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lynzpower

earwig wrote: »

hi lynz
im fine well mse went down so i couldnt post and tbh i lost track abit but there have been some good things happing have got a breadmaker oh makes the bread it great the smell first thing in the morring is unbelivable have saved well over 30 pounds by making our own bread and rolls also i have stoped buying the ham have tuna now much cheeper and better for my diet

also have had a big tidy up of the house making room for the kids new stuff at christmas sold most of the old stuff made 140 not including postage so that sitting in the bank waiting for me to decide who i should overpay oh has had a pay rise of 35 per week we are saving that but .....

the old heap had to go it just wasnt saving that much in petroll and the tax was only 12 pound cheeper than the mondeo so all in all we decide to go back to the mondeo

i will try and update more often how are you how is your oh did you sort your health problems out are you still working hope all is well

My breadmaker broke down and Ive been on a diet, so bread has been out for me for a while and to be honest I think some of my health problems could hav been to do with me carrying too much belly :eek:

Ive lost about a stone & a half and I feel SO much better! Ive not been ill realy at all over the last 6 months. I wonder if some of it might have been down to stress :eek:

Yeah im working still, loving my new job, I could for the first time in my life afford to take a bit of a pay cut which is just so fantastic to have that choice.

Still in the same rented place, we might be moving possibly into sort of "tied" accomodation through my work which will save us even more. What I find really remarkable these days is just how much *spare* money Ive got. Its a bit mindblowing tbh. Im not really spending it tho

Oh is good, he walked out of a rubbish job and has got a new one on quite a bit more money starting on monday, he was only out of work a week or so, so hes just been doing all the housework wile ive been grafting - ish!

glad to hear your still going at it, I knew youd love the breadmaker

Which one did you get in the end?

earwig

well with me they are like buses wait for ages then two turn up i brought the morphy richards fast bake one as it was crome and would go with the other stuff i dont use in the kitchen:rolleyes: then oh remberd that we had a panasonic one what we brought at a car boot sale last summer:mad: but never got round to using we only paid 5 pounds for it and it works well its funny the fast bake one comes out more like a cakey bread but the panasonic one comes out like bread from the bakers so dont know what im doing wrong with the fast bake one

lynz stress can make you really ill i know as i suffered with it a while ago it can give you headache heart racing aches and pains makes you feel sick and a whole host of other problems to do get your blood presure checked out i suffer with low blood presure and that can agravit stress and also i found out that i have an underactive thirod which can cause same kind of things to stress so get that checked out to i have to take pills now for the rest of my life but at least i know why im overweight its not just all the crap i eat :rotfl:

chevalier

hi earwig
Interesting thread
Just to note that you can read all the papers online, so that would save you a bit. You also seem to use a lot of milk, would it be cheaper to buy the bigger containers at the supermarket, rather that popping to the local shop?

You know what I am going to say about the fags!

ref school dinners, how about them (and hubby?) taking pack ups? You can probably wangle this that the filling came out of the normal food budget now that you are baking bread at home. Would save you a bit.

I think you are doing really well. I can understand why you were shocked when you found out what you had spent £550 on:eek: .

Are you getting professional help with your children's problems? Only reason to ask is that it might make you be less stressed.

best of luck
chev

earwig

hi yes dd gose to the childs mental health unit once a week for an hour there is not much they can do i dont want her to have medication for it she only 8 and some of the mind drugs can be a bit strong for an adult never mind a child i grew up with mental illness so i dont think it causes me any more stress than im allready use to but i can understand that if you wasnt use to that kind of beheaver that it could be quite shocking and hard to deal with but once you have sat in the room with your brother and be told the devil is sitting next to you :eek: when know one is there nothing really shocks you anymore:rotfl:

i was really mad when i descoverd how much money we wasted as a famley i think alot of it comes from growing up in the seventys on benefits it was much harder then than it is now we used to get 46 a week and have to pay 11 a week rent 6 a week rates and we wasnt entillted to free school meals or any thing like that as back then my mum was on widows mother benefit so we couldnt have income suport as my dad had the cheek to die but had he run of and left us we could of had income suport what was 56 per week and no rent to pay or rates and you got free school meals school uniforms ect so thing were very tough the house was always cold and dark and there was never any food in apart from what we was having for dinner

i think that why i have so much food in the house now and i spend the way i do i guess im to frightend to go back to them days and dont want my kids to feel cold and hungary like i did dont get me wrong it didnt do me much harm and desipte the lack of money it was a very happy house always lots of love and laughter but bl00dy cold:rotfl: i am getting better and i love the fact that if we have no money we can at anytime make some lovey fresh bread it funny how somthing so simple taste so nice it has been sugested
before that i seek councelling about my childhood but as i said to the doctor i have lived it once there is no way im reliving it just for some dippy person to tell me that why i spend the way i do :rolleyes: (please dont think im knocking all councilors its just the ones i have met through my famley seem to have the habit of stating the blinking obivous and not having a solotion to it );)
any way westlife have stop singing on the telly now:eek: so i think its safe to go back in there and watch somemore of children in need before i go to bed