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Debt and Caring

WelshmansDaughter · 2022-05-20 17:24:39

An unprovoked attack on my ankle by a metal workout bench has me lying down with a foot up this evening. Which makes this the ideal time to start this diary. And possibly to declutter some exercise equipment... Yesterday I was £9993.61 in debt. Today I have made a £1500 payment to one of my credit cards taking me down to…

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Or a herbal tea? I have a cupboard full of flavours now that I've gone through the battle of the early morning cappuccino - it felt almost impossible to cut that out but I now prefer black filter coffee first thing. Cutting out all tea and cake is impressive, well done.
Making lists to help you is such a useful thing. You can park items when you are too shattered to wade in, but you know they aren't lost. I do hope you can find something less exhausting, though it might even then take a while to get to the point where you have enough energy to do the home jobs.

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