Memorygirls - Make Do and Mend

Memory_Girl

gtx wrote: »

Hi MG

just wanted to pop-in from my lurking to say thank you for getting me re-focussed on my debts:o
i haven't read all the thread - just a few pages at the beginning and a few at the end - you lot can't half 'talk':D
but one of your ideas really struck a cord with me - the 1000 payments and your tree (how's it going by the way). I'm not in the slightest bit creative but I've still drawn a tree (very dodgy looking it is too) and 'blank leaves'. Best of all 3 leaves are already coloured in and 1/4 of another is already sitting in a savings account:T
i've only done 155 payments as i'm not including my mortgage, once the 155 are done i'll start another tree and i've put it in my signature too.

once again thanks.

gtx

welcome aboard gtx - your right they can talk .............. and very often they talk a lot of sense.:D

my tree is looking a bit sorry for itself at the moment because my income was down £90 for a few weeks there. back on track now, and with the plans for my new business - coloured leaves here we go:T:T

MG

Memory_Girl

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

She's making corsets Claire! And very beautiful they are too

Oooh!!! just what me and BoB need to give our figures some va va voom when mr Byrne takes us out to play:D

Mg

clairewop

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

She's making corsets Claire! And very beautiful they are too

ooohh nice

Keeping_Motivated

Memory_Girl wrote: »

welcome aboard gtx - your right they can talk .............. and very often they talk a lot of sense.:D

my tree is looking a bit sorry for itself at the moment because my income was down £90 for a few weeks there. back on track now, and with the plans for my new business - coloured leaves here we go:T:T

MG

Ooh I must have missed the tree posts, would you mind telling me anout it as it sounds interesting

Memory_Girl

whew - caught up

firewalker
karmacat
elantan
acornpip
bomechina
mags30
cheery daff

i've added you all to the list and will be in touch soon.

finally emptied my pm tray - so if anyone else wants to throw their hands up and play along, just pop me over a pm with your name and email and i'll get us all organised (i hope) -

got a fundraising thing in st a tomorrow and then i will be sorting out locations of where we want to run courses - so if anyone thinks "oooh - come and teach my kids" - let me know and we will build a trip around them for you.

wonder what everyones "dream to reality" thing will be??

MG

clairewop

Memory_Girl wrote: »

i like to think that this could be a group that anyone could come to when they are having their "will i won't i?" wobble.

look how far you have come with a little gentle nagging, some not so gentle prodding and a couple of "oi you!!" shouts :rotfl:

As you go off energised and focussed, someone else will shout "will i, won't i?" and you will be able to chip in "yes!! - look what they supported me in doing"

It makes my heart soar that the people here will step in and help - and watching them help you is what inspired me to start to create the "memorygirl matrix" - so if you think about it, you have been intrumental in helping lots of people in the future reach their "i'm flying" moment.

mg

ok as long as no-one feels i'm pushing in

been ordering beads for the 6 pairs of earrings I have taken orders for today

I'm off to bed now need to lie down as my back is now killing, going to take my jewellery mag with me and read for a bit.

Goodnight

jc2703

ClootiesMum wrote: »

And when I think about it - there are several hundred people in my work & several hundreds in DH's work so flyers are no problem -and dropping stuff off at Haggerston when we go down to the caravan is another market. And that's without even much thought.....

Haggerston Castle - Berwick? Had a great holiday there many moons ago

gtx

Keeping_Motivated wrote: »

Ooh I must have missed the tree posts, would you mind telling me anout it as it sounds interesting

basically MG came up with the brilliant idea of breaking her mortgage down into 'manageable' numbers.

for example say you owe 100,000 thats 100 paymnets of £1000 - not very manageable but 1000 payments of £100 is another story, some people may even have 2000 of £50 etc.

and being the creative being she is MG drew herself a tree with 1000 leaves on and every time a payment is made a leaf gets coloured in - a very visual way of seeing our debts disappear - especially if like me you make these payments extras as well as your usual payments.

every spare penny/pound plus any that you earned extra is tucked away in a savings account/pot until its enough for one leaf and then its paid off your debt (I've been moving the money thats left at the end of the week into my savings account - this week it was only £1.53 but every penny counts)

hope that makes sense

gtx

Sea78

loving the posts today

I've recently got a book which has helped me with my procrastination.....which has stopped me doing a lot of stuff over the years. It's called eat that frog by brian tracy - fab! Basically says that I should do that one big thing that I least want to do first to get it over and done with in the day - it's common sense, but I needed the book to organise it in my brain!!

MG - I've seen a few references to your books - sounds interesting - are they on general sale? Where can I find them?

Sea xx

hypno06

Keeping_Motivated wrote: »

Ooh I must have missed the tree posts, would you mind telling me anout it as it sounds interesting

A more picturesque version of the squares thing, KM!