'supporting each other through really tough times'

bluebag

Pooky wrote: »

SDG,

I love housework, I know, sad but I do. I love how the house looks when it's clean, tidy and cosy and I can't relax until its done each day. I'm very jittery at the mo with the kitchen and boiler works being done, dust everywhere and boxes of stuff in the way.

Please come and visit me if you run out of housework any time, you are more than welcome to do mine, I shan't mind in the least sharing it.

Honest, it permanently looks like I'm having work done when I'm not.

Pooky

Rainy-Days wrote: »

No doubt this posting of mine will get vamooshed in the meantime, but just to let you all know I am off and I won't be back.

Thanks for all your help and advice over the years. I enjoyed being part of the group, but I have decided for extenuating reasons to call it a day on here and no longer contribute.

Keep up the good work.

R

Hope everything is ok Rainy, come back soon x

bluebag

fuddle wrote: »

Erm.. I have the job! Full-time work here I come

Bliddy 'ell. I have cried buckets this afternoon. Hit a real low point and now in high as a kite. Please, please can I have a stagnant period now?

Just phew

WHOOOOO HOOOOOO !!!!!! GO YOU BABES !!!! Houston we have lift off all green for go.:T:D:D:beer:

bluebag

Rainy-Days wrote: »

No doubt this posting of mine will get vamooshed in the meantime, but just to let you all know I am off and I won't be back.

Thanks for all your help and advice over the years. I enjoyed being part of the group, but I have decided for extenuating reasons to call it a day on here and no longer contribute.

Keep up the good work.

R

Best wishes, lurk and wave from time to time maybe?

fuddle

Hester have you really done the sex chat lines?

I grew up being around my aunty. She was a single mam and worked, worked, worked. She didn't get anything from my cousins dad at all. She was on her last legs financially and still is but holds down 3 jobs to make ends meet... At 59. I think growing up around that grafting ethic has stayed with me and I would like to think I would try anything to make ends meet too.

I know I would be rubbish at sex chat lines though. I don't think that would make me any money. *blush

Can I pick your brains? I won't get in of an evening till 6.30pm with DH picking girls up and having to start tea.

What meals can I cook, batch and freeze?
Can I freeze rice/pasta, defrost and reheat?

Alfie he'll be alone for 11 hours daily. There's no way of getting him out for toilet or walks. what if he has to go back to dogs trust.

Can't worry, will not worry. Enjoying these safe feelings

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FUDDLE would your LL allow you to get Alfie an outdoor kennel and keep him outside while you are not at home? You would probably need to make him secure in some way, either with a lead or by sectioning off a part of the garden to keep him in but that would solve the problem of toilet breaks. Do you think your neighbour would take him round the block at lunchtime for you? you might find that a help too.As long as he has a dry and warm place to shelter from the rain and weather and water and food in reach (I know the food wouldn't be there long!!!) he will be fine and you will not have any problems with RSPCA etc.

Yes you can certainly freeze both pasta and rice very well. Batch cooking, I would make a nice stew and dumplings, they freeze well too. Spaghetti bolognese with the pasta and cheese on top ready to go. Pasta bakes with cheese on top, risotto, macaroni cheese, cauliflower cheese, curry and rice, chilli and rice. I very often just put a whole dinner with all the veg and gravy in a tupperware type box in the freezer for He Who Knows when I go to see the girls on my own, I freeze crumble and custard, steamed pudding and custard stewed fruit and custard that sort of thing is always handy in portion sizes for the 4 of you or individual ones for convenience.

Hope that's useful, Cheers Lyn xxx.

Hardup_Hester

Fuddle, yes I have, my favourite customer was the one who used to shout 'In, Out, In, Out' I had to shout along with him, this used to reduce hubby to tears of laughter.
Could you put a dog flap in for Alfie, or put newspaper down, take him for extra long walks at the weekends.
Batch cooking, lasagne, cottage pie, curry, all freeze well.
Hester

JellyBox

Congratulations on the job fuddle! As I've been catching up I felt really bad for you, but then was so pleased to see things change later in the afternoon!

Also - been really interesting reading all the posts about previous hard times. I grew up in a home where all the basics were easily provided, plus some extras, parents working only normal hours and still having enough to give us everything we needed. I guess it just makes this really new to me, I do know people who have struggled with money (obviously, I'm not in a bubble!) but until now, it's never been an issue for me personally. I just wish I had some of the generation of family left who have had to get by, people who mended rather than replaced and baked rather than bought.

I am not sure what I've written makes sense, but anyway, it's meant to be a thanks for all your experiences and helping me to see the stuff I have, rather than the stuff I haven't. Will try and keep this positive thing going for the rest of the day, might even manage to top it off with a full night of sleep if I'm lucky!!

cutestkids

Well done on the job Fuddle x

Peanut2013

Insert every swear word possible

After a great week I KNEW I was destined for something to go wrong!

It appears my laptop has gone to laptop heaven. BUT this is my source of income (in my part time job). The plan was to return to part time job soon and try and get some savings together but physically can't do without the computer.

What do I do? I need a certain type of machine so am looking at about £1200 for a new one we don't have this. I reckon I could afford £50 a month towards it, possibly more on a good month.

Would I be completely stupid to get a credit card and do some tarting? Or possibly ask my brother for a loan?

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