Learning the value of simple things...

In_Search_Of_Me

thats hilarious benben!LOL!!
Just back from a disaterous shopping trip to get winter wardrobe but did manage to get 2 permanent hair dyes for £5...the grey needs to go!! Keep em coming!

benbenandme wrote: »

Whoever made up the saying "If it seems to be too good to be true then it probably is" had never heard of Quidco

In_Search_Of_Me

ANyone else?!

SAFC73_2

To me it's things such as today. Going for a walk with the person I love who values me for who I am not what I can earn.

It's the idea that next year my life will be different to now and I hope to achieve a goal of mine in working with vulnerable children. I signed up for a course in BSL last week and have reallly gotten into it.

It's knowing that I have my health.

It's knowing that I have a sense of humour to deal with the difficult things that life can throw at me.

It's taking pleasure from seeing dogs run in and out into the sea like I did on my walk today. Noticing things around me.

It's knowing that I have considerably better coping skills than I did when I was younger. Is that life experience.

Making a complete twit of myself but not feeling any embarrassment about it.

Knowing that I've had a go at something that hasn't really worked out because I know that my life isn't a dress-rehearsal.

Squirrel29

I have learned the usefulness of meal planning, I used to go shopping just once or twice a month and buy a load of rubbish that I couldn't even drum a meal up with... and subsequently ended up at the takeaway and overspent on food by about £200 per month.

We sit down every Saturday now and work out meals for the week, I go shopping weekly and and a takeaway is a rare thing. We now eat healthier, have more in cupboards and I now just spend £160 a month.

I also have realised who my real friends are, I value spending time with my family instead of trawling around bars. I love long walks with my dog instead of shopping trips into town.

I also think I look after belongings better, even to the point of driving carefully over speed humps as I can't bear the thought of paying out for new suspension. I get shoes repaired instead of throwing them away and buying new ones.

I actually feel so much happier and relaxed.

kittynortheast

I love the feeling when you realise that it has been a no spend day! or when you have bugeted for something and you get it cheaper, that would never have happened pre-LBM I would have spent over and made excuses for that overspending!

wannabefreee

in one week on this board ive elarnt several things....

people do care

i can cook!

i dont have to be a picky eater!

aldi is ok!

cordial isnt that awful!

taking two minutes to think do i really want this.do i need this makes debt easier to over come!

not taking money out with me makes it easier nto to spend!

thats when i am in trouble i learn who my mates are

that i am not going back to that pit called debt again!!!

that the initials people use on here are confusing!!!! lol lol lol

bathgatebuyer

That charity shops hold bargains galore, you just have to be prepared to rummage and look for them;
That ready meals are not only unhealthy for your body, but financially they are unhealthy;
QUIDCO - why hadn't I hear of this before (now I'm at £50 in less than a month!);
I'm not the only one in the world to have made a pig's ear out of my finances.

ciarasdreams

I think that possibly for the first time in my life I have started to appreciate the value of the things that really matter because before now I always only thought that something was worthwhile and important if other people did as well. I have an older sister who has always supported me financially from whenever I can remember but until recently the things that we have enjoyed and appreciated could have been considered polar opposites. It has not been until the last two months anyway that I did not think that she was totally mad for saying that nothing in the world made her happier than a cloudless sunrise or a day walking in the park with sandwiches that she made at 6.00 am or going on a train to wherever it took her and wandering around with only £10.00 in her purse. She has worked so hard and often at 2 or 3 jobs at a time to make sure that I was secure yet it seems in many ways really ironic that she is the one who always totally understood what is important and what really matters and what can make anybody happy at absolutely no cost. In some ways I had always thought of her as being foolish with badly misplaced priorities. Now that I am massively in debt I can finally see what she saw as being so beautiful and wonderful all along and I can finally see that she always had sense and sensible priorities all along and that it was me who just never quite understood it after all because she has always been happy with what she has got and I had always wanted more and better .