Welcome to the Century club Shorty...Bring on the posh face cream 🙂
Well done on the 100 days...yeahhhh x
Thanks guys today wasn't as exciting as I'd hoped no bonus letters yet and just P!ssed off with life! Been freezing all day our office is freezing people sat working in coats and everything it just makes me miserable. I know I shouldn't moan at least I'm not homeless brrrrrrrr 🙁 get a lie in tomorrow maybe I'll be in a better mood then xx
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Day 107....guess what arrived.....my non-eye stinging FACE CREAM haha! Oooooo it feels good not to cry every time I moisturise my face! Got a lovely lunch with my best friend tomorrow and then off most of next week for half term 🙂 nice juicy pay packet at the end of this month just in time to help pay off a balance transfer offer credit card that is coming to an end. Probably need another few hundred £ to clear it completely but at the end of the day as long as I am not gambling the debts are reducing and it is that that needs to be focused on and not the repayments.....
Hey shorty,
A week late but I wanted to say well done for hitting treble figures.....enjoy the new face cream, you've earned it :).
All the best.
Damo
Day 113.....been off work Mon - Wed this week thanks to half term. Would have cost £120 to put both kids in childcare plus another £25 for the trip that was organised so saved £145! Even managed to get out of the house Monday and Tuesday and didn't even spend one penny!
Next target to get to is the 15th March. One of the balance transfer offers on my credit card is ending then so using my bonus money and some extra money the OH is getting to pay this one off.
Trying not to wish to be at that debt free day as I don't want to wish my life away but it's so hard not to think about it!
Day 114.....I used to always have a recurring dream about not being able to find a clean toilet. Or a toilet with a door on it. I haven't had this sort of dream for years but I used to always have it when I was a teenager, I'd actually forgotten about it until I had it again last night. I actually woke up feeling pretty ill it was that disgusting. So I googled it this morning and guess what it says....
Being unable to find the bathroom, a lack of privacy, having notoilet paper available, a dirty bathroom or a clogged or overflowing toilet. Basically, bathroom dreams may be addressing your need to relieve yourself emotionally and/or psychologically.
CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey Shorty, yep thats a bit mental.
I've also been having lots of weird dreams since I've stopped betting. Strangely I can't remember most of them but I always wake up in the morning remembering that I was awake during the night having had a strange dream. Most of them revolve around my wife and kids and never usually good stuff. Better than waking up in a cold sweat at 4.30am every day though.
Hope you're well.
PA x
Day 119.....bonus pay day....treated myself to a Starbucks this morning. Got to buy 3 new child car seats thanks to the change in regulations so that's £100 gone already. On the plus side have an old car seat and a pram that i need to sell online so at least that will pay for some of it. Really can not be @rsed today and have so much work to do 🙁
Day 127....half of me wishes I'd started this new job years ago cos I would never have had time to gamble and half of me wishes I'd never moved and it was totally not worth the payrise! Literally non-stop from 7am, even did some work on Sunday!!!!! Totally unsustainable way to work and no wonder people just leave because the work load is ridiculous.
Next target date is Monday - get this credit card paid off where the balance transfer offer is ending. Get the monthly bills paid. Was meant to be out on the 17th but that's been cancelled now, save some money at least. Mate asked me to go to Ibiza last night....errrrrr....that's not happening any time soon! Too old for 'Beefa' anyway! Don't know where this year is going, it's flying by!
Day 132....my god I hate my job....everyone is a total div, couldn't organise a p1ss up in a brewery and then they moan nothing gets done. Absolute bell ends. If I didn't have the debts I do I would tell them to stick their job up their @r*e.
On the plus side, got new balance transfer offers on some of the cards so moved some balances around saving interest payments. Slowly but surely getting there and it's all going in the right direction - which is down!
Day 140 - 20 weeks without so much as getting a lottery ticket. What have a I learnt? It's really rather easy when you have no access to cards or excess cash. It's really easy to live off a budget each week. You don't need access to cards you just think you do! I know every face cream available in the pound shop (maybe I should write to the Mail and offer to do an article). I miss my expensive creams! It's nice that when we have some unexpected money that we use as 'treat' money that I actually use it to buy myself something rather than squirreling it away to pay debts off. It's really easy to quit when you want to and you've got people that you want to quit for. Paying debt off is S**t. Credit card companies are @ r*e holes. Moving to a new job for more money is not worth the extra work and stress but at least it helps with the debts. And the most important thing I've learnt/realized - this debt would have never gotten paid off and it would have all come out eventually and it would have been a whole lot worse.xxx
Day 146 - been ill for 2 weeks now and still not better. Properly fed up but being ill reminds you that the most important thing is your health and the health of your family. Even if I'd had a million quid to spend over the past week i wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere other than my bed. Can't wait to feel normal again!!!!!!!
Hi shorty.
Sorry to hear that you have not been feeling well for the past couple of weeks. I have been pretty much the same myself. Our health is just so important and the one good thing from me not feeling too good right now is that it is not being made worse by those awful feelings/symptoms we get, when we are losing all of our money.
It's lovely to read that you also treat yourself too - even if it is face cream from the pound shop!! Don't knock shops like that - they have some great bargains and usually those really expensive names, us mere mortals are just paying for the name!
A huge well done on surpassing your target of 100 days, long may it continue.
Take care and continue to be kind to yourself.
Our Lady
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