A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

fuddle

hi GQ I've popped on every now and then but not a lot. I needed a break from doom and gloom and got bogged down with being frugal so much that I began to resent it. It got me down. I felt like money was controlling me and not me controlling money.

I'm ready for another stab at it all. I remember being so philosophical and determined at the turn of the year. In truth I have taken one step forward and two back. Never mind. The skills I have learned can only be built upon. I can switch the mindset back over easily and pick up the good habits again... this afternoon I made a steamed pudding. (a disater as water got in and turned it tasteless but never mind) Something I hadn't done since I was here last!

mardatha

Fuddle - that's normal. That's what we all do - try too hard to do it all at once and finds it all goes to hell. Then you pick yerself up and swear a lot and then start all over again..

grandma247

Hello fuddle it is nice to see you back. I was just wondering where you were yesterday. Try this link for jugit. You can freeze them. I remember we got milk in bags when we lived in Germany forty years ago (eek that seems such a long time ago.!!) I wonder why we went to bottles?
Shivering here, time to put on another layer, I am not putting the heating on.

GreyQueen

There's a season for all things, coming and going. I myself have spent an embarrassingly-large chunk of my wonga on a new mattress and I can report that I'm enjoying every penny of it......:rotfl:let's see you devalue that, you dastardly dastards, you.

Impressed that you cooked a steamed pudding. Never tried that. You can get 2 microwavable ones for £1 in the cheap stores. Umm, I probably shouldn't have said that on the OS board; I may be lynched by a very polite, pinny-wearing mob. I have confessed to being Bad at Cooking before, tho.

Well, did most of the dishes and had to start a new bottle of washing up liquid from the stash under the kitchen sink. I'm having purple Morning Fresh to ring the changes from green Morning Fresh. Girl's gotta know how to live it up, eh?

The skies have cleared. Please spare a small non-denomination blessing for my tatties (and everyone else's frost-tender plants) that no frost strike their delicate selves tonight. I'm glad that living just over a mile away from the lottie stops me going up there at all hours and fiddling around with fleece etc.

I suppose I ought to clean the hob. I could do it. In theory. Or I could curl up with my new library book (the latest in the True Blood series). Yup, I think trashy writing will win over hob-cleaning any day. Have a nice night, peeps.

elona

GQ

Is that "Deadlocked"?

I have just read it and really enjoyed it.

DH is getting enthusiastic about ordering a potting shed that is getting bigger in his imagination by the minute. At this rate there will be more shed than garden!;);)

smileyt_2

I've given in and put the heating on :mad:. The house is just freezing and so am I. My excuse is that it's that time of the month and my body's thermostat always goes a bit wonky. Sometimes it can be 25 degrees outside and I'll be in here with fleeces on ....

Byatt you are a bit quiet - hope the antibiotics haven't knocked you for six and you are starting to feel better. Mardatha glad to see you posting again.

So tired and grumpy I don't know what to do with myself. Flippin' hormones.

However - managed to get a free display box from Asda today. I, ahem, 'rearranged' their stationery shelf to liberate a box. I was upfront about it at the checkout. And the shelf looked tidier when I had finished than it did when I started! It will do very well to keep my folders in with all the minutes from my Housing Association's Tenants' Panel meetings (which are currently stuffed higgeldy-piggeldy into any available nook or cranny). I did buy a magazine file at the same time so I don't think my crime was too heinous .... plus it was in support of community activities .....

Confession time - I also bought a bar of chocolate - but it was only 50p - last of the big spenders, me :rotfl:.

Newshound15

smileyt wrote: »

Just got back from Manchester Dogs Home. I am on the doglost.co.uk helpers' list so went to look and see if a particular lost dog was there. Oh my goodness, I was in tears, all those poor dogs and so many of them bewildered and obviously confused at where they had ended up. I knew I would cry but it felt as if my heart was being ripped out. I just wanted to scoop them all up. My own two got a huge cuddle when I got home. I wish I could win the lottery. I'd rehome all the oldies for a start, so that they had a loving home to end their days in. Oh Lord I'm filling up again.

If you are planning to go there again, make sure you've downloaded DogLost's new app. That way you can register any of the dogs that are strays and get them on the Found page. Maybe they'll have a chance of being reunited with their owners.

smileyt_2

Newshound15 wrote: »

smileyt wrote: »

Just got back from Manchester Dogs Home. I am on the doglost.co.uk helpers' list so went to look and see if a particular lost dog was there. Oh my goodness, I was in tears, all those poor dogs and so many of them bewildered and obviously confused at where they had ended up. I knew I would cry but it felt as if my heart was being ripped out. I just wanted to scoop them all up. My own two got a huge cuddle when I got home. I wish I could win the lottery. I'd rehome all the oldies for a start, so that they had a loving home to end their days in. Oh Lord I'm filling up again.

If you are planning to go there again, make sure you've downloaded DogLost's new app. That way you can register any of the dogs that are strays and get them on the Found page. Maybe they'll have a chance of being reunited with their owners.

Thanks Newshound, but my I don't have a smartphone - my phone's so old it's practically a clockwork one. If I upgrade I will remember this, though. I am seriously thinking of doing some voluntary work with them so if I do I would be happy to act as a link where possible.

Bobbykins

smileyt wrote: »

Confession time - I also bought a bar of chocolate - but it was only 50p - last of the big spenders, me :rotfl:.

Naughty Smiley- you could have at least bought a bar big enough to share!:( :EasterBun

smileyt_2

Bobbykins wrote: »

Naughty Smiley- you could have at least bought a bar big enough to share!:( :EasterBun

*Grovels apologetically* Sorry, Bobbykins .... But it was dark chocolate and not many people like that .... how about I go onto Approved Foods and order the weight limit of 25kg of chocolate for us all, to make amends? :rotfl: