Pinot's Potty debt free journey!!!

HappyNow

Happy New Year Mrs P. You've not been about much this last week and I hope it's because you are having a lovely time with your great family. All the best for 2013, which I predict is going to be a great year for all of us x

PinotGrigio41

Sorry posting a bit late and havent been around much i know but just wanted to wish all of my lovely MSE friends

A VERY VERY HAPPY, HEALTHY AND HOPEFULLY PROPSEROUS NEW YEAR :beer:

I hope you have all had a lovely Christmas and New Year celebrations !

I will be back and posting properly in the next few days.x

PinotGrigio41

First real but rushed post of the New Year !

Christmas was great but exhausting.

New Year was fun and I woke with a clear head, just very tired due to the 6am bedtime ! I'm too old for this lark !

Today we are starting the new year with lots of plans, resolutions, not unlike last year really.

I am still on a mission to clear this debt as quickly as possible, sadly as with last year we are starting the year with little work. Today has been spent, chasing up work, invoicing etc. There appears to be some work on the horizon but nothing much confirmed as yet. We have just enough to get by in January if we are even more careful than usual. I need to get back into the budgeting side of things and have dusted down the expenses app which had been sadly neglected and have started today logging purchases etc. We need a little food , mainly basics, bread ,milk etc but arent doing too badly as we havent shopped since before christmas and have been living on leftovers. Pies, Curries and the like !

Christmas tree has been taken down, I know I sound like a humbug, but once its all over with I get fed up and want to give the house a good clean. Everything needs go in the loft now though !

Settled down this evening and watched Gargrave on the TV ! What a lovely family ! Certainly made me think about joining them in Oz thats for sure !! :rotfl:

New things for the New Year that we are doing as a family , inspired by something I read just before Christmas is that we now have a Good Things Jar. Actually it isnt a jar as I havent been out to buy one yet, but a big candle holder that I bought for the Christmas table. Everytime something good happens to one of us or as a family, or even something funny that made us laugh, we will write it on a piece of paper, fold into tiny pieces and pop inside the jar. On New Year Eve 2013 we will empty the jar and read all the Good Things that happened to us in 2013 ! There are bound to be some surely ??!!

grannyx2

PinotGrigio41 wrote: »

New things for the New Year that we are doing as a family , inspired by something I read just before Christmas is that we now have a Good Things Jar. Actually it isnt a jar as I havent been out to buy one yet, but a big candle holder that I bought for the Christmas table. Everytime something good happens to one of us or as a family, or even something funny that made us laugh, we will write it on a piece of paper, fold into tiny pieces and pop inside the jar. On New Year Eve 2013 we will empty the jar and read all the Good Things that happened to us in 2013 ! There are bound to be some surely ??!!

What a lovely idea, I'd say with your lovely family you'd better order something the size of a skip not a jar x

PinotGrigio41

grannyx2 wrote: »

What a lovely idea, I'd say with your lovely family you'd better order something the size of a skip not a jar x

:rotfl:Thanks Granny !!

I was looking at Apothecary Jars and Mason Jars on ebay, but some of them reminded me of Urns which was a bit depressing. They were also more than I am prepared to pay, so the big candle holders which take Pillar Candles will do for now I think !

We have three Good Things notes popped in there to date, I'm not convinced that we will.............

a - Keep this up for a whole year !

b - Not Peek until New Years Eve !!

:rotfl:

HappyNow

Oh wow, I love 'the Good Thing jar' idea and I have immediately nicked it for use in the Happy House. Except ours will be called 'the Good Thing goldfish bowl' because that's the only suitable container I can think of. (It is empty by the way. It's a fancy decorative one, not a fish-holding one, so the bits of paper will stay drier than you'd first think).

grannyx2

PinotGrigio41 wrote: »

We have three Good Things notes popped in there to date, I'm not convinced that we will.............

a - Keep this up for a whole year !

b - Not Peek until New Years Eve !!

:rotfl:

I think it could be just what the doctor ordered in times of feeling glum to have a peek now and again, you will still be able to review them all again on NYE. If it works and you do it again next year, it may also be good to then put the best ones in a scrap book that you keep longer term over the years.

HappyNow wrote: »

Oh wow, I love 'the Good Thing jar' idea and I have immediately nicked it for use in the Happy House. Except ours will be called 'the Good Thing goldfish bowl' because that's the only suitable container I can think of. (It is empty by the way. It's a fancy decorative one, not a fish-holding one, so the bits of paper will stay drier than you'd first think).

:rotfl:

poohbear59

I love your 'good things jar' ideas. It will be great to read back over all the amazing things that have made you happy over the year.

Sadly when I suggested it to my brood they looked at me as though I have two heads. Maybe it is because it is a house of men

We are all currently sitting with our lightbox shining at us (for SAD), maybe I will suggest it again in a few days....

Alice_in_Poorland

I agree with everyone what a lovely idea. I will suggest it tonight, if I get the same response as poohbear I might just do it myself.:D

Not the same but something we do when we are sitting down in the evening for tea is I ask everybody what the best and worst things of their day have been. Normally the worst is school...of course but it did encourage my friends son when they started it to talk about problems he was having at school too. I pinched this idea from supananny. Some of the best things are quite funny, one of the best things that happened to DS3 one day was he had had a new pencil at school that hadn't even been sharpened.....how innocent eh. xx

PinotGrigio41

Happy - I think the Goldfish bowl will work just as well as our candle holder. I just need to remember not to light any candles in it though or our Good Things will go up in a puff of smoke !

Granny - The Scrap Book is a lovely idea, I have a few on the go already for various things that I cant bear to part with . Im not sure I would be able to part with any Good Things though and would keep them all !

Pooh - Men are rubbish !! Mr PG says that he will participate but I think he may be humouring us. I can see it be the the girls or I who will be writing his Good Things for him !

Alice - Go for it Alice, do it on your own if noone will join you ! We do the same with the Best and Worst things about your day. It a great idea and really encourages the children to speak. We also done something similar on holiday in Florida a few years ago, we had a book and everyone had to write down their best and worst rides at the theme parks. The girls wrote some hilarious things, DD2 was only 5 at the time . Its lovely to read back on.

On the Good Things subject for anyone thinking of doing it, remember to write the date on your note !