christmas is all about giving? Ask yourself this;
Would you expect anyone to have to take out a 1000 loan in order to buy you and others a present matching todays standard? I think not.
Me? I`ve always been more than happy with something nice for the bath, something to pamper myself with. It doesn`t cost a fortune! That`s what I`ll be getting my mum!
Venusxxx
I`d like to add at this point that I am spending less than 100 quid on the season, and my electricity bill is safe for all my decorations are on the insideof the house whereIcan enjoy them. If the neighbours are somewhat alarmed at the `black hole` which is our house at the end of the cul-de-sac, they are more than welcome to fork out for the cost of running all that tack!
Even the school news letter referred to Christmas as `coming back with a vengence`! WTF?! :shock:
Is everyone trying to provide thier kids with the kind of Christmas others are providing thier kids? If so, when does it end?
I haven`t done my shopping yet, can`t be arsed, but when I do, I know I can fit it into a day. I have bought one present, and a pack of cards, and for practical reasons the kids are getting pretty good presents.....two of which are unwanted items from friends, hasn`t cost me a penny.
They`ll be bloody grateful too, for that`s how I raised them, they were grateful last year too, when one recieved some lego, and another a coat, and some Claires accessory crap. The PC I am currently using was from a Christmas where we decided noone in the family would get a present, we would all chip in for the PC instead.
So Christmas is all about giving? Ask yourself this;
Would you expect anyone to have to take out a 1000 loan in order to buy you and others a present matching todays standard? I think not.
Me? I`ve always been more than happy with something nice for the bath, something to pamper myself with. It doesn`t cost a fortune! That`s what I`ll be getting my mum!
Venusxxx
Quote by Calista
oh no it's too late ... I sent mine off this morning
How do I resolve this problem :cry:
BTW VnM it is sooooooooo good to see you back
Oh Calista, you didn`t?!
All I can suggest is that if you ever bump into a Phil Silvers lookalike, but who happens to be sporting a lucious pair of boobs, then kill it, and kill it quick
Right, it`s Friday, I`m online, and it`s been a tough week.
I`m off down the shop for a bottle of wine! :twisted:
Venusxxx
I`ve only been on for about two minutes, and already I spotted a scam.
PLEASE DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES OFFER YOUR SENSE OF HUMOUR TO NEIL IN LEEDS, OR OFFER TO FIND HIS FOR HIM............HE IS NOT WHAT HE SEEMS.
He has not lost his sense of humour, his good sense of humour, or in fact his very good sense of humour. He collects them under false pretenses. I know this as he still has mine
I am not quite sure what he does with the senses of humour he collects, but due to the lack of monetary demands, I suspect he is currently cloning the DNA from my humour for nefarious sex purposes :shock: :shock: :shock:
I`d even go as far as to suggest that he may even cross-clone my DNA with Sarges in order to make some kind of Sarge/Venus hybrid, sick bastard that he is :shock:
DO NOT LET THIS MAN TAKE YOU IN. HE ACTIVITIES MUST BE STOPPED, AND HIS SEXUALLY DEVIANT CREATIONS DESTROYED!!!
Consider yourselves warned!
Venusxxx
PLEASE DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES OFFER YOUR SENSE OF HUMOUR TO NEIL IN LEEDS, OR OFFER TO FIND HIS FOR HIM............HE IS NOT WHAT HE SEEMS.
He has not lost his sense of humour, his good sense of humour, or in fact his very good sense of humour. He collects them under false pretenses. I know this as he still has mine
I am not quite sure what he does with the senses of humour he collects, but due to the lack of monetary demands, I suspect he is currently cloning the DNA from my humour for nefarious sex purposes :shock: :shock: :shock:
I`d even go as far as to suggest that he may even cross-clone my DNA with Sarges in order to make some kind of Sarge/Venus hybrid, sick bastard that he is :shock:
DO NOT LET THIS MAN TAKE YOU IN. HE ACTIVITIES MUST BE STOPPED, AND HIS SEXUALLY DEVIANT CREATIONS DESTROYED!!!
Consider yourselves warned!
Venusxxx
I just spent the last hour or so ripping BT a new one. Threatened to close my entire account, use my mobile, told them I wouldn`t be paying various charges, and demanded a refund on other charges......... (thanks Jas 
)
Suddenly I find myself online :mrgreen:
Who remembers us, and what have we missed?!
Venusxxx
)Suddenly I find myself online :mrgreen:
Who remembers us, and what have we missed?!
Venusxxx
