A new start for Mooloo

Savvy_sewing

Well here goes, my last thread was all about living with my twins and thier babies.
I have recently gone Solo, well nearly. I am now renting a cottage and living with my 16 year old son.
Things have not been the best over the last 2 years, but I am going to be optomistic and hope that the future will be brighter.
So I thought I would start a new thread.
Wasn't sure which section to put it in, but as the last one was here, I thought I would put this one in the same place.
I have recently been awarded the second part to my ESA claim, after having had a medical. But I have also today, been refused DLA. There are two ways of looking at that. One is that its a let down, the other is, that they don't think I am bad enough, so thats a good sign that I have a chance to recouperate eventually?
Money is going to be very tight, and I am torn between the living on £4,000 challenge, or the 50p a day to Christmas? I am not sure what I will come against in the next two years, but I hope that its now time for things to improve.
Heres hoping.

This is the old thread.http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=676643

BallandChain

A new thread, a new start Mooloo. You have come so far and you never give in so all that remains is for you to go on the up and up! I think you need to budget according to your needs and not what others are doing. 50p a day sounds seriously low unless you are growing your own food to stretch things. I am sure that now you have time to yourself that you will get better. Just take it one day at a time. You will get there in the end.

penguin83

Hi Mooloo - I read all of your old diary but never posted. Welcome to the next chapter, the cottage sounds perfect for you and your son. How is your son doing now?

x x x

Savvy_sewing

He has one more exam to take at the end of next week.
We are hoping to get his moped sometime this week too. So that he will not have to rely on me for transport when I have days that I can't drive.
Hes upstairs playing with the Xbox!

Savvy_sewing

There is a thread on here, where Wheezl did 50p a day until Christmas. She has recently had a baby, but I am not sure if she is still on the same target.
I doubt I could actually do that. I have got into bad ways.
I have sorted out a deal with the utilities, and am paying off Oxford council for overpayment of housing last year.
Unfortunately, letting the family come home and live with me, I have run out of funds and my job went by the way side. But I hope that the new cottage will help me to find me, and my health, and time for DS.

Jo4

A nice fresh start for you Mooloo.

jha

Yay mooloo a new start and a shiny new thread - you are an inspiration:T

Errata

Nice new thread, how about doing yourself a nice new spreadsheet ?

Savvy_sewing

Jo4 wrote: »

A nice fresh start for you Mooloo.

I realise that I have been sort of here at the cottage for a month, but there has been so much tooing and froing etc.

I am feeling more positive then I have in a while, so I thought that a new thread would be like turning over a new page in my life.
I love the cottage, but if your affraid of spiders it would not be a good place for you.
I love the sound of the birds in the trees as I go to bed at night, and wake in the morning.
The baa of the sheep, and the gamboling lambs just outside.
The neighbours are the landlords parents, and they are very nice.
They have a lovely Spaniel called Hazel, who runs up to me with a toy in her mouth everytime I go outside.
Its just so peaceful, and relaxed here.
Once I get the cottage to my liking, I think that I will be more complete! If you get what I mean.
Think I may have a beer:beer:, and look foreward to a less fraught life!.:rolleyes:

Savvy_sewing

Errata wrote: »

Nice new thread, how about doing yourself a nice new spreadsheet ?

Havent got an old spreadsheet!! I tried to do things in Microsoft Money, but so many times that I didnt have access to the computer, its all went to pot.!
Most of my stuff has been scribbles on bits of paper!!
I have started to make notes in the back of my journal, so that I can see how things are going. Perhaps if I post it, bit like the Debtfree's it will keep me on track a bit better?

Errata

Life should be easier now you'll only have to fight your DS for a turn on the computer so a spreadsheet would be easier to keep up to date.
And unlike bits of paper, it can't vanish down the back of the sofa or get thrown in the recycling.