Has 'moneysaving' genuinely changed anyone's life here?

tigtag02

Snaggles wrote: »

Tigtag, are you still up????

Moi?

Nope knocking the Z's me

Hey <shamless hijack> check out my latest competition win :cool:

tigtag02

Snaggles wrote: »

This site actually gave me the confidence to believe I could have a baby without sliding back into debt - thanks to some amazing support on here, we managed it, and we are still just about coping despite my hubby recently getting made redundant and having to find a new job.

I've also made some fantastic friends, some of whom are now becoming 'real' friends (ie socialising in real life). And the recent support I've had when I found out my son might have Aspergers syndrome has been unbelievable, and has brought tears to my eyes on more than one occasion.

I'm not sure about the moneysaving changing my life, but the people I have met on here have CERTAINLY changed my life. :T :T :T

Amen to that

Snaggles

Woo Tigtag, get you with your Royal Albert Hall tickets - are you going to go?

Crown - I gave up on beauty sleep years ago when I realised I was a lost cause...lol!!

Tustastic

Crown wrote: »

Once I really knuckled down to debt elimination this site and financial literacy it has made a major difference to my life.

Thanks to this site I realised that I was spending more money on poker than was healthy especially since I already had debts. this lead me to realise that I have a gambling problem that I have now sought help on, and am receiving with the help of the members of Gamblers Anonymous.

This in turn has lead to a total change in my lifestyle as without knowing it I had turned into "johnny no mates". I now have my life back and am making great strides in my work efforts and now have the ambition to own my own business. Financially my family have been in debt of some sort or the other for three generations and it was always said that we were poor and debt was just a way of life. well I can tell you that idea was a load of old rubbish and since finding this site over 3 years ago I have had a total change in my thoughts of how I want to live my life and if I have my own family to raise my future kids.

I don't mean to sound over dramatic but this site has given me so much ambition it is incredible. I could never repay the kindness and inspiration that have been given to me by strangers who don't realise what an impact they have had on my life and in turn my family. As I already said my Grandfather, Mother and us Kids have been in debt so long we classed it normal.

I now know that if I continue how I am doing I will be debt free in 4-5 years and mortgage Free in another 10 Years :beer:

So to sum up Money saving can and does change life's as my family are living proof. Now I have had the education it will mean now more being poor for family and with the grace of a greater power and eduction the next 10 generations of my family will have money and happiness in abundance. :T

Crown, that is such an inspirational post. I'm really moved by your vision of gradually changing the culture in the generations of your family, leading to more prosperity, chances and happiness in future.
I'm not a DFW myself; just one of the many MSE-ers who visit the DFW board to marvel at the bravery and guts of all of you who are slowly and surely getting yourselves out of debt. I've learnt quite a bit about moneysaving from you all but a hell of a lot more about grace under fire, admitting dreadful mistakes and helping each other with kindness, humour, patience and without judgement or harshness. Long may it continue - it's becoming a national institution. :T

tigtag02

Snaggles wrote: »

Woo Tigtag, get you with your Royal Albert Hall tickets - are you going to go?

Seriously? - What do you think :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Snaggles wrote: »

Crown - I gave up on beauty sleep years ago when I realised I was a lost cause...lol!!

:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Snaggles

tigtag02 wrote: »

Seriously? - What do you think :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Ebay???

tigtag02

Snaggles wrote: »

Ebay???

They are being held in my name at the box office - I thought eBay may be a bit risky.

I have offered them to the first taker on the Comps board if anyone wants them

LINKETY LINK

Snaggles

Awwww...that's a nice idea!

Right, I am off to bed.....it's waaay past midnight now, so that means that tomorrow is officially my thir......thirt......twenty-seventh birthday!!

lynzpower

oops yes I meant the black :rotfl:

Well spotted gang!

immoral_angeluk

AHs moneysaving changed our lives? GOD yes.. it's not an instant change like, say, a lottery win.. but since our LBM last oct we're in a totally different position now and MUCH more financially secure. We didn't have masses of debt but didn't have masses of income either.... so we had to change the way we lived to make the impact on our debt that we needed to.
I'm not going to say it hasn't bee hard but we are SO grateful for everything this site and everyone on the forum has done to help us.