NOT BUYING IT! 2015 - A consumer holiday

atypicalblonde

purpleposting4 wrote: »

I am very clean and tidy anyway, but still have the need to do thorough cleans quite often, much to the amusement of my hubby and friends. I like everything to have it's place, even the items inside the cupboards and drawers - I think I have a mild obsessive compulsive disorder!

Purpleposting - I am just like this as well, although with a baby & a toddler I am fighting a losing battle a lot of the time. I have to be careful as there is a history of diagnosed OCD in the family so I try and keep myself in check but its hard. I have got worse since DS was born - I love the bones of him but he is the definition of a Hard Work baby. Can't/won't be put down at all, screams when I'm not holding him, very clingy - he's been checked out and there is nothing wrong with him medically at all, he just has a grumpy temperament. Such a curve ball compared to DD who was a dream baby. My need to tidy/order/clean is heightened ATM as that is the one thing I can control IYKWIM, I can't control how he will be from one day to the next but I can keep order in the house (or try to).

Sorry for the witter. It does link well to why I personally am aboard Not Buying It 2015 - every bit of money saved will go in a pot to hopefully enable me to send DS to a nursery for one day a week, both for my sanity and to hopefully chill him out a bit. We run two small businesses, both from home, so trying to juggle it all is just too much. The fact I have laryngitis, a broken toe from rushing around earlier this week and a mouth full of ulcers is testament to the fact that I should follow the username of our captain and SLOWDOWN

So that is why I am fully aboard, hoping for a more relaxed life for us all in 2015. Thanks for listening..xx
PS - NSD today again x

mynellie

Atypical blonde I feel for you regarding your DS as my sister had her first a daughter who was amazing she didn't really know she had her but her second a son was a complete grot and would only sleep if she was rocking him very clingy and always crying but it did seem to finish as he got closer to a year old and he is now a strapping 6ft odd young man who is so laid back you wouldn't believe it was the same child my sister used to want to leave him on the bus just to get a rest or even put up the top of the garden so she couldn't hear him screaming what she used to do in desperation was swaddle him up tight and pop in his pram into the garden in dry weather so she couldn't hear him and have herself a coffee for 10 minutes to calm herself down and then bring him back in I really felt for her but it will ease off in the end and hopefully get loads better for you big hugs for now anyway

Nellie xxx

fevertotell

pathtofreedom wrote: »

I also have a condition with symptoms the same as fibro / me but I've never been good at pacing so get caught out a lot. I am pondering about getting a referal to try fodmap this year, but as I struggle with cooking right now I need a good 6 months of trying to live with out takeaways first else it just won't work.


I too suffer from fibro and me...it's very hard to motivate to do anything, i'm waiting for results from my mri as ms is suspected, some days are better than others.

Love and hugs to you xx

Glitterbaby

emslovesmickey wrote: »

It's a website where you can review books, enter competitions, follow authors etc. I even got a good luck message from Karin Slaughter (ok i messaged her first)

Have you signed up for a target of books read in 2015? I am aiming for 60. I do buy a lot of books (another downfall!) but I am going to limit myself to reading books that are 1p on Amazon.

maria3104

Aril wrote: »

Hello:D

Nowt bought except a bite of lunch before our trip to the cinema to see the last part of The Hobbit as the cinema chain only allow you to take in their very expensive snacks. No thank you to that particular ruse:D

Have quite genuinely lost my bottle of cream cleaner:o I shall be interested to see where it turns up when I do rediscover it. In the meantime it's brought forward my plans for making my own for which I already have the ingredients.
http://www.mnn.com/your-home/at-home/stories/we-tested-it-eco-friendly-cleaning-with-cream-of-tartar
This one looks ok and easy to do.

More decluttering. Have culled the holey old pillowcases and consigned them to the cloth recycling and finally put the two white damask table cloths that I rescued last year and still haven't used in the bag for the up and coming jumble sale. Tea towels have been graded into "be seen in public" and ones not to see the light of day again. Instead they get used to line the fridge and kitchen drawers and this last lot are going on top of the cupboards that I've cleaned so far. Have cut a corner of each so they don't end up back in the respectable stream:rotfl:

Arilx

Loving this, aiming for a life of elegant frugality. Are you a Cranford fan?

nattykins

Happy new year everyone!!!! Hope you had a good one!

Thank you all for your tips, inspiration and motivation to become a more thrifty and concious consumer!

My husband and I are already quite thrifty. We need to be even more so as in the summer my husband took out a loan to buy a more fuel efficient car for his commute to work. This week, we needed to take out another loan as the cavity wall ties are failing on our house and a recent survey showed that we need all of them replacing (costing a few thousand £££). I'm also 15 weeks pregnant.

I feel very lucky in a way, my husband and I aren't really keeping up with the Jones's kind of people. Small things make me very happy, such as a nice walk with our lovely leggy greyhound, a nice cup of tea (when morning sickness allows!) and snuggling up on the sofa with my husband to watch some tv.

Can't wait to keep reading all that you lovely people have to say! Keep it coming!!

peony40

Popping in real quickly, interesting to read about ocd. I too have ocd but mine has led to hoarding, especially of paper documents and plastic bags! Managed to go through the plastic bags today and they have now left the house, and i am now down to the last two packing boxes of paper documents to shred! Never again! I will work on it daily to ensure this is the last time it gets away from me.

I will catch up with the posts tomorrow.

Butterfly_Brain

nannygladys wrote: »

Well first day of 2015 is going well, no spending and meals from fridge, guests go back tomorrow so I can sort out what I have left to eat and then it's all steam ahead.

Thanks for gardening tips, I like to grow a couple of bits in a raised bed and pots, but this year thought I may have a go at some different veggies, so handy tips very welcome.

Decided to try and manage on the money I have left from Xmas for my groceries, but I've just added it up and I have the grand total of a little less than £20 , so thinking I'll have to get some out of the bank other wise I'll starve!!!! But I will be as frugal as possible and not get any until I need it, and I'll keep updating to keep me on track

Nannyg

Have a peek at the £20 a week thread

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4148389

or here
http://web.archive.org/web/20130815202750/http://www.cheap-family-recipes.org.uk

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atypicalblonde wrote: »

Purpleposting - I am just like this as well, although with a baby & a toddler I am fighting a losing battle a lot of the time. I have to be careful as there is a history of diagnosed OCD in the family so I try and keep myself in check but its hard. I have got worse since DS was born - I love the bones of him but he is the definition of a Hard Work baby. Can't/won't be put down at all, screams when I'm not holding him, very clingy - he's been checked out and there is nothing wrong with him medically at all, he just has a grumpy temperament. Such a curve ball compared to DD who was a dream baby. My need to tidy/order/clean is heightened ATM as that is the one thing I can control IYKWIM, I can't control how he will be from one day to the next but I can keep order in the house (or try to).

Hi atypicalblonde sorry to hear you are having problems, but sounds like you are trying your best and there is nothing wrong with doing everything you can for your little one and then focusing on other things! I have 3 children and when they were younger I wasn't as OCD as I am now (luckily!), but now they are 10, 8 and 4 it is easier to get them to help with the great clean, tidy and de-clutter routine too! My daughter is starting to be really organised!
The way I now see it is that a clean, clutter-free home makes everything else easier too, such as caring for you baby, as you know things are clean and you can find stuff easier. Tidy house, tidy mind. It's also helping me realise what we have that we need and what we have that we don't need. I will de-clutter, sell bits and pieces, charity shop other bits, clear my debts by not spending and make no-spending a habit for the rest of the year.

fairy3

Evening all shipmates, ready for our first night at sea...
Had an NSD here after lovely family party last night which was open house so took wine and chocs and walked there and back.
Today have cleaned fridge and cooked a lot of the veg which was just going over - now have veggie crumble (Cranks recipe)which will serve 5 and spinach and potato curry with white haricot beans (4 portions) and tho not veggie am trying to cut down amount of meat in diet.
Day 1 of the No SM challenge and not been tempted as don't need owt.

Totally inspired by the challenges people face and what helps, long may it continue.