Pay off mortgage and start having even more fun 😁

KajiKita

One of the reasons I want to change the stairs in our house is that as well as making them less steep and look better is there would then be enough space for a stair lift ...  

My brief time at a living aids company made me understand that there are all kinds of reasons why people would need support in living well and sometimes long before old age. I think it's made the idea of using those aids far less 'alien' and there are some out there I didn't even know existed before.  

KK

BrimfulofSascha

newgirly said:

Time for another spending update, I should do it later really as I’ll be going to ald! after I’ve had breakfast with friends 😆 yesterday I spent £9.98 so new total is £681.39/£1000.

Dh has gone to work this morning and I’m out, not sure what we will do this afternoon but I want to finish my yearly budget from now until the end of next year. There’s so many things we have committed to pay for that need to be worked out, as it’s Black Friday month we may well get some small discounts on certain things for the trips we booked next year like Wi-Fi etc. so I’ll prioritise that first. We never used to get it but the last few cruises I’ve had it and I’m so much happier being connected and as I tell dh I don’t drink so I have internet instead 🤣

No trick or treaters yesterday as I didn’t buy sweets this year so shut the curtains, how miserable! We usually have probably around 15-20 knock if we do make an effort. I did spot a huge inflatable T rex walking past as I was shutting the curtains so regret being such a humbug. Such fun when having young kids when it’s Halloween. I remember years ago throwing parties for them and their friends, it did eventually get rather big as one year we had 63 people for a proper party, it took me a week to decorate the house and cover all the walls with those scenes setters, I think we had a haunted house and a dungeon disco in the conservatory- great times! I doubt if I know 63 people now though 😆 instead I went to bed early and watched the film scre@m. 

I didn't purchase sweets the past couple of years now DD is older. On reflection this year has made me feel like such a scrooge. Having always worried about money I've never loved Christmas and Halloween and easter...and all those other joyful events that cost money. 
Thistime next year I should be almost debt free, So next year I am going to aim to be less bah Humbug. I shall decorate and buy sweets and enjoy the happy faces of the little ones. Children are such joy and I need to stop avoiding that joy.

daisy_1571

Love that idea watty.  Discrete but useful  (before we moved here i decided we would have a chute from the end of the gallery opposite to the end with the stairs !!  Such fun as miranda would say  😆.   Haven't got round to it as in reality we didn't have quite as much room as we thought there was going to be.)

Ng that's really hard.  I'm youngest and my ideas were always discounted until they spoke to my oldest brother so I understand that dynamic all too well.

Dxx

daisy_1571

kk I believe the straighter the stair, the cheaper 

We got 'caught' using a stairlift in a Victorian type house that was holiday flats.  Mr d was 'whizzing' upstairs at 0.2 miles an hour and we were both giggling away when folk came out one of the other flats 😆 

I agree its not always about old age.  Injury temp or permanent, arthritis,  long covid or any other debilitating illness can affect mobility, grip strength and enthusiasm for awkward living 

Dxxx

beanielou

I remember clearly when I got my wet room a number of years ago someone was horrified that I was devaluing my house. Even if I was it made life easier for me and much safer. I have lots of handrails and grab rails. Anything to try to prevent so many falls.