NST June – Just Keep Jousting!

Bobarella

The_Only_Girl wrote: »

Thanks bob. One of the things I have learned and enjoyed during our battle with debt is delayed gratification. Temporarily holding back on spending on something I need or want until I could afford to pay for it/them in cash is a bittersweet experience but makes me treasure that object more. I have learned to delay pleasure for greater results. Now I understand what it means by "There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going."

I do hope you will get to replace your shoes soon.

what a great saying. It's so true.. & me too. I will for sure. My last pair were only £10 on ebay for Nike high tops that have lasted almost 9 months of daily wear. So I'm sure I can find that much in the budget.

The_Only_Girl

Bobarella wrote: »

what a great saying. It's so true.. & me too. I will for sure. My last pair were only £10 on ebay for Nike high tops that have lasted almost 9 months of daily wear. So I'm sure I can find that much in the budget.

You're a woman after my own heart bob. Most of my clothes and shoes are bought from eBay for absolute bargain. I like charity shops and car boots and freecycles and x catalogue shops, although I have had to stop going just for the sake of window shopping or for just a look around coz I end up buying even if I didn't intend to. My OH says: "even if it's dead cheap, it's not really a bargain if you don't need it." Toink. . He's right of course.

The_Only_Girl

Evening all! NSD number 15 today!

I am on a week's holiday this week (with pay :j. It's been 2 years since I had a paid leave having been a freelance/agency worker for 2 years and couldn't really afford too many leaves without pay.). I only started my new job this month so I consider myself lucky to be allowed to have a week's leave already. Aren't I lucky?

OH is also on leave this week and we are not planning to go anywhere or tackle any major project apart from some spring cleaning in the house and in the garden (weather permitting). Today was a total chill out day for both of us. Had a lie in this morning, cooked French toast for breakfast (using up last bits of bread in the bread bin). Cleaned the kitchen and made 2 batches of homemade ice cream as per request by DS2 (it's his birthday on Sunday) - cookies and cream ice cream and coffee and chocolate chips ice cream. Rocky road ice cream was done last night and In the freezer already. Did nothing all afternoon but read and sleep. Had a very late lunch (4pm). I cooked stir fried beef (using the last cut of beef from the roasting joint I used for my beef and mushroom pie last night) with left over sweet potato mash and 2 portions of the homemade tomato basil soup that I made last Thursday. Yup, there you have it, it's left overs use up day. It was pretty filling though so we might just have beans on toast for supper if we feel like it tonight.

Nothing planned tonight but more reading and more chillaxing. This is my kind of holiday!

shyspender

So Turtles....two thirds in...how are we all doing?

is the armour holding up? Do we have any kinks to iron out?

Are we fighting on target?

Have any other little battles sprung up? How are you coping?

mothernerd

Made progress today. Only a little bit but cleaned out the worst cupboard in the kitchen (+ door, fridge, skirting - was over generous with the squirty stuff so kept on until it was used). However after doing a couple of errands, I have slept for a nearly two hours. Really deep sleep and still fighting to stay awake (if I give in I will be awake all night and then fall asleep when it's time to get up).

Think I am being a little harsh and comparing myself to my younger self - every time I do the (still quite difficult) slow crawl to the doctor's/ infirmary (now on same site) I am remembering nearly skipping up there, quite late on in my first pregnancy (so 30 years ago me).

If I measure myself against the past ten years I am doing okay. My weight is going in the wrong direction (more good points than bad today) but it still back to where it was when my father died 11 years ago and much less than I weighed in December 2012. I am still (just about) wearing my smallest tightest clothes (all the larger sizes disposed of between 2012 and last year). I need to carry on until these are slack to the point of falling off and then make/ buy my new smaller size clothes.

My movement and flexibility is slowly improving and I am confident that I will get back to doing one hour walks and eventually that will be at a reasonable speed. I am grateful to not be in the constant pain I suffered before my operation when every step was scraping two bare bones together and getting up from a chair could take ten minutes.

I do need to get on with things and keep trying to extend my current limits. I will just keep plodding along as I do not have the resources available to some of you. I have always lived without a car and do not really want one but I have occasional car envy thinking how quickly the jobs at the other house and the transfer of plant pots could be achieved with the aid of a few car trips (could also take stuff to the tip).

Today I am grateful (having read all your trainer stories and also recalling the physiotherapist in hospital boasting about his new purchase which cost £160 instead of over £300) for my walking boots and trainers with thick vibram soles. Since my diabetes diagnosis and being told I must always and only wear strong lace up shoes I have worn my walking boots for most of the year and the mountain walking trainers in Summer, for exercise classes and for painting (sometimes wear wellies). I started using them because they were what I had. The boots were originally bought for field trips when I started my degree course (2005). The trainers and a second pair of boots (same as the others but different colour) were bought at closing down sale prices 18 months later (DS1 dragged me along as he wanted boots, a tent / half the shop) and all are still going strong (the trainers have fetching cream and turquoise dribbles from when I painted the fence panels). I don't anticipate any shoe purchases in the foreseeable future (and by his own reckoning the physiotherapist will have discarded his 'bargain' by now).

wishus

Hello Turtles. 2/3 of the way in, are we?


Well, those few extra spends at the weekend threw the NSD count out I'm afraid. But 10 down, and I'm confident I can achieve 3 more this week. I'm debating whether to go to London on Wednesday for what could be some lucrative networking, plus it will be fun. But it will mean being super organized and energized. Can I afford not to go? What if I am still feeling crap?


Holiday starts Friday. Only a long weekend, but I'm looking forward to it so much! The sea... fresh air... Cornish breweries :beer:


Hoping to have some good news for OH soon... if things come off, we will definitely have less money, but he will be so much happier, and that's more important.


Today I am grateful for:

• Great friends, and support from my WW group when I have needed it most.
• Kraft appear to have ruined Cadbury's chocolate - so I will not buy too much of that now. Just the luxurious high cocoa stuff less often
• Strawberries. Fresh, room temperature. And tennis and cycling on the TV.

thriftylass

Hello,

sorry, just a flying visit. Been a bit absent over the weekend due to business and feeling poorly. Budgets not going well but OH away from next Saturday for a week and that should let me recoup sth from next month's. Sorry busy busy at work today, maybe catch up properly tomorrow.

Have a good day

Calling14

Just a quick one from me as well, headachey

Close to my budgets, over with petrol by 20 pounds.

Spendy day for me today, needed hair dye can't last much longer scrunching hair to hide my roots. After scouring superdrug, savers found out it was on offer and a pound cheaper in Morrisons so I snapped up 2 at that price plus some yellow stickered veg.

Must dash both bosses away again and place looks like a bombsite.

Bobarella

Just a quick post as absolutely pooped. Had about quadruple the normal trade today, just never ending. I am very glad of this, but my legs are a bit tired, so off for a soak.

Have worked out how I can get at least £85 of the extra £150 I want to pay off this month. £30 extra shift I did saturday/£50 telephone research interview for my business energy supplier, £5 Shoptize. So thats just £65 to find. If my £30 Topcashback converts I will only need to find £35. But that bit is unlikely due to the timescales involved.

Anyway!

See you later
Bob

apple_muncher

What has struck me this month is that if I start off fully committed - especially to the NSDs - then I 'do well'. But if I slack off at the start, then I seem to be unable to catch up with myself.


Today I am grateful for getting things done at work, for seeing the older pupils, for hugs from dd, for dd + 2 friends all happily colouring together and then playing on the twizzle swing and with the ball, for my lovely dh.