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To hate it when people move house....

74 replies

Sparklingbrook · 17/03/2014 10:11

It messes up my address book with crossings out. Angry

Grin Do I win a prize for first world problem or something?

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Pinkje · 17/03/2014 10:34

Relegate them to the 'Z' part of the address book because those spaces are always empty!

MissBetseyTrotwood · 17/03/2014 10:35

Large white labels are your friend.

Sparklingbrook · 17/03/2014 10:36

Not sure about sticky labels-might make the pages stiff. Sad Grin

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Mothergothel99 · 17/03/2014 10:36

My bother has 8 addresses on his page, so inconsiderate to use up the entire page!

tiaramasu · 17/03/2014 10:37

I have relatives in Australia. Those very annoying types who inconsiderately build a house. Move in. Build another one. Sell the first and move into the second. Ad infinitum.
Most unreasonable for my christmas card list. Made a right mess of it!

Pumpkinette · 17/03/2014 10:45

I have an address book and a birthday book. I use pencil rather than pen as my spelling is awful so I can easily edit addresses when people move.
I also have addresses and birthdays stored on my phone but like a paper copy too.

Sparklingbrook · 17/03/2014 10:48

My Mum has one of those birthday card books where you write the neame in and there's a little flap to put their card. She has got them all til December already. Grin

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WhispersOfWickedness · 17/03/2014 10:57

I have an address book with labels you can use to make changes Smile
This is it

Sparklingbrook · 17/03/2014 12:12

Whispers that is the Rolls Royce of address books. Labels too. Shock

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Optimist1 · 17/03/2014 12:20

More annoying than the nomads friends with multiple entries are the blank pages where, for example, I know no-one whose name starts with F or P. The B and W pages are full to bursting! Do I really need to make new friends and cull old ones on the basis of their initials? Smile

Sparklingbrook · 17/03/2014 12:51

Grin My 'F' page is full of moving offenders.

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PartialFancy · 17/03/2014 12:58

Are they Feckers for moving, Sparkling? Or did they just F off? Grin

Sparklingbrook · 17/03/2014 12:59

Both Partial one of the 'F's even has a holiday home address so needed two entries. Angry

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Optimist1 · 17/03/2014 13:19

I could swap a few of my 'B's for some of your 'F's Sparkling !

Sparklingbrook · 17/03/2014 13:21

That would be fun Optimist. lets swap relatives and friends. there's a couple of my relatives you can keep. Grin

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rockybalboa · 17/03/2014 13:21

My address book came with a load of stickers in back which you could stick over old entries and voila. Made me very happy. Didn't want to write entries in pencil. Needed to be in nice black pen (not biro).

Sparklingbrook · 17/03/2014 13:23

I wonder why it bothers me so much? I like to have mine in black pen too. If i do a crossword if i write in a clue and it's wrong I physically can't carry on with the crossword.

Do you think it was something to do with school? Confused

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ShadowOfTheDay · 17/03/2014 13:24

mine is "on the cloud" - not entirely sure what that means (is anyone really) , but I know I can input and get addresses from my ipad, laptop and phone.... and everything synchs itself up if I change something on one it is available to all... and I don't need constant internet access because a local copy is held too....

Sparklingbrook · 17/03/2014 13:27

Ooh Shadow that is scarily modern, and v impressive.

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TheTerribleBaroness · 17/03/2014 13:27

I have a mini ring binder with dividers. It's much easier to keep it tidy.

Sparklingbrook · 17/03/2014 13:28

Ring binders come in different sizes? Shock

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TheTerribleBaroness · 17/03/2014 13:30

Yep!

ShadowOfTheDay · 17/03/2014 13:31

Smile Smile Smile

Sparklingbrook I've NEVER had an "impressive" bandied about before..... you just made my day!

TheTerribleBaroness · 17/03/2014 13:39

Google "concord address book". I think mine came from WH Smiths and was cheaper. :)

limitedperiodonly · 17/03/2014 13:56

How do you compare to a friend of mine OP?

He's quite particular a fucking neat freak.

When we met at work he had two beautiful loose-leaved address books, a burgundy leather one for personal contacts and a black leather one for work ones.

He'd write in them with a fountain pen with black ink. Obviously his handwriting was lovely.

Sometimes the work ones made into the personal book too, but he'd take a long time deciding whether to add you in case you did anything to make him regret his decision because if you got culled, he'd have to rewrite the whole page. The pages were always buff, not white or a mixture.

At the time we were together the phone codes for London changed and he was devastated at all the work he'd have to do. There was no question of leaving it and just remembering which was which because that would be inaccurate. Tippex was a dirty word.

He did the whole lot and he had loads of contacts. And then BT went and changed the codes again Grin. I thought he was going to explode.

There are other stories.

We've been friends for about 20 years. I don't know how it's lasted. We used to sit opposite each other and I'm quite messy. He built a barricade of books between our desks to stop my crap invading his.

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