Clawing back - the second half

Claw_back_money

catspaw wrote: »

aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh it lost my post

Congratulations :j:j
one day i too will be in this mythical land of the debt free

Yes - you will! And have a new motorbike!
Cbm x

Lemon_Tree

congratulations on getting to the debt free land of joy! I've not been keeping up with diaries so have missed your wonderful achievement.
Would be nice to see you staying around with us so you can continue to give us hope and someone to look up to.

Claw_back_money

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

Would be nice to see you staying around with us so you can continue to give us hope and someone to look up to.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Are you talking about me?! Someone to look up to?! Well I just laughed so much I coughed tea into my keyboard so that's not very money saving is it lol! I'll stay around in order to be kept on the straight and narrow (and to encourage others if I can) - but only if you promise not to look up to me - I could lead you seriously astray (think back to 'new TV-gate', 'waitrose-gate', 'new dishwasher-gate' etc)....

Cbm

milann

It must be a great feeling and I've been thinking about you since you posted as debt free. I can't imagine that feeling - but you've certainly re-kindled my aspirations to keep at it as I was losing sight and enthusiasm of that goal and getting very close to 'what the heck' (or similar words that Martin would NOT approve of)

What are you going to treat yourself first?

Lemon_Tree

oh you can lead me astray on the dishwasher-gate episode if you want. i still miss mine, OH says he'll do the washing up but he leaves it as he's tired and i end up doing it - can already see the difference in my hands and that's not good news.

Claw_back_money

Best I don't comment on your dishwasher, LT, as I might take you well off-course! Strangely it wasn't the dishes that made us buy a new one, as I quite liked standing chatting with OH over the dishes, it was strangely therapeutic and always having all the saucepans and knives was quite handy, we only use HM bread that needs slicing and guess where the bread knives always are! OH got a bit unhappy about not having one and we had some money from somewhere which I put towards it, and I think managed to part of it paid by buying it for a mystery shop and got Quidco.

I am absolutely shattered; I worked at the election yesterday and its such a long day - there at 5.30am and home 10.30ish. I took a couple of hours toil this morning so didn't start work until 9.45, but am still looking forward to bedtime. I'm pleased to say that all voters at our station voted with just one person coming in after 9.30pm so we closed at 10 with a clean conscience. Hopefully the money will come through from that quite quickly - I'd like to go and buy a face cream. The one I'm using now was bought in some sort of glitch at Boots some time ago and smells funny, I think it could be off. I've persevered with it as I didn't want to throw it away, it seems to work ok just pongs, and a couple of weeks I was on a NS regime (similar to NSD, but more dramatic).

OH is away at camp this weekend so I'm enjoying the peace and quiet. I've got quite a busy morning tomorrow then hope to organise the bank accounts tomorrow - sign up for regular saver account, and I've decided to cancel at least 3 of my credit cards. I don't think I'm suited to using them sensibly, and if I just keep one, that will be more than I need.

I'm trying to stay up for another hour then I'm off to bed at 9pm!!

Cbm

Claw_back_money

Milann your post made me think (as you often do) and I could see what you meant (I think). Its like you probably know enough about me and my life to know that I'm really 'ordinary', where debts were both gained and paid off by 'ordinary' stuff, like any of us do, so that helps with the aspiration?

I can well remember a few months ago doing the ironing and feeling fed up. My clothes are a bit of a state, I was feeling really hard done by, thinking 'this tshirt was free', 'I paid for this with a voucher', 'I bought these jeans before we were married' etc. Those sorts of thoughts are of course knocked to the ground when you remember the people who have little / nothing - and I worked with people who had experienced domestic abuse and can picture what they had quite vividly let alone the stuff you see on TV from other countries.
Anyway, I thought at that point that come DFD I would go and buy some new clothes and stop looking like a stuffed scarecrow. When budget setting I put £40 in the budget for clothes. What have I bought - absolutely nothing! But I know I could if I wanted to, and that is a lovely feeling!

Cbm

Lemon_Tree

a work friend was doing the election thing as well, but he booked today off to recoup.
i got my dishwasher because of excema on my hands which means they crack and bleed when i wash up. That's why i seriously want one back again, even washing up once a week is really making my hands head back to how they were, and it's taken 4 years to get them to the 'livable' but still scared and itchy stage.

Claw_back_money

Ooh ouch LT your hands sound really painful. I get excema on my legs in winter and hate that tight burning feeling. It sounds to me like a dishwasher is more necessity than luxury at the LT household?

Lemon_Tree

definately, i keep telling OH that i have a sick note when it comes to washing up but it's not making much difference at the moment. I also feel that things get cleaner in the dish washer but that's another thing i can't pursuade him about. i guess it's a case of going about the re education slowely. i almost wish it was anywhere else other than on my hands, as they get the brunt of everything and how realistic is it to expect someone to wear gloves when they're showering or washing their hair which is what the Dr's recommended.