Keep calm and carry on....

South_coast

I tried many props to keep the damn thing open, but they all kept pinging back out 🤦‍♀️ The absolute worst is when you're using your fingernail and it slips and you end up pushing the skin back under your nail. I had a keyring collection as a child and was often sporting that particular injury 🙁

coldcazzie

Did you know you can get a tool that opens them? It's like a pair of pliers but one side has a wedge that holds the keyring open! Much kinder than using your nails lol.

ps, hope you're well SC (apart from your sore fingers!)

themadvix

Just wanting to add that I hate keyrings too - and will try the bottle opener trick next time (I foresee this won't be too far in the future!)

South_coast

I think the key (🤣) is to not have to need to do it. And in fact, I didn't need to do it, I just had a loose key which had been hanging around on its own and was annoying me 🙄

In better news, I have hit my free money target for the month 🥳 And without the One Poll money either, so that'll be a Brucie bonus for either August or September whenever it arrives (it's taking so long I'm back up to over £7 on there while I wait 🤦‍♀️)

I'm good thanks, Caz 😀 Just the usual endless stream of frustrations.... I have been considering giving up moaning as a resolution for 2022, but equally I'd like to set ones I stand a chance of achieving 🤣!

South_coast

YouGov are supposed to be the normal ones that don't ask random questions 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️!

South_coast

I've just been screened out on Panelbase for not having a mortgage. Not going to complain about that one 😀!

killerpeaty

You haven't answered the question!

I have. Not recently, but there's always tomorrow.South_coast said:

YouGov are supposed to be the normal ones that don't ask random questions 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️!

South_coast

Ah, well I like to keep my audience guessing 🤣🤣🤣

I can't recall ever having done it, but figured I must have done when I was a kid, so I was an "I have" 😀

South_coast

I completed my last grocery shop of the month earlier, so have totted up my totals. £89.59 spent, which feels about right. The largest category by far was £18.00 on frozen fruit (and I'll need more next week 🤦‍♀️). Add that to the other items needed to make my breakfast milkshakes and they're costing me just over £1 a day - I would never have thought that!!! 

I'm finding it weirdly fascinating to see how the individual items add up over the month (I can't believe I've bought 3 loaves of bread, for example - I'm blaming newgirly for that, for reminding me how much I like boiled eggs 🙄!) I'm also amazed I've bought 24 pints of milk - there's only one of me, and I don't drink tea or coffee 😮! Anyway, I'm intrigued by the tracking so I'm going to carry on for September!

Cheery_Daff

Ha, how interesting! You're bringing back vague memories of us tracking individual food items a few years ago - I think the thing we were most shocked by was Mr Cheery's apple consumption, he was getting through 5 or 6 a day! 😮