Champagne Lifestyle on a Lemonade Budget.

ancientmum

Almost Happy New Year everyone!
Not doing any celebrations tonight, but DS1 and his family are coming for a meal tomorrow, when the prosecco (a Christmas gift from my sister) will be flowing..,
The weather is supposed to be good, so we will go for a walk along the seafront, to blow away some of the cobwebs.

lessonlearned

:j:j:j HAPPY NEW YEAR:dance::dance::dance:

Hello Everyone. Hope you all had a fabulous NYE. - however you decided to celebrate.

I went to a lovely family party, bringing in the New Year with the people who mean the most to me, my fab sons, their lovely women, my gorgeous 6 month old grandson, and my DILs sister. A mixture of English and Spanish traditions, some nice nibbles and a few bubbles, Perfick. And........for the first time in the 4 and half years since my husband died I did not shed a NYE tear. A leap forward.

I am feeling positive and optimistic - the dark days are finally behind me and I am looking forward to happier times.

Each year I choose a word which becomes my mantra for the forthcoming year.

This year my word is "PANACHE".

I shall aim to imbue everything I do with style and flair. I may have more dash than cash but by Jimeney I can still be chic and live a life of elegant simplicity and add a few luxury touches here and there.

Just because I'm skint doesn't mean I have to wear a hair shirt, not when I can make it a silk one from a chazzer. :rotfl:

Have a fabulous day everyone.

I am quite tired after the celebrations last night so I shall be spending mine quietly, just pottering about, maybe watch a couple of nice movies and back to simple healthy eating. I am going to have scrambled eggs and smoked salmon for brunch and Chicken Ciacatore for supper.

Hope you all have a lovely day. Wishing you all the very best for 2019. May all your hopes, dreams and wishes come true.

butterfly2507

HAPPY NEW YEAR YOU LOVELY PEOPLE :beer::j

Excited to see what the New Year brings (budget and champagne wise)

candygirl

Happy New Year everyone
Had a quiet night in last night with the Furnutters. The fireworks were on n off from about 8pm!!! , so dosed them up with Kalms tablets , n put Madness on full blast which settled them :rotfl:
Hope you've not got sore heads :rotfl:

pollypenny

LL, that's a very god start to the year, full of optimism and a gorgeous grandson.

Our FaceTimed us on the dot of midnight, 7 pm for them, settling down with popcorn for a movie night.

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda to you all!

caronc

Happy New Year everyone.

jackieblack

doingitanyway wrote: »

Happy New Year Caronc inspired by you I will be living on £1,000 a month from now until I go back to work in April. I should be apprehensive but actually looking forward to it.

That’s more than I have to live on any month! :rotfl:

star_trek_fan

jackieblack wrote: »

That’s more than I have to live on any month! :rotfl:

That's far more than 2 of us live on a month!:rotfl: Luckily we don't have champagne tastes and live quite well on a lemonade budget.

jackieblack

star_trek_fan wrote: »

Luckily we don't have champagne tastes and live quite well on a lemonade budget.

Ditto
Admittedly, things would be easier if I didn’t still have the mortgage to pay, and the Council Tax takes a sizeable chunk, but I manage pretty well

doingitanyway

star_trek_fan wrote: »

That's far more than 2 of us live on a month!:rotfl: Luckily we don't have champagne tastes and live quite well on a lemonade budget.

I guess it depends on our commitments and outgoings. We are all different.