My journey to a debt free life

Cherryfudge

Hope your chickens and all the birds around are okay.

milann

Hope the chickens will be ok....that’s the last thing you need.
Hopefully the doctor will give you something to help you and sign you off so that you can recover properly.
I was very worried about meeting somebody close to my dd who came from a totally different lifestyle to us. Big house in the country, millionaire lifestyle and bank balance to match 😳. Boarding school for the kids and foreign holidays even before they were popular, classic car collection.....whereas if we had a holiday it was a caravan. I’ve never been able to take my children abroad.  Anyway as I got to know this person well.....turns out they hated boarding school.....foreign holidays were spent trying to pacify the parents from fighting and being shoved into kids clubs. They envied us our times on the beaches and picnics dodging the rain. When I eventually got to stay in the ‘posh’ country house....it was a ramshackle affair but we were made to feel so welcome......it’s so true that often the actual very rich are down to earth - it’s those aspiring to the riches that have the edge. I’ll have to have a search to see if I can figure out which diary you’ve been reading 👍

Cherryfudge

I'm curious about the diary too - you should be on commission! However I'm behind on far too many diaries as it is.

ladyholly

The wealthiest person I have ever known, talking multi millionaire, was also the scruffiest. He wore a pair of the dest baggiest trousers you have ever seen and a tweed jacket that looked like it came from a skip and I am told he attended swanky functions in the same. Nice bloke though. 

foxgloves

Very interesting discussion. Years ago, I knew someone who gave the impression of being very wealthy - kids' names put down for expensive schools, flash car, etc, etc. Turns out the expenditure was a sizeable inheritance which hadn't arrived. When it did, of course it had already been spent. Repossession, flitting from rented properties owing rent, then local authority housing. Overspending has little, ultimately, to do with income & everything to do with attitude. Some people measure their success in terms of their brand of car or expensive watch collection. If someone burns past me on the motorway in a megally expensive flash car, I never think 'Oh look, how very successful that person must be'. I would pretty much have zero interest to be honest. 
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Onebrokelady

foxgloves said:

Very interesting discussion. Years ago, I knew someone who gave the impression of being very wealthy - kids' names put down for expensive schools, flash car, etc, etc. Turns out the expenditure was a sizeable inheritance which hadn't arrived. When it did, of course it had already been spent. Repossession, flitting from rented properties owing rent, then local authority housing. Overspending has little, ultimately, to do with income & everything to do with attitude. Some people measure their success in terms of their brand of car or expensive watch collection. If someone burns past me on the motorway in a megally expensive flash car, I never think 'Oh look, how very successful that person must be'. I would pretty much have zero interest to be honest. 
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I don't normally notice cars unless its an old classic or vintage one. I do notice watches though but not because I know which are the expensive ones I just appreciate a good looking watch 😀I have never owned any either and wouldn't judge someone's success but their make of watch, horses are a measure of success to me though, how many you own, their breed, how they are kept and what they are used for can tell you a lot about a horsey person, mind you my nephew is engaged to a lady who breeds Arabs and also shows them for other people and although the horses live in 5* accommodation they used to live in a caravan, they are renting a place with an actual house now though 😀

Onebrokelady

milann said:

Hope the chickens will be ok....that’s the last thing you need.
Hopefully the doctor will give you something to help you and sign you off so that you can recover properly.
I was very worried about meeting somebody close to my dd who came from a totally different lifestyle to us. Big house in the country, millionaire lifestyle and bank balance to match 😳. Boarding school for the kids and foreign holidays even before they were popular, classic car collection.....whereas if we had a holiday it was a caravan. I’ve never been able to take my children abroad.  Anyway as I got to know this person well.....turns out they hated boarding school.....foreign holidays were spent trying to pacify the parents from fighting and being shoved into kids clubs. They envied us our times on the beaches and picnics dodging the rain. When I eventually got to stay in the ‘posh’ country house....it was a ramshackle affair but we were made to feel so welcome......it’s so true that often the actual very rich are down to earth - it’s those aspiring to the riches that have the edge. I’ll have to have a search to see if I can figure out which diary you’ve been reading 👍

Appearances can be very deceptive 😊

Onebrokelady

Been to my GP appointment and now have a steroid inhaler to use twice a day. She says my chest doesn't sound rattley but my airways are very irritated so are reacting like an asthmatics would, she has also arranged for me to have an ECG and bloods on the 26th to make sure there's nothing else going on, she mentioned a chest X-ray but think wants to try the other tests first. She thinks the inhaler will make a big difference and that I won't need to use it indefinitely but maybe for up to six weeks. She also advised that I take the rest of this week off and see how I am on Friday and if I'm still not feeling too good on Friday to phone up and get another sick certificate,I can self certify until Friday so don't need one at the moment. She thinks i probably went back too soon and that's why I've gone back downhill now. I've phoned work to let them know. My gp pointed me in the direction of a website that has advice for people recovering from covid on it so I went and had a look at that, some of it is aimed at people who were in hospital but a lot of it was useful ,there are some breathing exercises on there to help you regulate your breathing and some ideas about getting moving again but not overdoing it. The breathing is something I know about anyway so I've been practicing that this afternoon and it's definitely relaxed my chest 
I haven't denied anything else apart from going to the shop on the way home to get some bits, luckily it's at the bottom of my hill not far from my surgery so I strolled along very slowly then I caught a bus back because I knew I wouldn't make it up the hill 

Sun_Addict

Glad you’ve got yourself sorted. Hopefully the inhaler will help.

Onebrokelady

Sun_Addict said:

Glad you’ve got yourself sorted. Hopefully the inhaler will help.

Thanks SA I'm hopeful it will help 😊