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Butti's Journey: A matter of loaf and death

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  • lurvlyloz
    lurvlyloz Posts: 877 Forumite
    keep chipping away :) im sure you look fab in the purple and the black so no real need for the green :)
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  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    Butti wrote: »
    Is it just me? (I seem to be asking this of myself more recently - which suggests it is!)

    Bank balance going down (which as it is in O/D is good), feeling relatively in control, car expenses coming in lower than expected, allowing for expenditure on clothes which are getting worn...and yet.

    Bought a purple skirt last week in M&S £25 quid. Wore it three times last week, twice to work and once at the weekend. Also bought a black skirt £15 worn twice last week. Now thinking maybe I should have also got the teal version of the purple.

    Can I afford it? Well do have a gas/electric rebait due this month of about £200. But because I have waited I have missed out.
    • Maybe that's marketing speak?

    Oh yes. How you make a skirt? You get a whole bunch of chinese peasants and stick them into a factory in front of a sewing machine. Then they then belt out skirts in their thousands.

    When you go down to the seaside, do you come away with half the beach? Because if you think about it, every pebble is different. Unlike a skirt.
    Butti wrote: »
    • Maybe I should congratulate myself on not spending another £25 from a line that doesn't exist in my budget

    Yes indeedy. :T
    Butti wrote: »
    • Maybe it wasn't meant to be

    If Arachne is carefully snipping the threads of fate in order to deny you a teal skirt then:
    1. She needs a slap
    2. She needs to find a real job
    Butti wrote: »
    Yet I am still !!!!ed off about it.

    Why exactly?
    Butti wrote: »
    Judging by the comments of the mechanic last week 'I've never seen this much rust on the underside of the car, none of us have' I should shovel money towards the car at a rate of knots. Having said that the car grew up in Hartlepool and is now about as far from the sea as you can get in this country, so maybe the problem is the mechanic and his experience of the world.

    He's "darf sarf". They put salt on the roads when it threatens to get below zero. The last time was 1973...
    Butti wrote: »
    Continuing back pain today. Anyone got cheap solutions?

    Saying "back pain" is like saying "bad driver". It cover a multitude of sins from a feeling of "somethings a bit off here" to "multiple somersaults followed by a crash and burn."

    What, where, how and why is your back hurting?
    Butti wrote: »
    p.s. The gas bill at home has GONE DOWN so thinking I may need to chip the ice off the lodger when I get up there this weekend.

    She'll be fine. Probably wearing thermals. And you'd never know...
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  • Butti
    Butti Posts: 5,014 Forumite
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    You are right Z. You have reminded me that I have two lots of winter fabric and a skirt pattern under the bed. Time to get the sewing machine out!

    The back pain relates to stiffness and lack of mobility in the sacroilliac joint. A strong core would definitely help. I used to have regular sessions with a chiropractor but that is very expensive!
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  • elantan
    elantan Posts: 21,022 Forumite
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    Have you tried cold/heat therapy ?
  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    Butti wrote: »
    The back pain relates to stiffness and lack of mobility in the sacroilliac joint.

    Have you injured that area?

    Pain there is usually related to overmobility, so you're pretty unusual... ;)

    How's your seat at work?
    Butti wrote: »
    A strong core would definitely help. I used to have regular sessions with a chiropractor but that is very expensive!

    What did they do? Can you get someone else to do something similar?
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  • Butti
    Butti Posts: 5,014 Forumite
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    ZTD wrote: »
    Have you injured that area?

    Pain there is usually related to overmobility, so you're pretty unusual... ;)

    How's your seat at work?



    What did they do? Can you get someone else to do something similar?

    Over mobility? I wish. *and we're off into a dream sequence*

    My seat at work is not bad.
    I am amazingly inflexible, my friend who tried to push my feet over my head commented on it.

    Boss at work has pointed me in the direction of a pilates instructor who specifically has a class for people with bad backs! They are very nice at work.
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  • elantan
    elantan Posts: 21,022 Forumite
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    Sounds like Pilates is your best bet then


    How is it today ?
  • Butti
    Butti Posts: 5,014 Forumite
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    Stiff but not as painful.
    Debt LBM (08/09) £11,641. DEBT FREE APRIL 2021.
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  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,451 Forumite
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    ooo, thought you were still talking about the landlord for a mo :D
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  • elantan
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    Mawah ha ha ha ha ha skinty nearly spat out my coffee there :)
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