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LavenderBees wrote: »

No, it's awful as well as frightening. I'm glad you are home ok. Feel better soon!

I'm sitting snuggly in the hairdressers, having a lovely pamper and being royally cheered up. We've worked out that my hairdresser and old boy cat are my longest surviving relationships....=-O

Glad to hear that you are 'looking after yourself' LB. Nowt better than a good old pamper session!

moneyistooshorttomention

sax11 wrote: »

Looking at peoples comments on here and everyone seems so cheerful and managing to get buy on their money. One question, how?

I'm thoroughly fed up with everything , just seem to work to pay bills even after massive budgeting and cutbacks.

On the plus side I've not had to get my washing dry - i still take it to my mum at the weekend (plus i have a damp problem in the house)

and suffering today with a cluster headache


Apart from that - same old

I don't think it's so much a case of "cheerful".

More a case of "I'm a survivor" and "slap smile on face" and "make the best of it".

Some of us aren't feeling that cheerful, as far as I can see, but we gotta be that survivor and make the best of what circumstances we have available to us.

I know, personally, that I'm humming that tune "I'm a Survivor" through distinctly gritted teeth at times and then reminding myself to "think positive" and how I'm coping better than many people would with whatever-bad-stuff there is in current circumstances.

So, I think we're all "human", but doing that "slap smile on face" and, at times when it all gets a bit too much, do a "a bit of a retreat" until such time as we can manage to summon up that smile again.

Byatt

I totally agree MTSTM, slapping a smile on my face and carrying on regardless is something I often do.

Sax11, sometimes it's not that I get by, what's that old saying, robbing Peter to pay Paul (my mother used that a lot!), and dealing with the more urgent/priority bills. Yes, I get very fed up with it at times and go into panic mode, but then it's a case of pulling up my big girl pants and working my way through it.

I do know you have to have a treat now and then otherwise it does get grim.

Hope your cluster headache improves, I know they are truly awful.

RPP, I think I'm local to you, our power went last night, it's blooming dreadful and frightening. I do feel for you driving in this. In previous years I have had to, but very glad to say, my pet sitting duties have been less fraught. And I refuse to drive at night now in the winter. I tend to have to go to off the beaten track places. Keep safe.

I got a TD in December, it's been wonderful (if expensive), but I couldn't get anything dry, the wet clothes were adding to the damp/condensation/mould so to me it's a necessity, otherwise I would be wearing the same things for ever :rotfl:. I use is sparingly still, but when it's dry (if ever) I will use the line again.

sas79

I'm sorry to say i love my tumble dryer, luckily it was free (paid for with shopping surveys) but I hate putting my washing all over the radiators makes my old house too damp, also when I was little we were away camping and my mum dryed out washing outside and a bee got stuck in my shorts pocket and stung me when I put them on leading to an allergic reaction, so yes I'm a crazy person that used her TB all year okay I can do dog bedding, dog towels on the line but sorry I love the fluffiness only the TB can deliver! good jobs theres only me and the hairy monsters

LavenderBees

shhh! Looks shiftily left and right....I love my TD too.:rotfl:

Re slapping a smile on our faces, I often find that if I make the effort to seem cheerful, I do actually become cheerful! It's worth the effort. I'd rather be happy than not...and though some days are incredibly difficult to get through, I do think, on balance, I manage to see the positives in most things.

Just call me Pollyanna :rotfl:

Oh btw, thanks for sending the awful weather up the country....you really didn't HAVE to!

LB xx

metherer

Good afternoon all, hope you are all keeping your head above water (both metaphorical and literal).

OH and I continue the sorting out - we tackled CD's and DVD's this afternoon. Trying to do 'quick wins' at the moment to make it easier - I'm also studying for work so can't dedicate too much time at the moment.

RosiePuddingPaws

LavenderBees wrote: »

Oh btw, thanks for sending the awful weather up the country....you really didn't HAVE to!

LB xx

It's good to share so we thought of you! Having said that, the weather is still very much here so there is obviously plenty to go around. Blowing a hoolie at the moment.

RPP

greenbee

LavenderBees wrote: »

Re slapping a smile on our faces, I often find that if I make the effort to seem cheerful, I do actually become cheerful! It's worth the effort. I'd rather be happy than not...and though some days are incredibly difficult to get through, I do think, on balance, I manage to see the positives in most things.

Just call me Pollyanna :rotfl:

Apparently this is true. Something to do with endorphins being released when you smile or laugh. Even if you're faking it!

Money (and others) will be pleased to hear that there are still some good tradesmen out there. My electricians have been fabulous. Tidy (well, they're electricians, so it's relative!), clean, friendly and helpful. And they have solved the problem of the superheated hot water that the plumbers claimed was 'meant to be like that'. They were so worried about it, they had a look and discovered it was a wiring problem so have fixed it. And they're going to check the wiring on the heating tomorrow when they come back to install the lights/go through the rest of the stuff I want them to quote for.

First they told me to get the plumbers back to fix it. And then said, on second thoughts, don't, we'll do it as clearly they weren't competent. Half an hour later they came back and said I should report the plumbers to OFTEC/TS as they are so cross.

moneyistooshorttomention

LavenderBees wrote: »

Oh btw, thanks for sending the awful weather up the country....you really didn't HAVE to!

LB xx

As we all form an orderly queue to say "It wasn't us guv...honest". It certainly wasn't me that exported the weather. I can attest to that for a fact, as its been ***** awful here yet a'blimmin again since about this time yesterday.

Fed up to little pieces with this exceptional weather by now and just hoping like mad that this will be the first and last winter I ever see it so bad...:cool:

Hmmm...greenbee. I remember recent plumbers and they were about to leave me with wrong temperature hot water too (not hot enough in my case). Was ever so glad that I have long experience of boilers in previous house, so confidently stood my ground that the temperature could and should be adjusted...

I could have done worse...they managed to flood a nearby house when they were working on it....

groatie_queen

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I could have done worse...they managed to flood a nearby house when they were working on it....

*shudders* - my lovely wee newbuild had a flood last summer due to the subcontracted plumbers when the house was built, not having installed the water inlet joint properly - my sitting room carpet and kitchen vinyl had to be replaced, worst thing was the upheaval but at least as it was dry outside I was able to leave lots of stuff in the back garden for 5 days and nights whilst the concrete floors dried out. Even with 4 industrial blowers it took that long.

Couldn't fault the builders who accepted full responsibility and paid for everything to be put right. Not surprising that they use a different plumber these days - it happened in several other houses, all due to the same plumber. What we call a haggis merchant, up here.