make do and mend for tougher times

fuddle

Welcome JKJ There's unfairness all around us isn't there. I liked the part about your neighbours deciding to pool their resources. I think there is going to be so much more of that soon, there's going to have to be I feel.

maryb

:wave:Hello JKJ

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Morning Toughies, another soggy day in the workhouse, but some beautiful skies to go with it.

FUDDLE - You are such a little battler and have more strength than you give yourself credit for. The situations you have had to cope with would have knocked most of us flat but, there you are the next day, head round it and planning your next move to a better life. Glad your DH has opted to ease the burden for you by tackling the house move and giving you a bit of breathing space. You'll get there, the scars only make you more determined and stronger for the experience, I think you're amazing!!!

JKJ - welcome in, nice to have new recruits. Your two ladies sound as though they are feet on the ground and have much common sense. When my first marriage broke down I found myself in an old, run down bedsit on very little income. Another tenant in the house was in the same situation and we shared by one day cooking - the other person heated the room and we ate in there to keep warm, then the next who had cooked did the heating and who had heated provided the meal. We worked quite close to one another and did a 4 mile walk (couldn't afford the bus) each way together, which was morale boosting. It is very unjust that they find theirselves in this situation in older life but from what you say, they will make out.

KIDKAT - You poor thing, it's one thing after another for you at the moment isn't it. I really hope you shed this one quickly and feel much better really quickly, Chin up, Cheers Lyn x.

grandma247

Hello jkj welcome to the madhouse.

I am thinking of giving family members charged store cards for pressies so they can stock up a bit.Thats better than rubbish they don't need.

I will also buy the kids clothes I think and am making the girls play stuff. I have started by crocheting a moses basket writing a pattern as I go but forgot to write the last few instructions so will have to do that on the next one.

kidcat

grandma - my grandad used to save Supermarket vouchers each week which he divided up at Christmas between his children and then when I was running a household I got one too. It was a major bonus having the extra to spend each Christmas and meant I could really stock up.

Byatt

Hiya JKJ, you talk a lot of sense and I agree with you. :T

I'm a bit down today, but still being proactive, I want to thank you all again for your support and for the PM's, I am really touched as I know you all have something to deal with, but you made time for me, which is appreciated. :A

xxxxx

edit, just picked up the tv remote and started dialling as if it was the phone...:rotfl:

tryingtobethrifty

:wave: JKJ and welcome x

SpikyHedgehog

grandma247 wrote: »

Hello jkj welcome to the madhouse.

I am thinking of giving family members charged store cards for pressies so they can stock up a bit.Thats better than rubbish they don't need.

I will also buy the kids clothes I think and am making the girls play stuff. I have started by crocheting a moses basket writing a pattern as I go but forgot to write the last few instructions so will have to do that on the next one.

I'd love to have store cards & kids clothes as presents instead of stuff bought just as a gift... I gave all the nieces & nephews hats last year, and have hat, scarf, mitten sets for the youngest ones this year for their birthdays. As I am a mean aunt, I stopped buying toys for my nephew when I only had 1 & saw his toys scattered everywhere with bits lost & broken . But I do aim for useful and attractive things instead! They all got the danger book for boys or equivalent the other year, DS1 loves his & is now sharing with DS2 who was too young at the time to get his own.

Byatt wrote: »

Hiya JKJ, you talk a lot of sense and I agree with you. :T

I'm a bit down today, but still being proactive, I want to thank you all again for your support and for the PM's, I am really touched as I know you all have something to deal with, but you made time for me, which is appreciated. :A

xxxxx

edit, just picked up the tv remote and started dialling as if it was the phone...:rotfl:

I looked at the snuggle blankets in the window of q d with a 'big pocket for the tv remote' & thought 'No, that's for the teenagers phones!'

Byatt, we want to make time for you and everyone else, becasue we all like each other - sure sometimes we bicker, but that's like being in a big family. And some of us (ie, not me!) are better are words of help & others (ie, me) can only manage incoherent words of hugs as we can't reach each other to make the cup of tea and give the big hugs and boxes of tissues.

Updated council with my reduced hours & income, the may fast track it so I can by Friday, if not it will be 4 or 5 weeks... Luckily, this month was part at old wages, part at new so rent etc should be ok. & there's no birthdays till November, so I've got time to look for things & not impulse buy.

Cat's got to go to the vet's this morning as she's got eczema from the fleas. Poor little girl is snuggled up on my work fleece on my bed. Then it's back for more housework, and venturing through the rain for fruit & veg & soya milk.

D&DD

Bigjenny wrote: »

Fuddle The old saying "When one door closes anothers door opens" is often true.

I have found it may take a while for it to happen and often don't realise that it has.

Jenny

Very well put Jenny although knowing me I'd walk into it and knock myself out

*waves at JKJ*..I had to type that three times kept putting in JFK lol

I have a houseful today all kids home ill happy days!

The sun is out then it pours and I need to go in the garden and pick fruit...

fuddle

Can you eat grey squirrels when SHTF? I know that my dog is very in tune with the squirrel population as he's just pulled me over, flat on my face, in the mud trying to catch one. :rotfl: Just as well I have a sense of humour. It cheered me up anyway.

I think I have a canny little hunter on my hands

MrsL I always gets sweets in for the children at Halloween but I quite like the idea of cakes and biscuits. only till 7 though then it's lights out and pretend we're not in as the older ones are bit :eek: in attitude.