Apple muncher's number crunching

Watty1

Love the sound of DDs party. The gaggle of girls should have fun making owls....what a nice idea dd had.

apple_muncher

Why are you upin the middle of the night, Watty?

apple_muncher

Back to work today.

Back-to-back sessions. No departmental time. Brain ache.

Dd isn't back until Thursday. Oh, the unfairness...

Tomorrow we shall all go to a certain charity shop area - on my way to work - and have an early mooch. Dd and dh can continue there when I have to abandon them to go to work.

I need a plan. A cunning plan. So that I do not have to carry on in the job until 60, but do not need to claim my pension. A legal plan. One that does not involve selling my body to science.

Frugal living is a start - when dh can claim his pension(s), we will have a bigger income than now. If I stop then, I'll have about 5-6 years before being able to claim my work pension (and aeons until I get my pennies from The State). Quite a gap! If only selling bunnies and crafting was a lucrative income stream...

As I said, I need a plan...

CathT

apple_muncher wrote: »

2018 Plan 1: from 31/12 - 25/3 (12 weeks)





A life well lived:
-headspace and counselling to continue
-enjoy time with dd + dh
-use up wool and fabric stashes
-remove 2018items this year, so about 700 this plan
-buy a joyous address book and fill it in (finding mum's has been so useful to us, as we are aware of names of her friends but no more than that. I don't want to leave others ithout that info for me)
-balance work, visits to mum, family time, fitness goals

That'll do for now!

I'm doing a de-cluttering challenge I saw on fbook. 1st of the month remove one item, 2nd 2 items and so on and a 31 day month will result in 496 items being de-cluttered!

You've gone back to work early, we've another week off here. I think the children need it, they were so worn out before Christmas.

smallholdingsister

Happy New Term!

Do you have a spare room? Are you full time at the moment?

Any ideas for your plan?

apple_muncher

I think I know where you are going re a spare room, small! We do have a 3 bed house, but the 3rd room is dh's office / spare room . And dh has already flatly refused to have a lodger/airbnb.

I'm not full time - just 2 days. I also realise that I propbably would not cope/manage to do more. 3, possibly, but there is no chance of any extra at work at the mo.

I started this diary with the goal of paying down the mortgage. When we got to morgage neutral, I felt a bit lost! Then dh invested a few 000s, so we were no longer neutral, but had to start paying interest again. Sulk! But I have a goal again.

How to achieve FIRE, eh?

apple_muncher

I slipped in the mud today.

At work.

In front of a bunch of y11s.

They didn't laugh too much...

I had a muddy backside for the rest of the day.

A bath has helped, but I keep finding aches and pains. And I have a headache.

I am too old to slip over in the mud!

smallholdingsister

Bless those kids!

What about hosting language students?

Tutoring?

Altering clothes/curtains?

Watty1

apple_muncher wrote: »

Why are you upin the middle of the night, Watty?

Problems with my business. The stress was stopping me sleeping.

greent

Ooops to slipping over in the mud

The owl crafting sounds great for DD's party

I am also going for removing 2018 items in 2018 (works out at between 5-6 items/ day). Thanks to DD having a mini sort out of stuff in her room we are at over 70 already It's going to go downhill for the rest of the month, I expect!