How to Get Through The Tough Times The Old Style Way.

princesstippytoes

Quite enjoying this thread. It seems to have more of a purpose than before and I am picking up some good tips.

I do feel for all of you whose futures are uncertain but please spare a thought for small businesses who are struggling too. Some of my family are going to be stuffed if their business goes under. I must say that it is a pet hate of mine when people use their employer's time to surf the internet.

bertiebots

Well I didnt find any bargains in the charity shops today which is just as well because I only have about 50p in my purse. I forgot if I want to buy anything I actually need some cash:o.
My poor ds's eyesight has deteriorated again and his lenses for his glasses are going to be quit thick. I decided that I would pay the extra £35 for him to have thin light ones made . I hope he can wear contacts when he is older as I am sure it will work out cheaper for him once he is classed as an adult (he is 14 now). I have always thought its a bit unfair that anyone who cannot function without wearing glasses has to pay so much. Its not like he (like many others) can just wear them for certain tasks. Without them he cannot see past the end of his arm:(

kegc

WOW!!! You lot are amazing - it has taken me 3 days to work my way through the thread - as soon as i finished reading a page, another one appeared!! Everyone is such an inspiration :T

I hope you dont mind me joining in - i feel like my main goals can be achieved so much easier with this lovely thread for support x

Theres so much i want to comment on but i may be here for another 3 days!! I would, however, like to say to Grey Queen that i completely understand where you're coming from with Idiot Boy! A year or so ago, Idiot Boy Number 2 moved into the Private Let next door to OH and I - it was a nightmare from start to finish! Parties every weekend, he couldnt come home from the pub without bringing half of our wee town with him. Banging, car engines revving at all times of the night - I remember the feeling of dread when the weekend was approaching as i knew it would be the same again - thankfully after speaking with the landlord, they were extremely understanding and turfed him out. Now we have fabulous neighbours who couldnt be nicer, there is a silver lining, i promise. Fingers crossed for the court date next week. Hopefully, you'll be celebrating! :beer:

Mrs_Veg_Plot

FTM your daugther is really lucky to have you supporting her like you do. How about introducing her to this thread. It might help.

Welcome kegc. They really are an inspirational lot on here. I know I still have a lot to learn about being OS but here is the place to do it.

Just got back from mums. Neices and nephew are as boisterious as ever but it was great seeing them. Missed my sisters though. Opened the fron door to tyhe small of baking bread ans supo in the slow cooker. Feeling hungry just breathing it all in.

scotsaver

Hi everyone - hope you don't mind me poking my head around the Door - found this Thread by accident and it's taken me a few days to read all the pages. Just want to say I hope you don't mind me reading and think the advice/support on here is fantastic. Will post again when I feel I have something worthwhile to say.:o

anguk

bertiebots wrote: »

Well I didnt find any bargains in the charity shops today which is just as well because I only have about 50p in my purse. I forgot if I want to buy anything I actually need some cash:o.
My poor ds's eyesight has deteriorated again and his lenses for his glasses are going to be quit thick. I decided that I would pay the extra £35 for him to have thin light ones made . I hope he can wear contacts when he is older as I am sure it will work out cheaper for him once he is classed as an adult (he is 14 now). I have always thought its a bit unfair that anyone who cannot function without wearing glasses has to pay so much. Its not like he (like many others) can just wear them for certain tasks. Without them he cannot see past the end of his arm:(

My DD's eyesight deteriorated badly in her early teens (so did DS's) but she absolutely hated wearing her glasses outside the house so we paid for her to have contacts. I pay £27 for 3 months worth of monthly lenses, 3 sets, so it only works out at £9 per month. I know her glasses are free but I also know that she wouldn't wear them at school or college (teenage girls & their vanity ) so £9 a month is a small price to pay for her eyesight. She does wear her free glasses in the house though.

M0neysav3r

scotsaver wrote: »

Hi everyone - hope you don't mind me poking my head around the Door - found this Thread by accident and it's taken me a few days to read all the pages. Just want to say I hope you don't mind me reading and think the advice/support on here is fantastic. Will post again when I feel I have something worthwhile to say.:o

Ditto I'm a lurker and read daily without posting - The advice is great so Thankyou all - I promise to post more when I have something worthwhile to add :beer:

kezlou

How many pages :eek::eek::eek:

what between this and mad arthurs thread i'll never get any sleep!!!


Haven't been on as i've been sorting out the house and dealing with DWp. Oh yes what fun, during half term holidays bored in the house waiting for phone calls cracking. Lets just say peeps anything that can go wrong has. Still no money of nay agenicies so i'm not best pleased.

Well its snips birthday tomorrow so been doing lots of baking got a batch of twinks on as we speak. Lets hope they survive till the party:o. Also ade loads of cheese and onion pasties choclate cake, jam tarts, buns and fairy cakes. Birthday cake almost done, need to make some more icing for the top.

Also went and did a bit of a party shop using money whih i'd put away last month. OH made me buy halal chicken nuggets :mad: he said the kids would like them. I said its processed, he said yes but other kids are used to eating normal food. arghhh.
So making hm pizzas and chicken nuggets tomorrow for the hot part of the menu. But its the cheapest birthday party food i've ever done so i'm quite pleased.

But absolutely miserable over here so looks like my plan for taking the nippers to the park is out the window so will have to rely on party games and stuffing them with food.:rotfl:

Oh no the cats looking at the twinks, swear to gawd she's already stolen four cheese pasties:eek:. Never known an animal like it. Hmmm thats strange where's the fat knacker gone, he better not be stealing the birthday cake.

ChocClare

Welcome to kegc and M0neysav3r - scotsaver welcome to you too, but you're not new are you? I'm sure I've seen your words of wisdom before! Anyway, you're all right, there are plenty of brillo ideas as long as you ignore the drivel I usually produce

Bertiebots, if you can possibly afford it, do go for lenses.

I suddenly discovered at 11 that I couldn't see the blackboard (puberty arrived; eyesight vanished) and remember the horror of hideous glasses which I wore ONLY for lessons. Me and my best friend could negotiate school discos by age 14 by knowing exactly what colours people were wearing - we certainly couldn't recognise FACES at a distance. I am sure the lines between my brows are due to my constant squinting at that age. Even worse, my very blue eyes cry in the lightest wind, so I had reactolight lenses in my glasses, adding to the general bleurgh. I used to DREAM of having contact lenses.

And then, when I was 16, I went to work for an optician in the summer hols as a receptionist - and he gave me hard contact lenses which cost £60 :eek: and let me pay for them at £5 per month :A. I can remember going into a German lesson just after I got them - I was the only girl doing German A level so lessons were always a bit fraught for me - and I had to squeeze past the master's desk to get to my chair for some reason and he looked up as I went past and suddenly said, "what beautiful blue eyes you've got."

As you can imagine, I wanted to curl up and die, and, judging by how scarlet he went, so did he (I think he probably said out of surprise more than anything :rotfl:) but even so it did WONDERS for my self-esteem, as he was just the first of many who asked me why I'd been hiding myself behind dark glasses all this time

Contact lenses, particularly gas permeable ones, are probably actually cheaper in real terms than they were when I got my first pair (1978). The pair I got at Christmas was £100. They stop my eyes from watering (exept when I poke myself in the eye, LOL) and, more importantly, they stop your eyes from deteriorating - my prescription hasn't changed since I was 16 and I'm 48 now.

And no, I don't work for the Contact Lens Marketing Board of Great Britain...

vesper

I know what you mean about Idiot neighbours, we had an Idiot Couple living next door for about a year. They had constant partys which although I can put up with at a weekend, it's another thing during weekdays. My OH has to be up at work at 3.30am and there was some nights when he wasn't getting any sleep at all due to their loud music. And lack of sleep does not sit well with a delivery driver. They would have huge drunken rows at all hours, and one of their kids had a habit of kicking the wall that was between their bedroom and ours.
We live down a small road where there is only enough room for one car per household and they would have about 4/5 cars taking up the road at all times. About 5 months ago the Idiot Man was sent to prison and the woman was moved to another house a few miles away as as they had not cleaned it in all the time they were there, it was deemed a health risk. Now luckily its nice and quiet and the only problem we get is Debt Collectors knocking on the door as they didn't pay any of the bills while they were there and run up a huge debt. The house is still empty now months later. And the fact that our neighbour the other side has decided that they want to take over three car parking spaces outside the houses with their cars and said that as we are only renting and they own then they have more right to park the cars there. So I have to park halfway down the road in the mud.

Anyway, on a different note, does anyone know any good easy crocheting guides on the web? I would really like to learn.