SOA - please help!! I want to start today!

getmore4less

You clearly had goals and asperations with the moves just wondering why they all seem to have got lost during that 2 year lucrative contract when you came back.

With you both working hard(full time) you will get close to that level of income again and as it did not result in a happy future first time round you need to get hubby to realise that unless something else changes it is unlikley to make you happy this time.

If you can resurect that sense of adventure and aspiration you might just win him over.

If that was a 2 years on daily rate of £1200pd you burned a lot of cash(£250k-£300k take home on 200-230days a year) if there was no buffer to see you through the 6 months without work.

You can't change the past but you can learn from it.

Forward_thinking

Back early. Everyone seems to be down sick today.

M4rc - you do make me smile. I keep facebook to keep in with friends abroad but rarely post. I would be tempted to close the account but I have photo albums on there and don't know how to save them elsewhere. Anway, I digress.

I haven't called the ironer to come yet. I was going to spend my morning doing it but the little one has been demanding my attention. I think I might call her but give her only the school uniform and try and do the rest myself over the weekend. Baby steps.

Yes, getmore - lots of money wasted. When we came back husband's great salary simply went to paying off debt we had accrued whilst abroad. We are still paying off that past life - but as m4rc said, what's done is done.

Husband spends a couple of hours each night studying in the bath - he has found an area which he absolutely thrives reading about and is thinking he might be able to assimilate it somehow into his area of work and make more money. He has read dozens of really tough text books in the last year so it should help at some point.

Certainly thinking differently now. Am sitting here wondering whether to call the ironer or not or do it somehow myself. Have to admit just having the uniform in the cupboard is a godsend each Sunday night. But now I am telling myself that is £25 I could be using for other things. It also felt wrong watching the cleaner the other day as I kept thinking I could easily be doing that and saving the money. Husband says I'm looking at it wrong - compared to the £60 an hour I could be earning it's playing around in that TEASPOON DRAWER!!!! Him and his teaspoons.

Forward_thinking

Ok, so I've succumbed. I've just looked at the ironing pile - it's huge and everything is creased up badly. So plan is to make this the last time and keep on top of it from now on. Will spend an hour a couple of times a week in front of the tv. Not impressed that I'm using her services this week but I would be starting off at a really bad place. There's a pile of crumpled shirts and I would be fed up before I even started. At least if I start now I know what I am dealing with.

enthusiasticsaver

When I get shirts and tops out of the washing machine I put them on hangers and hang on a rail to dry. Once they are dry or almost dry if they need ironing I iron them but many times all the creases are gone. It is putting them in the laundry basket which gets them crumpled.

nkkingston

Got to be honest, the only time I iron anything is before an interview. Most of the people I know who still iron regularly do so because it's a sporting superstition - have to do the ironing while watching the footie or their team will lose, sort of thing. Apart from office wear and some bedlinen, what really needs ironing? Certainly not school uniforms, which are usually crease-resistant these days (not that any child ever gave a toss in the first place). Hang stuff up to dry, like enthusiastic says, and most fabrics drop their creases anyway. Go make £60 an hour for the afternoon, then put it away.

Gettingtherequickly

Forward_thinking wrote: »

Ok, so I've succumbed. I've just looked at the ironing pile - it's huge and everything is creased up badly. So plan is to make this the last time and keep on top of it from now on. Will spend an hour a couple of times a week in front of the tv. Not impressed that I'm using her services this week but I would be starting off at a really bad place. There's a pile of crumpled shirts and I would be fed up before I even started. At least if I start now I know what I am dealing with.

Been reading this thread and think that the progress you have made so far is amazing. Don't beat yourself up about the ironing for this week, just think to yourself that you will no longer have anyone to iron for you from 1st February. That is a nice clean cut off date and is next week!

Forward_thinking

Ah, thanks Gettingthere. Guess what??!! The ironer has a sick bug and can't collect it until Sunday. I've told her to rest and not to worry. Do you think someone up there is looking after me? I've never known her to not be able to come over. Help - I have a huge bag of ironing by the front door all crumpled. Wish me luck. I will remember all the comments that lots of you don't iron anything. Perhaps just showing a few items the iron will suffice. Going to do it tonight with the tv on and time myself. And think of the money I've saved.

Queen.Bess

Well done FT, this has been a fabulous thread to read; not only your posts but M4rc's too - they have been very inspirational!

Just wanted to wish you all the very best FT - keep posting, as it's great to hear how you're getting on. I am very much looking forward to you hopefully telling us about a 'new' car purchase and also whether the older kids are joining in and helping with the money saving.

With my best wishes, QBx

Forward_thinking

Question - how do I get this thread over to debt diaries. Think I will do that as it is going to be great recording this journey. Hope it's not lonely though on there. I've so loved the support on here and don't want to lose that.

Forward_thinking

Thanks Queen.Bess. Yes, hasn't M4rc been great. And getmore4less. Plus many others. And not one horrible comment!!!!!!!