Free By Fifty

freebyfifty

Today's list

1. Get up
2. Go to work
3. Dodge doing anything
4. Do much housework
5. Maybe run/maybe not
6. Spreadsheet
7. Go to bed

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No 1 is a struggle for me at the minute.

Nargleblast

Have you tried setting yourself a challenge to get rid of your debts before you reach fifty? Take the total amount you owe, divide by the number of months between now and your fiftieth birthday, that will tell you how much you need to pay off every month. Then use every bit of ingenuity you can to try and pay off more each month. Is that doable?

MuffinTops

Hello Freeby,

A day off is good now and again but great to see you again today with another list.

I think it's huge that a week or so ago you felt so lost and now you're feeling back in control already. It's lovely to read that.

freebyfifty

Nargleblast wrote: »

Have you tried setting yourself a challenge to get rid of your debts before you reach fifty? Take the total amount you owe, divide by the number of months between now and your fiftieth birthday, that will tell you how much you need to pay off every month. Then use every bit of ingenuity you can to try and pay off more each month. Is that doable?

This has give me something to think about....................I like this idea. I will come back to this.........

*goes off scratching head and pondering*

freebyfifty

I am such a numpty.

A complete and utter numpty.

Yesterday a stone flew up and chipped my windscreen, my car insurance covered it and they came out today to fix it. I was chatting away with the bloke and he said something about it still passing the MOT..............

MOT, I thought.......MOT.........

EMMMMMMMMMMM OHHHHHHHHH TEEEEEEEEEE

Good Grief. I've only gorn and forgotten about the MOT. It ran out on the 3rd of JULY!!!!!!!!!! I've been riding around like an illegal driver ....the complete and utter horror
Emergency phone call to my garage and he can fit me in on Monday.

So the upshot of all this is.....I have paid £10 excess to get my windscreen fixed and I have my car booked in for Monday (gawd knows how much that will cost). But because I can't drive and I travel around 20 miles to get to work, I've had to book a long weekend off work.....................
.....every cloud 'n' all that..

MuffinTops

I think we've all done that before Freeby! At least once you were aware again you did the right thing. Good luck with your long weekend and the MOT on Monday.

What will you do with this sudden work freedom?

freebyfifty

MuffinTops wrote: »

I think we've all done that before Freeby! At least once you were aware again you did the right thing. Good luck with your long weekend and the MOT on Monday.

What will you do with this sudden work freedom?

Thanks Muffy, but I feel like such a villain :eek::eek:

Today I am going to see if I am brave enough to carry out Nargle's genius idea.:money:

Nargleblast

No sense in saying you want to be debt free by fifty if you don't work out a plan to achieve it!

RosaBernicia

Hi Freeby

Thank you for posting about the MOT disaster... you've helped me avoid doing the same thing as I went to check mine and found it was three weeks sooner than I thought :eek:!


Rosa xx