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  • lucielle
    lucielle Posts: 11,548 Forumite
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    Hi Mg, I love that post and yay to the gifts on your doorstep.
    L
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  • I've been lurking for months and have finally found the courage to post! Just really wanted to say Hi to everyone and just to say how wonderful it is to read the positivity on these pages and to feel inspired because of it!

    WS
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  • Good post Mg.:)

    I have been trying to keep up with you all, but haven't had a lot of time with DD being in hospital- still very poorly and has made the decision to postpone her Uni course this year. I am a bit gutted for her on a lot of levels really and just wish i could swap with her and i would in a heartbeat.

    So i could do with lots of positive thoughts from you all.
    Bob x
    Blackadder: Am I jumping the gun, Baldrick, or are the words 'I have a cunning plan' marching with ill-deserved confidence in the direction of this conversation?
    Still lurking around with a hope of some salvation:cool:
  • fantasia322
    fantasia322 Posts: 1,373 Forumite
    I've been lurking for months and have finally found the courage to post! Just really wanted to say Hi to everyone and just to say how wonderful it is to read the positivity on these pages and to feel inspired because of it!

    WS

    You cant help but feel the positivity can you?
    It just curls round you comfortingly like a new born baby's finger.
    Got me much the same way about 2 weeks ago after months of lurking lol.
    Welcome.
  • vandanfc
    vandanfc Posts: 2,044 Forumite
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    Positive thoughts coming to you and your DD.

    Vanda
  • lisawaters
    lisawaters Posts: 2,081 Forumite
    edited 14 October 2010 at 6:39PM
    Came back from school (ds2 stayed on a while this morning to meet the new kindy teacher) - and the universe had left little bags of abundance on my doorstep.
    The first was three crowns of rhubarb from a farmer friend of mine - one is in the garden now and the other two in the car to be taken to the school - looking forward to all sorts of rhubarby things next year.

    The second was 5 football tops in a carrier bag - so even before I started on my day and choosing how to spend my fifteen minutes on finding Kits for Kids I had a success :j. No note or anything, so hopefully our mysterious benefactor will make themselves known in due course.
    The third - a bag of windfalls that are just screamng to be made into an apple pie (from my neighbours)
    I've been thinking back at how far different my life is from that day -almost a year ago when the bank froze my accounts.
    • My boys were always taken care of - but I didn't take care of me, I didn't believe that I deserved any happiness because somehow I had "Allowed" the bank to take my boys financial future.
    • I realise now that by overcoming the crippling inertia, the feeling of being completely helpless and stuck was a huge mountain to begin to climb. I remember clearly the days when I would just stare at the ironing pile slowly growing because I couldn't be bothered to walk the eight steps to the cupboard and bring out the ironing board.
    • I remember the sick feeling in the pit of my stomach going around LIDL with my list and calculator and praying that I'd done the addition right, because any slip up meant there wasn't enough money to put petrol in the car to get DS1 to school. Gifts - like Clooties eggs were a nutritional godsend some weeks:D
    Like a huge ocean liner it took ages to turn myself around - but day be day, and penny by penny systematically build a stock-cupboard, build a float of money in my account and started to move in the right direction again.

    I now feel like the ocean liner is begging to chug towards the sun again and that one day soon I will be sprinting over the waves - only this time I won't be alone, theres a whole flotilla of ships bigger and smaller sailing with me too.

    I'm not any richer - I still begin and end the week within pennies of my float amount, but I have in my heart a compelling belief that if I can help emough people get what they desire, then I too will get wha I desire. I have in my heart true abundance now - and I don't think I have ever felt that before.

    And you guys challenging me to make £400K under Mr Bigs mentorship - nearly made me run and hide under a stone, because it is exactly the sum of money lost when the bank shut us down.

    But a year on I am within sniffing distance of being signed off benefits and taking the plunge back into the periolous world of being self-employed in the middle of a recession.:eek:

    But a year ago I never even would have been thinking about doing just that - and now I am, and now I have days when I absolutely believe I am on the right track to creating a better life for my family - and setting a better example for my boys.

    So deep breath MG - jump in with both feet and believe that you can reach out to train 1000 people in the next year.

    Off to blow bubbles in the garden with ds2 and calm down a little:rotfl:

    Memorygirl

    Nice message, MG. Well done.

    I'm not from round your part of the world, but Clooties eggs... more nutritious than chickens'?

    x

    Sorry, feeling flippant because I was 'invited' to an interview with the DWP and you know what these people can be like. Fortunately it was just a routine thing, so I have been skipping when no-one's looking.
  • clairewop
    clairewop Posts: 8,007 Forumite
    Hope your Mum's hospital trip goes OK Claire. Following on from my posting your website on my FB the other day by the way, a friend messaged me this morning and said how nice your stuff was - she is now going to put the link on HER FB too! :D I suspect she might well buy some stuff too actually!

    Aww thankyou thats great!! will be good if I get a sale from it too :)
    Boiler pot £30.92/£1000
  • Memory_Girl
    Memory_Girl Posts: 4,957 Forumite
    Lovely post MG - reminds me of the old days as well. And God bless the ladies....:D

    .............. and thanks for not referring to them as the "good old days":D

    MG
    FINALLY AND OFFICIALLY DEBT FREE
    Small Emergency Fund £500 / £500
    Pay off all Debts £10,000 / £10,000
    Grown Up Emergency Fund £6000 / £6000 :j
    Pension Provision £6688/£2376
  • clairewop
    clairewop Posts: 8,007 Forumite
    While mum was in her appointment, I Went to the concorse to have a browse, There was an African charity fund raising for walk Africa or something, Anyway they were selling hand crafted jewellery, crystal heart earrings on silver plated ear wires £5 :eek: and people were buying them, plus a few charms on a silver plated necklace for £10 :eek:

    Then I went into the jewellers and had a look at the beaded jewellery got lots of Ideas lol I'm a bad girl lol.
    Boiler pot £30.92/£1000
  • Memory_Girl
    Memory_Girl Posts: 4,957 Forumite
    OMG You Guys - you've had me in "Purple Puddles" reading all your comments.

    Honestly this morning I was just feeling all Autumnal and reflective - and thankful that the old MG seems to be on her way back.

    Had a great day - sorting out the new webpage mostly. Its superwhizzy - you can book places on courses and order books and everything:j

    When it goes live I will let you all know and we can all have a play.

    I've taken on board the comments from some kind people who have PM'd saying that they would prefer courses to be sooner rather than later (because they want their kids to have access now for greater benefit come exam time next year - so the dates of the "World Tour" have been compressed somewhat.

    But if you guys are confident we can find the kids I am very happy to play along.

    I'm being serenaded by "Twinkle Twinkle" again this evening - one on violin, one on half a recorder. Its music Jim - but not as we know it:rotfl::rotfl:.

    Memorygirl
    FINALLY AND OFFICIALLY DEBT FREE
    Small Emergency Fund £500 / £500
    Pay off all Debts £10,000 / £10,000
    Grown Up Emergency Fund £6000 / £6000 :j
    Pension Provision £6688/£2376
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