Am I falling off the wagon?

bountiful

Hi - I've got a labelling machine too ...... bought a year ago after reading a book called Getting Things Done. Damned if I can find the book though! Do have a lovely filing system -and a reputation at work for being intensely frustrated by messy drawers and muddled cupboards and cluttered noticeboards!!!!! Tee hee. Do you also have to SMELL new books? I just love the smell of bookshops and stationers.

neverdespairgirl

Hi Dinah - books are a big weakness for me, as well!

I think you've got a great target, and you'll make a great big dent in your debts very soon.

I'd give yourself a £10 a week budget for treats - which would include the days you don't take a packed lunch, the odd drink out, etc. That would stop you feeling too deprived, but wouldn't ruin the budget.

Why does your OH only earn £400 a month? That is very low indeed.

Dinah93

He did earn anywhere between £420 and £320 a month after tax for 22 hours a weeks work (we could never work out why it varied), but he's just quit cos he was shot at with a bb gun and asked to knowingly break the data protection act all in one day. So now he's hunting for something more legal and better paid. Can't believe a national company could be so shifty! Not worrying yet as it's only been a week, and it's not going to be easy to find something around here with a poor reference from your last employer (although his references before that are excellent), but he's quite resourcefull, he's already sold a few consoles and games on ebay to make a few quid, and he's been a very lucky man and got over £500 off the bingos, hasn't even finished the whole list yet!

I've been bad again, and bought a £16 slow cooker, but I don't really care as I've made a lot on the £10 a day challenge this month, so I think it's a good purchase. I also indulged my book fetish again, and went to the library sale, where it's £1 per carrier bag of used stock, so I'm now the proud new owner of around 200 used books, going to resell the textbooks I picked up as I remember how expensive these were at uni, and the library ladies told me all unsold books go in the skip :eek: As a result I had to call OH to come down and be a donkey for me so I could save as many books as I could strap onto him!

Dinah93

bountiful wrote: »

Hi - I've got a labelling machine too ...... bought a year ago after reading a book called Getting Things Done. Damned if I can find the book though! Do have a lovely filing system -and a reputation at work for being intensely frustrated by messy drawers and muddled cupboards and cluttered noticeboards!!!!! Tee hee. Do you also have to SMELL new books? I just love the smell of bookshops and stationers.

Hehe I swear you're my long lost twin! My OH dispairs about my 'a place for everything, and everything in its place' attitude, and just shoves things anywhere, giving me a heart attack. He went away for a few days in december and came back to find I had alphabetised all the dvds, cds, his uni books, my fiction, labelled all the cupboard shelves. I do love the smell of new books, but I also love 'saving' old ones that are in charity shops, library sales, book stalls etc, but hate that musty smell, so I put a tissue in the middle with a few drops of perfume or essential oil on, and stand a little jar of bicarb on the bookcase to draw in all the mustyness. The less low budget version of this is tumble drier sheets!

I got my obsessive organising from watching an episode of wife swap USA (gotta love tat telly!), where a professional organiser swapped with a family of pirates! They were all so mean about her labelling and filing, but I just thought it was fantastic, and set about to make my house like that! :rotfl:

I currently file in one of those filing boxes, but it doesnt have enough sections, but even that is all colour coded, I'm (please don't tease me!) actually excited about creating the new system in my filing cabinet. It arrived yesterday so my OH is putting it up for me today while I am at work, then I'll have a lovely evening organising all the documents into the shiney new files.

Dinah93

Adrasteia01 wrote: »

lol. I remember when I got one of those as a kid. Anything that could be labelled was. Including the mouse cage.

My OH took the mick out of me one day and while I was out he printed out little labels for the most obvious things, the highlight of which was coming home to find both him and the cat sat on the sofa with their names taped to their heads!

bountiful

I do love the smell of new books, but I also love 'saving' old ones that are in charity shops, library sales, book stalls etc, but hate that musty smell, so I put a tissue in the middle with a few drops of perfume or essential oil on, and stand a little jar of bicarb on the bookcase to draw in all the mustyness. The less low budget version of this is tumble drier sheets!

Hi Dinah - what a brilliant idea!!! I've never heard of that before - will definitely try that. And - I can TOTALLY understand your excitement about new filing system waiting for you when you get home. I got pathetically excited a couple of weeks' ago when my manager said to me "how would you feel if I rota'd you in to spend a day with me de-cluttering the office?" - I felt like a five-year-old at Xmas!!!! Am really looking foward to it - and I mean REALLY.:rotfl:Are we sad? Or Wonderful?

freegan_2

You said you did MR through 5 companies. Please could you let me know who and if they were ok.
Thanks

Dinah93

I'll PM you Freegan, as I'm not sure what you're allowed to say about MS, I actually meant 5 survey companies (although registered with nother 10 or so today) but I think I'm with about 5 MS companies too. Will send it in the morning, have my notebook with the list in the car and its too cold to go outside right now!