'supporting each other through really tough times'

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SHEILA just keep looking after you this week, catch up with yourself and make sure you're eating properly, that and a few good nights sleep should make you feel more the thing and see off that bone weariness that makes it hard to put one foot in front of the other. Hope you get the rat quickly, we've had them on occasion usually in the compost heap and I'd rather they were dealt with than let the dog come into contact with them, horrible things!!! We've been overcast and almost raining until mid afternoon and now we have a perfect summers evening, blue skies and sunshine and I've just been given a lovely and very useful present, 3 Kent Cob Nut bushes to go in the garden, a friend says she has plantations of them thanks to the squirrels, who bury them all over her garden from her big mature bush, lovely stuff eh? Sleep well my friend, Cheers Lyn xxx.

[Deleted User]

WE are a supportive thread to ALL of those who contribute and read along with us, some of our band have real and ongoing problems, and some of us are unlucky enough to have bad health because of the problems!!!!! It is NOT at all helpful to make sarcastic comments about those who have need of support most and be judgemental about thier posts, in fact it is extremely unpleasant. We try to keep this thread civil at least, kindly think before you post what is likely to cause pain and distress.

fuddle

Feel free to rename the thread.

Fuddle's takes of woe? I share all that happens in my daily life on a thread that supports me. My friends are here, my real life friends are here. The people on this thread understand me more than most people in my 'real' life. Apologies if you don't like that I post all the time. You could just do what other people do... choose not to read it and go where your interests are.

Mrs_Chip

No one is forced to read this thread, so I cannot understand why anyone who does feels the need to drop in poison every now and then. If you don't like the thread, read something else.

EstherH

FUDDLE just ignore them. I hardly post but read and enjoy following your trials and triumphs. Esther x

Frugal_Dreamer

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

No one is forced to read this thread, so I cannot understand why anyone who does feels the need to drop in poison every now and then. If you don't like the thread, read something else.

Just saying what a lot of people are thinking..;)

This thread is no longer about money saving in hard times, it's about a small number of posters who feel the need to vent their problems (which have nothing to do with money) on here.:(

THE WORD CLIQUE COMES TO MIND

kidcat

Frugal Dreamer - the thread is not ways about money saving, it is however about supporting everyone who needs it through tough times, that support can take many forms, for some that will be will cost cutting ideas, others gardening tips to grow veg and for some that is emotional support.
Whilst there are many posters who have posted through many of the various incarnations of the tougher threads there are regular new members who are welcomed and supported equally alongside the more established posters.
Far from being a clique the group always make a point of welcoming new posters and offering support in whatever form the poster requests it.

Lavandula

Frugal_Dreamer wrote: »

Just saying what a lot of people are thinking..;)

This thread is no longer about money saving in hard times, it's about a small number of posters who feel the need to vent their problems (which have nothing to do with money) on here.:(
THE WORD CLIQUE COMES TO MIND

I do agree that this thread has been derailed somewhat by a few posters who tend to dominant. Can't we get back to providing tips and advice on old style money saving?

fuddle

Frugal dreamer you've had a harsh tongue on the tougher threads for years. Only ever contributing when you didn't like what you see.

This thread IS about money saving and in the OS way. I ask for practical OS help daily. This tread has evolved and changed with the times. Times are incredibly difficult and given that MSE Andrea gave the thread posters carte blanche to chat on here, we are doing nothing wrong.

I take your point that my posts are about me, me, me and it will be annoying to lurkers/fellow posters but the point stands. If you don't like it move on. You could even start your own thread about practical moneysaving OS ways in these times and leave this to be the supportive one.

A lot of post on MSE are about people's lives, its why a whole host of people come here isn't it? Ways to get through life? It just so happens that this thread is full of gardeners/bakers/preppers/mothers etc and can help with any given situation. Why post elsewhere when you have friends like that?

Pooky

The world is full of cliques, but yet it still keeps spinning away, quite merrily.

It's been muggy, foggy, iggy and oggy here today. I feel all of a damp squib.

I'm nearly at the end of my winter stores so need to start thinking about this winters supplies. Like a complete numptie I didn't keep a record of what I'd brought last year so need to do some serious thinking....not easy with the headache I've got.

In the next 12 months we have some serious drops in income to contend with so my store cupboards need to be full and well planned.

But I still have a couscous mountain so we won't starve......actually DH would rather starve than eat couscous so I might save him a FB pie or two.