Budget Wars - A New Hope (with apologies to George Lucas)

Bobarella

Deleted_User wrote: »

Hi Bob,

Well done on the sale and the excitement of the foodie bits too.

Thanks PM

Buffythedebtslayer wrote: »

I just wanted to say hello and I love the title of your diary

Congrats on you good things today XXX

Thanks Buffy, hope you do as well.

Bobarella

Morning All

We ended up going into London yesterday. It was such a nice day. Despite the main day out being a free one (lovely childrens park and some mooching about the St Pauls area) it still cost £37 plus travel. I feel really disgusted with myself for spending that money when I essentially have no income and that would have paid for 4 days groceries. Its difficult to have fun when you are worrying about every penny. Sorry to moan. Am sure its nothing that many of us havent gone through at times.
I really do feel like I am up and down constantly in my feelings of happiness to be doing something different but then fear of not knowing how this will turn out. We do have work trickling in but nothing to get excited about yet.
Think the combo of the mortgage going wrong just when I needed it to be right and feeling irritated that we finally are at the lowest level of debt in the last 5 years, only to potentially start adding to it again is going round and round my brain.

Yesterday also reminded me how much I loved working in London and feeling the buzz of all the people around me. The buildings. The places. I feel so trapped out in the burbs sometimes. It makes me forget all the reasons I decided to get out in the first place.

Gosh this is a depressing entry. Better go anyway as baby is wailing (terrible mummy not letting her play with the fan cable!)

Bob

hugglemonster

I absolutely get where you're coming from, when I treated the kids to lunch the other day I thought how much we could get with that but those little moments are rare not the norm and it was good to spend some time treating the kids for a change instead of saying 'no we can't, we haven't got enough money'.

As things pick up with work and the mortgage gets sorted you'll start to feel better and everything will slot into place.

London is fabulous, dh used to live in north London and hankers after the vibrancy of the city but then he loves Bristol, Leeds, Sheffield however we moved to a small town in Wales and his passion is being in the hills so a visit to the big smoke every now and again suits him fine.

Hope you've had a good day and have a lovely weekend, H x

Bobarella

lego_mum wrote: »

Bob, sorry to hear that you are feeling so up and down. You have so much on your plate, I think you are doing great. :grouphug:

Thanks LegoMum. I think we all have a lot to juggle really so I dont consider myself any different. But thanks very much for the empathy. And support!

Bobarella

hugglemonster wrote: »

I absolutely get where you're coming from, when I treated the kids to lunch the other day I thought how much we could get with that but those little moments are rare not the norm and it was good to spend some time treating the kids for a change instead of saying 'no we can't, we haven't got enough money'.

As things pick up with work and the mortgage gets sorted you'll start to feel better and everything will slot into place.

London is fabulous, dh used to live in north London and hankers after the vibrancy of the city but then he loves Bristol, Leeds, Sheffield however we moved to a small town in Wales and his passion is being in the hills so a visit to the big smoke every now and again suits him fine.

Hope you've had a good day and have a lovely weekend, H x

Huggle. Thank you. Apart from groceries we literally havent spent this holidays at all. Other day aside. When I think of how much a holiday would cost I thank my lucky stars for my restraint. So its a small blip not a big one. Thats interesting about your husband. I can see why a small city fix can top you up for a bit.

Bobarella

Evening All

Managed to get 30 mins work done this morning whilst the little lady napped. Had a few more thoughts that I followed up on.
Met up with OH and DS for a bit.
Then this affernoon headed to a different swimming pool we havent tried before. Bit of a journey and some unplanned spends but nothing dramatic.
Realised it is slightly less time till more funds are available than I had been planning for so small mercies there.
Late teas for me and DH tonight as we got back late from swimming so kids still to settle in. But it will either be YS gammon or YS steak. We had 1 of the steaks between 2 of us last night. 21 day matured beef marked down to £1.50 so a pretty cheap tea for 2.
One thing I managed to say to OH earlier in between various kid interruptions, was I think with a life like ours we'd benefit from proper regular planning sessions for chunks of time. We last did one at christmas and it was really helpful (till I fell very ill in Februay and ruined all our plans!) So more of that to come.

Right night all

Bob

Bobarella

Good Morning All

Needing all the coffee today. Had a terrible night. We watched a movie that was all about a baby being abducted. The mother was a drunk and basically just left her baby with a random woman for the night. Only the woman then decided she couldnt bear to give the baby back to the drunk mother so she goes on the run with her. It really disturbed my self concious I think.

Anyway I think it was 1 or 2 before I finally got off.

Just had a quick catch up with OH about what we need to buy for the next couple of days work he is going to do at the shop. Probably get away with 1 large tub of paint for the inside as we still have some left from last time. Then 2 pots of external for the sign.

Have people using the space monday and Tuesday mornings so he can only work 12pm onwards but he should still get plenty done. Plus horray for the cash! Will all be going into the black hole.

We might have another go at geocaching today, tackling a much easier cache. So that will be fun and keep us outside.

I was annoyed to learn that the brown garden bins our local council have brought in (years behind the borough we moved from) are charged for at £45 so we wont be getting one of those. Disappointing as we have a very overgrown back garden which will need loads of chopping back. Some of it can be left in a pile to rot but it would be nice to have it removed.

Ramble ramble...

Bob

Bobarella

Blimey just spent 2 hours listing comics on ebay. I am fried! The sheer monotony will be worth it if some of it sells though. Need sleep zzzz

DawnW

Bobarella wrote: »

Blimey just spent 2 hours listing comics on ebay. I am fried! The sheer monotony will be worth it if some of it sells though. Need sleep zzzz

Yes, it is a bore isn't it? I tend to do it in half hour bursts, occasionally longer, a couple of times a week. Two hours is definitely a marathon though!

Bobarella

DawnW wrote: »

Yes, it is a bore isn't it? I tend to do it in half hour bursts, occasionally longer, a couple of times a week. Two hours is definitely a marathon though!

I definately felt like stopping. May have had a few biscuits mid way