My Money/saving adventure!

coolcats

Thats great soon be a home owner without the hassle of moving, well done for achiving your dream, even with the plan changes

sofarbehind

Spoon I think you are a remarkable person. Intelligent, brave and quite extraordinary. Don't under estimate your value. I understand the impact of a poor start in life and I still struggle. You have inspired me. I will be more Spoon in 2015!

The_Magnificent_Spoon

Just thought I'd pop back for an update, I've not been here in a while.


The purchase of my apartment went through fine, there was some messing about from the solicitors (as I had been assigned a solicitor who had no idea, and wasted about three months on something she thought was an issue but it really wasn't), and I've been happy here since.


I've since saving towards a second place, a meeting with a pensions advisor resulted in him advising me not to get a pension, but to invest in property - so this is my next target! Who would ever have thought it... certainly not me, anyway.


My Job has taken a turn for the better. I was a bit demoralised through much of last year as they had employed somebody who was trying his best to make my job less and less important, and to try and take away any responsibility I had. Which made me pretty unhappy. He then left, and everything went back to normal. I've since been given the extra responsibility I was after, and a decent pay rise, and so I'm happy again.


Also, I had found myself a lady, who I thought I was happy with. But she had issues with getting too close to people in relationships (after a few years ago, her partner committed suicide after they had some problems) and so we ended up splitting over Christmas. Which pretty much ruined what was otherwise a really good year. I'm still pretty torn up about it. I genuinely now believe I'm meant to be alone.


I've started this year on trying new hobbies. Started skiing lessons, booked in to do climbing lessons and a few other things. They'll at least get me out and about. Might try and get back into running too, if my knees and feet can take it!

The_Magnificent_Spoon

sofarbehind wrote: »

Spoon I think you are a remarkable person. Intelligent, brave and quite extraordinary. Don't under estimate your value. I understand the impact of a poor start in life and I still struggle. You have inspired me. I will be more Spoon in 2015!

Thanks for your comments! I'm not so sure about brave though, I'm just trying to get by and make the most of life even though I know I've been short changed for a lot of it. Not having any family means I miss out on so much, and I've in the past had all sorts of really horrible judgemental reactions from people when I've tried to avoid the conversations about family.

sofarbehind

The_Magnificent_Spoon wrote: »

Thanks for your comments! I'm not so sure about brave though, I'm just trying to get by and make the most of life even though I know I've been short changed for a lot of it. Not having any family means I miss out on so much, and I've in the past had all sorts of really horrible judgemental reactions from people when I've tried to avoid the conversations about family.

Sorry Spoon,


I've only just seen your reply to my comment.:o How are you getting on?


I still think you are very brave and an exceptional person. I KNOW you are. :rotfl: I think you're right, you do miss out not having family. But you may build a family of your own in the future and you can develop lasting friendships that become a substitute family. Over time this is what has happened to me. Ignore the judgemental reactions. Those people are just lucky enough not to understand. I've found all of my very close friends are also from difficult family backgrounds. There's quite a lot of us out there...


I wish you every success and future happiness.