Learn to control money but do not allow it to control you

Firewalker

savingwannabe wrote: »

Hooray it is Friday. Half term begins!

Lara is coming back. How can you think you are not good enough. Crumbs.

This might give you some perspective of how much you have achieved: I have achieved one thing today i managed to get a cheap train ticket to London when i could have given up. Hooray a day of fun and sightseeing in the summer for the grand sum of £1.35!!!!

Now do you see?

Butti did you get your dissertation in?

Well done! This reminds me that one important thing I still have not done is to claim compensation from EasyJet. I'll do tonight after doing some writing.

Firewalker

Firewalker

Guys, I have a confession to make and hope this will come out the right way. I was never big on TV - I liked watching movies and very few programmes. I watched ER and Desparate Housewives; some other programmes... But now I have not watched TV for probably a month or even over.

It is not for any other reason but I just don't have any time left. I start writing at about 7 am (have been experimenting with 6.30) and my work day finishes at 22.00. I am not sure for how long this can be sustained but I am well insured - and let us hope for the best and that my constitution is as strong as I believe it to be.

Feeling happy though - for the first time for a long time I have this conviction that I am building something.

Firewalker

greenbee

FW - I don't have a TV and don't miss it - even at the moment. If there is something I want to watch there's always the Internet or DVD. I've just been lent Downton Abbey series one to help pass the time

Marru

About achieving. I consider my uni years the most successful time of my life. I was good at planning, about knowing where my time was best used. And I always put the bar higher than what I wanted to achieve. For example if what I wanted to achieve is described as 100 "choose any unit", my aim would be something like 110 or 120. And I would achieve anything between 100 and 110 or 120. Never where the bar was but always more than I initially wanted. Well that wasn't a failure, that was blimming magnificent success. But then I was living very selfish and self centered life with no other commitments (except my two dogs).

savingwannabe

Firewalker I spend all free time on here so little time to watch tv. I watch CSI type things from 11-midnightish but usually fall asleep within about half an hour.
I started to watch The Apprentice on Catch Up as it is linked to one of my subjects.

Everyone on our thread tries to watch a savingmoney programme on Channel 5 but it is pants.

I stopped watching Newsnight and QTime as i get upset.

Rubbish economist i am, too emotional.

I managed to get another train ticket too. So far i have spent £3 and saved about £57. It is only by looking after little amounts that i learn to be careful about how i spend large amounts of money. Am rather proud of myself. Lara and Butti are writing dissertations, Marru is revising for AATs and i am hunting for pound bargains. Funny old world.

Marru

Oooh - I am addicted to newsnight and question time but they are on after my bed time so I really shouldn't (I do get lots of x stitch done while following them :rotfl:)

savingwannabe

When i was a kid i read the Observer, Times, Telegraph and New Society. Too much angst for me.

I saw Wild Swans in a charity shop for £0.50 this week but i couldn't buy it as i know i would cry. Everytime i have tried to read it over the last 20 years i haven't even managed to finish chapter one. I like being a low achiever now. It is far less emotionally challenging.

thriftyscotslass

Glad to hear you feel you are building something FW, that's exciting, who knows where it will take you :j:j:j

Firewalker wrote: »

Agree with all points on change - I believe that we have unrestricted capacity to grow. For this to happen we need crises or 'external shocks' ).

Really agree with this point and have experienced this first-hand. However, have also seen the opposite happen where repeated external shocks cause "shut-down", "learned helplessness" takes over and paralysis is the result. Fascinating stuff.


TV - can I confess to being a fan of Strictly Come Dancing ....quietly slinks off the screen....

elantan

have to admit i am not a fan of t.v much myself ... i do love shout at the telly night on a thursday though ... sad i know but i do love politics

MrsMoo2U

I dont own a tv anymore. Like SW I used to read all the "highbrow" papers as a teenager, I longed to be learned and always looked for literature to expand my mind. As I got older I began to be much more shallow in my own world, it was easier than dealing with all of the emotional torment that went along with my principles.

And then I got the job I do now. I always wanted to change the world and I like to think that my job now helps me to do that in some tiny sense.