Mooloo's Joining up the dots in 2017

Savvy_sewing

Well I have had an extra Tax Credit payment today, so I will be expecting the update paperwork in the post then, with in a few days, so that more accurate budget can be done soon, I will be much happier when I know what the reduced payment will actually be. Meanwhile I have put the unexpected £101.74 into the savings account.
Bf arrived back just after 10.30 last night, and already has gone back to work.
Dgd comes home today. So I expect a few tears and her being a little clingy for a few days. But I will be glad to see her as it is strange without her at home. It's much easier when I am in a different environment.
Time for my shower, breakfast and get ready for work.

grandma247

Mooloo I can't remember if I suggested this before. When your washing is dry, just put it away. Put it on the hangers and in the drawers folded as it is. Iron only what you need each day. It has saved me so much stress each day.

As to clutter I am discovering that what Brighton belle says is right. Sometimes you just need to get rid of the "stuff". I am slowly doing that now as each room is redecorated and it has already made a difference in how I feel.

Savvy_sewing

grandma247 wrote: »

Mooloo I can't remember if I suggested this before. When your washing is dry, just put it away. Put it on the hangers and in the drawers folded as it is. Iron only what you need each day. It has saved me so much stress each day.

As to clutter I am discovering that what Brighton belle says is right. Sometimes you just need to get rid of the "stuff". I am slowly doing that now as each room is redecorated and it has already made a difference in how I feel.

I think that I will try this! Half of my clutter is clothes lying around. I know I have far too much.
I have been told another tip, that if I bring something into the house something else must go.
I did manage that on Wednesday when I used a gift voucher to buy a top in one of my favourite dress shops, as she deals with second hand items I gifted her a dress I bought but it was too tight on the arms.
Normally I would have left it either in my wardrobe with the vague hope I might loose weight or use the fabric to upcycle.

Savvy_sewing

Dgd is home. She looks so grown up! She's getting very tall and slimming down. She has a bag full of new clothes from the family down there. So I need to weed out a similar number of clothes to pass on to the younger children.
It was a very very quiet day at work today. But we did have half a dozen jobs in, and a few habadashery sales.
My Saturday girl sat and under instructions made a Cushion cover to show case the new fabric and piping that I bought on Wednesday. It is now in the shop window. But I didn't take any pictures as Dgd had my phone and ran the battery down. Job for tomorrow then.
I had an unexpected delivery via next, a bunch of flowers and a bottle of rose wine. It was a Thankyou for the letter I had written about a dress the customer had bought elsewhere and was not happy with.
I was offered a desk and filing cabinet for free, but I had to decline because I couldn't collect in my sports car. Hopefully they will find a new home soon.
I have looked at some shelves that another shop is selling, currently displaying Yankee candles, and am interested if she will consider a deal for 6 of them. We will see.
DS starts his job tonight at 5pm
Biggest has a car lined up with a relative of her husbands for the £400 I could muster. The insurance change though have charged an extra £20 a month, and £100 fees!
I think I will be trying to find another provider for him next year that is not so steep on admin charges etc.
I used my wristband contactless in my shop on the card Machine for a £5 to see that it works etc. I bought my salad and fruit at the market from my new cash purse. ( an old zip bag I used to take jewellery on holiday in).
I just realised that I left it hanging on the peg at work. I will have to manage until tomorrow because I am already sitting with my feet up!
I took a sandwich to work so I didn't buy lunch in the shop next door.
I am going to be on my own at work until Thursday now which will be very strange.

annandale

Do your staff have contracts? With a set number of hours? Just a thought, I'd get some advice about the notice period you might need to give staff before cutting hours. Because if you cut hours without giving proper notice and depending on the hours you've agreed in their contracts/written statement of terms and conditions, you could come unstuck if someone isn't happy about having their hours reduced.

annandale

Hope it doesn't come to that though for you.

Savvy_sewing

Yes, staff had a contract, as did the Saturday girl, however the seamstress is on a temporary 3 months trial, that was only supposed to be going 10 hours a week. We are in discussions about the changes due, and for her to be on the payroll rather than her invoicing me for her work. That is why she is paid daily as she goes along at the moment. I am possibly going to have to give a zero hours contract, but I don't like the idea of those.
So at the moment she only gets paid when she works.
When Biggest starts she would like her money for the 38 weeks to be divided by 52 and paid equal each week throughout the year, (or monthly).
I have a contract template that I downloaded from HMRC and fill in the blanks type that I used with previous staff.

There is such a lot to think about at the moment.
I have now got an advert on Yell.com but need to ask a few of my customers if they wouldn't mind giving me a review.
It's the first advert as such other then my Facebook boosts since the year I opened.
We will see if it increases work and awareness.
I am taking Dgd to work with me this morning because she has been away from home for a while, I don't have any lessons booked in, and no staff so I will be manning the desk rather than doing much sewing. So I might get her creative side going and do something with her like sewing a bag or something.
The upstairs is provisionally booked for the crochet this afternoon so I will need to come and go to lock up. I can't leave her to just put the Yale down as it no longer works. You can just push the door open!! So I have to use the other deadbolt type lock.
Another job to get fixed.
The shop needs a repaint, and for that matter a Little spruce up before the summer is over.
I better finish my tea and get moving!

Savvy_sewing

I have spent the morning taking pictures of the new stock and posting on the Facebook page.
The shop is quite so have done a few fittings, what I call walk ins, rather than booked ones. We have had a few Collections as well.
Dgd is watching DVD on her kindle and playing with plasticine on the front desk, and I have been faffing around. Tweaking things etc.
Bf has just told me that he has the granddaughter and his eldest son coming tonight so there is no room for dgd tonight. So we will be staying home tonight then.
Wish he had told me this morning so I could have left something for dinner out to defrost.
We will just have to travel over for the Christening and come back again after. I am never thrilled when we suddenly can't go over as his family are there, and one of the reasons why I don't know how we could ever stay permanently if his family have to take the bedroom Dgd usually uses.
I know that I should not feel like that but I do. I don't see why they can't have the blow up beds in the dining room etc. I don't mean the baby, she could easily have her cot in the room.
But that's just how I feel, it reminds me of how my children then age 15 boy, and age 18 girl had to share the dining room when his had the bedroom s. I put up with it for 9 months before I had enough of feeling second to them and mine not allowed proper rooms, or the girls to at least share. So I always fear that the same would happen to Dgd.
So Dgd and I will just chill out at home, and she can go play with her friends this afternoon and evening.
Biggest is moaning about DS not being proactive and mopping about. I have told her he is depressed and needs to go see a doctor. He needs to sort out that car and get it on the road and go home.

Savvy_sewing

You know when the list of jobs you should be doing is growing and yet you just can't be bothered.!
Dgd has gone out to play.
I m watching tv even though there's nothing keeping my attention.
I just don't feel in the mood for anything!

Savvy_sewing

Cup of proper tea first this morning. Definitely not feeling in the mood for lemon and ginger at all!
Dgd stayed over with the neighbour's last night and I was in bed before 8.45pm dreamt I had lost my car, couldn't remember where I had parked it, and then realised it was stolen and was going through all the rigmarole of reports etc. So glad when I woke up and looked out of the window to see it sitting on the drive!
Today BF's granddaughter is Christened, so as Biggest is invited she is going to pick Dgd and myself up and we will all go in her 7 seater car.
So I am not rushing over to BFs this morning. I will also be coming home again afterwards and leave BF to his family.
Dgd is back at School Holiday Club in the morning, and I am at work. I am on my own this week until Thursday. So hopefully a steady plod through and no major rushes. I will move my sewing machine downstairs like in the beginning.
I will need to remember lunches for both of us.
Yesterday I sent Dgd to the co-op for sandwiches and she spent the whole £10 note, buying crisps and chocolate bars too!!
So lessons learnt there. Remember to make lunches, and only give her the exact money for something. But the biggest lesson is that I need to start to explain money and budgeting to her!
I am starting to feel a little more human this morning and will start with my todo list after I have finished this.
DS had another shift at the pub last night so he was hoping to see a rosta as well.
Fingers crossed