The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Fleecewife on April 28, 2016, 11:52:44 am
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Say you had £1,000 :celebrate:, to be spent in the next 3 months, on anything except the smallholding 8). How would you indulge yourself? :thinking: Just dreaming....
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A weaving loom and loads of embroidery silk because crafts are the other passion in my life. And probably loads of books too.
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Maybe a very nice spinning wheel and a hot stone massage
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Excluding the smallholding kind of narrows my options...
What I need is a new car but as that's to get to the holding, I'll exclude that.
So probably a holiday as Mrs B. Could really do with a break currently...
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You mean I'm not allowed to buy a set of harrows? I don't know!
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My bestest friend in the world is getting married in Cuba next year. I would book a ticket to Cuba :hug:
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I still have £1500 to raise to finish the school in Tanzania I am raising money for ... so I will indulge myself in the knowledge that 4 to 6 year olds in a remote village in Tanzania will have a school to study in soon :excited: (and I might not have to do the cycling over a Welsh mountain!!!)
http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/LindaTame (http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/LindaTame)
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I would give it to Jim to get his broken front tooth capped (biting into an apple!) knowing that should he have an unexpected thousand pounds he would think of me first!
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Similarly, if it came unexpectedly I'd split it three ways with my son and daughter
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I would buy a nice picture.
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I am probably going to spend that - taking my girls to Paris in the October break... for a bit of culture, food and city experience...
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Did we all get £1,000, or only one of us?
If we all did, I think I'd give Linda £500 so her Tanzanian school thing is funded, then look at one of those sites where you loan money to projects in Africa for the other £500.
That's made me realise how very lucky I am.
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It's bizarre that with a simple question like that I realise I dont have a need for £1000.00 and if I had it I would probably find a way to give it away.
Maybe add to Rustyme phone top up :innocent:
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Brilliant all - keep 'em coming.........
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I'd buy a corgi.
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I'd buy a corgi.
For £1000? Bloody expensive dog! :innocent:
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I'd buy a corgi.
You mean another corgi. ::)
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I'd buy a new back door (weather and pigs have all but destroyed the current one) and replace a couple of windows :gloomy:
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(http://www.kayaksandpaddles.co.uk/canoe/kayak/uk/shop/productpages/valley-sea-kayaks/images/valley-etain-rm-2.jpg)
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a cattle float
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a cattle float
Sorry, that's a smallholding item - disallowed!
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If I can spend it on the house which is on the holding then I need soundproof and windproof double/triple glazed windows, the broken harling stripped and replaced and a back door that opens and doesn't have a hole in it (former catflap with no flap!). The first two would probably be more than £1000 each but either one would be good.
If not then it would go to paying off one of several large debts, excluding the hay bill as smallholding related, that would be the car mechanic who I probably owe twice that to right now..
Exluding both house and car as holding related, could I pay for a holiday if it included a holding sitter? I haven't been away on a real holiday since 2006, just odd weekends with relatives/friends or a few days on other friend's holdings working for my keep. Oh and I had a day and a half spare in Rome in Feb 2012 while attending an exam.. I could REALLY do with a genuine nonworking holiday somewhere warm with loads of walking routes and decent veggie friendly food! I was planning a trip for my 50th but it never happened, I was just at the gym and feeding the cuddies as usual.
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I'd buy a corgi.
For £1000? Bloody expensive dog! :innocent:
OK, I'd buy two corgis then.
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a cattle float
Sorry, that's a smallholding item - disallowed!
oops a Siamese kitten or two :love:
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What a lovely thing that would be :) I would take my parents to see a famous mozzarella maker in Italy and tour around the buffalo farms there. They have always wanted to go and I hope to take them when I have more funds :excited: Plus a nice glass of red, mozzarella galore and loads of handsome italians, what more could a girl ask for? :innocent:
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Give £500 to each daughter as a start towards a property deposit for each of them.
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Treat Mrs RTB to a nice holiday
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I still don't know...
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get the pond landscaped and planted up with lovely things.
I am thinking that's not smallholding related as it is not part of the house or a necessity for the livestock....... But a total indulgence.
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Right now I'd pay that for a day off!
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I still don't know...
you could go on a wine and food tour in the medoc and buy good quality wine, meals in local places only cost 15 € per person, including wine. look at rick steins long weekends episode 1 :)
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a big umbrella ;D
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I've been looking at gas cookers as ours is so small but all the cheaper ones have drop down front doors so £1000 would go towards that and also buy Mr MGM a new hi-fi cabinet for no reason other than he wants one.
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Even though I posed the initial question, I simply can't decide what to spend mine on. It needs to be something which is a bit of a treat, not something I would routinely do, but what :thinking: I don't think I would want to buy a thing, because my house is full to bursting with things; I don't like eating out, drinking alcohol, having my body pampered, theatre, art galleries or any of those things. I might like to go to the Science museum in London, but even with travel from Scotland, accommodation etc I wouldn't spend a grand on that. Sure I would give some of it away, but the idea is mainly to spend it on oneself.
I think I'm in the 'I don't actually need £1,000' category, as my main likes and happiness come from where I live, who I live with :love: and our smallholding :farmer: :sheep: :dog: :chook: :garden: :tree:. Oh dear, what a sad git I am :roflanim:
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I think that is brilliant fleecewife and not sad at all! I think if someone has everything they need and really want then if you have some left over maybe give it to someone who has less than they need? like the poor children in tanzania which need a school.
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If any of you have £1000 that you don't want / need, I'll happily take it off your hands. Because you can never have too many corgis. ;)
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If any of you have £1000 that you don't want / need, I'll happily take it off your hands. Because you can never have too many corgis. ;)
Our neighbours when I was growing up had a corgi called Judy, which spent all her time on the kitchen rocking chair. Every few years she would suddenly get smaller and cuter, then grow big again - but I was always assured it really was Judy :dog:
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My son's puppy ... for you Rosemary
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Any more corgis Rosemary and we shall have to call you Ma'am!!
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I'd pay someone to come clean my shed and house while I watched and made sure they didnt throw anything good away.
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I'd pay someone to come clean my shed and house while I watched and made sure they didnt throw anything good away.
I like that idea :thumbsup:
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Me too :innocent: :excited: :thinking:
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I'd have a ....... mm let me think.....no can't think of anything, perhaps someone to spring clean my house and the rest I would give B.A.R.K as I always want to adopt the cats and dogs from there but really can't have anymore, so although not strictly for me it would give me a warm fuzzy feeling. In fact scrub the spring cleaning they can have the lot. :cat: :cat: :dog: :dog:
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If any of you have £1000 that you don't want / need, I'll happily take it off your hands. Because you can never have too many corgis. ;)
Same here. Not corgis obviously ;) but the offer to divest yourself of unwanted cash is open - you can even exchange it if giving feels too embarrassing - maybe have a nice holiday in North Fife and go golfing at St Andrews, tour the palaces of Falkland and Scone, lots of hill and woodland walking and a few smallholding chores if it makes you feel at home.. Free massage as a bonus feature if you don't want the place to yourselves, in which case I'll get my holiday and you'll get to feel very good on all fronts, fresh eggs and fruit/veg on site..
Open to offers, tho sadly no dogs (even corgis) due to free range cats and hens with clear preferences for a canine free zone.. ;)
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I've been looking at gas cookers as ours is so small but all the cheaper ones have drop down front doors so £1000 would go towards that and also buy Mr MGM a new hi-fi cabinet for no reason other than he wants one.
I must have forgotten this was a 'what if' post. I've just ordered a new spinning wheel.
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I've been looking at gas cookers as ours is so small but all the cheaper ones have drop down front doors so £1000 would go towards that and also buy Mr MGM a new hi-fi cabinet for no reason other than he wants one.
I must have forgotten this was a 'what if' post. I've just ordered a new spinning wheel.
:roflanim: :roflanim: Good one MGM
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It would probably go on our wedding or honeymoon. (And in the dog theme another retired greyhound!)
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I've been looking at gas cookers as ours is so small but all the cheaper ones have drop down front doors so £1000 would go towards that and also buy Mr MGM a new hi-fi cabinet for no reason other than he wants one.
I must have forgotten this was a 'what if' post. I've just ordered a new spinning wheel.
:roflanim: :roflanim: Good one MGM
Got to get my priorities right. :innocent:
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Enjoy MGW, would you like a lovely Jacob fleece in a few weeks time? Will happily post one to you!
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Email this morning to say wheel has just been dispatched. :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: Just a wee bit excited.
Devonlady, thanks for the offer and I am so tempted but I am going to have to live to be 250 to get through all the lovely fleeces I already have (including the one I accidentally bought at Wonderwool last week).
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Email this morning to say wheel has just been dispatched. :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: Just a wee bit excited.
Another email and a text from Parcelforce. It will be here within the next 24 hours. I wonder how many excited emoticons I can get in this text box. :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited:
Going out at 12.15 tomorrow so it'd better come before that.
Suppose it comes at 12.14? How will I contain myself until I get back at about 5pm? Worried now.
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Surely you'll have to sign for it? Can you appoint a neighbour who'll be in to take it, and leave a note on the door for the delivery man?
Often you can trace your parcel and get a one hour time for delivery online. I daren't even go to the loo when I have a parcel due - they always arrive just as I sit down :-[
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My OH will be here all day so he can sign for it. It's going to be a long meeting I'll be at if it hasn't arrived by the time I go out. It's in Rotherham atm so less than two hours away. Not that that means anything.
Just so :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited:
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She arrived this morning but didn't have time to assemble her until I got home. All working well though. I think this is going to be a very happy relationship. :love: