How to find time and stay focused to be df

bommer

Hi,

Just wanted to pose the questions as to how do you find the time to stay focused on being df and give time to others on MSE along with all the other day to day issues and chores that need doing?

yung

Easy enough for me I am retired.

Storm

Um, I still fairly new to being a DFW, but I think the key is to turn the changes you are making into habits so you don't notice the time, i.e. when you first start cooking from scratch instead of say ready meals you notice the additional time for preparation and washing up, however after a while this becomes the norm for you.

In terms of coming on the site - I have to admit I come on when I'm quiet at work (oops!), but often I come on in the evenings when I would have normally gone out & be spending loads of money - it makes me remember why I'm doing this

Avogirly

I visit here whilst I'm at work too, especially when it's quiet, but as I am getting organised with my finances I am trying to get organised with the other aspects of my life, slowly it's all coming together, and one part helps the other.

I agree with Storm that I visit here when I have the urge to spend money, it keeps me (sometimes!) focused!

1mmaker

yup same here, on here at work.

1mmaker

yup same here, on at work.

babes21

I still live at home with my parents, so don't have the day-to-day running of a household, which makes coming on in the evenings easy enough for me.

bobbadog

I seem to have too much time on my hands at work, which is when I plan... I have stickies all over my desktop with shopping lists on, running bank totals, meal plans, recipe ideas... I e-mail myself stuff, to my home address, to check later. I think what I can eBay at work, take pics at home and list them in my lunch hour. I check Sainsburys.com for special offers and meal plan from that, whenever i get chance.

I think as my job is computer based and quite... well, easy, as i've mastered it since i've been here (took the person I replaced 2 days to raise all the accounts stuff for the week - I can do it, literally, in 2 and a half hours)... I have the rest of the time to plot away!

My house is dusty though. Mmm.

lynzpower

Im not working at the mo! I have all the time in the world

Seaxwyn

I admit it is a bit of a problem for me. Since discovering this site about a month ago I have got a bit addicted and am probably spending hours on here every day if I added up all the quick visits.

I've learned lots, and am making lots of changes, and it all feels very virtuous, BUT I am freelance and paid by the hour, so every hour I'm reading these forums, ringing banks to check APRs, entering figures into spreadsheets, or whatever, is one hour less income earned.

I must set time aside for money saving activities and stop letting it take over too much of my life.

Phoenix79_2

I'm bored to tears at work so have plenty of time to think things over!