NSK; The April Power Shower.

traveller

:bdaycake:Happy Birthday Kat !

Morning all! Can't believe I'm looking forward to going back to work
I think part of it, is because I just rang into work to say I won't be in again and the main boss sounded very unimpressed. Well I'm not either and my son is sick! When he was a baby, I used to shunt him off to nursery when he was borderline well, just to prove I was reliable and a good worker. I didn't want to be seen as unreliable, yet watched others take long term sick for hardly anything, so although I'm anxious, I know i've done the right thing, as I only work to support my family in the first place, no point in neglecting them! I was up and ironing to go in, but even though he is up and about, he is not 100%. He is a lot better though :T Dreading the amount of cr*p I have to get through on Monday and it will be early starts to make the time up, as I hardly have any annual leave left!

On a positive note, I have not spent a bean for 5 days :T Tomorrow, will be a spend for daughters passport and my pictures, but this is covered by Quidco and the non spend on childcare so effectively have cost me nothing and I get to catch up on the £365 in 365 days challenge with whats left.

I started the Tiffany Roth boxer babes exercise on youtube yesterday. I was getting bored of the shred and enjoyed this more, so will stick to it! Although the shred is more effective, it isn't if I dread and therefore am not doing it!

I was supposed to be going to Birmingham tomorrow on my 50p each tickets with the little one, but we wont go. It's not a good idea to have him stuck on a train when he's just about better,lol. Thankfully, it was only 50p each!

A bit worried that my sons passport is taking nearly 3 weeks! I have never waited up to 2 weeks before. Posted by check and send on 17th March and not heard a thing yet! My other active mind is telling me all sorts, but hopefully, all is well and it will turn up soon!

Anyway, have a good day everyone and Lotti, I hope you get some respite from your neighbors. That type of thing, drives me nuts.

Keep going everyone :T

NinjaSavingKat

Thank you gorgeous people.. but my birthday is tomorrow....:p:p:p:p..However the delivery is imminent... WHOOP!

mooomin

abundant1972 wrote: »

I was wondering - for those who are now debt free - how did it feel to begin with? Did you feel guilty for buying things, after having had to go for so long without...? Does your quality of life improve? Do the debt worries just get replaced with something else, or do you genuinely feel like a weight has been lifted...?

It felt amazing but I do have to be careful about how much I spend as I have not always been so controlled with money.

I think that for me I do sometimes feel guilty about treating myself. I prefer to build savings so I never have to go in to debt again. I need to get better at treating myself when I have the money to do it.

I am unemployed (again!) right now and I am having to keep every penny as a prisoner, but having been a DFW I don't find it too hard. Most of the time...

SiannieLaz

Morning All,
Quick check in for me as off to work for a late shift shortly.


SFD for me today, so scores on the doors:
2/15 SFD
£54.12/£100 food budget
5/30 items decluttered
2/18 Exercise 3x weekly
4/30 Meal plan and eat 3 times a day
£0/£3 food bank
Get all paperwork organised
All a/c I do for others up to date
4/30 Keep the flat looking straight, not the current 'a bomb's just gone off' look
4/30 Update my budget spreadsheet daily
4/30 NO TV


Have just realised there are only 30 days in this month!! Have a good day all xx

mothernerd

Thanks clippy girl - someone told me about the scrunched up tin foil, but not the vinegar. I have been alternating the tinfoil with astonish paste (I remember my brother buying some from Wigan market when he was young to use on his beloved motor bike).

DS1 took the rail down for me in summer and I left it caked in the paste for weeks which improved it. Then he put it back up and I kept putting it off because I had to go up the ladder (wedged between the wall and the bathroom cabinet as I would still have to lean across the width of the bath if the ladder were opened out).

When I didn't feel up to going up the ladder (if I've been painting for a bit I get to the stage where I can't make my legs climb up any more - if I ignore it, well that's how I ended up in bed for the last 3 weeks) I was (feel free to laugh, my mother has been using this story to cheer people up:rotfl:) standing in the bath in my wellies (left the bath water in as I need to replace the bath seal, wellies because it was wet and there were still wood splinters and screws on the floor) and reaching up above my head to do it (couldn't reach from the floor at the side of the bath).

I was also multi-tasking by using the bathwater to soak a plastic drawer covered in toothpaste and soap and at the other end of the bath (in breaks from stretching), I was trying to get some red dotty stains out of an outfit of DS3's.

Everything I did was logical but this (and taking a dead cat on the bus) are apparently things that only I would do and are being posted out the length and breadth of the country (even to the IOM). I once knew a lovely man, who had a reputation for doing daft things and would tell stories against himself. When I asked him why he said that as long as people were laughing at him they weren't gossiping about anyone else , which is good enough for me.

Time to go and see mum, speak to you all later.

dolly84

cottage_retreatist - very sorry to hear about your OH's job.

Happy birthday for tomorrow Kat.

I will have to spend money today as last night I find a big piece of sharp stick wedged all the way through the outer wall of my car tyre, it can't be repaired so a new one is needed.

traveller

NinjaSavingKat wrote: »

Thank you gorgeous people.. but my birthday is tomorrow....:p:p:p:p..However the delivery is imminent... WHOOP!

Lol, well you can't say your not always in our thoughts

Sons passport just arrived-Yay!

Sorry to hear about the job front CR and your tyre Dolly

apple_muncher

NinjaSavingKat wrote: »

Thank you gorgeous people.. but my birthday is tomorrow....:p:p:p:p..However the delivery is imminent... WHOOP!

Oopsie!! Well, have cake twice on us!

luckystarr

Hello All

Sorry to hear about OH job cottage retreatist and hugs to all having a tough time at the minute

Today has been a spendy day as i have bought some food to last us, posted my friends birthday card and put a deposit down on my tattoo... i was getting laser surgery to remove it but not much had been removed and the place i went before was dodgy found somebody good but decided i would rather spend the money covering it and have something to show for the money

Hoping tomorrow will be a SFD as i am at work

Loving reading all the posts i am feeling very positive and inspired which is a first for me, might get the holiday after all if i stick to it and i have decided to go back to the gym first session back tomorrow.

Onwards and upwards

Will check in later xx

MrsGSR

Afternoon all,
Just a quick one from me today. Had a spendy day today, had to get flour and yeast and a few other bits.
Did two extra hours last night at work so I'm pretty shattered, esp after only 4 hours sleep and I'm back in tonight. Must be crazy!