First Steps to Solvency

SanguineGina

Well done for being on Day 131, alt, and hope you and your family enjoy your time in Greece and make some great memories to look back on.

Keep up the brilliant progress that you are making with your recovery and wow, it will be what virtually Day 150 when you are back which is really going some. 👍

vampirotoothus

Hope you have a fab holiday Alt and family. Well done on where you are right now

alt80

Thanks all bit of a flying visit today need to be going to bed but day 131 through. Been a ridiculously busy one but made sure I fitted in a little family time. Last full day at the office tomorrow, then half day Thursday and long !!!!!! day Friday travelling.

warby68

The days sound good again now, some balance back. You should be proud.

Hope you all enjoy your holiday and that you personally get some real benefit from down time and making good solid family memories together - how excited your son must be to see his grandparents.

RelievedSheff

Day 132 today. 

Well done for addressing the work/life balance. Hope your last full day at work goes well.

efes_shareholder

Enjoy your holiday and more importantly enjoy some quality time with your family 

When you strip everything down , possessions mean nothing , we leave this world without them but the impact we have on others is everlasting 

alt80

Day 132 thanks all. 

Was a bit compulsive with work earlier in the day I wound up ringing the pros up lol I don’t want it to become destructive again. Caught myself thinking in that way and turned it around !!!!!! simple to normal people I know, go to work do what you need to do and look forward to your break but it’s not for me. Anyhow I’m going to stick with the 1/2 day tomorrow and pick my son up from his last school day until he comes back from Greece. He’s mega excited and my parents are to see him again too. 

Todays cal was ‘ask for help to overcome an obstacle you are facing’ well I rang the pros ha. My FIL said this evening he has faith I will be able to overcome my addictions and if I work on happiness as I have in business I’ll be ok. Idk I think he’s right tbh I’ve spent my life trying to find worth in things I can buy or I think I should be able to.

I started trying to set a target budget for our time away and have decided not to. We are going to an island with little to spend money on apart from on food, maybe a trinket or two and maybe a trip out on a boat. All accommodation sorted for time we are not with parents. With parents we are staying there no other accommodation has been booked. Realistically we aren’t going to spend a fortune on food either as we plan to spend most days with my parents and my son is most excited to cook with his grandparents. Two weeks without a car so no petrol to buy, son can’t !!!!!! wait to get on a Greek bus fml ha. 

Purplelady65

It sounds as if you are back on track now after starting to slip a bit with over working, hiding away in your work and home offices and obsessive thoughts. You sound a lot more positive and engaging more with the pros and techniques to help you which is great. Well done for taking positive action rather than doing nothing and letting things slide which it would have been easy to do. 

I’ve been island hopping in Greece to small islands in the past and like you say there’s nothing much there to spend your money on apart from food. I think you said you were going to Santorini which has more things you could spend money on though. Maybe have a rough overall budget figure in your head but as you haven’t seen your parents for years and you’ll only be together for a short time you wouldn’t want to be constrained in any family activities because of a strict budget. Hope you all have a fabulous holiday and you are able to truly relax and have a break from the constant worrying. I’m sure once you get there you’ll really enjoy it all. 

RelievedSheff

Day 133 today.

Well done for recognising that you were spiraling again and talking to the pro's about it.

alt80

Day 133 today quiet one 1/2 day work, pick son up and I’m cooking a steak, veg and sweet potato for dinner then make sure everything ready for Friday. 

@Purplelady65 thank you. We are spending a few days in santorini start and end. I have in mind if we spend anything under £1k I will be ok with that tbh should be a lot less. I was trying to work out potential spending in the obsessive way and tbh whilst I know I want to carry on with the payback it was hurting me to keep staying up late working various scenarios and figures out. I have a plan I can stick to some months are going to be up and some down. Probably shouldn’t say this on here but I’m not going to wind myself up over being on the 0% a bit longer or shorter than the sheet tells me. 

@RelievedSheff thank you I need to keep putting my recovery first. My wife says it’s my ‘medicine’ and I’m better on it than off it lol.