Cheer me up cheaply please!

FatVonD

hels234 wrote: »

Thank you for the suggestions, I've looked into helping the homeless and my nearest one is in the city 17 miles away! I'm afraid I live in an old mining village, middle of nowhere, local library 14 miles away, but in the other direction but it is very good when I go into town, will go this weekend and maybe pick up a dvd

I need to meet some new friends, my current ones are all partnered up and make me feel like Bridget Jones at the dinner party :rotfl:am so knackered though after helping my folks and work and the thought of going to a pub alone scares the *** out of me!

Have already found some nail polish and am sat on the sofa with my dog sorting my nails out :T

Can you get a weekend job in a pub? I found myself in that situation a couple of times and a pub job gets you meeting new people plus it gives you a reason to be there, you aren't being a wallflower you're being PAID to be there! It'll help with your debts too.

PS I like the youtube idea, close the curtains and dance like nobody's watching

Gettingtherequickly

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Have already found some nail polish and am sat on the sofa with my dog sorting my nails out :T[/QUOTE]

I'm sorry, but the vision of you dog doing your nails has cheered me up intensely! Must read more carefully :rotfl::rotfl:

brownsauce

i second the pub job idea.
Its hard work but you meet so many people and when i worked in a gastropub i got to know the locals so well and constantly had invitations to go fishing, dinner and clubbing! I went from knowing no one a few summers ago to knowing all the local area (that isnt an inuendo )

wssla00

OK.... this will sound mad but if I am feeling a bit down, I like to go into my cupboards and have a good sort out. If it's your wardrobe it's amazing what comes up and what you can customise! I do it for everything- my make up, my toiletries, even my kitchen cupboards. Imagine my joy when I found five packs of sugar free jelly in my cupboard! Yum Yum!!!

sexymouse

I know it costs a little bit each week, but it's not too expensive - I've recently started going to Zumba classes. It only costs me £20 for 6 weeks, and they are great fun. I didn't know anyone in the class, and now have some new friends, and the added bonus of losing 10.5 inches across my body in only 4 weeks without really feeling like I'm working out, as it's dancing. May be worth looking online to see if there is one near you if you can afford it.

zarazara

I agree with clearing cupboards. If you sort through your wardrobe and chuck what you dont like and what doesnt fit then you can take it to the charity shop it does some good and maybe you can ask if you could volunteer to help one afternoon a week.

Fruball

foxgloves wrote: »

Do you have space to grow something? Even a window box or some containers on a patio? I always perk up around this time because it's seed-sowing time & I love growing veg. You can grow some fresh organic salads even with the tiniest of spaces, healthy to eat too.

I would definately agree with this... I have just sown some mixed salad leaf seeds in an empty supermarket veg tray (perfect size for small salad growing)... Once the leaves are big enough, just trim off what you want for a salad and it will re-grow. If you start a new tray off a week later, and each week, you will have all the salad you need until autumn

Very money saving, very healthy and its very satisfying seeing the little seedlings grow up too

If you have a garden, start thinking about what you might like to grow outside. Courgettes are very easy, bush tomatoes are easy... here is a link to help see when to start sowing different seeds LINKY

LolaLemon

ive started back in the pub after about 7 years away... its great!
im finally out sociallising again (been a very stay at home mum doing attached parenting till i went back to college last year)...
im not spending (much - once for a £4 chinese as i was absolutely starving and didnt want to be eating crisps after crisps all night, and once i played bingo £2 a game with £250 in the snowball, didnt win but they both came out my tips, so wasnt really a proper 'spend' as i hadnt counted them up yet)
Im earning whilst out. not great amounts - minimum wage and only 16 hours a week, but its a start!
Id recommend trying small local pubs as they tend to be a bit more flexable rather than the chains like weatehrspoons

hels234

Thanks for the great replies, I really like the idea of getting a job in a pub, but I haven't any experience of working behind a bar, will that matter? I worked in a shop in my teens (am now in my early 30's) so can work a till?

Myself and the dog have borrowed Sherlock Holmes to watch tonight from a work collegue. With regard to said dog, she has many talents especially in the oportunistic theiving department :mad:, but unfortunately painting my nails is not one of them!

Like the idea of growing stuff in the garden too, not sure what yet, it's north facing and currently a bit muddy and dead looking after all the snow and rain so any suggestions of things that like wet and shady greatly appreciated!:)

Fruball

hels234 wrote: »

Thanks for the great replies, I really like the idea of getting a job in a pub, but I haven't any experience of working behind a bar, will that matter? I worked in a shop in my teens (am now in my early 30's) so can work a till?

Myself and the dog have borrowed Sherlock Holmes to watch tonight from a work collegue. With regard to said dog, she has many talents especially in the oportunistic theiving department :mad:, but unfortunately painting my nails is not one of them!

Like the idea of growing stuff in the garden too, not sure what yet, it's north facing and currently a bit muddy and dead looking after all the snow and rain so any suggestions of things that like wet and shady greatly appreciated!:)

Paint the dogs nails Then post a pic up on here...

Not only will you cheer yourself up but give all of us a good laugh too