Diary of a Poor Person aged 46 1/2

savingholmes

hi mrs c hope you are ok

mrscmr

hello all...

well its freezing i have a migraine but im positive!
have a nice freelance job for this month!
OH has been paid!
bills have been paid
i have hope and i have energy and i have you all supporting me!

must tell u a bad thing though... last week OH was bit stressed... so went into a casino [yes yes i know] put on 200 pounds blackjack table and 2 hrs later came out with 2000... he confessed all - told me how stressed he was and how sick he felt at the time but it all worked out. needless to say i have had strong words with him but on this ocassion it did work out. but it s NOT the way forward. there u go confession over.

im off to ebay some more..

how u all? im still scared about xmas though.. i will work hard on it

xx

savingholmes

glad that he ended up with more money but it could so easily have been just a write off

glad that you are having a better month

mrscmr

hellloooo oh dear me - my diary is sooo lonely.. i have neglected it lately.. soz diary i didnt mean to!

well where are we?

mood: fighting back!

weather - was a sunny day with showers

kids - freshly back from hairdressers for them and me! my, we do look smart!

work - missed a work phone call today and have hit a delay on finishing some work due to silly people holding me up. will chase up missed phone call tomororw.

did fireworks tonight only a few!

got to package up my avon for delivery and another batch of ebay!

just mundane stuff but important just the same. have been re-reading my posts - seems i have come a fair way since march with some backwards steps - i believe I am a different person in many ways since this time last year - i will never go back to the person i was then.

will update my big totals in the next day or so to see how we are doing over all! fingers crossed for that.

night all xx

bluebag

It's life changing isn't it? I must admit since my dark debt days, I have a very different attitude to life, the universe and everything. In adversity we grow.

savingholmes

Glad you feel things are improving - and that you are growing too

Karmacat

That sounds good, cmr - this is a lifechanging journey, isn't it..... I'm certainly a lot more open about money now with the people I'm close to - and they are with me too, for this and other reasons. Sounds like you had a good Bonfire Night, too. I didn't take part in anything myself, but I live on a hill and I kept going right up to the top of the house to look out over the town and see all the different little personal celebrations, it was great.

mrscmr

afternoon all.. how are we?

did you have a bonfire night? have you seen the shops all getting christmassy! i am going to have such a controlled xmas it will be untrue. at least kids are being realistic except for child #3!

ebaying like mad and some paid work is keeping me going. OH working hard too i really hope at the end of this month to really see some difference - must post my figures too as things have been reduced on our debt! yay us!

xx to all xx

savingholmes

glad things are still going well! All the best for the week ahead

bluebag

mrscmr wrote: »

afternoon all.. how are we?

did you have a bonfire night? have you seen the shops all getting christmassy! i am going to have such a controlled xmas it will be untrue. at least kids are being realistic except for child #3!

ebaying like mad and some paid work is keeping me going. OH working hard too i really hope at the end of this month to really see some difference - must post my figures too as things have been reduced on our debt! yay us!

xx to all xx

Christmas is nice, although I do a great deal of my Christmas shopping the year before in the sales. Everyone gets what I can afford, my kids, family and friends would hate me to go into debt to get them something.

Your little one may have to lower his/her expectations, that is a valuable lesson for life. Expectation doesn't always achieve results.
Hope your good, all the best.
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