Living Large, on a Small Income, by the Sea.

Skint_yet_Again

Lol I could match you with receipt mountain dia 😂 I’m sure they breed in my handbag and fruit bowl is full of them but like you I can never find the one I want ! I also have a box of paperwork since I moved 2 years ago 🤦‍♀️ in fact as I’m having a rest day today I will sort through receipts. 😁

doingitanyway

Good luck with the receipt mountain @Skint_yet_Again. I gave up on my lost receipt. I will take it back without the receipt and if I get nowhere it will go to charity as I refuse to give space to things I don't want!

Up early, wash load on and out drying
Cooked Ethiopian lentils
Made a batch of mixed peppers humous 

Quick catch up call with a friend

Not energised today...however, I forced myself out of the door.  I took the bus to the SM to buy fresh produce.

I sat in my guest room for a while as it is beautifully sunny. I've decided to spend a few nights there, starting tonight. I keep forgetting I can do what I want as it is my home! My own room is messy as I need a slim wardrobe to prevent clothes all over the place! 

This week I am back to yoga. There is a class tomorrow morning so I will start with that.

GETTING ORGANISED

One of the good things about my 'enforced wanderings' as @satchmo1 called it is seeing how others do things. So, from now on the kitchen will be spotless at the end of the day and the living area straightened up. Washing machine loaded and turned on in the morning. It is SO nice to come down to a clean kitchen! Another friend calls it 'putting the house to bed' 

Frog of the day (morning)

• chase pp

Tomorrow will be a LSD as I have to pay for yoga

MEAL PLAN
lunches are soups
breakfasts are fruits

HM fish-fingers and parsnip chips
Turkey and chickpea burgers, lentils and kale
Chickpea and spinach curry on quinoa
Turkey and chickpea burgers, feta and salad
Fish curry on brown rice
Fish-fingers, beans and mushrooms
Soup and salad

 

Skint_yet_Again

Menu sounds lovely 😋 

Did you buy the item with a card? If so they should accept a bank statement or credit card statement as proof of purchase according to gov.uk

beanielou

Great idea to put the house to bed. 

Tresinia511

Dia, reading your ongoing account of daily life,  I get the feeling that you are in a stabilising period.  Your days are more organised,  you seem calmer, more at peace.  But the underlying effects of your '"enforced wanderings" are clearly still visible,  with your quite emotional account of spending time in your own guest room, treating it as a luxury🙃. It shows how hard won this gift of your own home is and what it means to you.  It must feel liberating to be on this steady path,  and I feel happy for you x

doingitanyway

Thanks @Skint_yet_Again unfortunately I paid cash 

Thanks @beanielou mornings are easier when I prep the house at night 

Thank you @Tresinia511 you are right I do think having a spare room is a luxury. However, in the end I cleaned up my own bedroom and slept in there! 

A NSD as will be going to a different yoga class this week.

I moved things around in the house. I cleaned my bathroom...so many products! I've grouped them. I thought about signing up to a beauty box. Another diarist said they had gone downhill. I will save the money and use up what I have.

A short post today.

I hope everyone is having a good enough start to the week.

PennysIntoPounds

Do you have an unused box that you could turn into your beauty box for the month? So easy to keep things 'for special', or not get round to using bits. Might be fun and mse to allocate an item from each group and make yourself use and enjoy them as if they'd been sent randomly!
And then if you find yourself strongly resisting using something you know it's not for you and might be able to get a couple of quid selling it..

doingitanyway

Thanks @PennysIntoPounds I do use the special stuff. Nothing kept for best! Posh products make me feel good but I buy them only when offer and not at all over the past few years. 
I have sorted into a box of new/unused items.
I won't sell any. I have too many nieces who would jump at the toiletries so will leave for when they visit. They can select things to use and then take home with them 

PennysIntoPounds

I know I sound tight but could you save those toiletries for their birthdays/Christmas if you get them gifts? 

doingitanyway

You don't sound tight at all @PennysIntoPounds It is a money saving forum!
Good point. I will store the new/unused products and add them to gift parcels.

I've lost my mojo over the past few days. I still don't have the small pp sorted. One part of the organisation said I need to send additional info the other part said no, it is fine. Still not paid out so will talk to someone tomorrow and see who needs the information. I need it to pay out..This is my MONEY GENERATING ACTION.

I signed up for a course at the local college ... five weeks on motivation and goal setting. I hope I can be bothered to go (that last bit was a joke by the way) 

Tomorrow I will write to the Cllr to confirm details of our meeting. I also need to dig out my boundary papers, that show the properties that use the alley. I need to talk to my immediate neighbours about the alley too. My paperwork is in such a mess it will probably take me all day to find 

I bought topsoil, big pots, some lavender plants and a few other plants I don't know the name of...looking forward to planting them up tomorrow. I like the front of the house to look nice as I've had so many compliments on my pots I feel the pressure to keep it going! A lovely friend came to pick me up from Morreys to drop me home 

I hope you've had a good day reader