Mr and Mrs K's New Journey to a Debt Free Life.

gallygirl

LannieDuck wrote: »

Love it :rotfl:

Me too :rotfl:- though you've done it with more style .

Good luck with the car buying/selling. Am sure you'll be great at the former, will reserve judgement on the latter .

AlexLK

heartbreak_star wrote: »

I'm the same...solid B/B+ student at school, solid data from work, etc, and for a long time felt bad that I didn't seem to be "naturally good" at anything.

Then I realised...turning my hand to anything IS what I'm good at!

Took me about ten years to realise this is a strength...my friends at school who got As almost inevitably got Cs and Ds too. If you're a jack of all trades...you can turn your hand to anything and get results, which means you have a good advantage in most situations over those who specialise.

Also another HUGE well done on walking out of that car dealership!! :beer:

HBS x

Thank you for the encouraging post.

I was quite the "swot" at school and university, I did get A grades and achieve a First/Distinction but put in an awful lot of work to get there. However, I "got" school and academic work. What I didn't "get" was much more important: WORK, as in, you know PAID WORK. :mad::mad::mad::rotfl:

My current business was made out of "something to do" whilst I was recovering from what I can only crudely describe as a mental breakdown. Now, I've spent too many years being ashamed of myself. Like you I can turn my hand to most things but doing "a proper job" is that step too far for me.

AlexLK

LannieDuck wrote: »

Love it :rotfl:

gallygirl wrote: »

Me too :rotfl:- though you've done it with more style .

Good luck with the car buying/selling. Am sure you'll be great at the former, will reserve judgement on the latter .

Thank you both.

Ah, but in order to get the ones I REALLY want, I've got to make some money out of the cheapies. Besides Mrs. K. and I have got a bit of a challenge going on with the cars.

mum2one

Iwillsucceed wrote: »

Hello Alex! Wow! you are doing really well and I am a bit jealous of you because I think you got the DFW bug or had your LBM and I am yet to have the LBM :-/

I am feelings sick since this morning just thinking about how many days of the week I went out with my friends partying, dinning etc, etc..

Anyway, I think I need to come more often to these forums...

Regards,

I'm sure your get you LBM soon enough, it just hits you without knowing, I dread to think how mush spent on alcohol over the years... x

AlexLK

mum2one wrote: »

I dread to think how mush spent on alcohol over the years... x

You and me both. In fact it got to a point where I am very pleased to have given up drinking during the week, if only for the money saved.

mum2one

AlexLK wrote: »

You and me both. In fact it got to a point where I am very pleased to have given up drinking during the week, if only for the money saved.

Its almost 2nd mortgage time in some places for drinks, I think I've been spolit with all in holidays, going back when 17 to 23, I use to be able to knock back anything up to 14 pints and a few shorts..... now 4 pints and I've had it... thou Vodka and coke - could murder one of them... just for emergency measures dentist tomorrow...help...

AlexLK

mum2one wrote: »

Its almost 2nd mortgage time in some places for drinks,

You don't say! :rotfl:

mum2one wrote: »

I think I've been spolit with all in holidays, going back when 17 to 23, I use to be able to knock back anything up to 14 pints and a few shorts..... now 4 pints and I've had it... thou Vodka and coke - could murder one of them... just for emergency measures dentist tomorrow...help...

hahaha, had a few holidays like that too, you aren't the only one. Oh and freshers week; some of the things I did aged 18 will never be repeated for the sake of my dignity. Still I NEVER, EVER want my son to do ANY of the things I did when younger and hopelessly drunk.

Hope you are not at the dentist for anything other than a check up and good luck.

mum2one

hahaha, had a few holidays like that too, you aren't the only one. Oh and freshers week; some of the things I did aged 18 will never be repeated for the sake of my dignity. Still I NEVER, EVER want my son to do ANY of the things I did when younger and hopelessly drunk.

Ditto, as I tell I know most tricks in the book, as I've ost prob done them myself,,,

Hope you are not at the dentist for anything other than a check up and good luck.[/QUOTE]

Unfortunalty got to have 3 teeth wisdom teeth out, but they've got to be done over 2 visits due to the location of them, so got same next Tuesday..... sure come out looking like Hannibal Lectar - when I had the 1st wisdo tooth out, my face was out like a balloon, teeth and lips got dried blood, instead of going home to rest I had to go to pets at home with DD - this one assistant came up and asked did I want the police calling... they thought been attacked..

Runny soup through a straw for tea tomorrow xx

debtfreewannabe321

AlexLK wrote: »

You don't say! :rotfl:



hahaha, had a few holidays like that too, you aren't the only one. Oh and freshers week; some of the things I did aged 18 will never be repeated for the sake of my dignity. Still I NEVER, EVER want my son to do ANY of the things I did when younger and hopelessly drunk.

Hope you are not at the dentist for anything other than a check up and good luck.

Haha :rotfl: you, me and the rest of us! I'm a hopeless drunk! Dh said he used to ask me out because he never had much money but he knew with me he'd be able to get me drunk on a fiver and then have free entertainment all night whilst I danced on tables/ bars and acted like a complete drama queen over everything *cringe* so glad I never did drugs if I was like that after a few hooches lord knows what I would have done on anything stronger :rotfl::rotfl:

AlexLK

mum2one: hope things aren't so bad at the dentist today.

DFW: :rotfl: well, you've amused me for the morning.