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https://orchard.tesco.com/Jon@TheMoneyShed said:
It's really good. You get vouchers to 'try' certain things. I've had £4 steak voucher, £5 home, £22 Barnsley store vouchers, ready meals, Christmas puddings and pies, lots more...
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As well as the voucher for you, you also get vouchers to pass along to whoever you want. So the Barnsley lot, for example, came with 3 lots of £22 worth to pass out. But they were things like £3 off a £5 spend on fruit & veg and so on, and one per transaction.
I just booked next year's holiday. Over £3k. I think I must be insane.
Need to earn that by March then.
Need to earn that by March then.
Egypt.
Little girl starts school next September so it's out last year where we can go in term-time. I know in theory, you can get away with holidaying in term-time. But I don't want to. At least not at the minute... maybe in a couple of years I'll change my mind.
Little girl starts school next September so it's out last year where we can go in term-time. I know in theory, you can get away with holidaying in term-time. But I don't want to. At least not at the minute... maybe in a couple of years I'll change my mind.
Go!
I know it's a crazy attitude to have but my parents are only 55 and for the last 15 years my mum has had MS. They obviously had us kids young and couldn't afford to travel much while we were young. My dad so wanted to. Now mum has MS she won't fly, because she's embarrassed about being in a wheelchair. Even though I lived in Spain, had a baby there, nothing would make her fly... my sister and I both married abroad. No parents there. My dad's now taken early retirement.
I'm going to travel while I have the inclination to do so. Yeah, I don't really have the money... it'd be better paid off the mortgage. But what happens in 25 years when I have all the money and no memories, and no inclination to do what I always put off doing because of money.
Plus, the holiday is what keeps me motivated to work. When I have something to save for - I earn £750-£1200, when I don't, it's nearer £300. So the holiday is effectively free ;D
I know it's a crazy attitude to have but my parents are only 55 and for the last 15 years my mum has had MS. They obviously had us kids young and couldn't afford to travel much while we were young. My dad so wanted to. Now mum has MS she won't fly, because she's embarrassed about being in a wheelchair. Even though I lived in Spain, had a baby there, nothing would make her fly... my sister and I both married abroad. No parents there. My dad's now taken early retirement.
I'm going to travel while I have the inclination to do so. Yeah, I don't really have the money... it'd be better paid off the mortgage. But what happens in 25 years when I have all the money and no memories, and no inclination to do what I always put off doing because of money.
Plus, the holiday is what keeps me motivated to work. When I have something to save for - I earn £750-£1200, when I don't, it's nearer £300. So the holiday is effectively free ;D
stellajose said:
I love your attitude. My mum was diagnosed with lung cancer in June 2013 and died 3 months later. She was 59 and up until even July 2013 was outwardly as fit as a fiddle (avid walker, covering 10 miles a day etc). Life can indeed be short, so you need to embrace it. (She said, chained to her desk.)
Well yeah, I too am spending today sat at home earning (a rather paltry amount) online instead of taking my kids to the beach and spending it on ice cream...JennyJack77 said:
But I just picture my dad's face when I was young, all excited that at some point in the future he'd see Paris, New York, Egypt, wherever. And now he can't. And my DH, he's 48 and he's not as eager as me to travel the world. I worry that it runs out... haha.
I took my kids to Hawaii in December 2012. My youngest was only 10 months old. 21 hour flights each way. It was to attend my sister's wedding though but I'm so glad we were there.
I'm so sorry about your mum. That's horrible. My friend is going through the same - her dad has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer which has spread to the lymph nodes and elsewhere. Utterly shocking and heartbreaking.
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Thanks, it is indeed utterly shocking and heartbreaking - nothing at all can prepare you. When I write it down it sounds so matter of fact. But it will never be matter of fact. However, my mum was a bouncy lovely person and so we have to try to enjoy life. After all, as the late Mr Hicks once said, it's just a ride. So I say keep booking those holidays!
Ahhhh Jenny - I love your positive attitude. So sorry about your Mam.
Stellajose - no more pressing pause now eh, you need the cash for ya holiday
Where in Egypt? I went last year. Wasn't keen - won't go back.
Stellajose - no more pressing pause now eh, you need the cash for ya holiday
Where in Egypt? I went last year. Wasn't keen - won't go back.
Oh, really? The Holiday Village in Sharm el Sheikh. Where did you go?queen81 said:Ahhhh Jenny - I love your positive attitude. So sorry about your Mam.
Stellajose - no more pressing pause now eh, you need the cash for ya holiday
Where in Egypt? I went last year. Wasn't keen - won't go back.
We're going to Turkey in a few weeks.
We lived in Spain so keen to try new places. I absolutely adored Hawaii though - can't imagine anywhere ever topping there.
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stellajose said:Oh, really? The Holiday Village in Sharm el Sheikh. Where did you go?queen81 said:Ahhhh Jenny - I love your positive attitude. So sorry about your Mam.
Stellajose - no more pressing pause now eh, you need the cash for ya holiday
Where in Egypt? I went last year. Wasn't keen - won't go back.
We're going to Turkey in a few weeks.
We lived in Spain so keen to try new places. I absolutely adored Hawaii though - can't imagine anywhere ever topping there.
Where are you going in Turkey? I've had very limited travel experience but I loved Turkey when I went (I thought I wouldn't like it but was pleasantly surprised)...I went to Oludenizlagoon which was beautiful
Where did you live in Spain? I wanted to live in Spain once, not that i'm a fan of Spain but just wanted to try living and working in a different country. When I looked into it I found it can be very difficult to get work out there and many of the Spanish people are having to come to the UK to find work I went on holiday to Spain on my own one Christmas and New Year as I couldn't face the thought of spending it alone after a family crisis the year before. That was to Nerja and Funegirola..
I really think it's important to go and travel and do things while you still can
stellajose said:Oh, really? The Holiday Village in Sharm el Sheikh. Where did you go?queen81 said:Ahhhh Jenny - I love your positive attitude. So sorry about your Mam.
Stellajose - no more pressing pause now eh, you need the cash for ya holiday
Where in Egypt? I went last year. Wasn't keen - won't go back.
We're going to Turkey in a few weeks.
We lived in Spain so keen to try new places. I absolutely adored Hawaii though - can't imagine anywhere ever topping there.
Went to tirana aqua park in sharm. Was an assault (by a local) on a 13 year old girl on the complex during our stay. You just can't leave the complex unless you're in a taxi - I like to be able to potter about. Other things I wasn't keen on but I'll not go on. Oh, apart from the flight. 6 hours on the way back in a cramped plane. Not good.
Going to Side. I've heard lots about Olu Deniz, it looks gorgeous. Never been to Turkey before so quite excited to see some history, things like that. I haven't travelled that far either really... many places in Spain, all the Canaries, Balerics, and so on. Gibraltar (got married there), Morroco, and Hawaii. That's it.Darcey said:stellajose said:Oh, really? The Holiday Village in Sharm el Sheikh. Where did you go?queen81 said:Ahhhh Jenny - I love your positive attitude. So sorry about your Mam.
Stellajose - no more pressing pause now eh, you need the cash for ya holiday
Where in Egypt? I went last year. Wasn't keen - won't go back.
We're going to Turkey in a few weeks.
We lived in Spain so keen to try new places. I absolutely adored Hawaii though - can't imagine anywhere ever topping there.
Where are you going in Turkey? I've had very limited travel experience but I loved Turkey when I went (I thought I wouldn't like it but was pleasantly surprised)...I went to Oludenizlagoon which was beautiful
Where did you live in Spain? I wanted to live in Spain once, not that i'm a fan of Spain but just wanted to try living and working in a different country. When I looked into it I found it can be very difficult to get work out there and many of the Spanish people are having to come to the UK to find work I went on holiday to Spain on my own one Christmas and New Year as I couldn't face the thought of spending it alone after a family crisis the year before. That was to Nerja and Funegirola..
I really think it's important to go and travel and do things while you still can
I lived in Alicante. I studied Spanish at uni and as part of that I went on an erasmus placement at Alicante University. Then I met my now DH the first week. He was managing a bar (he's English). We got together and I never returned to the UK (and Uni) after my year was up. Had my daughter there but when I got pregnant again we decided enough was enough chasing money all the time and came back. I lived in a town inland and it was totally different to living on a coastal estate with my DH, where there are a high percentage of ex-pats.
Yeah it is difficult to get work... in the summer you can probably find bar work but that dies off in the winter and most ex-pats I know living there have some sort of pension income to live on, or they really work their socks off! Without my student loans and online earnings we really would have struggled.
That's so brave of you to travel alone. Not uncommon at all though - I know lots of people that return to the same place in Spain year after year, or even several times a year, alone. You really make friends easily. It's the one thing I miss tbh - the friends I made there. It's all a bit Eastenders (hopefully with less murder).
Definitely make the most of your life while you can.
50p earned so far today. I'm thinking I should give it up as a bad job and go to the beach. 8)