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B&M <- I LOVE THAT SHOP. They have like everything, and they have really homely things in, if you have one around by you!
I'm going to have to see if there anyway that I can get the 7 20 foot leylandii in the garden!!!
Glad that you've found a place and hopefully you'll be settled in in no time.
I understand that you must be going through a mixture of emotions right now - it's exciting but scary at the same time to be moving into somewhere new. However, try not to let it get the better of you - this is certainly a positive step forward and try to keep focused on that.
If there are any issues then talk them through with someone (social worker or friends) and of course post on here!
Good luck with the move! :d
We've managed to get a carpet on freecycle, so we just need to get someone to fit it this week. I'm having to pack and I've been lifting more than I can carry which is giving me more pain. The only reason i'm doing it because we don't have anyone else to help.
I'm in a crappy state. I ahve no idea what to do.
He's let you keep you the kinect, he can't turn around afterwards and demand money for it as well. After that, honestly just don't contact him in my heartfelt opinion, it just causes more grief and pain for both of you.
As for carpet, really sorry to hear about it. Could you consider getting a carpet fitted on finance? Or getting it on a credit card? Big-ticket expenses like carpets, furniture etc. are all perfect for credit because its a big one off expense. Obviously nobody wants to borrow money, but as some like to say, there's good borrowing and bad borrowing. Say you buy £300 of decent carpet (you may even get it cheaper Idk) and pay it off over 12 months, is £25 a month worse than living in a house with raw floorboards? After a year paying them off at a very affordable rate, those carpets may last you 15 years or more
But remember as well, that all said and done you have a gorgeous house in a lovely area now it's all going to be ok. Moving is always stressful and council houses are no easier because you don't have money bleeding out your ears for one and for two there is always a lot of tidying up to do. Acknowledge its a big task, but its not forever - you have gone the distance now and got your own place, this is home straight which you just need to take one step at a time until you get there.
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Your bank should give you a credit card without too many questions, the rate will probably be shit on it though - expect 15% - 20%.
Moneysavingexpert.com indicates there's a nice 6.9% sainsburies one though: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/credit-cards maybe look into it? For context though, if you got that sainsburies card you could pay it off at £25 a month and after 8 months you would have paid it off in full, for the grand cost of £205.
Obviously I'm not a financial advisor etc. etc. - but really I think its a price worth paying for actually having carpets.
The other option you could look into would be a crisis loan. https://www.gov.uk/crisis-loans/overview
Plus I an already having overpaid benefit being taken from my benefit so I can't afford to get a crisis loan.
Yes, carpets would be nice - but I'm still struggling to see them as an absolute essential. Is putting up with floorboards for the time being and getting carpets further down the line an option?
Why were you overpaid ? If it was there mistake they have no right to take it back. They can ask you for it, but they cannot deduct it from your benefits or send you threatening letters, the high court said so
If you can find me any points of law/ judgments on that please send them my way!
Good news though! The guy I went to buy stair carpet from (used the last of my money) has taken pity on me and is donating some of his unsold stock to carpet the house! The council is also upping my decoration grant because I'm going to have to pay someone to do it for me, and they are going to replaster the front room because the plaster work has huge holes in it. So things are looking up!!
The living room is going to be replastered after removing the wallpaper showed that there was no plaster underneath. The downstairs loo has to be replaced - both the pan and the cistern are cracked and that's what's causing the leak. Plus that also need to be replastered as we found out that its covered in polystyrene tiles (which are a huge fire risk), and again there's nothing behind them but bare brick. But on the upside I have a cooker which I can actually use! Yay!!
I cannot decide on colours! I have ideas for the kitchen and the bathroom but I don't know where to start with the living room and bedroom - they are both fairly large east facing rooms (so light in the morning but not so much after 12). Interior decoration is so much easier to do for someone else!
Living room wise - you can't go too far wrong with light and plain.