Memorygirls - Make Do and Mend

Buffythedebtslayer

Hello all just dropping by with the 100 day plan

My aims


1. Lose weight - between 1 - 2 stone. I know that is a bit vague! but I don't want to get caught up it all, so anything from a pound to 2 pounds per week is good. I am ordering the Fly lady body clutter book......I want to do more walking/running since it helps with my stress levels

2. Declutter the house and sell all I can on e bay. Clearout the loft esepcially for ebay and charity shop.

3. Pay off 2000 pounds of the debt.

4. Get an schedule and stick to it. ie, sleep, eating, working in a balance which means I do my job and don't have these periods of stress that are if I am honest mostly my own fault. (use the control journal)I procastinate loads and this must stop.

5. Catch up with my masters, finish the first (by 31st July) and second module by the end of the summer holidays.

6. Follow the Flylady plan, for the house and work

7. Finish the garden(weeding cleaning), start the fish pond(digging)

8. Paint the bathroom and then get some one in to fit a boiler

9. Paint the wood work in the house and do small niggley jobs. Ideally I want to put up shelves for some stuff from the loft but not sure Mum will cope. The whole boiler malarky has been going on long enough.

10. Return the conservatory to its former glory - it is clutter ville atm. and I did have it straight before and will do again.

Have edited it a bit from the original...must go change it on my diary.

cheers Memory girl. might post this on the Wake up Challenge too

heres to a hundred days of getting closer to our dreams.

xxxxx

Moobear

House
Deep clean house
Make up house book
Attitude
Have worked through the book "Getting Things Done" and be actioning this
Be a happy bunny again

Hi Klootie

The bbok you are reading about "GTDone" is it a long reader? does it give you proper suggestions?

I have to get stuck into some major cleaning for the house and my crafting is appalling. I was a freqent knitter when the kids were young but making adult stuff took ages. My record - one mans jumper for husband took 16 years.:rotfl:The one l am doing now has been on the go for a year so getting no where fast.

My worst cross stitch project was a wedding sampler for a family member, it took me so long, missed the wedding so l thought l'd suprise them and give it them on their first anniversary - they suprised me and announced they were getting divorced before their first anniversary - and guess what still had not even done the border by then.:rotfl:

I have another wedding sampler that l wanted to design for my sons wedding , still not done and now have a couple of grandchildren aged 2 whose birth samplers haven't even been started either - l am a hopless case of putting everything off till tomorrow - the exact opposite of our MG.
Would love to have chucks but l think the cats and dogs would make a meal of them- plus my husband said it would cost more in food to feed them than they'd lay but l think he just doesn't want more pets as that is what they'd be.

Today l spent £18-12 (posted on my own diary) the first out of the £100 challenge and bought some hair dye too. Cost me £5-50 and l am really pleased with the results. Slowly changing the doggies food and making a saving of £15 a month. Cant change the cats - they are so fussy to start with they would protest and cant cope with sulky moggs :eek: Have worked out that l will be saving £128-50 over 3 months by doing my own hair and also changing dog food.:j Its a good job they liked it or l would have had to go back to their expensive stuff. I love them to bits

Tomorrow is my start of the 100 day challenge, so will be making lots of changes gradually. Must also try and get some exercise into - l have a treadmill but use it as a clothes horse along with probably 90% of treadmills in peoples homes.

MG - Congrats on starting the book and l do hope that tv series will be in the offing. If ever there was a programe to help people in these times it should be about you. Have raved to my DH about how you make do and mend and l think he is absolutely thrilled as l went into Tesco and spent only what l considered the essentials and non of it was sweeties etc. Nothin better than a movie night on the sofa with a tonof comfort food but thats the old me thank goodness.

By the way my late Mum (a Murray) was a Scot brought up in Montrose - my late Aunts lived in Edinburgh and Galashields, so l am half Scottish, know about the stovies but my Mum used to put big sausages in hers.

Anyway off for now - going to check out more on here xxx:A

Keebs

Hey,

Just wanted to pop in to say that reading your diary brought forth my second LBM this year (the first obviously being the ‘aaaaargh, where’d all that debt come from’ moment). Your humour, energy, optimism, and general lust for life shines through and has caused me to reflect somewhat on my own erm, ‘lesser efforts’ in life shall we say, and realise that somewhere along the line failure has become a self fulfilling prophecy for me:

I’m bound to fail ergo I don’t really try; I don’t really try ergo I’m bound to fail.

Not exactly sure where all this negativity came from (once upon a time I was actually a 'glass half full' sort of person) but at least now I know about it I can start to change it. Thank you.

By the way, loving the 100 day challenge and wish everyone taking part good fortune in their endeavours :beer:

flanno_2

hi MG

Flanno here again, forgot to add my 100 day challenges (99 day now)

a. Read the Secret
b. Write my wish list.......
c. Control my spending
d. Start walking again
e. Get ready for my college interview
f. Get focussed and ready for college


thats enough for now I guess..........

marie.:D

Buffythedebtslayer

I bought the secret once, but didn't like it and gave it to the Charity shop. All this talk of it makes me think I should order it again! Although I have other books on positive thinking.

Mind you an Ex got in touch with me today and I have spent so much time thinking about him and "wishing" he would get in touch?

any how rambling before bed.

see you in the morning

xxx

moo2moo

Memory_Girl wrote: »

Thank you so much moo2moo - I will start to lurk around and get a feel for what their most pressing problems are - and see if I can come up with a creative solution.

You are so kind - thank you

BTW - how is the challenge in your signature going? Thats an amazing goal to set out to achieve.

Memorygirl

No problem. Glad I could help.

As for the "live happily on £1667 a month for absolutely everything challenge" suffice to say its been an interesting foray into reality. Most months we seem to come in under budget. Obviously theres the odd blip but it has made me reassess each and every descision we make. I've prioritised our spending and found alternative ways of doing what we were already doing. Our biggest outlay each month is always the unexpected and whilst I can't control this I can at least influence it by anticipating it and dealing with it before it happens.

Rather stupidly it isn't the amazing goal it seems. £1667 a month equates to £20,000 a year which is above the average income and certainly more than most have as an income. The challenging part is to utilise this to its full potential to ensure that our children have absolutely everything they need and then some. Initially it was hard going but I've relaxed into it and am enjoying the whole ride. My obsession with balancing the books has become more and more relaxed to the point of normality. It means I can say with confidence what the heck we can afford that and that and that without worrying where the money is going to come from. The question is do we actually need it in the first place and most of the time the answer is no. Mentally theres a huge chasm between wanting something and thinking you need something when most of the it its inconsequential. At the point my children realised this life changed. They are very different to everyone else in school. At times they seem like children of the 1950s but they are happy and healthy and they do things with their free time unlike a lot of their peers who seem to spend far too much time playing X-box games designed for adults.

Helen105

Good morning all

I hope the challenge is going well.
Mine is
1.Lose 30lb (this will also involve doing more exercise

2. Pay off one 700 pound debt

3. Get house ready for winter .Mainly means getting round to getting gas fire fitted into the hole in my living room that I've had for the last 9 months.

4. Get house decluttered fit to invite valuer in so to start the process of paying off ex husband & ultimately getting divorced.

Memory_Girl

Buffythedebtslayer wrote: »

Hello all just dropping by with the 100 day plan

My aims


1. Lose weight - between 1 - 2 stone. I know that is a bit vague! but I don't want to get caught up it all, so anything from a pound to 2 pounds per week is good. I am ordering the Fly lady body clutter book......I want to do more walking/running since it helps with my stress levels

2. Declutter the house and sell all I can on e bay. Clearout the loft esepcially for ebay and charity shop.

3. Pay off 2000 pounds of the debt.

4. Get an schedule and stick to it. ie, sleep, eating, working in a balance which means I do my job and don't have these periods of stress that are if I am honest mostly my own fault. (use the control journal)I procastinate loads and this must stop.

5. Catch up with my masters, finish the first (by 31st July) and second module by the end of the summer holidays.

6. Follow the Flylady plan, for the house and work

7. Finish the garden(weeding cleaning), start the fish pond(digging)

8. Paint the bathroom and then get some one in to fit a boiler

9. Paint the wood work in the house and do small niggley jobs. Ideally I want to put up shelves for some stuff from the loft but not sure Mum will cope. The whole boiler malarky has been going on long enough.

10. Return the conservatory to its former glory - it is clutter ville atm. and I did have it straight before and will do again.

Have edited it a bit from the original...must go change it on my diary.

cheers Memory girl. might post this on the Wake up Challenge too

heres to a hundred days of getting closer to our dreams.

xxxxx

Go Buffythedebtslayer!!!!!!!! Thats some list - and how I can relate to it too:eek:

I think we all have moments in our lives where we hit the "overwhelm" stage - well done for coming up with a plan to blast through it.

I'm just on here quickely this morning because I have been looking at the site Firewalker pointed me towards OMG!!!! I'm so lucky people are willing to help - so I've got a million ideas whizzing around my head and want to capture them all quick.

Have a great productive day 98 Guys

Memorygirl

Memory_Girl

Moobear wrote: »

House
Deep clean house
Make up house book
Attitude
Have worked through the book "Getting Things Done" and be actioning this
Be a happy bunny again

Hi Klootie

The bbok you are reading about "GTDone" is it a long reader? does it give you proper suggestions?

I have to get stuck into some major cleaning for the house and my crafting is appalling. I was a freqent knitter when the kids were young but making adult stuff took ages. My record - one mans jumper for husband took 16 years.:rotfl:The one l am doing now has been on the go for a year so getting no where fast.

Oh I wonder if I could learn to sew up a couple of the projects I did for DS2 - got a couple of ribbed sweaters done that need finishing for the Autumn. ............. off to add it to her list

My worst cross stitch project was a wedding sampler for a family member, it took me so long, missed the wedding so l thought l'd suprise them and give it them on their first anniversary - they suprised me and announced they were getting divorced before their first anniversary - and guess what still had not even done the border by then.:rotfl:

I have another wedding sampler that l wanted to design for my sons wedding , still not done and now have a couple of grandchildren aged 2 whose birth samplers haven't even been started either - l am a hopless case of putting everything off till tomorrow - the exact opposite of our MG.

!!!!!!!!!! not sure my Mum would agree with you there - sure she thinks I'ma lazy moo when she sees me sitting down "colouring in"

Would love to have chucks but l think the cats and dogs would make a meal of them- plus my husband said it would cost more in food to feed them than they'd lay but l think he just doesn't want more pets as that is what they'd be.

Today l spent £18-12 (posted on my own diary) the first out of the £100 challenge and bought some hair dye too. Cost me £5-50 and l am really pleased with the results. Slowly changing the doggies food and making a saving of £15 a month. Cant change the cats - they are so fussy to start with they would protest and cant cope with sulky moggs :eek: Have worked out that l will be saving £128-50 over 3 months by doing my own hair and also changing dog food.:j Its a good job they liked it or l would have had to go back to their expensive stuff. I love them to bits

It's the little changes that are making this all do-able for me - changing to making our own bread, trading down Diet Coke for Lidl's brand, cheaper washing powder, loo roll etc. I managed to free up enough pennies every weekto build up a storecupboard - and ClootiesMum will tell you we could probably survive on what we've got for about a year at this stage. (need fresh stuff for the kids and milk - so thats not an opening for someone to issue the "Ultimate Storecupboard Challenge BTW!!!!!):rotfl:

Tomorrow is my start of the 100 day challenge, so will be making lots of changes gradually. Must also try and get some exercise into - l have a treadmill but use it as a clothes horse along with probably 90% of treadmills in peoples homes.

OOOhhh!!! Mums treadmil is still here - add to my list today to pull it into the spare room and set it up - done!!!!

MG - Congrats on starting the book and l do hope that tv series will be in the offing. If ever there was a programe to help people in these times it should be about you. Have raved to my DH about how you make do and mend and l think he is absolutely thrilled as l went into Tesco and spent only what l considered the essentials and non of it was sweeties etc. Nothin better than a movie night on the sofa with a tonof comfort food but thats the old me thank goodness.

We watched "Toy Story 2" on BBC1 with a mountain of popcorn and a jug of lemon squash with loads of ice - think our "movie night" cost us (works it out) - 16p for popcorn and 5p for the squash, so 21p or 7p per person. PS Gran came in later and we split a Twix bar she had left over from lunch too - but that was FREE!!!

By the way my late Mum (a Murray) was a Scot brought up in Montrose - my late Aunts lived in Edinburgh and Galashields, so l am half Scottish, know about the stovies but my Mum used to put big sausages in hers.

Mmmmm!!! Every family has their own recipe - and each one is "the only and right way to do it" - and you know what??? They are all right :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Anyway off for now - going to check out more on here xxx:A

Good luck on your personal challenge Moobear. Just think how calmand in control you will feel in 100 days time when you have achieved all your goals.

We will all be the swans serenly swimming - no more scruffy signets :rotfl:

Memorygirl

Memory_Girl

Keebs wrote: »

Hey,

Just wanted to pop in to say that reading your diary brought forth my second LBM this year (the first obviously being the ‘aaaaargh, where’d all that debt come from’ moment). Your humour, energy, optimism, and general lust for life shines through and has caused me to reflect somewhat on my own erm, ‘lesser efforts’ in life shall we say, and realise that somewhere along the line failure has become a self fulfilling prophecy for me:

I’m bound to fail ergo I don’t really try; I don’t really try ergo I’m bound to fail.

Not exactly sure where all this negativity came from (once upon a time I was actually a 'glass half full' sort of person) but at least now I know about it I can start to change it. Thank you.

By the way, loving the 100 day challenge and wish everyone taking part good fortune in their endeavours :beer:

Aw Keebs!! we've all been there. After the panic of being left with 71p (where I went into angry lioness mode and stormed around dong the protectnig my cubs bit).................. well I kinda lost track for a long time. I spent ages not wanting to leave the house, planning how to trim our budget even more, drawing my horns in .......................... and crying ............... a lot!!!

But slowly - every tin in my storecupboard was celebrated as a success, every cleaned kitchen was cheered, every free day playing with the baby in the park was an Olympic medal, every loaf of homemade bread was a demonstration of my love for my boys.

Then one day I simply decided that I didn't want to be forced to live a small insignificant life by the bank who took my business - and things started to change - at first quite slowly, and then sometimes quite rapidly.

Being on here helps on the slow days - but it honestly helps more on the scary fast ones, because I don't feel like I have to crawl under a stone and hide when I get frightened - I can come on here and share instead.

Does that make sense?? Maybe I'm just rambling:rotfl:

Time to rewrite Keebs Mantra " I am a raving success at everything I turn my attention to" - how does that feel instead??

Memorygirl