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

spike7451

One of the best desisions I made this year was to get the gas central heating in.It replaced the old banjaxed Economy 7 heating.
Normaly,I'd be using around £1.50 a day on average (I have a card meter so can check my usage) on E7 but now I'm useing around 90p.
As for the gas,I last topped it up with £10 over two months ago! Still plenty of credit.I reckon I'm saving between ten & fifteen pounds a month!

Izzy.

spike7451 wrote: »

One of the best desisions I made this year was to get the gas central heating in.It replaced the old banjaxed Economy 7 heating.
Normaly,I'd be using around £1.50 a day on average (I have a card meter so can check my usage) on E7 but now I'm useing around 90p.
As for the gas,I last topped it up with £10 over two months ago! Still plenty of credit.I reckon I'm saving between ten & fifteen pounds a month!

where you able to make the decision spike7451? HA want to change my heating and I get no say in it.

penelopedee_2

Hugs 365

spike7451

Izzy. wrote: »

where you able to make the decision spike7451? HA want to change my heating and I get no say in it.

Yes,I'm in a block of four apartments,only two of us got the gas installed fully,the other two only got the piping & meter boxes installed outside.
They'll know about it in the winter while I'm loverly & toasty warm...:D

Izzy.

spike7451 wrote: »

Yes,I'm in a block of four apartments,only two of us got the gas installed fully,the other two only got the piping & meter boxes installed outside.
They'll know about it in the winter while I'm loverly & toasty warm...:D

I live in a block of four HA flats too. Was it much dissruption? I got my mum staying and shes not up to it.

Larumbelle

RAS wrote: »

Long admired your sensible posts. I wish that our society had served you rather better in your youth.

Is it any wonder that some kids fall through the net and end up in trouble. Having said that I know a very well "brought-up" 17 year old who would not last five minutes in your situation and struggles to complete college with full parental backing.

Ultimately, however two things strike me; one that some people seem to be more resilient that others faced with adversity and two that we should never write off anyone just because of their past experience or life.

Thank you. I have had quite an emotional day and your post made me cry. But in a good way.

I think I am quite resilient really. I don't think most people know how strong they are until they need to be. Even then, they just get on with it, because what other choice is there? I expect that every person who posts on this thread (and every lurker too ) has lived through difficult times, and not even realised how strong and capable they turned out to be until later. The thing about me, I cry easily, and because of that I always thought I was weak and wimpy. It's only in the last few years I have become comfortable with who I am and got a bit of self-esteem back and realised that actually, to have come through things I have come through I am a strong person after all. And if I hadn't gone through them, I wouldn't be me.

But anyway, I don't dwell on things The fact is, I am lucky, for a million different reasons. I might have had no money for food at times, but I live in a country where there is more than enough and you can help yourself if you know where. I could usually find work if I needed to. I always had people who cared about me enough to help me through bad times. I had enough strength to get an education and was born into a nation where a free(ish) education is still possible. I got through and today I have a house and a partner that I love and a job and no debts. I even have a relationship with my parents again now. And all of those things did depend on me to an extent, but they also depended on a large degree to nothing more than luck.

Things are better, on paper at least, for kids in a similar position nowadays. Social services can no longer deem you to have voluntarily left care because you missed a single curfew. They can't get rid of you until you've left full-time education. Trouble is, I know how easy it is to just slip through the cracks, and how easy it is to just forget school and horrid teachers and horrid students and decide that you want to go off in the world, even if it means you'll be trapped there forever. And I really do worry about how easily kids like me would just be dismissed as 'chavs' these days. So many kids are being stomped on because insecure people need someone to feel superior to.

Larumbelle

365days wrote: »

Just waiting for the next thing to come along. Things coming in 3's and all that.

I had planned to finish off some decorating,have a major clearout etc etc but will have to wait to see if neck sorts itself out.

Payday today with some extra hours added that I did a while back. Sensibly stashed that away for upcoming car tax, insurance and the C word.

On a positive note green beans from the garden where delicious in my curry!

Aw hun :grouphug: hope your neck is feeling better. Have you had it checked out? Make sure you see a doctor just to be sure.

Things DON'T come in threes. Unless you are looking for the third. Look on the bright side: Overtime money stashed away so you won't struggle in the future. Green beans. What's the third good thing?!

Came home today and OH had pulled up the spuds - Nadine and Maris Peer. We've got about 30lb :j which is great - no green beans yet though!

I bought Austerity Britain on the advice of people on here. It was off Amazon Marketplace as used but you can tell it's never been opened. Guess what I'm doing this weekend?

EstherH

365days wrote: »

It would appear that this Summer Holiday can only get better. After yesterdays's freezer fiasco today someone drove into the back of me. Damage isn't too bad but neck is hurting (Was looking right when he hit)Ds who was in the car with me is shook up but fine. Hassle I could do without. Just waiting for the next thing to come along. Things coming in 3's and all that.

I had planned to finish off some decorating,have a major clearout etc etc but will have to wait to see if neck sorts itself out.

Payday today with some extra hours added that I did a while back. Sensibly stashed that away for upcoming car tax, insurance and the C word.

On a positive note green beans from the garden where delicious in my curry!

Awwwh, sorry to here that. Hope the third thing doesn't hit and your necks ok. Hope DS is alright with no after affects either.

spike7451

Izzy. wrote: »

I live in a block of four HA flats too. Was it much dissruption? I got my mum staying and shes not up to it.

Nope,done in a day.They arrived at 7am & were gone by 5pm.Had to move all the furniture into the middle of the rooms & take down paintings ect tho,but no mmajor hassle.

Izzy.

365days wrote: »

It would appear that this Summer Holiday can only get better. After yesterdays's freezer fiasco today someone drove into the back of me. Damage isn't too bad but neck is hurting (Was looking right when he hit)Ds who was in the car with me is shook up but fine. Hassle I could do without. Just waiting for the next thing to come along. Things coming in 3's and all that.

I had planned to finish off some decorating,have a major clearout etc etc but will have to wait to see if neck sorts itself out.


Payday today with some extra hours added that I did a while back. Sensibly stashed that away for upcoming car tax, insurance and the C word.

On a positive note green beans from the garden where delicious in my curry!

Your poor love. I'm hoping youre neck is ok and ds is ok too. Forget the decorating its bad luck but cars can be fixed better than people.