Sealed Pot Challenge ~ 17

lucyhope

5p  roadkill on Saturday, no DGS with me so it's mine, all mine!!! Although it's not going to make a lot of difference to my final total, the pleasure in finding it and being able to keep it is more than I could ever anticipate!!!
Finally able to register DH's death and in the process of making a formal complaint to the practice manager about it. 
The hospital have admitted they let him down re the pressure sores he came home with, I didn't expect that. I thought they would give me some excuse about being short staffed etc.   I can finally get started with the paperwork I need.

AntoMac

It’s good that you can still find the joy of a roadkill find @Lucyhope
Life has to go on, and of course it will be never be the same and difficult for a time to come, but there is a sign that you will be happy again. Humans have remarkable resilience

LittleMissDetermined

I added £94 to my pot today, courtesy of my savings challenge

siju

Hopefully you can get things sorted now @lucyhope, I'm so sorry that you've had these extra problems. 
DH and I have been busy as my FIL was rushed into hospital unable to breathe. He suffers with COPD and had fallen, breaking 2 ribs. This meant he couldn't cough and fluid built up in his chest. Poor MIL didn't think he'd last the car journey to the hospital but he did and he was discharged yesterday, thank goodness. They live 40 miles from us, so we've been up and down the M4 like a yoyo! 
I'm potting another £5 this week. Take care of yourselves xx

mummytummy

Good morning to all and wishing you all a great day 😊

Sue-UU I’d like to declare my total pot savings of £1300 please, more than I had anticipated so very happy and grateful with that 😊

AntoMac

Excellent potting @mummytummy
Shows how worthwhile this challenge is

Sue-UU

Hi SPCers, I hope you've all enjoyed a really good week, after a chilly weekend for sure!

For all those ill or feeling down in anyway. Get well soon and best wishes from us all at SPC.

Another chuckle Siju at thoughts of your DH hanging from the rafters if hundreds of 🕷️ dared to show themselves in your house!!! 😄

I'm delighted to hear you celebrated the birthdays of your 3yr old and 1yr old with the paternal grandparents in Mallorca, wonderful!!

Not sure what you mean about autumn having arrived when you returned? Autumn arrived here after that week of summer! 😯 It's going on a lot longer than expected this year too, same as last year... next year'n all!😣

An excellent £5er potted!

An amazing £90 potted Lost 😯!!!!

I think we're all like-minded about 🕷️ outside is the home NOT theirs!! 🫣😠

Ooh a £2 ROADKILL Ant???!! 😯😯Flippin eck, then followed by a 2p! Then compensation coins from BR!

Brilliant!!!

Oh dear Vicky a week spent with 24 x 9yr olds on a school residential?? You surely deserved that first ☕ or more, I think after a week spent with THAT MANY little treasures it warranted it. Still, you did at least hang have your £4 to pot + 13 p!! 😀

Oh Siju, your poor FIL, I wondered what the outcome was going to be as I read about his awful tale! Thank the dear Lord he's safely home with your dear MIL! COPD is horrible and even more so after having a fall and left with 2 broken ribs! 

I know what an exacerbation is like  as a sufferer myself, but not being able to cough doesn't bear thinking of!! It must have been terrible for him, but presumably they were able to drain it off for him to help him feel so very much better, bless him.

Thank goodness you and your DH kept safe going up and down the M4.

Brilliant potting!

I've been quite poorly for the last couple of weeks after a COPD exacerbation (a flare up of my COPD problems) the worst I've ever had!!

Oh the coughing and my poor, poor stomach!! 🥴🤧🤒😷

Remember when Talullah was born round Christmas? All the fluid inside her and her mum had gone into her lungs over and over again. As a result she has an awful chesty cough all the time. We were all together a couple of days before my exacerbation and the poor darlings cough was shocking. Next day DGD took her to the Dr and he diagnosed bronchitis! She was put on antibiotics and is roughly ok now. They gave her an inhaler a little while ago, she hates it but the Dr used a Nebuliser and it certainly makes a difference. Just after, my exacerbation started and the coughing was awful, far worse than ever before. I can only presume I may have got that from our little treasure, bless her. Thankfully, I have a rescue pack with antibiotics and Prednisolone steroids. All water under the bridge now but it did all make me wonder.

Does your FIL have a rescue pack given after he has an exacerbations? If not may I suggest he rings to ask for one, then renew it after each exacerbation, they're excellent to be able to reach for when your body tells you you need it, especially if it happens at a weekend! It'll hit it far faster that way. All best wishes and gentle hugs to him and I hope his ribs soon heal. 

Many congratulations to you on an excellent amount saved mummytummy!!! 💖 👏👏 Very well done indeed! 😄

£20 transferred from our account in to the SPC account...at last!!

Enjoy the rest of the week, folks!

Sue x

The end date for SPC is on the 24th October 2024..........BUT no later, please!

Anyone wishing to join us, please just ask and you'll be made very welcome

lucyhope

Panic stations yesterday. I was meeting up with my SIL at 10.30, got on the bus that would get me there in time, looked in my shopping bag and no purse!!!! pulled everything out of it, checked pockets etc, still nothing.
 
 Rang my DGD who is staying at my house for her to look if it was there and no it wasn't. I asked her to walk my route to the bus stop and look. No, not there either. Panicking by this time because there was a fair amount of cash in there as well as debit and credit cards. Got off the bus to go home and look in every place it might be when I realised I had my handbag across my body (for safety) on the bus I couldn't feet the weight of it and my shopper was heavy because I had something in it for my SIL.

 Guess where my purse was? Yep in my handbag!!!! I felt such an idiot panicking like that and getting my DGD upset. Good news is I only spent money on things I needed,
Hope everyone is OK and looking forward to box opening day

LittleMissDetermined

lucyhope said:

Panic stations yesterday. I was meeting up with my SIL at 10.30, got on the bus that would get me there in time, looked in my shopping bag and no purse!!!! pulled everything out of it, checked pockets etc, still nothing.
 
 Rang my DGD who is staying at my house for her to look if it was there and no it wasn't. I asked her to walk my route to the bus stop and look. No, not there either. Panicking by this time because there was a fair amount of cash in there as well as debit and credit cards. Got off the bus to go home and look in every place it might be when I realised I had my handbag across my body (for safety) on the bus I couldn't feet the weight of it and my shopper was heavy because I had something in it for my SIL.

 Guess where my purse was? Yep in my handbag!!!! I felt such an idiot panicking like that and getting my DGD upset. Good news is I only spent money on things I needed,
Hope everyone is OK and looking forward to box opening day

Thank goodness you found it! 
This is something I do all the time and even reading your post made me feel sick with dread at the memory of it. I blame the menopause messing with my brain!
LMD x

Hettyhound

#23 DECLARING!!  Grand total of £662.09.  So of that £45 is in Sainsbugs vouchers that I was gifted by MoneySuperMarket due to using their services.  I went for this particular brand of voucher so I can use it for Christmas food shopping.  I have already spent £188 of the above amount on 2 lots of musical theatre tickets for my son's Christmas presents (Hamilton and SIX) and then I also bought us tickets for &Juliet at the end of November instead of going to see a panto.  Managed to get discount train tickets to Leeds for this trip and the Christmas market will have opened by this date so it will be our start to Christmas.  Sadly santa is "out of the bag" now (he is 11.5) so I'm trying to still make Christmas magical.  I'm dead chuffed with my amount