NST Muddy March Marathon

Calling14

Happy first day of spring folks.:snow_grin

Naughty me bought a fitbit - finally after years thinking about it. Happy as got 20% off as new Very customer. Hopefully I will be pushed into walking more as competing with DD's. Should get it in a few days excited.

Use it or lose it - only my car but could use it less and walk more

Wellbeing - distance walking challenge will be set and then hope to take up yoga when I find an evening class with room.

Being happy - lovely and sunny out there.

My fridge is almost empty leftover chicken and leek pie tonight with whatever frozen veg is lurking in freezer.

Still claiming a SFD as fitbit not paid for yet. Won't be adding to my debt however as money put aside for it. SFD 8/15 seeing had 3 on the trot.

Grateful for
Sunshine
Spring
Debt moving in the right direction

crazy_cat_lady

Greent - that oatmeal recipe looks fantastic. Thanks - I'm definitely going to try it.
We are a 1 car family mothernerd, which is fine 99% of the time. The other 1%, dh hires a car for a weekend. Works well for us overall.
Not massive amounts to report so far today... Still skint, still tired, headache has returned.

apple_muncher

We are a 0 car family since Dec 26th when our car's gear box seized up 150 miles from home. Nearly 3 months now. We are coping okay as we have very good public transport
I think dd feels the lack the most, as she does a week at school and then dance on a sat (just 1 bus + a fair walk) and church on a sun (2 longer buses). I view it as an opportunity to walk a lot more!

FurryBeastOz

No chance of the one car due to working in opposite directions and shifts. When I lost my license, I couldn't work because public transport is so bad.

Thanks for the recipe greent I will give it a go as I think I have the ingredients.

Wellbeing - crap today. Carb fest. Although PT and weigh in were good first thing. I did book a CPD course yesterday though. I need to update my records as I'm way behind.

Bobarella

Mothernerd Yes that's right. We have been car free since August 2013. So 3.5 years now. We made the decision after the car we bought lasted 6 months before being a write off due to an unfixable oil leak. It was a very low point for us. We'd borrowed 2k on top of our very precarious finances of the time and when we realised we'd been had by the garage, we felt utter despair. We knew our only option was to borrow again and we just didn't want to. So we went without, initially with the thought of paying back the £2k we'd borrowed and then borrowing again. But somehow the thought stopped appealing.
We live in a very well connected area travel wise. If we need to do longer journies we use the train or use Zipcar which is a service you pay an annual fee for but could then use a car for about £6 an hour.

With all my trips back and forth to work on my bike, and on foot, I can easily spend 2 hours or more doing that at weekends. We have recently been talking about getting another vehicle. But we will probably only get a cheap runaround. When my OH was looking at the weekend we found several decent vehicles for very cheap. The price of second hand cars must be very low now. Our idea being we'd get a banger and save for something decent at the same time now debt freedom looms.

mothernerd

In case I can't get back on later (have been trying on and off all day, went downstairs to write down the codes, done troubleshooting)

I have lost 4lbs :j:j:j:j 4lbs.

Could do better so back to full effort now (as well as thinking of short cuts and easier/ quicker/ less energy ways of doing absolutely everything).

greent

mothernerd - well done on the weightloss!

We're a 2 car family of 6 (a 7 seater and my golf) Three qualified drivers (DD is on my insurance) and DS1 is starting to learn next month. Can't easily go down to 1 car - we live in the 'burbs and some of the children's activities would require double bus rides (where possible) and stupidly late home times and dragging another child around at times or they just wouldn't be able to do them, which would be a shame. OH works away sometimes with contracts (currently on a six month contract staying away M-F) so taxi-ing is down to me - as it is, I still end up involving others at times as I can't be in 2 different places at once where 2 of them have something on on the same night. Also DS2's secondary school would require 2 bus journeys home and about 90mins bus time and then 15 mins walk home from the bus stop if he ever attended after school clubs. If OH worked close to home and was home at a reasonable time it could be a possibility - if I never wanted to go anywhere other than a bus into town

Public transport has improved here though - when we first came to live here the buses ran once an hour from 7am and stopped at 6pm!

We will change OH's car for a normal sized one (although probably an estate - need decent room for uni luggage!) when we next change it, though. If we then needed a bigger car for some reason we have already said that we'd hire one.

NSD today. Seemed to spend most of it in the kitchen doing some batch cooking and then clearing up - still need to clean the hob (was determined not to do it before dinner )

SkintTeacher

1 car family here, too. I walk almost every day and I'm imagining when little one goes to school it'll be used to get oh to a job. Works for us.

Great work on the weight loss mothernerd

apple_muncher

Today I am grateful for a rosebud I found on the floor that now is looking beautiful in a little tub of water, for finding 19 sainz active vouchers on the floor, for a good amount of walking, for the blustery winds, for working with some lovely people, for getting my 12-week plan off to a good start, for dd thoroughly enjoying her 'pen licence' at school, for my hands and feet aching less than yesterday, for a lovely email from big sis, for having plenty.

apple_muncher

Well done mothernerd :T:T:T:T