make do and mend for tougher times

smileyt_2

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Glad to have told you about them FUDDLE, enjoy.

SMILEY - Thank you for giving me the best giggle of the day, I can just picture you stood on your box in the soaring heights of a cathedral giving your talk, the best image, thank you Cheers Lyn xxx.

smileyt_2

Eeek! No idea why that photo is so large! Sorry!

ETA Oh, it's shrunk! That's OK then!

VJsmum

mardatha wrote: »

The system worked until Thatcher arrived - god that woman has so much to answer for! There will be 4 million very ratty miners queued up on the other side to get hold of her when she finally falls off her perch

:T

well said. Awful woman, I've been saying for years it was all Maggie's fault. Not so much "you've never had it so good" but "you can have what the hell you want now and pay for it later". Only since her time do people think they have a right to the finer things in life - and then there's the banks, and the manufacturing industries and the nationalised industries... Oooh don't get me started.

VJsmum

Gosh, smiley - aren't you tiny?? Like someone in the borrowers.

Aria`s_Tail

D&DD wrote: »

*waves at a fellow posties wife* Aria's tail is yours snoring too lol

Unfortunately I work away as a 24h live in support worker for a week at a time so we only get my weeks rest break together, I am also generally in bed and snoring before he gets in!

Fuddle, everyone is entitled to and does make mistakes, it's how you recover from them that counts. You should be proud of yourself and not ashamed.

It is one of my dogs birthdays today. As I couldn't be there to give her (well both of them!) lots of cuddles OH bought them a muffin each!
We have one of those electric fires with a living flame effect. It is a good one and I often just have it on without the heat just for the cosy feeling it gives, strange how the room always feels warmer too!

ginnyknit

Smileyt, am so proud of you, how on earth did you get up in front of all those people and talk, you are amazing :T:T:T I would be found cowering in the loo:o Next time you are struggling with your confidence just remember this night.

I dread ending up alone and having to move as the only single bed houses locally are in the maisonettes opposite, full of junkies, theives and vagabonds. They cannot open their backdoors as people walk in. Some in the upstairs flats climb up the front of the stairwell to save using a key. The noise is appalling and its absolute hell. It used to be soley for the elderley and all the neighbours on my side looked after them, doing shopping keeping an eye on them and getting help when needed. OH has helped on 2 occasions when the residents passed away and the police couldnt get in through the front doors as they were fire doors and even a sledgehammer wouldnt open them. As the residents passed away or went in to old folks homes they moved the dregs in. Some of the tales dont bear repeating in civilised society. I plan to save as much as I can to keep this home and pay the extra tax or move a friend into share if the worst comes to the worst. I even had an offer off an MSE friend to move in with her and be an extra grandma to her son - bless her cotton socks.

mcculloch29

Following the housing debate with interest. FWIW, my Mum was in a 3 bed family home on her own for 10 years before she died, and did long to give it up towards the end. The garden was absolutely massive for a council property, she loved gardening but there was just so much to do.

Something nice today - £25 in Amaz*n vouchers claimed from a survey site. That makes £200 since last Oct in survey vouchers. Plus all the products to test...

danetastic

I just thank god that I started on the housing rung when I did . I bought a one bedroom / box room flat in Edinburgh when I got my first job as a staff nurse with a 100% mortgage . I sold it 10 years later and made enough of a profit to buy my house and transfered the mortgage. I'm on my own and won't qualify for council accommodation here so if I hadn't have bought I'd be spending the same if not more on private rental
Yes there are days that I find things hard but if I didn't own ( mortgage) house I wouldn't have the pets I have , nor the hobbies I have .
I suppose that strange as it sounds I'm happy where I am . Debt is slowly comming down and then I'll tackle the mortgage . I'm lucky that I have a job that I love

Molly41

Brilliant idea and one I have often thought of but never had the nerve......

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/08/jessica-stilwell-mom-on-strike_n_1948603.html

Look at the stills.....

Cheapskate

Molly, I saw this as well, through another newspaper site, lots of food for thought!

Re housing, my parents started off in council housing, ending in a 3 bed terrace for them and we 4 kids, which they later bought. Mum's now alone in the next house they bought, 3 bed semi, not yet hard work for her physically or financially, but we help her with cleaning etc. She's still a very frugal housewife, eats little and can still be found watching tv with her coat on if she's cold instead of putting on the fire! :rotfl: We were probably the last of the folk we knew to buy our council house, our village had loads of council stock then (60s-80s), but hardly any now, mostly with older people in, and a bit of HA stock, with all the rubbish in.

I'm on the fence re right to buy, it's a good opportunity for people, but I think if you then want to move, the council should have 1st dibs on buying back the house to return to rental. Also think that councils should have used all that money back then to re-invest in new to-rent housing.

fuddle - would just like to echo others comments, you're a stalwart member of the OS team, you're one of the many that keeps me going some days - keep it up, hun! :beer:

Have had no sleep last 3 nights, was in tears at work yesterday (over tired and the other stuff, last straw time!), so feel a bit wary of going in today - they'll think I'm a right wuss! :rotfl:

Hang tough, folks, think it's only just begun!

A xo