Burlesque Babe's Re-building life but back in debt diary

Burlesque_Babe

thankyou cat I think the initial 'bonus' I've had of the interest and the share perking up may soon tail off and I think I could be sorting this for quite a while!!

OH reckons I'll be in a new job by the Summer. Of the 2 that are 'live', 1 has interviews on 19 May and the other will be late May I guess, so it will be mid- June or end of July. First step is to get an interview really though I guess!

Wow - just seen your MFD - now that is something for you to aim for, I'd love to have a MFD to work towards.

Burlesque_Babe

Just calling my other CC to get the balance........rather than wait for the statement...........

£665.31 oh dear _pale_...........bit more than I thought.........definitely won't be paying it all off this month and it makes my official debt start £5500.......:(

Burlesque_Babe

what a beautiful day.

Double scratch card day as it's Sunday. I now have £1.20 (yayyyy:rolleyes:) but I shouldn't knock it as there have been times over the years that £1.20 would have paid for bus fare somewhere (I remember being stuck about 5 miles from home about 10 years ago and had to walk most of it because my purse was empty:o) or a bag of potatoes to make chips etc.

Also been thinking. I have set myself the goal of being in a full time job by October. That will also probably have some evening teaching on top so life will be very full on. I know I'm scratting around (a phrase of my Mum's!) trying to make ends meet at the moment and am maybe not working as hard on AQA as I should be, but this could be the last chance in my career to have a few hours a day to do what I want and so maybe I shouldn't be knocking myself for using a bit of my savings each month or spending an afternoon baking, because once I'm working 37 hours a week and possibly an extra 4 per week teaching (and the prep. work!) I will probably look back and think I should have just been a bit kinder to myself.

So what if I haven't worked myself into the ground over the 3 jobs, working 7 days a week? There's the next 25 years of my career to make back the money into my savings and that's my philosophical thought for the day.

System

Its a beauty

LouiseJ

I agree BB

At the end of the day ..............the race is only with yourself. Enjoy the free moments when you get them.:kisses3:

I am now much more Zen about enjoying my free time instead of feeling guilty for not using it more productively.

It took a complete meltdown to bring me to this point though:rolleyes::o

LouiseJ

Hi Lenny :wave:

jinky67

Hey BB

only just found this

Dont have time to read it though just now, off to get ready for work:rolleyes:

I will read it when i get back and try to post something sensible:rotfl::rotfl:

:hello: to all

Burlesque_Babe

nah, don't do sensible jinky,do 'jinky'

schoolrunmum

HI BB, just stumbled across this by accident!Don't beat yourself up over it, you've acknowledged the problem and are tackling it-unlike many others who've yet to find MSE!!
Good luck, SRM xxx

Burlesque_Babe

well, all the bits of money I was expecting have now arrived but some bits have gone out (including the £80 that was taken by mistake by the butcher because he used my card, not my OH's for the money he owes me). I have £638 in my account. I know I still have £12 house insurance to come out before the end of the month. I have enough food for at least a week but I'm very short on any vegetables so what I'm going to do is pay off the gas and electric bill so I can get the DD down which is £315 and then pay £250 off my CC when the statement arrives.

Not quite as much as I was hoping for but it's a start and it's 5% of my debt gone in the first month.

The real work will start next month though as I don't quite know where to go next!!