Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 3

Pyxis

I know, Calley.

When I bring my shopping home, it is two large bagfuls, and when I see what I have paid, it is shocking, just for two large bagfuls. Ok, I know I don't shop in the cheapest shops, but then I only buy things I know I like, so there's no point in buying cheaper options and not enjoying them or worse still, binning them. That would be a waste!

Besides which, I had many years of scrimping and going without and eating cheap this and economy that. For years we were eating thrifty mince and sausages, as couldn't afford proper meat, and then a few years later when the BSE thing broke out, I realised those would have been the things that would have put us at risk at exactly the time when BSE could have been in them. Oh great!

Don't worry folks, it's all quite safe now to eat thrifty mince and sausages!

Anyway, back to the cost of food. In the nineties, I remember my shopping was a lot less in real terms than it is now. I could get a lot more for the equivalent money. And as I was working very long hours, there was a lot of convenience food in the bill.
Strange.

Waves_and_Smiles

Aww, thank you everyone. I think throwing this at my social worker is the best option really now I have discussed it with you all. If the social workers make the decision it's easier on WaSp because he can blame them if he wants and it's easier for me because my rationality about this has gone spinning out of the window.

I understand exactly what you mean whitewing and I admit I am snapping at WaSp. I am sort of emotionally removing myself because I feel like I am already under the threat of being left? At no point has WaSp said he would move in with her but my panicked brain is already leaping ahead into rejection as a BDP brain does. WaSp doesn't need me adding more guilt to the mix but on the other hand the poor man doesn't need me telling him to just go then and making him feel unwanted either! Fortunately he is used to BDP, he doesn't quite get it because he see's it as jealousy when I am like this when it is far stronger than that. It is total terror of being left alone.

It's so ironic that I can tell all of you this but to WaSp it comes out as a cold "I don't care what you do. Go if you want to, it's not up to me." What I am feeling is the total opposite of what comes out of my mouth!

Talking about this stuff makes me feel far more vulnerable than I thought it would.

Waves_and_Smiles

On a far more cheerful note thank you MSE Badger! Look! I have pretty things under my username!

Pyxis

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

On a far more cheerful note thank you MSE Badger! Look! I have pretty things under my username!

Eeeeeeeeh! Badges! :j:j:j


I like badges!


What are yours for, WaS?

Waves_and_Smiles

Debt-free and Savvy Shopper which means I have used MSE for deals! I am stupidly excited to have badges. :rotfl:

Pyxis

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

Debt-free and Savvy Shopper which means I have used MSE for deals! I am stupidly excited to have badges. :rotfl:

I remember when I got my first medal! :rotfl:

I was thrilled! Hahahahahahahaha!


And again when I got the silver!:rotfl:

And c 0 ck -a - hoop when I got the gold! Hahahahahaha!

(Stupid censor!)

tea_lover

Ooh badges!! I love badges! Most of the motivation for getting involved in Guiding again was the badges . Also, getting Achievements is probably my favourite part of the Xbox, I even love the noise it makes when one pings

onomatopoeia99

I have 16 years or so to go on my mortgage before I can have a debt free badge :eek:

WaS, I have no advice for you, everyone else has covered anything I can think of, but it is a really unfortunate position for you and WaSp, he must feel terribly torn. Hoping between everyone you can come up with something workable for you all.


My Italian friend is coming to visit me next month, for a week . Normally she'll visit for a weekend once a year or so and she was only here in March, but she was completely knocked sideways by something in her personal life last month and is really unhappy, so I said I'd take some time off work so she could come and stay for longer if she wanted some time away from home and company.. Hopefully I'll be able to cheer her up a bit.

calleyw

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

My Italian friend is coming to visit me next month, for a week . Normally she'll visit for a weekend once a year or so and she was only here in March, but she was completely knocked sideways by something in her personal life last month and is really unhappy, so I said I'd take some time off work so she could come and stay for longer if she wanted some time away from home and company.. Hopefully I'll be able to cheer her up a bit.

Ono,

What a lovely thing to do for your friend. I hope you both have a lovely time.

Yours

Calley

Solarjunkie

What about a lodger? Something like a student nurse or social worker who would like reasonably priced accommodation on the understanding that s/he provides some company and maybe a bit of cooking? So benefiting both parties.