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things that cost much more than you would have imagined?

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zippitippitoes · 05/04/2006 18:47

we have a manual from NHBC, sort of loose leaf file with stuff about building regulations...told today that to buy one from them costs £850.00 !!!!!

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ssd · 05/04/2006 19:19

kids cost more than I would have imagined!!!!!!!!!!!!

mesenfantsmaman · 05/04/2006 19:20

Never been but venture photos, was genuinely shocked the first time I heard

rumtumtigger · 05/04/2006 19:22

Zippi can you sell yours and go on holiday with the proceeds?

lockets · 05/04/2006 19:23

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zippitippitoes · 05/04/2006 19:24

I hope so! The architect told me today and I said ebay here I come, and he said he would buy it off us..don't know how much for but I shall be making sure it stays pristine! iF HE HADN'T BY CHANCE TOLD US WE PROBABLY WOULD HAVE CHUCKED IT OUT AT SOME PINT!

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harpsichordcarrier · 05/04/2006 19:24

a porch £13K

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zippitippitoes · 05/04/2006 19:25

oops caps lock

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thewomanwhosnotmeanttobehere · 05/04/2006 19:25

a really good legal book that I wanted - £140 Shock

EvesMama · 05/04/2006 19:26

Angry..we chucked ours outAngry, how the hell can they charge that much for a few scraps of paper??..which in actual fact isnt worth the ink its printed withShock

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zippitippitoes · 05/04/2006 19:28

oh, evesmama..I've just not made your day have I..didn't think of anyone else having one!, sorry Blush

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fisil · 05/04/2006 19:29

lockets - I thought that was free!

We had a quote for carpets today. We picked the cheapest carpet in the shop but it still came to over a grand.

lockets · 05/04/2006 19:36

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ambercat · 05/04/2006 19:38

Curtains, £800 for our bay window!!!

EvesMama · 05/04/2006 19:39

our may not have been worth that much tho cos it was from our first house we bought in 1998?

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zippitippitoes · 05/04/2006 19:55

oh probably not as ours is current..we have "bought" it as part of having the nhbc insurance on the house we are building but we won't need it after

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blueteddy · 05/04/2006 19:57

Venture pictures are definitely shockingly over priced!

foxinsocks · 05/04/2006 20:00

moving a gas meter (in a straight line, to an outside wall) £1200

getting a bathroom suite fitted - can buy one for a reasonable price, but getting the whole thing put in, murderous cost

cece · 05/04/2006 20:01

Farrow & Ball paint Shock

thewomanwhosnotmeanttobehere · 05/04/2006 20:28

having our floorboards polished - about £2k all in all iirc Shock

morningpaper · 05/04/2006 20:32

holidays in the UK

even crap ones

podkin · 05/04/2006 20:36

Every time the car needs repairing...think of a figure, double it, add a couple of hundred quid and you're still slightly under - every bloody time !

groggymama · 05/04/2006 21:42

my teeth recently

Katymac · 05/04/2006 21:44

I imagine my visit to the hairdresser with DD on Friday will cost me more than I expectWink

Dior · 05/04/2006 21:44

When you go shopping for a 'few bits', and it costs £50!

lunavix · 05/04/2006 21:49

My grocery shopping.

£90 a week later and within 5 days we're all starving.