New Year List

So this year I am resolving to be more tidy. Be less lazy, not procastinate about things to do but just do them.

So I have a list of 15 jobs ready to be ticked off.

I have put away the 'filing', but the files bulge so much with gas bills, empty envelopes and random marketing flyers from 2009 that I can't fit any more in. So I plan to take a file each evening and declutter it. I hope to come across marriage license and also 3rd child's birth certificates which seemed to be absent on first look??.....

We have 'decluttered' the attic and I now have a pile of stuff to eBay so need to do that. Also evening work.

I have resolved to stay up later and not 'waste evening' by lounging on my arse poking the fire whilst watching repeats of The Big Bang Theory.

Have managed staying up later bit but so far have been hoovering up christmas cake, drinking wine and poking fire so not entirely productive.

So today's the day then. Right will clean out the fire ready for tonight and then look at the list and have a coffee, then the baby will get up and I will get nothing else done.............. I might put blog update on the list at least I can check one thing off then....

ahh... and blush...

apparently lights are not broken. Have come unplugged................. ahem.

ho ho ho

So the new lights that Husband bought for the tree have broken. I still have all packaging so we can return them.... he's not sure if he has receipt.... ha ha ha ha ha ah

cooking at christmas

I so cannot be bothered to think about what to eat at Christmas. My head is too full of unchecked lists, unwritten cards and unwrapped presents. My children are being catered for but me and Husband are living on crisps and sherry....

success...

Full refund thank you kind lady at Argos.

....rumbled....

So yesterday Husband offered to return the Batman costume for me, about half a dozen times he offered and I brushed it off with "No... don't worry I'll do it".  I think it was quite obvious really as because I'm so busy (lazy) I usually slopey shoulder any kind of errand to him.

So this morning he offered again. I said no and he said "you've lost the receipt haven't you?" I owned up and he stated I was sooo transparent he knew I had.

Bah.

So then I said, so do you want to take it back then? He said no. Not without a receipt.

Now it is sleeting and today is my last morning without grown up children so I have to go today. Bah bloody humbug.

Receipts

So why do I not have a nail on a piece of wood and put on every receipt I ever get so that I have them.

why do I have receipts for every loaf of bread I bought at Waitrose over the last month but I have come a cropper over receipts recently and STILL I don't learn.

I returned a curtain track to B&Q where nearly all the fixings were missing. I had already cut it (although didn't own up to that) but I had no proof of purchase, nor original packaging. I think the fact that I had a) clearly been crying and b) had not washed, brushed my teeth or my hair and looked like a woman seriously on the edge helped my case in gaining a full refund.

I have managed to save the receipt for a duplicate Horrid Henry book worth £3.99 which I can simply exchange at Asda. Yet I do not have the receipt for a Batman costume in the wrong size from Argos.  A fact I have hidden from Husband who has actually been out and bought a 2nd Batman costume from another Argos this morning as they are selling like hot cakes. Gaahh....  He is under the impression I will swan to Argos tomorrow produce the receipt and simply get a full refund. I will in fact clear out the car in search of receipt, try to get some screen shots of my bank account statements (as I am green and do not get paper copies nor do I have a printer) and try to blag a refund and probably end up with an Argos gift card for £22.99 when I have finished my christmas shopping already.

Bloody receipts. I should set up a file for them....................................................