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

Buffythedebtslayer

cable ties, gaffer tape and WD40. All you need.


congrats on the fence.

gallygirl

Buffythedebtslayer wrote: »

cable ties, gaffer tape and WD40. All you need.

Are you me or have you just been rooting in my toolbox :rotfl:

chevalier

Mr B I feel a bit ignored . I hope that is an oversight and not because you are avoiding what I said lol
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Angry_Bear

MrBloater wrote: »

... have found the unsurprising fact that we lose the most weight when we are measuring ourselves daily.

A lot of people argue strongly against weighing yourself daily, but I'm on your side.

The only thing I would caution is make a deal with yourself to do it every single day (no excuses!) for a month - no matter what the results. By then you'll be able to see the trend line (especially as I assume you're using the wii), this should make you able to take little peaks in your stride more.

If I weigh weekly and see a small increase I get incredibly disheartened and tend to fall off the wagon a bit. But if I weigh daily I can ignore increases because I expect them - I just focus on the trend line.

Igamogam

Buffythedebtslayer wrote: »

cable ties, gaffer tape and WD40. All you need.

I agree.......my OH,during a period of being 'in between jobs' built himself from scratch an enormous shed it has 2 'rooms' an American style porch/veranda ( for me apparently!) running water, electricity, internet etc and the roof supports our solar panels..........Admittedly he can turn his hand to most things but despite the array of tools - ancient and modern - he only ever seems to need the above items with possibly the addition of an adjustable spanner, to fix anything. I think you are a fully fledged DIYer Mr B especially as you have fixed the loo too:rotfl:

in_need_of_direction

Hi Mr B, I stumbled across your posts while on holiday in Nov and have since worked thru from page 1 to date. Am wildly impressed by all that you've achieved and also by the encouragement you get. You and your supporters have inspired me to join in as while I'm not facing the probs a lot of others are, I need a lot more focus as money seems to evaporate and the inroads needed to my mortgage and the student debts hampering my kids aren't being made.
Hopefully this will set me on track and keep me there.

fannyadams

Hi Mr B
have you had a look on here?

http://www.cheap-family-recipes.org.uk/

many frugal recipes to try

MrBloater

Have been remarkably chilled all day - Boiler guy was due any time after 8am this morning. Well he fulfilled the first half of the promise by arriving at 1.30pm this afternoon. But I was all smiles - even when told that the parts might be in tomorrow but likely it would be Thursday. Thankfully he put it all back to its malfunctioning state and bizarrely it has started functioning.

Was then on the phone to various helpdesks at HMRC for a good 45 minutes and in the end was told it would probably be best to write a letter - still at least my call has been logged by at least 4 different people on the system so they can see that the spirit was willing etc etc.

Now it's either the exercise or the fence giving me all these extra endorphins - despite only doing Day 1 of the Ab Challenge it feels like my stomach has got tighter - I know that is not the case but it's good to feel it, it's good to want to go to bed early so I can get up earlier to do Day 2. But more than likely it's the fence. The builder who lives 2 doors down also had a panel blow down over Christmas, and like me, he was out in the wind and rain yesterday putting his back up. But unlike me he had his Dad to help him (also a builder), and all manner of whirry whizzy power tools. This morning's joy at finding my fence was still up was compounded with surprise (and a quiet little evil glow - with good reason, we have tried being friendly to them and they just do not want to know) that his panel had come down again and taken the one next to it out as well. After the winds had died down this afternoon we both found ourselves out in our gardens again. Me with a Philips screwdriver, cable ties, wood screws and an industrial engineering knowledge of tunnel segment gaskets / industrial polymer production / ground power units, and him with his fancy tools again. Two hours later before the rain and wind kicked in again my fence was pretty much finished and looks pristine, whilst his wasn't - despite helpful support from his wife who was delighting in asking him why it was taking so long for him to get it up. I feel somewhere along the line I have won a moral victory.

ampersand

Just for Mr superduper DIYou, Mr B - your reward:
[one piece of homework: replay ad infinitum. I LOVE them. Late discovery, this year] Rank and justify.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4EfiJYrvT0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QTcENEx7_8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqNAonCJEMM

ampersand

Igamogam wrote: »

.... an enormous shed it has 2 'rooms' an American style porch/veranda ( for me apparently!) running water, electricity, internet etc and the roof supports our solar panels.....

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I'm blind to all else, Igamogam
Does he clone well?
Send him here?
Feel free to partake of reward/homework just set for Mr B.