Road To Financial Recovery

FootyFanDan

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Nope I totally get this viewpoint. It has taken me a while but I want to give our little family the best I can. This means making sure work takes a back seat when I am not in work. My personality prevents me from not caring I suspect ha, but it is time to focus on the stuff that is important. Whether I like it or not the reality is I am just a number and if I wasn't there they would just replace me.

in_need_of_direction

in my last employment, I would add a day onto my leave when setting my out of office. It allowed me to catch my breath. Now I’m self employed, I opt to do 1 hour each day as it prolongs the benefit of the holiday when I go back. You just need to figure out what works for you.

FootyFanDan

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82127090#Comment_82127090

I normally keep an eye on my emails and work stuff to make sure I go back to nothing burning down, however this time I needed a proper break. It has been non-stop (and getting busier) since I returned from being abroad in May. By the time I went on this leave I was at the point of having enough..had I been braver I would have probably walked out..but that isn't going to do me any good without a back up and we don't make silly decisions now 🤣 over the last few days I have got myself back into the getting ready for work mindset. I'm feeling better for the break so hopefully I can keep up with that.

FootyFanDan

And just like that it is now like any other normal Sunday and prepping for back to work. Today has been another pretty chilled day, I got up pretty earlier and did a tip run and the weekly food shop. I have topped up the car with petrol. I need to potentially look at getting car booked in as I think I have a faulty tyre pressure sensor. It is saying my back wheel is flat and I've checked and pressure is totally fine.

With the way we are now doing stuff weekly, my transfers are still going to go ahead but these will now happen on Thursday just before we reset the budget on Friday. This week the most of our weekly budget will cover a meal out when we go to the theatre to watch Six. We booked this age ago and are all looking forward to it. This should be the only real expense this week. We've also had to purchase school trousers so that was taken out of the stuff we forgot.

The one thing I have finally done that I have been meaning to do for a while is to move all our joint bills direct debits on to one account. They have been coming out of a mixture of accounts - the only one I haven't changed is the car tax coz it sounds a pain to do. I am going to just pay it in full when it is due though again in Feb 27. I am also currently saving to fund a cheaper breakdown cover in November when my current one is due for renewal. I would like to pay for this in full as well.

FootyFanDan

How long after returning from annual leave is a reasonably time to wait before you go back on leave……🤣. Wow what a few days that was, someone emailed me 53 times asking for an update on something…."oh I haven't heard back" well duh….obviously not! Like what is wrong with people and someone also wanted to book me in a 6 hour meeting on Monday morning….like…declined

Emails are now at a reasonable level and I know where I am at though so that is a positive but defo been an overwhelming few days. We have also had a few hiccups with daughter high school travel arrangements but hoping that will settle once used to it.

Had me a lil posh bath and decompressed and ready to attack the rest of the week.

Our finances are all tracked and spends are where needed, but we do have a broken oven now, not beyond using but looks like the top door has dropped a bit due to a metal piece breaking, so will need to book in for repair.

I hope everyone else's week is going better than mine.

daisy_1571

omg 53 times? That's clearly ridiculous !😱 I'm not sure if people get an ooo after the first email but I hope their desk was on fire or something else equally life threatening. I hope you answered then copy and pasted your answer to the other 52!

Dakota_Rose

I love the pettiness of 53 replies too 😂 maybe they’d realise the ridiculousness of what they were doing!

FootyFanDan

I just had to laugh to be honest. I just can't understand people, it was just the same 5 spreadsheets for 10 days in a row. All the emails I got sent were replied to stating I had now got their email and I would work through it and provide updates once I can! We can all do silly 😂

FootyFanDan

I get everyone has a job to do, and some stuff I get auto sent a report daily from a computer system, but this wasn't that ha

DancingInTheRain

Ridiculous on the 53 emails, my inner pettiness would also be deployed in the same situation 😂

Hope DD has had a better day with her transport.

Any transfer Tuesday activity? 🤭