Road To Financial Recovery

FootyFanDan

Bit of a spendy day yesterday. Daughter has a sleepover at one of her friends, so we took the opportunity to go have a date day. We had food and drinks, plus cinema and some junk food / snacks for the evening. It was a lovely day and just nice to switch of from what has been a pretty tough work week. I have been and done the food shopping and filled car (which is seeming to become more expensive). I need to tweak the budget a bit for this, and for food too to be bit more realistic with the current finance climate. I would hopefully then stop feeling frustrated when we are over budget. I do think we need to do a bit on an inventory of what we have though too.

Rest of the day will be watching some TV but then also got to do a bit of admin stuff.

DancingInTheRain

Date day sounds lovely 😊

FootyFanDan

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82034825#Comment_82034825

It was lovely day and just what was needed.

Sun_Addict

Sounds like the date day was much needed. You work hard so need some downtime. Also you need to make the most of child free time. Maybe introduce a pot for this?

FootyFanDan

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Oo a pot for this sounds a good idea, it would make it a bit more guilt free. I think we do need to try our best to maximise some of the child free time we get to do some more stuff together.

FootyFanDan

Monday was Mondayish!. I started off productive until the office got loud. A project that needed others input before I could start it never happened so needs revisiting tomorrow. I managed breakfast, home coffee, and lunch that was pre bought so a good financial day was had.

I've cancelled Annual leave I had booked for next week, just so busy and tbh don't really need that week off. I need to decide whether I am going to apply for a job that I have seen that really interests me.

Hope Monday wasn't too bad for others

FootyFanDan

Happy Friday Eve!. Well this week has absolutely flown by, and I have slowly started to gain a bit of momentum with the tasks (except for today). I went to work but then I just couldn’t focus for some reason, can’t even explain why maybe the email pinging every two minutes. Anyhow, I decided to come home ‘ill’ have a few hours just to mentally stabilise (I know that sounds dramatic) but once I had napped, picked up daughter and re-focused I was able to get some stuff done. Tonight will be a later night than normal but I am content with that for now.

We had a tired child and parents today, as we decided to let daughter stay up for the england match, she lasted til about 10:15 before finally going to bed.

Not much to report financially, I still haven’t cancelled leave that I am due next week..eek. I wasn’t going to have leave as I expected that some projects I had kind of committed to would run right to the wire but luckily that has been avoided. I might comprimise and have Thursday / Friday off.

DancingInTheRain

Sounds like the mental health break did you good therefore doesn't sound dramatic just that you're listening to your body.

Still taking a couple of days of next week sounds like a good shout too, the weather forecast looks good for a vitamin D top up☀️

FootyFanDan

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82041177#Comment_82041177

It certainly did the trick. I have had a much better day today which can only be a positive. I have cancelled mon-weds holidays so will work those but then a nice long Weekend will be lovely and something to look forward to.

Rhyddid2026

sounds a perfect compromise!!