Must try harder!

WinterWarrior

Waves to all of my friends 👋. 

I had a horrid time where I was being offered ‘voluntary’ redundancy in a very forceful manner. It took months of fighting and some union involvement before I managed to keep my position. It was all down to the business wanting to stop people from working from home, but the central offices are hundreds of miles away. Terrible how they can make these decisions without any thought to the quality of your work (which I was assured was not in question). Anyhow it’s sorted, but with a yearly review, which is worrisome. The voluntary redundancy was a yrs wage, which wouldn’t cover the mortgage and would leave me in a precarious location and at a difficult age (female and early fifties) to find anything comparable. I spent a good few months on high stress alert and instead of making me save harder, it just sent me into a frittering tailspin. I even took some out of me pb’s to even things out and have nothing to show for it! 

So here I am, back again, feeling a bit better and determined to a.) Pay back the pb’s and b.) Get my savings mojo back. It’s not dreadful, I still have no debt apart from the mortgage, I still have some savings, but not as much as I did, but it’s not great. Hopefully by March I will be back to where I was, with 2 good months of sensibleness (new word?).
I realised today how much I missed you all and have been catching up on all the news.
I have so much Christmas chocolate left and a new toy (sistaco nail powders), so really should not need to spend in February. 

I have been entertaining myself with sending £5 a day to savings…..for the last 4 days after I pulled myself together a bit. I’m trying to get that spending hit from buying myself a ‘savings’ 😬
How are you all? I hope you all had fabulous Christmases? 

Please tell me all of your news ⭐️

KajiKita

Oh WW you have had a rough time 😢 So lovely to see you back though! 😊👏
Fwiw, I think I would be updating my CV and looking around for what options there are around me, making myself visible to recruiters etc. If my employer had behaved like that I doubt I would ever trust them again ….
I’m intrigued by the nail powders … 🤔 Are they like nail enamelling? 

A good Christmas was had here - trying really hard to hang onto the calm peace of mind state I got to over that time … 😉

KK

redofromstart

Oh so lovely to have you back! 

My contract has ended but positively. I am thoroughly enjoying no work commitments but I will have to back at some point

Elisheba

Oh welcome back 😊. What an awful time you've had - don't blame you for falling off the frugal wagon! Hot gossip from Elisheba Cottage is that I had a house move thrust upon me, but it has worked out wonderfully and I am now in a lovely, cosy house in rural Wales 😁.

PennysIntoPounds

So good to see you back, well done for getting through a torrid time, onwards and upwards from here!

We got our planning permission but have no idea how long it'll take to get the consents fulfilled and signed off, then the building work will take minimum two years, so I'm wavering madly between putting any pennies I can find in the flat pot, and being miserable about not having my own home and thinking nothing good is ever going to happen.
But I don't have a job so they can't make me redundant *genius level thinking here* 😎😂

Four_Seasons

Lovely to have you back xx

jwil

Welcome back!  Lovely to 'see' you again

Sorry to hear about the work dramas, what a nightmre   Glad you got through it for now.

Sun_Addict

Welcome back 🙂 Sorry things have been tough with work. My workplace is cracking the whip about being back in the office but we’re still allowed 2 days WFH. I hope it works out in the end or you can find something else. 

Really good to have you back though we’ve missed you. 

WinterWarrior

How lovely you all are ❤️
@KajiKita I have been on linked in, which I never bothered with before and finished an accreditation course. The trust has indeed gone and I am left with a slightly bitter feeling of never planning to work through being sick again.  the nail powders are a bit like gel, you put a base coat on and set with uv light, then rub the powder on (different ways for different finishes) and add a top coat and set again. They are very holographic or sparkly, which is nice. I’m still getting to grips with it, but they are lasting longer and I’m getting tidier. I’m not carried away with the removal process and find peeling it off is kinder! 

@redofromstart how lovely to have time off. I won’t lie, I’d have loved an early retirement if I could have got away with it 🤭
@Elisheba how wonderful. Congratulations on your Welsh cottage. I’m not following you on Instagram am I? 

@PennysIntoPounds planning permission is a tricky step, so well done you. Imagine the feeling of accomplishment when it’s all done. Amazing! 

@Four_Seasons thank you. I’m glad to see you again 😁
@jwil you are on the next page…I need to post and then come back so I don’t lose this 🤭ok, I’m back. Thank you. It’s lovely to see you too.
@Sun_Addict it’s so mean when we can clearly work from anywhere. I would have loved to go to a local office some days. I’m very grateful I managed to navigate a way around it, but also left with a bad taste about it all 😪

Debsnewbudget

Welcome back