Buffy's Savings Diary

in_need_of_direction

Presumably you'll also have the insurance payout? What about the other car? Btw, when do we start posting our weigh in results?

Buffythedebtslayer

yeah but what they pay me is most likely not going to be enough. Am going to argue on Monday.............

I weigh 192 as of this morning.

almost two hundred pounds. I saw a photo at work and fully realised how fat I am. I hate saying it, cos I don't look at other people and go blimey what a fat !!!!!!! but for some reason I REALLY do it to myself - so much so not many photos of me exist.

and without evidence to prove otherwise I bumble on thinking I still look like the size 12 of my youth (which for the record I was never happy with) and I don't. Most things I wear are now a size 18. that breaks my heart but in some ways, as I have given up on men and dancing(!) I think I should be able to enjoy something ie food and sometimes I just think !!!!!!!!. I really don't care.......................but then photos show up.

Buffythedebtslayer

but still I order Pizza..........................

I really need to sort out the food in the house, one neither of us can be bothered to cook (I made breakfast and lunch - unusually) and we really do have an appalling diet!

tho Mum has weighed 130 pounds her whole life except when pregnant. Mind you she is always denying herself food and nice things. I really react to that and have often gone the opposite way as I do get sick of the somewhat martyr and self denial that goes on.

Funny, my one sister does the same and my elder sister is like me (or I am like her!) My Dad wasn't in to denying himself either. Interesting.

mothernerd

Think there was a book quite some time ago now on women's diets through the century and that looked at how each generation reacts to the one before.

I try to eat sensibly but have a weakness for all things sweet. I accepted many years ago that I was never going to be a 'proper adult' if it meant giving up lemonade and learning to like olives.

In a strange way, both are from my mother. When I hear the word 'diet' I think about my mother having endless meals of two oranges or a plate of cabbage without even a dab of marg. At the same time, every evening when my father went out, she would send me to the sweet shop , usually for a 1/4 of midget gems which I then had to divide into 4 equal shares - one for mum, one each for me and my two brothers.

At Christmas she would buy a pound of nuts and a pound of 'mixed sweets' which she would give to me to hide. I was able to resist knowing they were for Christmas (put out on Christmas Eve). If she knew where they were she was quite capable of eating the whole lot whilst ironing.

Buffythedebtslayer

It is strange isn't Mothernerd, how food is such a "thing"? It is only fuel.........

having the big thinks and sort of decided to buy a cheaper car....I just have to suck it up if I get get into or have to use my savings it will be worse for me than just losing my car.

Buffythedebtslayer

am waiting to hear from Mechanic who has found a car.

He really has been so good about this. And I need ADVICE.

He is a friend and so is his wife, I really want to do something nice for them any ideas as to what?

It feels weird and patronising to "pay him".......he is really being a very good friend (thank God, I wouldn't have a clue about a car)

some kind of hamper?? What do you think?

Buffythedebtslayer

Plan - but won't know till Wednesday for sure.

Car costs 1650, almost half the price of my car, but I don't know what is happening with the insurance company and there is little point in someone like me who hates driving *investing* in a more expensive car that will do less than 8000 miles a year, especially when the insurance won't pay out anyway - don't get me wrong they probably will but speaking to them this week has been very difficult and I don't trust them. And I do only drive to work and my best mate's house!

I shall miss my old car, heated windscreen, highly efficient heater.....but hey ho. This one is much more like my old car.......not as hi- tech but solid.

In the best possible world, the insurance company pay out will leave me with some left over, which can replace some of my emergency fund. I have to face facts, I am earning 300 quid a month less then I was when I bought the other car. Need to cut cloth accordingly.

You know what upset me last week (as from work as normal!) I watched an item on buying a house and they interviewed a girl who was 28 and earning 38000 a year. And could not buy a house...........I am older and earn less............ugh.


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in_need_of_direction

Does your mechanic drink? Do he and his wife have children? If so, what about a meal for two with babysitting thrown in.

Buffythedebtslayer

his kids are in their late twenties........I think the hamper might be a plan...I was thinking meal but I don't know what food they like........

Feeling very breathless. Think it is the hangover from the cold which I suppressed with beechams.

ugh. but animals are clean. Left over pizza for lunch..

Sun_Addict

Hello Buffster! Just catching up with you. On the subject of diets that's why I joined back at WW - it's the shame of being weighed every week by the leader and having to think of a good excuse if you've stayed the same or gained. It's a good motivator that's for sure, especially when you see how many points are in some foods and you realise they just aren't worth it. You have to be "in the zone" though or it won't work. Start by making small changes.