Can Anyone Suggest A Cheap / Free Pick-Me-Up?

What an ace thread! - I too scour the Freebies page (Nothing nicer than getting stuff through the post!), especially for the cinema tickets.. Take your own popcorn and drinkies and a free (or v cheap) night out is to be had :j
I also love having a treaty bath, then its clean jimmy jams, a glass of wine and stick a comedy dvd on :T
And finally, my ultimate comfort when things just get to bad to bear (small confession coming) I have the winnie the pooh stories on cd, narrated by judi Dench & Michael Williams with Stephen Fry as Pooh Bear and Jane Horrocks as Piglet and Geoffrey Palmer as Eeyore. You don't often get as good casting as that! :rotfl:

Ahem.....:o

I too enjoy a book, bath, wine etc.

But really only 1 thing guaranteed to lift me.......



oh to hell with it......

I PUT THE SOUND OF MUSIC DVD ON AND SING MY HEART OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(ESPECIALLY DOE A DEER:j )

(AND MY FAVORITE THINGS:rotfl: )

BUT NOT EDELWEISS AT THE MUSIC FESTIVAL - ALWAYS MAKES ME CRY:(

AND ALWAYS END UP WITH HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE MARIA:dance:

Gulp.... feel better now I've come clean.... actually, think might tape it, then can combine with bath & wine!:j I may never be seen again! (but if I am will be v clean wrinkled prune.....)

Don't knock it till you've tried it......

ps good luck by the way.

My best pick me up is singing in the car - anything fairly uptempo. At the moment I am playing a lot of McFly (nope, no kids, yep, in my thirties - hey, why not!)

I get a lot of satisfaction sometimes from taking the time to put on make-up. For one it's a change from scrubbing it hastily on my face before shooting out the door, and for another you just look at yourself at the end and fool yourself that suddenly you *feel* better!

Don't be too hard on yourself about diets. It's hard enough to watch spending and living, then to stress about food as well. On the other hand - if you are liking the feeling of spending control, you might get some satisfaction from keeping a food diary and feeling you've got a working plan. Btw - a pomegranate is a brilliant treat, at worst they cost about 89p. I top and tail them, score the skin, break apart, then prise all the seeds into a bowl and eat it with a spoon. It's very good for you and yummy

If you like to keep your mind occupied, as someone suggested before, puzzles are great. As well as all the crosswords and sudoku online, conceptis puzzles are brilliant logic picture puzzles and they put up new free ones each week.

Lastly, search the boards for info on Pigsback - it is a shopping portal site where you get some points for clicking to look at offers. It's a nice community on the thread and you could earn some treats that fall outside of the realm of actual money.

Hope some of this is helpful.

Hiya,

Feeling a bit low myself - as well as money worries I've got the flu too.There are loads of brilliant boosters on this thread,though.I like to put some music on,something lively and I sing along very loudly(the neighbours love it!)

A nice,hot bath with a 99p sachet face mask and then I'll pluck my eyebrows and moisturise.If you look good,you feel good.

Coming on here always makes me feel better.There's always lots of help and advice,and general morale-boosting going on,and it helps to know that you are not the only one in the doldrums.

Any hey! Spring's on the way!

Best wishes,everyone.

Marisan.