Very excited........my new washing machine arrives on Monday.............AND

[fannyannie]

we've paid for it outright. We'll be juggling money this month but for once it's because we've bought something new and not to try and pay bills . And I can't flipping wait. It died last Monday and DH has been handwashing stuff in the bath - which has been killing his back - he was going to do some more when he came home from work tonight - but I'm about to pop over the road and stick a 2nd load in a kind neighbours machine and by the time DH gets home from work later tonight (by which time I'll be fast asleep in bed) it will all be hanging around the house drying

ooooh! That is exciting

I just can't believe that 18 months ago we thought we were going to lose the house and were preparing for possibly bankruptancy (sp) and that some weeks I was feeding my family of 4 on £15 a week......and now - although we've still got a long way to paying off the debts - we can juggle money to buy a much needed new washing machine rather than juggling money to decide which creditor is most likely to take drastic action against and therefore must be paid first.

Well done fannyannie. We got a new one a couple of weeks back because the other one was kaput. I didn't do any handwashing though - we were without for 10 days and I did one load at a friends. There was a bit of a back log!

happy for you what a turnaround

haha - I'd already gone to bed by the time DH got in from work last night - and this morning he admitted he'd been more worried than happy about the fact there was no washing for him to do.........he thought I'd been bending over the bath hand washing the clothes !