The Best View Comes After the Hardest Climb.

Buffythedebtslayer · 1 August 2021 at 3:30PM

Hello,

Welcome to my new diary. I have one big goal to own my own place, preferably a house but more likely a two bedroom flat. With this in mind I have so far saved 12,000 pounds.
In case you didn't already know I am pretty old

and live with my mum - she used to go abroad a lot but no longer does, initially due to family illness and then good old covid! She has become quite ill and needs a fair bit of help and has done for the last 8 months or so.

My current smaller goals are as follows

1. Clear the decks

Do ALL of the crazy things I have planned for the house and my bedroom and the garden. Organise things, re arrange all the rooms, make more use of the furniture, make it safe for mum, put the alexas in better places - all the silly things that will make things better. get RID of everything I can, organise what is left.

2. Being Professional

Improve my job prospects, complete any free training I can, get up to date on the jargon, the latest b*llocks in education and look into qualifications I can do as well... and go back to having a second job. All to improve my employment prospects and my confidence at work.

These should take 4 months. Till November. Then I can start to job hunt properly, knowing "stuff"

3. Wellbeing

Calorie count and exercise to lose 40 pounds.

10 pounds by September 31st. ( I lose super slowly)
20 by November 30th
30 by Jan 31st
40 by March 31st.

4. Savings

Save 1000 pounds a month (house and then yearly insurance and Christmas expenses)

Things are changing whether I like them or not, as they always do and I must focus on my dream of home ownership.

WinterWarrior · 1 August 2021 at 3:38PM

Good luck @Buffythedebtslayer. I’m a slow loser too ☹️

Buffythedebtslayer · 1 August 2021 at 4:05PM

Thanks Winterwarrior

This is the current list of things I am working on

List update

Summer holiday List - A total nick from Benben XX

1. Go to the tip weekly. Been 1/5

2. Give out Christmas gifts to two best mates and other friends!

3. Shred paperwork weekly Shredding 1/5

4. Put up Guinea pig run

5. Order tube joiner for rabbits Done

6. Paint rabbit furniture

7. Go into work to pack up class room

8. Check over folders pre results day.

9. Go into work to unpack classroom

10. Empty conservatory into the kitchen!

11. Deep clean the conservatory

12. Put up homemade insulation in roof(!)

13. Return essentials to the now rearranged conservatory

14. Repot the house plants and arranged like a picture from an advert

15. Bond the rabbits (if I survive that I can survive anything)

16. Fix up the little fish tank and add all the fish to one place.

17. Sell smaller fish tanks x2 plus accessories

18. Sell guinea pig cages x2 plus accessories

19. Build guinea pig hutch and fix up rabbit enclosure. Made a start

20. Put up new stand (if it ever gets here) for big tank.

21. Empty my shed (again!) Finally bin the holding boxes and the stuff that needs to be shredded.

22. Shred things

23. Go to the Charity Shop

24. Empty my room and Paint my room (white I think)

25. Go to the Charity Shop(!) weekly I think!

26. Organise what is left in my room and shed

27. Rearrange my room (Mothernerd, send vibes)

28. Cut grass and weed weather allowing weekly

29. Hang new curtains in my room

30. Empty mum's shed, move stuff from the spare room to the shed

31. Fix up the spare room so mum can sit in it, the conservatory so I can sit in it.

32. Clean out car. and get it washed properly!

33. Buy Garden waste bags - big ones! Done and Filled

34. Order grid for pond Found the grid, just checking my maths. DONE.

35. IF I can sort Mum's room out.. but that would be difficult as she will find all this ^ stressful.