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Byatt

Need2bthrifty wrote: »

I love cauli too and had it tonight along with some gammon and a cheesy mustard sauce, but really didn't enjoy it. I love my veggies but the changes in some of them through freezing are really beginning to put me off. Although Ive picked up loads of MSE food tips on the forum not all of them suit me, but the way you did yours sounds really nice.


I wasn't much of a fan of the beatles either, but loved the monkeys and my group of friends managed to replicate their crossover walk pretty well :rotfl:

I must admit I don't like some things that are frozen, especially stuff I've made and frozen the extra...don't know what I'm doing wrong but it never tastes as good as fresh. I use frozen veg for soups and casseroles as they seem to absorb flavours, but except for peas don't enjoy them on their own. I'm hoping the cauliflower rice still tastes ok...from what I've read, it should, but will let you know.

Horace

Hi all

Ironing - I hate it and still have a mound to do. It has been sunny and cold here today but it did rain as I went to sort the bin out.

BW I am keeping the car - need to call the RAC out to jump start it for me seeing as I have home start. I will do that this week. My eyesight is still good enough for driving according to my consultant and the field vision tests I have had lately. I guess there are days when I don't feel like it and these have grown longer but I do miss driving especially if I have a big shop to do as I hate lugging bags on and off buses.

I was allowed to have Donny Osmond on my wall because David Cassidy was deemed to be a bit too old for me according to my mom - still didn't stop me keeping his picture from the Jackie magazine under my pillow:o Then I moved on to Starsky & Hutch - my adoration of them even made me buy David Soul's album (alas this is amongst all the other albums my ex OH never returned despite my owning them long before I met him:mad:). I loved The Beatles when I was growing up and can remember when mom lost me when we were shopping and I could be heard from the other end of the high street singing My Yellow Submarine loudly whilst be carried by the local police sgt. I also loved The Monkees and watched them on the tv.

Made a huge mistake yesterday and forgot to go to the bookies to place a bet on the Grand National - the horses that I picked came in 1st, 2nd and 3rd and I would have cleaned up...roll eyes. Still I had a nice time in the new tea shop instead.

I think that if I won the lottery, I would employ a cook and a housekeeper so I need never iron another blouse again or cook my dinner or clean the house (I dislike housework and can get very lax).

I have been a bit swoony tonight watching Poldark..swoon.

mum2one

If I so. The lottery ...

I don't think I'd move - unless it was a 4 bed house, granny annex etc..., I'd make sure my mum, dad and dd wanted for nothing.

Rest of the family - bar my one uncle and aunt I'd do something for them.

3 of my close friends I would see alright.

I'd buy the top of the range caravan up the coast so could go anytime. Travel for me and dd, plus find a weight loss miracle

Buy some property for renting out.

Some for charity that's close to our heart -

I can dream......

ellie99

mum2one wrote: »

If I so. The lottery ...

I don't think I'd move - unless it was a 4 bed house, granny annex etc..., I'd make sure my mum, dad and dd wanted for nothing.

Rest of the family - bar my one uncle and aunt I'd do something for them.

3 of my close friends I would see alright.

I'd buy the top of the range caravan up the coast so could go anytime. Travel for me and dd, plus find a weight loss miracle

Buy some property for renting out.

Some for charity that's close to our heart -

I can dream......

Not that you've ever given it any thought mum2one :rotfl:

I occasionally have the "lottery dream" if I'm driving a long distance, I've even planned the big party I'd have for my family so I can get them all together to give them cheques :rotfl:

Actually I didn't buy a ticket for years, so hardly likely to win!
My ex got me into it, and now the main reason I buy a ticket some weeks is that I'd love to help my sons more with owning a property, the one who has left home is always skint.

And I'd have my heating on all high the time

Shall we make a pledge? Whoever wins first and finds the weight loss miracle will share it with the rest of us? :rotfl:

mothernerd

I think research suggests lottery winners put on weight (not working, can eat anything you want as you can now afford it, all those holidays lying in the sun, drinking - empty calories, buy the home gym equipment and never use it) so if we put a positive spin on it, maybe we are better off as we are. Just keep plodding.

They also start reading the paper that supported Hitler, move to the right politically and want to keep all their new found wealth to themselves and not help anyone else. The poorest earners give far more to charity as a proportion of their income.

LavenderBees

mothernerd wrote: »

I think research suggests lottery winners put on weight (not working, can eat anything you want as you can now afford it, all those holidays lying in the sun, drinking - empty calories, buy the home gym equipment and never use it) so if we put a positive spin on it, maybe we are better off as we are. Just keep plodding.

They also start reading the paper that supported Hitler, move to the right politically and want to keep all their new found wealth to themselves and not help anyone else. The poorest earners give far more to charity as a proportion of their income.

That's a bit of a sweeping generalisation...what is this research?

Horace

I think that if I won millions on the Euro Millions lottery - sometimes they have obscene amounts of money, then I would make sure my family was alright. I would also give £1 million to Help for Heroes and possibly the same amount to the air ambulance. I would keep my house, would buy a cottage in Dorset which I could rent out as a holiday let.

I was at 'work' today - got told off for plunging my hand into a bin liner without wearing gloves, the protective gloves are very thin latex ones which wouldn't stop a needle stick. I had already worked out what was in the bag so knew that I wasn't going to be stuck by anything. Still cannot get over what they chuck out - metals to the metal recycler regardless of what it is - today we had some brass printing plates from Cadburys but they were dumped. We had some lovely vintage cake plates - again dumped. I have asked the charity shop down the road to hang on to any vintage plates and teapots they have in because I have a buyer for them. Bought some birthday cards from the competing charity shop today for 99p each and they have been put away.

Spoke to mom earlier - she isn't very pleased, she had a supposedly experienced horticulturalist visit her today with a view to quoting for work in her huge garden. This bloke had worked for the parks department until he retired - he certainly wasn't a horticulturalist because he didn't know what the plants were in mom's garden and said that she would have to stand next to him to tell him how to prune things - a job she can do herself. She told him that her daughter (me) knew more about plants than he did - all he knows about is planting bedding plants which isn't horticulture at all. He even had the nerve to put the words experienced horticulturalist with 35 years with Bham parks on his adverts and business cards - when it was plainly obvious that he only knew about how to plant or uproot bedding plants and knew zip about anything else.

Rang up parcelf0rce today about the parcel I posted to America on 31 March which still hasn't arrived. Initially I got some nonsense about it being received in New York on 22 March so I said that it would have a job doing that because I didn't post it until 31 March! There was a lot of chuntering at the end of the phone and the guy had to go and find out what the problem was, he came back to say that the parcel had left and had been shipped to America but it arrived back in the UK on 8 April because it had been returned accidentally and it was shipped out again an hour later. Apparently everything has to go to New York before it is dispersed across the country - the parcel is due to arrive in Santa Monica at the end of the week.:mad: If it doesn't arrive then I will be hopping mad plus I will be putting in a claim for late delivery because it was sent on a 5-9 day guaranteed delivery.

mothernerd

I thought that when I was writing it. So
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8517946.stm
mentions becoming unhealthier because of drinking and smoking more, also falling out with family and friends and mental health problems due to the shock.

This compares lottery winners and people who have been in major accidents (lost limbs, still undergoing intensive rehabilitation)http://science.tumblr.com/post/69234644764/science-behind-the-factoid-lottery-winners-are-no
Small sample size but these are extreme states. Original Paper
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/690806

This http://www.statisticbrain.com/lottery-winner-statistics/
Sorry it's American but 12% joined a health club, 32% put on weight. I remember watching a short series of programmes a few years ago (probably more than 8 years) focusing on the life changes of individual lottery winners but with back up statistical research and the thing about putting on weight was in one of those (may lose a bit at first but then put it back on and more besides).

I have also read a lot recently on wealth/ happiness and the happiest people are those who have enough to cover their basic needs with a little bit for the occasional treat (sounds subjective but they were talking average income or less - people like us, really). The super rich give away a tiny fraction of their actual income which contributes to their dissatisfaction with life, in fact one study suggested that they should do the Bill and Melinda Gates thing of setting up a foundation and start giving away as much as they possibly can. One study was exploding the 'trickle down' economic theory. The very rich hoard their wealth and it makes them miserable.

Think about Elton John's flower bill and then think about how much pleasure we get from noticing the first flowers opening in Spring. Money is useful but once you have enough so that you are not lying awake in the middle of the night wondering how to buy food and heat your home, more money won't make you happier (or healthier).

It is always worth reminding ourselves that living in this country puts us in the top 1% of the world's population.

Not trying to preach or score points. As I said, when I was writing it I thought 'where's the evidence'. I think I have just got to the stage in life that there is so much in my head that it's actually fun to go back and find some of the source material. The co-relation between buying a winning lottery ticket and being more selfish was on QI (may have been L for lottery ie latest series but have watched a lot of back issues as well).

The point about lottery winners feeling bad because they had not 'earned' the money (didn't deserve it) is resonating with me. I have no wish (physically couldn't) go back to the days when I would battle through a day that started at 5am and finished at 11pm and worked out that I had cleaned 27 toilets that day as a way of keeping score but I like days when I sleep well because I have done something that tires me out and deserve my rest (doesn't always happen, have done the exhausted but still can't go to sleep.

I have been following the year of Happiness course and watching a lot of Ted talks and also I am trying to de-clutter and have read a lot of things about 'stuff' - we buy stuff, we buy stuff to store the stuff in, need a bigger house to put all the stuff in and there's a lot of overlap and a lot of sense in there.

The things I truly enjoy doing - reading, walking, sewing, making things, growing vegetables don't cost a lot. I don't like housework and having the smallest space I need makes sense so that I don't waste precious time keeping things clean (also if I don't have extra rooms my sons won't be able to move back in).

I would like a little more money - still lying awake as I am paying for two houses until the other one sells (+ no rental income from this and no idea when I will bring in anything significant in the way of earnings). DS3 has just done his tax return and he has made more money than me in the past year.

However I would hate winning the lottery. I am not the right sort of person. I have no wish to go on luxury holidays (cruises? - what do you do if you get stuck with someone awful on the first day. I know they are making them bigger all the time but you can't get off).

I don't want a big house, it would have to be a dream cottage but still very bare and functional or maybe my own little island (Scottish or Irish) because I could afford to have the food dropped in by helicopter (and wood for the stove if the island had no trees). I would give most of the money away (mostly to charity). I would like to help my sons onto the property ladder but am not sure that would be good for them and how do you decide what to buy - just a basic house or the house of their dreams (and do you then subsidise the cost of running them if bills outstrip their earning power).

Time for bed said Zebedee. I love my little house, I am loving being back here after 8 years away (first moved in here in 1982). I love this thread - getting my brain back in gear.

JustKeepSwimming_2

ellie99 wrote: »

...It must be worrying having a teenage daughter, especially one who's fussy about food. I'm like you, I often don't decide what we'll be eating until it's time to start cooking it, I see cooking as a horrible but necessary chore...if I won the lottery I'd be the size of a house, I'd eat out all the time

Yep, me too. That would be my ultimate dream - to have someone else to food shop, cook & clean up for me, but be conveniently invisible & silent so that I don't have to spend time with them if I didn't want to :rotfl:

Eating out - only if the staff/other customers didn't comment about me being on my own - although if I won the lottery I'm sure they'd love me regardless

Bookworm, I'm not ironing anything today, it will all be smoothed down and put away without seeing an iron...actually it probably won't be put away, it will be laid on the cupboard top, and I'll wear it all again from there, I really don't know why I've got cupboards

I have chairs for my clothes....

I have to go food shopping today, don't want to, but there will be no breakfast tomorrow if I don't.

Food shopping is soooo boring.

First day back at work yesterday, so I'm tired this morning. it was good to go back & see everyone, but I do find work interferes with all the other stuff I'd rather be doing. DD came back & said 2 teachers had told her off for not studying every day of the holiday (she has 3 science GCSEs to sit in June, the rest are next June & it wasn't her science teacher who told her off). She's thoroughly disillusioned with this term already & its only day 2 :eek:

We've had words again as her bedroom is a tip again - she "doesn't know" why she can't put rubbish in the very large bin, or why she can't put laundry in the hamper, or bring her plates downstairs even though she promised she wouldn't eat in her room again :wall: Not sure where to go from here really as if I leave her to her own devices it'll be disgusting in days. She just doesn't care about anything or anyone, even herself & its hard to see a different approach, since all I've tried hasn't worked.

DS is far easier - he announced school was carp & can't wait to leave, but just gets on with it.

Must dash to work - back later & Hi to all :wave:

mum2one

Jks - the bedroom I thought just then you had met dd xx