301k in debt and morbidly obese - things aren't great!

misskaytee

Just wanted to clarify that there is a big diffence between a Chicken Chucker, and a Chicken Plucker, and both a whole world of diffence from a chicken choker, or so one would hope! :eek:

Love the diary Mr B. Your our Briget Jones for money savers :rotfl:

Northern_Lassy

Thankyou Mr B, I was going to use this horrific Lancashire weather as an excuse to stay in and do nothing this morning but you've motivated me to get up off my lazy backside and go for a run, I know I will feel all the better for it later !
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Skint_but_Optimistic

Hi there, just found your diary and have subscribed... very inspirational, and we could all use some inspiration!

MrBloater

Just time for a quick post before the footie starts up again. Have sucuumbed to a bottle of cheap red tonight because I figure I can justify it as moneysaving, as else I may get argumentative with the idiots who run my workplace and end up injuring one of them, and hence losing my job and possibly be incarcerated. This would not help the family debt problem. Other than that, life's a gas at the moment.

MrsMoo2U

I will join you in the red and the knowledge that it will help me keep my big mouth shut at work thus saving my job until I find something more enjoyable.

Butti

Hi Mr B.

You are helping my moneysaving addiction but not helping my diary subscribing addiction - another signer upper here!

Someone said they imagined you as american. I am imagining you as a fish!!!!:D

I think someone else has said, don't weigh yourself too much. Twice a day at most I would say, preferably twice a week. The numbers can seriously f**k with your head.

B (used to weigh herself 5 times a day before nearly succumbing to anorexia! - this may be a little way off for you!)

Chell

Butti wrote: »

B (used to weigh herself 5 times a day before nearly succumbing to anorexia! - this may be a little way off for you!)

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Igamogam

MrBloater wrote: »

Well that has to be the first time in the decade we've both had similar jobs that Mrs B and myself haven't indulged in a takeaway/wine combo to ease the pain of the first day back blues - even the most hardcore moneysaver on here would have nodded in approval at our choice of reheating a frozen lasagne (made in bulk by Mrs B the other weekend) washed down with tap water. Healthwise Mrs B also shone by putting in 25 minutes on the elliptical trainer.

More hypothetical moneysaving today by turning down the offer to do a mostly funded Masters degree - I would have to stump up 50quid a month - but that's too much in this current climate plus I tried starting a Masters before and couldn't understand it - I know my intellectual limit and I have reached it. Career development-wise it would look good on a CV but I'm never going to get into management cos I'm a tad maverick and don't play the politics game too well.

Sometimes I miss the simplicity of the chicken factory - my favourite job ever (and I've had quite a few) was being a chicken chucker. I would spend 12 hours a day in a coldroom lobbing chickens (dead) through a small hatch onto the production line where they would be systematically carved up into bits of chicken. The only instructions I ever had to follow were "speed up" or "slow down". The foreman had tears in his eyes the day I left and told me I'd always be welcome back as I was the best chucker they'd ever had. So I guess I've always got that to fall back on if everything else fails.

Apologies for all this blah but it is stopping me sneaking out to the offie and procuring a bottle of red to cure the blues. The only thing in the house is half a bottle of tequilia left in the back of the fridge from god knows when, and that's too hardcore even for a disillusioned former chicken chucker.

I did the whole Masters thing - dont know why as I dont think it got me any further to where I am now on account, I guess, I was once described as a maverick too ( why do cowboys spring to mind when I hear that word) My boss at the time said it was a compliment........... Now I hanker after doing a PhD. No idea why, just feel I could stretch myself that far but the £10,000 career develpoment loan is just a non starter. Keep telling my employers they should foot the bill and it would be money well spent.........maybe I have got too comfortable in my maverickness and should start knocking on some doors:)

chevalier

Nice on on the walk. I must do something like that today too
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misskaytee

Thought about you this morning MR B, while taking the kids to school i saw a bloke jogging away in the wind and rain, for a brief moment i thought "i'll get out with the dog for a walk when i get home" but have talked myself into doing and hour on the Wii fit instead...much to the relief of the dog who is snoozing on the sofa like a little cumberland sausage at the moment