New tools (to replace the stolen ones) £1300 New cooker (to replace the one the gf destroyed by leaving the grill on with the glass door closed) £450 Fruit machine (because I am worth it) £100 New car (as work are going to take the van off me for taking the piss and going all over the county in it in my own time) £1800 Insurance for new car (£unknown) Pulse and cocktail red lace thigh boots (for her) £110 New phone (for lazy bastard teenage son of hers) £180
At this rate I cannot afford any Christmas cards.
Thank f*ck that VED on the new car is only £20 a year.
If they really were for her, you could have not bought them until she'd paid for the cooker. I suspect they're for you really though. (To enjoy, not to wear.)
Is that to get him out of the house when her sister comes round?
It's an awfully expensive way to afford a fumble with the lights out too!
Apart from the bottle of beer and the reduced breakfast cereal, all my christmas presents came from the charity shops this year; under £1.
I sort of inherited Mothers when she voluntary gave up her licence as she aged.
9 years old but only 20,000 on the clock and we have done about 15,000 of them. I doubt it is worth much more than those with greater mileages,we use it as a large shopping basket ,a wheel barrow to and from the allotments and on the sort of short journeys that would not do our other car which is a modern Diesel any good. All it has cost in maintenance in the 5 years we have had it has been a set of brake pads, a set of spark plugs and a set of tyres. The tyres were cracked with standing too long under mothers ownership rather than tread wear and I think it was rust on the disks from the standing periods that wore the pads early.
I hate too think how it would fare in a serious crash but probably a lot better than the the cars of the 60?s and 70?s I drove when younger. And in some ways it is fun to chuck around in a way reminiscing of what Minis were before they got too sophisticated. Auto box* and air con to allow for when I want some modern comforts and although acceleration isn?t great by present day standards once wound up it can happily eat up miles at 80 to 90.
No street cred at all but who cares when it is bouncing along the dirt road to the allotments 2CV style.
well one of those automated twin clutch things that occasionally don?t change quite how you would like, That is designed to to make it do about 60 mpg but means it does slow a bit too much on some hills knocking it into the manual and keeping down a cog cures that.
Security for a tradesmens tools would be diabolical and the huge lip under the rear window tailgate doesn?t make access easy for heavier items, ours is a 4 door so I find it easier to Chuck things like bags of cement or compost through the rear doors onto the folded down rear seat though there are a couple of nasty sharp metal bits on the seat back that needed taping over to stop them cutting into the sacks.
The missus and I had to suddenly go to Mothers awhile back due to a medical emergency and in a car each as the missus had work commitments to return to early she isn?t slow and progressed well in her Mini Cooper Sports Diesel over the 150 miles of mixed roads, I arrived only 15 minutes later.
Incidentally the Mini is only £30 a year tax at the moment though I expect that to be changed at every budget.
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