It's STILL tough and not getting better - so how are we coping?

pink_numbers

lambanana - I love lists and budgets too, we've just had to redo ours last night/this morning so that OH can pay off his loan before his contract runs out. Budgets are good because it makes you see that it IS possible to solve problems.

sammy_kaye18

pink_numbers wrote: »

Budgets are good because it makes you see that it IS possible to solve problems.

Im another list lover here.

I have several on the go (and on the screen) at the minute.

So far I have

one for housework
one for who I need to buy for xmas
one for shops I need to go to to complete my xmas shopping
a craft list
a to do list for tomorrow
shopping list

I think I need a list for my lists!

Also I like sitting and figuring out our budget even if it does take some fiddling around to get it sorted. have realised I need to do some 'clever' shopping to last us through the week or so though as I get £180 on Thursday and £111 of it is bill allocated and ben needs shin pads before then but his togs may have to wait until the end of the month and he will need to make do with his trainers for now.

pink_numbers

sammy - looks like you DO have a list of lists

JayJay14

NSD for me today - and strangely enough we are having corned beef and potato bake for tea:rotfl:(got the 6 for £5.99 at costco a while back)

OH's car passed it's MOT this morning - no work required - so lucky, and the garage is doing a service next week for £70 which is much better than we expected. So at least if he gets a job he has the legal means to get there:D

Annie56 - You have given OH and I such entertainment with your life over the last week or so, we think you are amazing:cool: You will be fine entertaining your friends - by inviting them into your space rather than theirs (if you get what I mean) you will be putting your independance first. S0d those who look down on you - they need to get a life (like you have)

Chez JJ - OH has been put forward for 3 more jobs today, I live in the hope that one will come up trumps and we will get to keep the house. At least DD seems to be OK in her new job so I will be getting some board off her soon (at last:rotfl:)

flowertotmum

HI all...i hope your all ok...lindy loo...my daughters school are charging £1 a wk for a piece of fresh fruit and a very small glass of milk...
sammy k.. i love lists,shopping,presents,books,meal planner etc..hubby reckons i have ocd..if its not on the list then i don't do it or buy it..he also seems to think the budget i rework every wk is a joke but its not ..i have paid off 3 catalogues,2 credit cards and a next account in just under 1 yr..3 things left and then we are debt free...can't wait..
Annie56...congrats on the new lifestyle and choices your making for your self...stuff the ones who don't get it..they are obviously not true friends..
Had a nsd today..my little girl iris is poorly so whilst she slept i made tomato soup,pasta sauces and apple sauce and made a cake for tea..feel a bit grotty myself...got given some greengages so not sure what to do with them all but will find a way...
I am trying unsuccessfully to knit my self a scarf for winter..honestly its cack..but i'll keep trying..
Right i'm off..bath time and then i can snuggle up on sofa with my girls before bedtime...
take care all...

northwest1965

Hippeechiq wrote: »

Cars do take a lot of anyone's money. My car failed it's MOT in April, on the simplest of things.....the ABS/Handbrake/Air Bag lights on the dash, wont go off. It passed on everything else and they can find no fault with the ABS/Handbrake/Air Bag. They (the garage) felt pretty sure that if they "tried this and tried that" (to the tune of £350) they could sort it......well, they tried, and they couldn't, and we didn't have £350 floating around, so it had to go on OH's cc. So we are now left paying back £350 to the cc company, but have no car and no means to get another........and all because the lights wont go off on the dash :mad:

My OH had this problem with his car, the airbag light was on all the time, if my memory serves me right, its a cable, it happened when the seat kept being moved. He just said, its a connection below the seats. HTH

ceridwen

mardatha wrote: »

Some things to think about today --(ok just call me the Voice of Doom. Or private Fraser )...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/8000561/IMF-fears-social-explosion-from-world-jobs-crisis.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/8001113/Cuts-will-bring-civil-unrest-says-police-leader.html
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/199383

I do share your concerns on this Mardatha - as you know.

Actually - there is an even more alarming article to the side of the first one you quote:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/79979109/The-backlash-begins-against-the-world-landgrab.html

The landgrabbing that is going on across the World currently by some countries is WAY dangerous - basically its 21st Century "enclosures". We recall British history and what happened when British landowners enclosed common land in our country a couple of centuries ago and the problems that created.

I am racking my brain to try and remember whether some other country just tried to "grab" a bit of our land in Wales or has actually succeeded in doing so - I just remember my reaction of "They can TRY to landgrab a bit of OUR country if they like - but I, for one, will continue to treat it as if its ours whoever has the 'legal ownership' of it - I feel a bit of guerilla gardening/GM crop sabotage action coming on if they try. Its OUR land....(expletives deleted)....."

charlies-aunt

:rotfl:

parsonswife8 wrote: »

And on a lighter note...so this is why we all love a good bargain..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1311631/Seeing-special-offer-shopping-just-like-watching-!!!!!!.html
:eek::eek::eek:

The high point of my week this week has been the Lidl 'lastest news' email with a printable voucher attachment to get a jar of Red Mountain coffee for 25p!

Said voucher can be printed off over and over again...but I was good and only printed one. Just got to hope that there is some coffee left when I go in

I'm sad but I really looking forward to it!

ceridwen

sammy_kaye18 wrote: »

Aftrnoon

Well not amused. Absolutely bloody drenched - put jeans in the drier for 40 minutes and they've come out wtter than they went in and I only have literally 3 sets of trousers, one pair are on the line (so bloody dripping as I didnt catch them before the downpour began,) my jeans which are in drier and my leggings are covered in paint. All my otehr sloggy bottom trousers I gave away as I out grew them all when I was pregnant and didnt think Id fit in them any time soon. So am sat in PJ bottoms at the minute (in case you were wondering!) and hopign Jeans dry before the school run!

Check up yesterday was pointless - need to rebook to see my original doctor as one i saw didn't examine me at all in any way shape or form, and said he was putting me back on the pill because i didn't do well with the injection and knew nothing about the implant. I was on the pill both times I got pregnant! He didn't take my blood pressure, didn't check my stomach/ weight /height etc and when I mentioned being uncomfortable 'downstairs' as if something hasn't aligned properly he said 'well baby is still young your still healing'.......holly is 9 weeks old tomorrow so it should be near enough healed not feeling like its grinding when i move in a certain way!

?

Well - I've never given birth as you know - but I would have thought things should be more "back to normal" on the health "downstairs" as you put it by now...You want to keep on about it until it is..and not just take his word for it. You have the right to change doctors if he isnt very co-operative/informed...:)

Re the pill - ummm...back in my days on the Pill as far as I recall it was just a pretty "strong" type one that was available - none of the mini-Pill thats been around for a few years now. Seem to recall one has to be a LOT more precise with when one takes the mini-Pill version (as in its a much shorter timeslot available to take it in for one and the strength of the mini-Pill may not be enough to cope with some "modern size" women??). Maybe you ought to insist on a more "old-fashioned" variety of Pill - demand that it be THE most reliable one there is regardless of the modern so-called "health and safety" angle that I believe is the reason they went on to prescribing those mini Pills.

Mind you - back in my day my Doctor of the Day knew "health and safety" was definitely at risk if it hadnt "worked" - HIS "health and safety"...:rotfl::rotfl:- he'd been told it WOULD be 100% effective OR ***********

Take care pet...

ceridwen

Annie56 wrote: »

Some of my friends have contacted me now the news has filtered down the gossip grapevine about my new lifestyle choice, suffice to say two of them have had the sharp end of my tongue, bleedin cheek talking down to me as if I was living in a slum and have gone bonkers, there the ones that my old boss used to say are ten bob millionaires, all front and show and no substance, god I hope I never pranced round like that in days of old....

My friends funeral is next Monday, we have to wear light and joyful colours as he didnt want a black type funeral and its not a funeral anyway its a colourful joyous blast in a celebration of his life...I will miss him, we worked togther for many years, Im going to make a real effort to keep in more contact with the few friends that have stood by me, starting with a nice meal round my dining room table, my first solo meal for 5 in my new flat..hope there not claustraphobic!! lol .

Havea pleasant afternoon all

Annie56

The other phrase for the (former) friends is "All fur coat and no knickers":rotfl:

Hope the funeral goes okay for you and yep...go for it with the meal in your new flat. You have to do something to celebrate "Independence Day" after all:D