My journey to a debt free life

Onebrokelady

Nicnak said:

That sounds like a really good thing for you. Your health is really important and if you can make it work, then that's going to benefit you so much in the long run x

Hopefully it will make a difference,I'm not dropping them by a lot ,it's just 4hours from 30.5 to 26.5 so I will be doing one long day (11.5 hours) and two shorter days of 7.5 hours. At the moment I do two long days and one short, it's still three days a week but shorter hours on two of the days, I just hope I can make it work but if not I'm hoping 6 months of reduced hours might perk me up a bit 😊

Onebrokelady

Sun_Addict said:

Great idea and as it’s on a trial basis you have the option to go back to full hours if you need to 👍

That's what I thought, my old boss said we weren't allowed to drop our hours on a trial basis or I would have done it before 😟

Onebrokelady

Sun_Addict said:

It’s going to be a carp Christmas this year that’s for sure. Last Christmas I had my leg in plaster and thought that was bad luck, little did I know things were about to take a very unexpected turn for the worse 😩

To be honest it won't be much different for me.DD 1 and the family are coming here on Christmas Day so there will be 6 of us so unless the put a full lockdown back in place and say no visiting each other's houses it will be ok. I wouldn't be surprised though if that does happen, me and DD2 have spent Christmas with just us two before and we had a great time,it was one of the best Christmases we've had 😀

Sun_Addict

The best Christmas we ever had was when we decided to drive to the coast on Christmas Day with the dog and had a lovely walk on the beach.  We took a picnic which we ate in the car and we sat outside a pub with a drink (mainly so we could use their toilet as public ones were closed). The weather was unseasonably warm and sunny and the roads were empty. Sadly this was shortly before Mr SA became ill the following March. Very fond memories of that day.

Cherryfudge

I reduced my hours a couple of years ago and I've not regretted it, though I do, in normal times, have the option of picking up extras. I made the decision following an accident that happened when I kept pushing myself to 'do something useful' instead of resting after what I always felt to be the most tiring part of my shift pattern. Taking a couple of months sick leave to recover is one way to stand back and take stock! I'd recommend trying it on a planned basis instead.

SA, that sounds like a wonderful Christmas, really lovely.

Drawingaline

Sun_Addict said:

The best Christmas we ever had was when we decided to drive to the coast on Christmas Day with the dog and had a lovely walk on the beach.  We took a picnic which we ate in the car and we sat outside a pub with a drink (mainly so we could use their toilet as public ones were closed). The weather was unseasonably warm and sunny and the roads were empty. Sadly this was shortly before Mr SA became ill the following March. Very fond memories of that day.

When we lived in Brighton we would go to the beach in the afternoon on Xmas day when our big two were small. It was always nice to get down there for a walk along the seafront. I do miss that. 

milann

I don’t think we will get to dds at Christmas - I’ll miss the children who are still at the lovely ages of 6 and 3 so very much still believe in the magic. We usually go for a walk along the cost nearby too. It’ll be a different Christmas with the bubble of ds with myself and dh (hopefully that’ll still be in place😳) It’s the children that make it......but my son in laws family usually goo too making 8 or 9 of us.......how can they chooses who to ask 😱😱 and that’s if restrictions are lifted........
Cutting your hours sounds the way forward.....wouldn’t it be lovely if you could eventually get to 3 short days.

Onebrokelady

milann said:

I don’t think we will get to dds at Christmas - I’ll miss the children who are still at the lovely ages of 6 and 3 so very much still believe in the magic. We usually go for a walk along the cost nearby too. It’ll be a different Christmas with the bubble of ds with myself and dh (hopefully that’ll still be in place😳) It’s the children that make it......but my son in laws family usually goo too making 8 or 9 of us.......how can they chooses who to ask 😱😱 and that’s if restrictions are lifted........
Cutting your hours sounds the way forward.....wouldn’t it be lovely if you could eventually get to 3 short days.

Three short days would be heavenly but I definitely can't afford to do that 😊

Onebrokelady

Unbelievably I woke up in the middle of the night feeling ill again,I now have another bad chest a raging headache and am aching all over, my chest is now back to square one 😫😫😫 Im not sure if it's the same infection or a new one but I feel awful today 
I am working a long day tomorrow and can't take the day off, it's really bad timing as we went live with our new care system today so they need as many staff at work as possible to make sure it goes smoothly. Poor DD 2 is at work today and she text me earlier to say the new system is horrible and she doesn't know what she's doing, this is from someone who uses computers all the time and figure out anything 🙀
I had to pop to the local shopping centre this afternoon because we had run out of bread,I really could have stayed in bed but wouldn't have had any lunch,I bought some oranges apples and bananas as well and two cans of Big Soup,I love the chunky vegetable one 😍
I have managed to do a load of washing and hung that up to dry but apart from that I've not done anything else. I will have to try and get an early night tonight before tomorrow and hopefully I will wake up feeling better or it's going to be a tough day  

Willowtree222

Hopefully you'll feel better tomorrow and manage your day in work x