OberonSH's DFW Diary Thread - 1 Woman, 1 Toddler & A Whole Lotta Debt!

SkippyB

Obi,

what can I say...I have read your entire thread whilst whiling away a night shift.....oh to have your inspiration and positive thinking!! I am especially impressed with your ability to deal with soon to be ex husband in a sensitive and caring manner....

I shall be reading with interest your next installments....and plead with you to write a book....in all seriousness, i read a lot of threads and lose interest within a few posts..but I am riveted by this one....

You are one funny gal!!!! I wish more of my friends were like you!!!

Keep going girl....you'll get there!!!

Molanole

Obi - you seem to be somewhat of a MSE celebrity these days. I'm worried that with your new found status you'll no longer want to be one of the Debt Assassins, you might want to go it alone on a lone crusade for fame, glory and vengance???? The Debt Assassins need you!!!!

whatamess_2

looks like she has gone and left us again.
obi we are waiting for the next installement.
Messy

LearningToSave.

oooooooooooooo i have just found and read through this thread after following a link from the arms............its fantastic!!!
you are a complete inspiration Obi....and i'll certainly be checking regularly now.
thankyou.

In_Search_Of_Me

HOW YOU DOING mRS...OFF SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS? (oops sorry caps lock!)...hope you're OK...

ZTD

Obi is coming easily to us...
Obi is coming easily to us...
Obi is coming easily to us...
Obi is coming easily to us...

:rotfl:

scottishspendaholic

Obi, please don't desert us!

scottishspendaholic x

MCBIRNIE25

Hey all,
just got an email from Obi, she wants me to tell you all she is good, mad busy at the moment, and misses you all, and you are all in trouble if you ain't all DFW when she logs on later.

chick-chick

Looking forward to her next post

OberonSH

Right you 'orrible lot, straighten up, put down those credit cards, and budget sheets out for inspection............

Hi everyone, sorry I've not been around much, I'm not kidding it's been crazy!! Shops not too busy, but day is spent building website etc, and I haven't got a connection at the shop (I'd spend all day on here if I did), and night is a mad whirl of cleaning, tidying and ebay/amazoning. My junk sems to have tripled, and as LB is moving in in a few weeks I'm stuffing things into cupboards like a nun whose just heard Mother Superiors on her way. Then we'll have all his junk too....[groaning and holding of head in hands]

How did I end up with all this stuff???? I've never been one for spending, and the house just seems so FULL!! Some of the more... um.... interesting things I've found: cigarette advert poster, bag of dolls shoes, Space Jam video, 2 tiny weeny Bang on The Door mugs........ where did this rubbish come from? There must be a portal to another dimension in my home, and the alternate universe are using it as the town tip. I never bought any of this stuff. Honest!

Oooh, I must see this mention of my humble wittering int he Arms, I'm getting all big headed and celeb-like now. Is this the bit where I fall out a limo drunk and flash my pants to the conviently situated News of The World photographer? Or where I go on holiday in the most skimpiest outfit and have the rest of the world commenting about my thighs round the water cooler? Cool.

Hmm, some tips. Lets see... (sound of cogs whiring and grindingto a halt, accompanied by a distressing burning smell)...

aha! Batch cooking, always a fave in our house. I basically cook everything Sunday for the week, couple of dishes at a time. Then I just have to make sure I defrost it night before, and then just reheat when I get home. advantages - a) oven in our home only gets used once a week (got to be a record) and b) readymeals without the expense. We get an organic veg box once a week, and if I don't do this, I end up with loads of manky veg by Tuesday.

Tip 2) We're all scurrying around, cackling over our spreadsheets and mutilating anyone who even so much as looks at our £2 coins. This is all fine and dandy, but if the rest of the family are still spending like it's going out of fashion then it's like trying to get an MP to behave themselves. Make sure the family are on board DFW wise. Have a family conference, and try to get the whole family involved. Get the kids clearing their rooms for a carboot sale (tempt them with a cut of the profits), ideas for using up food in the cupboards or just giving ideas for cutting spending. This will be excelelnt training for when they're let loose on the world.

Well, I'm glad you guys missed me, I missed y'all too! I have been working on a frightening new spreadsheet, that makes NO sense to anyone but me (cacklecackle) - sign of a good one is the blank looks you get when showing it to someone else. It shows how long after getting debt free we'll have to save to make the minimum we need to emmigrate. If I actually get the £3,600 I want the Toad From Hell to pay me back and call in some other debts, I'm looking at 9 MONTHS TIL DEBT FREE!! That's amazing. Pity that it's going to be impossible to get that amount of money from a [STRIKE]man[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]beast[/STRIKE] unclassifed that won;t get off his bum and get a job, and is happy enough living on 8p noodles and not going out of his room. Sigh. If only life were like my spreadsheet............hang on, that would make a great song. Anyone got Robbie William's number?