Sealed Pot Challenge ~ 13

Sue-UU

Hi there Potters! I really hope everyone is staying as healthy as is possible and you'll all hopefully remain doing so!

For all those Potters who are poorly or low in anyway, take very good care of yourselves and please get well soon! Love and hugs to you all.

Hi jakes-mum! Well, it's good to hear you're still managing to get cash and hearing the lovely tinkle as it drops in the pot. 

Not for me though 😔, still totting up amounts on my IOU sheet. 

Wow, well done with the scratch cards Chocolatedrinker! It's lovely to hear how much you're looking forward to declaration day! Keep on potting as much as you can.

Oh your poor DH, Lucy, poor you too! Thank goodness he only had a mild heart attack. I'm so pleased he was happy enough in hospital without visitors and is back home with you. I can imagine how alarmed your neighbours were at an ambulance being outside of your home, the same happened with a friend of mine whose DH has cancer and has monthly injections. It scared their neighbours when then Nurse pulled up and put PPE on to go inside! All best wishes to your DH xx

Another £15 put on the IOU sheet next to my pot after DH went to collect the shopping. We've managed to get a delivery slot for the next 2 weeks, I'm so chuffed at that. Believe it or not, the letter from our GPs telling me to shield came on Wednesday!!

Have a lovely WEEKEND folks!! Take great care and be sure to KEEP VERY HEALTHY!!

 

Sue x

 

NB folks: Opening date for SPC 13 is 29th October 2020!!!

 

Anyone wishing to join us it's NEVER too late so please just ask you'll be made very welcome.

32b3in2013

Good afternoon
I hope everyone is safe and well.
Sorry to hear that your husband had a heart attack Lucy.  I am glad that he is back home with you though.    
I have potted a few £s this week.
32b3

MrsShazbat

Hi all.  Long time since checking in.  I see a few people are having ups and downs, sending love to you all.

There's very little cash moving around at the moment, although I did take 20 quid out of the ATM at Asda last week - just so I could say I had some money on me!  Needed some change for the bin cleaners, and that was fun trying to course because I had already emptied my purse into my pot/bottle!  Had to swap hubby for the change, as I leave the money on the doorstep on bin day, and the plastic notes aren't easy to hide!  The bin cleaners didn't come the first week of lockdown so I wanted to pay them for that (it's only £2.50) but they refused it.

I'm the only one going into supermarkets at the moment and as someone else mentioned, the cost of our shopping has almost doubled!  Initially I put it down to going to Morrisons instead of Asda, because Morrisons is closer, but I went to Asda last week and it was still hugely expensive.  I also discovered that Apple/Google pay isn't limitless everywhere - Morrisons are really pushing it, because of the contactless limit to avoid using the pin pad, but Asda's limit is the same regardless of whether it's contactless card or app. Seems odd but there we are.  Might as well stick with Morrisons - plus they have plants!  There may have been some garden-related purchases over and above what I would normally buy, but I would have still bought those if there were no restrictions - and Morrisons have sensibly put a till outside in their storage area so you don't have to go into the shop just for plants.  Win.  My garden will be like Kew by the time I go back to work!

I'm still not enjoying working from home, I just don't like not having the team around me.  I'm 94% extrovert if those tests are to be believed, working home alone is against my nature.  Fortunately, in our team at least, we're not on any kind of timetable so my average working day is just over our core hours of 9.30-12.00 and 2.00-4.00 but then it depends on the weather - when it was gorgeous and sunny my lunches were definitely longer.  I refuse to take the laptop outside as others have, because that's my happy place and I don't want to take work into it.  I'm not getting up till 8 in a morning now, so when we return to whatever passes for normal, I'll need a phased return to get back to normal working hours    They have talked about us not being anywhere near the office before September, and even then only in small groups (we're a team of 14 in total) so there's still a lot of working from home to go.

Stay well everyone! x

Sue-UU

Hi there all Sealed Potters! Here's hoping you've all had a lovely weekend and that you're all as healthy as is possible!
For all those Potters who are poorly or low in anyway, take very good care of yourselves and please get well soon! Love and hugs to you all.

Hi 32b3, it's good to have you back and know you're still well. So lovely to see you still potting. Keep well whatever you do! See you soon.

Good to see you back MrsShazbat. I must admit that your posts always remind me of having received an e-mail from my long time friend in Canada!

So, you're another of us feeling that this year is so very different to others with the lack of cash! Mind you things with you must be quite dire for you to be "swapping your hubby for change"!! :oI just couldn't resist that now could I, though I had a double take on seeing those words!! Good of the bin men not taking your cash, bless them.

Supermarkets having raised thier prices is disgraceful to say the least, as if we're not having a rough enough time with this darned virus! I've not tried out Apple/Google pay after being warned agaist doing so, so I've know idea what it's like.

I don't blame you with sticking to M!rrison's and cheering your garden with their flowers, making your life a little more cheerful too. Anything that makes us feel good has to be tried, especially if it gives you the Kew effect. 

Have a lovely evening and a really good Wednesday, folks! 

          Sue

NB folks: Opening date for SPC 13 is 29th October 2020.

Anyone wishing to join us, it's NEVER too late! So please just ask and you will be made very welcome.

jakes-mum

Evening Potterssssssssssssssssss
Well today is my birthday! and yes its been a pretty pants lock down affair.  Spent most of the day in the office embroidering to alleviate the boredom.  DS bought me a superdry jumper, bless him it's one of those tummy cut ones the teens are wearing don't think he quite understands his dear old mum is a bit old for that, but the thought was there
We did go out yesterday for a pre birthday, birthday lunch as DH found out that our Five guys burger place was doing click and collect!! We love Five guys, always reminds us of Orlando so we clicked, collected and ate in the car   Was a lovely change to the weeks and weeks of my own cooking.
Been selling off everything that isn't nailed down as im bored, got 4 x £2 coins from the post office!  I'm only post office running twice a week to limit my 'outside time', the queue at the post office though we're all stood in a line outside the shop as its one in one out, was over 30 mins long last time I went.
Anyway, 4 x £2 coins, 3 x 20p and 1 x 5p for the pot today its nice to hear that clink even if it is few and far between.

Hettyhound

Morning, I’ve just potted £1.11 which I got from the corner shop after buying bread.  My grocery spend is out of control, spent £237 out of a budget of £200.  Don’t have to be MSE to know that’s not good!  Had some good news but now slightly concerned due to the news reports; my son is going back to school on 1st June.  My local council isn’t one who have complained but it’s the teaching unions that are concerning me.  His year group isn’t one going back in the first phased return but I emailed the head at the weekend to see if they would take him back due to my key worker and single parent status.  The answer was they would be happy to have him back as the government have expanded the vulnerable children category to include adopted children.  I’m not really bothered what category he goes back under just that he’s back.  Supposed to be working but system keeps kicking me out and I’m having a bit of an off day.  Fantasising about getting rid of the mortgage and moving somewhere rural with a big garden, no idea where though!

jakes-mum

Afternoon potterssssss
Well I decided to transfer all the money from my paypal from all my selling and have potted £55 in notes, a £2 coin, a £1 coin and a 50p into the pots so a lovely jubbly potting day!
So bloomin hot today! poor puppy doesn't know whether shes coming or going, she even took herself off to bed at one point so she could lay on the cold floor to cool herself down DH got her paddling pool out and filled it up so she had a mad hour trying to dig all the water out and covering herself in it in the process, but at least she cooled down!

Off to see if I can find anything else to sell on Fleabay, I can't have much left!  Wonder how much i'd get for DH . . .

BlytheDoll

Hello,
Sorry for not posting for a while, whilst getting used to the new life changes and I have not spent hardly any money to pot any change, infact I have not potted any new coins atall in the past 8 weeks 
On positive I have been cleaning, sorting out cupboards and drawers, and have been following (Marie Kondo) folding and tidying methods and it’s been amazing.
I have got a number of items to sell following the sorting so will be doing this soon.
Wishing everyone well.
B..D..

mummytummy

Morning potters, It’s been a while since I last posted due to a series of life events and work that has kept me busy.  Potting cash has significantly slowed with having to use card, I’ve always used cash and I miss it but card might have to be my new “normal” I might use a redundant savings account and start a virtual pot and transfer the amounts under a £1 from my current account into it, saying that the sweetie jar I’ve used for the past 10 years is about half full already but I’m not going to count it until October   Stay safe and keep social distancing 

Has anyone else noticed the Thanks button has disappeared again? 

siju

Hi Potters, I hope everyone is keeping safe and well.  Still no cash exchanging hands in our household but I am counting up the weeks and will pot £5 for each lockdown week (yes, we are still in lockdown in Wales!)  Life has taken on a sort of ordered rhythm now and DH and I are somewhat adjusted to it.  The gorgeous weather has helped and I have to say we haven't missed the supermarket at all......our local shops have stepped up to the mark for us and been a godsend.  I will be happy when I can see my DD and DS in the flesh but I have to say we have probably spoken more to them in the last 8 weeks than we normally would, so that's a lovely outcome.  Oh well, enough waffling from me.  Take good care of yourselves