Not a LBM but awareness of heading towards debt crisis

themarsbargirl

Gardening day today I think, I've become somwhat habituated to playing a couple of computer games and spend afr too long sitting up here playing.

I have a couple of courgette plants that I have now hardened off which need planting into the raised bed now, then a couple of courgette plants in the greenhouse that look big enough to start hardening off.

My peppers have finally germinated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just when I had given up on them! Some of those will need moving into slightly bigger pots, and I think most of my tomatoes need potting on.

A lot of the broccoli died when I moved it on from the seedling tray, so have decided with the purple sprouting that I'm not even going to try separating the plants and just plant the whole block into a larger pot iyswim.

themarsbargirl

Goal reporting;

1) NSD today which brings me to no 5
2) Sold 2 jars of hot aubergine chutney today, done a lil sbtv.
3) 11198 steps today, went for an afternoon walk with Dad but that only accounts for half the steps
4) No fruit juice today.

Did all the gardening I could until I ran out of potting compost, will do more tomorrow.

Had my first cuttings of lettuce today!!! And pulled up a micro radish, reckon it needs about another week lol.

In a bit of a dilema, tomorrow evening I could go out for an Indian with Mum and ladies from parents church, I haven't budgeted for it and I'd be breaking the no calorie drinks because I'd have coke with it (allergic to sweetners so no diet drinks for me) but I have been realising how isolated I've become so this would potentially be a low scary socialisation for me. Not entirely sure whether to go or not.

themarsbargirl

Decided against going for the meal tonight, mostly because it wasn't budgeted for and Mum had no idea to be able to tell me how much it would cost. I did have some social interaction today with foodbank though

Goals;

1) Today twas a spend day, baccy, compost and a chicken. within budget but only £4 grocery left for the week so aiming for a run of NSD until my little market stall.
2) No sales today, done a little swagbucks. Just can't get into doing surveys atm, I'm just to tired and grrrr to do it
3) I have done 9327 steps today...I had done 4000 by the time I got to the warehouse to do sorting for foodbank.
4) No juice again today, struggled a bit with it today, felt I needed a treat for not going out to the indian.

It's difficult to say if the lifestyle changes are making me feel better or not because I am just so frickin tired the whole time.

LastFewSteps

Just checking to see how you're doing, have you managed to get your stall out and sell some jam in this lovely weather we've been having well it's been lovely where I am, not sure about the rest of the country :rotfl:

themarsbargirl

Hey, having a really bad time atm.
Nothing has been selling from my stall since sunday so I haven't bothered yesterday or today. With the decline in sales I'm debating just putting it out at weekends.

Being physically ill and very depressed I've not hit 4000 steps for a couple days, am up NSD 8, still not had any juice but have been doing a couple of surveys, just difficult to concentrate on them for any length of time.

Deliberately didn't weigh myself this week because I've had a few days of not really eating because the smell makes me nauseous or I just can't motivate myself to eat, so any weight difference would be false iyswim and I don't want to start encouraging myself not to eat.

Thanks for popping by to check on me hun
I still read most days, just don't really feel like posting much on here atm.

xxxx

Dansmam

Well, if you're reading will post! 8 NSD is pretty impressive. I know you have support but I don't like to think you're not eating. Would you sell us an interesting jam if I pmd you where to send it? Just to check how online selling might work for you. And get me nice jam. And you and me have some on toast, just to quality assure it, obv....

themarsbargirl

Mum just fed me some fish fingers...I'm having odd bits just not regular meals.

I'm quite impressed with my NSD...I guess it's a good side effect of not wanting to leave the house lol. I did go and volunteer at foodbank today, I wasn't going to but the the supervisor text me a list of what he wanted me to do before he got there before I could text him to say I wasn't up to it, so I was a bit like grrr fine universe I will go out :rotfl:
Bless him, we have new volunteers and he checked with me that it was alright for one of them to come up to the warehouse on monday because he knows a volunteer freaked me out badly. So that's sweet.

I also actually met the big boss lady for the first time today, who said she knew all about me, or everything she needed to know and she was ever so happy that I was volunteering with them which is a nice bit of support to hear really.

Then my mum, bless her heart, really triggered me off when she phoned me and asked if I needed a lift...because she thought it was possible that I had caught a train for two stations :rotfl: and walked a mile each end each way to pick up my prescription :rotfl:...given that I am living with her and she knows that the only time I go out alone is to foodbank because I feel safe with the supervisor (and I only go alone then if absolutely necessary) I swear sometimes she is clueless!

Dansmam, online selling is something that I did consider when setting up my business, there are a couple of road blocks because to do indirect selling (i.e. not from my property or from a stall where I am present) I legally have to put the final sugar concentration on the label as a percentage, which means buying a piece of equipment called a refractometer which tells you this percentage. So I decided that was too much hassle. Postage would also cost around the same amount as the jar of jam would, so I figure not many people would go for it. Interestingly I can sell Chutneys and pickles indirectly without doing anything like this because they aren't protected descriptions.

I do try to remember to thanks posts so that people know I've read them

And look what a long, and somewhat positive post this has turned out to be!

LastFewSteps

Glad you're still reading
excellent NSD !! I can manage about one at the moment :rotfl:
shame you haven't sold much but I'm sure it will pick up again
Mums are definitely clueless, I'm mum to three and can honestly say some days I haven't got a clue what I'm doing but I blame them all for stealing a part of my brain
Take care of yourself

themarsbargirl

Feeling a bit easier now that Dad is back home again I don't think I'd really realised just how much him going away shoots my anxiety up.

Didn't go out to my nice cheap market stall today which means NSD9 but no cheap treats for the week either. Still, I think I have some marshmallows hidden away in Mum's cupboards somewhere...

Been running SBTV today, got the first food from my comfrey tube and fed all the pots in the greenhouse then reassembled the tube.

Didn't put the stall out today because the sky has spent most of the day looking like it was about to rain...but of course it didn't rain at all. Will try and motivate myself enough to put it out tomorrow.

Want to try and motivate myself to get up to the £5 paypal payout on swagbucks tomorrow, only 165 SB to go which is doable if I actually do some surveys...

themarsbargirl

Had a much better day today, hopefully I'm settling down a bit again.

Put the stall out this morning then had to bring it in because it was drizzling tried it again this evening when it brightened up a bit but no sales today...I just need to sell 5 more jars from it this month to get myself a %.

I did achieve the £5 SB payout though just waiting on that to hit my bank account. I need to get back into the habit of running SBTV all the time and doing at least one survey on there again. I know that I can easily hit £5 a week from it if I put the time and effort in.

Ate well today, I remembered last night that I still had a chicken carcass in the fridge and went :eek: I hope it hasn't gone off because I hate food waste (the breast from it that I hadn't eaten I remembered to freeze earlier on in the week) but it looked and smelt fine so I vultured it and then chucked it in the slowcooker overnight to make stock and made myself a chicken and vegetable soup using some dried vegetables from spain. I love them, mostly just for the purpose of chicken and veg soup, but it's just a pity that the only british ones I've found at a reasonable price have peas in them _pale_ bleurgh!
Dinner was roast potatoes with meatballs and tinned tomatoes with a sticky toffee pudding for afters.

Still on the no juice or drinks with calories in, have drunk nothing but water for 14 days now (and no, I can't say I have brighter skin or any of the other tosh they say you get by just drinking water).

Didn't get dressed today and forgot to clip the pedometer onto my pjs so no idea on steps today. Will definitely remember this all next week!