Finally Debt Free After 34 Years, But Still Need to Live Frugally

elizabethhull wrote: »

Well done with your wages choices - must feel so satisfying. And so lovely to be saving for Xmas in really good time. It gallops up before you know it, and its only human to want to celebrate, treat the family to nice things to eat, make the house look pretty and so on. It doesn't have to cost a fortune, but it does cost SOMETHING. This way you've made a conscious choice to enjoy a modest amount of spending without feeling guilty. In fact you're doing just that quite a lot. It's a far cry from the start of your diary when it would have been impossible to envisage any sort of saving or spending plan.

Choices are a wonderful thing. With barely enough to meet the weekly food bill, choices simply don't exist.

Thank you Elizabeth .You're right it's having the choice that's important. It's very empowering to have choices .

I felt quite rough with my cold today so that reading gave me a headache and I didn't even feel like drinking diet coke :eek:.

But I decided some fresh air would do me good, so we went a bit early to the NT place where we were meeting our friends and had a short stroll around the gardens, although we both felt quite tired so ended up relaxing in deck chairs in the gardens like a couple of geriatrics :rotfl:. Then our friends arrived and we had coffee and scones in the cafe and chatted for an hour. It was good catching up with them as we hadn't seen them for a couple of years, so we decided that we must get together more frequently . I don't think it made my cold any worse and I warned our friends to keep their distance from me. Our naughty friends insisted on paying for our refreshments, so our only spends were £5.70 as DH wanted to buy biscuits and cake in the shop and we picked up another eight pints of milk too as we always run out before the end of the week.

I haven't done any de-cluttering or houswork today because I felt too tired and headachey so I'm hoping I'll feel up to doing some tomorrow.

I hope everyone has had a good Sunday .

please-let-me-be-lucky wrote: »

That’s kind of you to put the friend up Hairy. Xx

in_need_of_direction wrote: »

We have always unofficially operated what is now a not so youth hostel for friends of the offspring. Especially working with the homeless, I’m mindful of how easy it is for a family disagreement to result in someone falling through the cracks. Well done for opening your home like this.

Thank you both . We couldn't leave him with nowhere to sleep and we always welcome a chance to get to know the DC's friends. He's actually very pleasant, but his family can't accept him for what he is.