Good Morning Everyone, It's nice and sunny here today, I hope you all have nice weather as well
What an amazing group of people we are, we're all kicking this smoking habit into touch, not an easy thing to do. I hope you all don't get to many problems with the cravings today
Hope things go okay for you today Sarah, remember deep breaths, you can do this and you'll be pleased with yourself when you do
Wherever you are on you quit journey come on here and tell us about it, moan if you need help, help others, and have a good laugh along the way
I'm away to put the kettle on if anyone wants a cuppa
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The gremlins are out early I think, I put a great picture on here, I previewed before i published as well, and now it's not here, aw well I'll keep the pic for another day
What a lovely morning, blue skies and sunshine, makes me feel very upbeat!
House is cleaned, dishwasher is on...am going to have a hot shower soon, and get my 'face' on, my daughter is having her hair cut later and then we're going shopping, food shopping, and new dress shopping (which I don't want to- but I'm sure I'll soon get into retail therapy mode, ha!)
Hmmmm you have bin a busy little bee this morning you got the house cleaned and the dishwasher on you got a dishwasher ?? huh I'm the dishwasher in this house
Enjoy your shopping gal, and hey I dont want you comin home in a mini dress do you hear me gal take care gal and speak soon
Haha, uch even though he's an arse most of the time he sorts too much round the house bill wise and fixes pretty much everything too so we dont have to get ppl in to fix them (apart from our windows which I sorted)
Morning Chickles, where do you get your energy from give me some i've not got half the stuff done you have, i'm the same as Pete, i'm the dishwasher here, hope i get a dishwasher by the time i've retired
Have a great day with your daughter i'm sure you'll love retail therapy soon, after all that's what we women do
Good morning - whoops, afternoon all, lovely and sunny here too.
I had a new kitchen 3 years and finally got a dishwasher then - bliss! As I'm on my own I only have to turn it on about once a week and I do the hand stuff every couple of days or so (I don't put the pots and pans in the dw). Just makes me even lazier.
I've decided that from today I've got to write down all that I eat and drink and try to be more active cos I'm fed up with my increasing twin-pack - it's time the six-pack started showing through!
Sue, hope you had a good sleep last night.
Pete, how did you get on with your CO reading this morning?
I've been doing that this last few days too (the writing down of what I've eaten), must say chocolate of one kind or another seems to feature in the diary quite a lot still its not quite as bad as it was last Wednesday, - Jammy Waggon Wheel, Chocolate swiss roll, chocolate digestive biscuits, its my husbands fault, he's the one who goes out buying it all - I just eat it.
Hey all, sounds like everyone is having a good weekend.
We have braved the big city.....,, we had our major row BEFORE town so that got it out of the way.....
Ruth's netball team won all their games again which should keep them at the top of the league, its exciting this stuff, never thought Id be a competetive parent but I doubt I am
The shopping was kind of sucessful, only spent around £200 whixh could have been way more with Stewart being with us but I stuck to the list and he out in only a few extras.
It turned outto be a bit more expensive in lidl coz they didnt have the toilet roll I usually buy so had to get the cheapest there today which was £2 dearer than my normal stuff I hate that, never mind though, tescos was still under the £100 mark which is brill for us, I try and buy mainly their value range or theown branded stuff so can get a lot of stuff for £100
Cant wait to get into pjs and have a nice evening in front of the tv
Hi Sarah, A big well done to your daughter and her team mates I'm glad the shopping was less stressful for you than you thought it would be, I did mine yesterday, decided to do it on-line and get it delivered, that way there was less chance of my hubby adding stuff to the trolley
Yeah me too, just wish it wasnt stressful, at least now I know I can do it without a fag!! When the shopping was in the boot I just jumped in the car coz usually I light a fag as soon as we out of lidl/tesco and put the trolly away, made Stew do it this time lol
I wish we could get it delivered here, I would love to do my shopping online and do it that way, all the money savings tips say to do that but I doubt here in the crappy Orkney Islands you cant
We back in town on Thursday sorting our vank a/cs so hopefully something good will come out of that day, Stew said about getting an idea about holiday prices too
He must be trying to keep me happy lol
He was working out our hydro last night, at the moment in this cold 1/4 we are spending £3.30 a day on heating and electricity which is more than last year but its gone up a lot so I really dont know how I can cut that any more than I have been already. Any suggestions?
Well Sarah, there are energy saving bulbs, plus not leaving lights on when you leave a room etc, and make sure that power points on things aren't left on standby. Irons, kettles, hairdryers, straighteners and microwaves use a lot of electricity...showers are cheaper to have than baths because you don't use as much water.
I also switch things off at the plug on the 'switch' if they're not being used.
I turn our heating down at night and don't switch it on until I get home from work. A hot shower warms me up on a morning lol
Another way to do it is to keep warm through winter and really cut back when the better weather gets here. You can get monitors that tells you how much power an appliance uses.
At least when you do your own shopping, you don't have to pay a delivery charge, you choose your own products, you don't get crappy alternatives sent and you can select longer sell by dates.
I can't bring myself to shop online after what happened to one of my neighbours.
She ordered a shop from a 'certain supermarket', delivery driver came and asked if he could use her toilet. He was up there 15 minutes or so! My neighbour kept asking if he was okay and he said yes. He came down, said thank you and went.
She went upstairs to check the toilet as she heard strange noises. She got the shop of her life. There was faeces smeared all over the walls, the sink, the floor tiles...it was everywhere! Plus her sink was broken!
She got on the telephone to the local branch and demanded a manager and cleaning staff attend at her house. They told her it wasn't the store where the delivery originated! She told them in no uncertain terms that if no-one appeared within the next ten minutes, she'd be on the phone to the press.
Needless to say someone turned up. It wouldn't clean off properly, and she ended up getting a whole new bathroom fitted, which said supermarket paid for, plus the driver got the sack!
You did really well with your food shop too! The price of food has gone up so much recently. Three months ago a carton of Tesco passata was 29p...it's now 65p. That's over a 100 % increase!
I think that when you stop smoking, it makes you aware of what things actually cost, which is a good thing! I'm turning in to a right miser lol
OMG Chickles that's a terrible thing that happened to your neighbor, what on earth was he thinking, he couldn't have been right in the head, no wonder you never want your shopping delivered, i only do it because i don't have a car and it's cheaper than paying for a taxi, i couldn't carry home a months shopping as well, not with my wrists, there about as strong as cardboard
That's a hard one Sarah, especially with the way prices have gone up, I'm guessing you've done all the usual, putting lights out, not leaving things on standby etc. I know you need your heating cos you don't live in a warm place, I know how cold it can get where you are, and you don't want to be sitting in the cold, that's not good, give me a while to think about it, and some of the others might come up with some ideas as well.
It is a hard one, just now im in the sitting room and the rest are in the kitchen but all lights through house are off, the kitchen will be shut off when they all done tea and we will just have 1 of our bar lights on in sitting room on instead of 2 (4 lights on each bar) so that saves a lot.
I really dont know what else we can do apart from completely sit inthe dark lol
We dont live in a warm place, I doubt its the wind that makes it colder, lovely windless days are nice but few and far between at this time of year lol
We have e glass in our windows, the kind that lets the sunlight in and doesnt let it out.
We had to get our windows replaced a few years ago (free of charge )
So the glass the put in them was a upgrade too because of new regulations.
Our house is only 10 years old so its pretty well insulated and have even put more up there over the years.
We changed our heating from oil to air sorce (stewart fits them at his work as well as fixes fridges) so that has saved a lot of money, £3.30 per day at the moment on heating and electricity
erm you could try walking around with a candle erm when its windy, say start from your back door and run the candle along the openings and see if it flickers or not and the same with your windows
As Chickles said too, I like a bath, but now only have 1 a week, I shower the rest of the time, cos I put the plug in the bath, had a shower the bath ended up with about 2'' of water in it, now if I had had a bath, I would put at least 6'' of water in it
Looking forward to my tea and bedtime so I can read some more of my book
Thinking tomorrow should be a busy day, might get up in the attic and give it a good sort out for next months boot sale to get a few pennies for my pot
Ruth got a party so running around will also pass the time
Got NO cooking to do tomorrow though coz its all leftovers in the fridg
Just a very very attractive man who fits the bill very nicely, saw him quite a lot on the nursery run when I put the youngest there and the knees certainly still went weak then! A girl xan dream lol
Hi John, not bad thanks, hope you had a good one too. Are you trying to lose weight too - as in not coming on today so you don't get tempted to eat all those things beginning with c. ?
Kangaroos all released and new ones taken on. (I did nod off a bit though. )
Pete, I went to the gym this morning and had a little walk this afternoon. How many miles did you do on your rower today - or is that only for warmer weather?
Hiya Sinfree, you're allowed to pig-out on the chocs and biscuits as it's still early days for you. I allowed myself 3 squares of CDM this evening as it's Saturday.
Aww but its getting bad now and I lost loads of weight in 2010 on Weightwatchers and got rid of all my size 16 clothes and now have only got size 12 so don't want to put too much weight back on otherwise will have to start all over again. Gonna go out tomorrow to get some grapes and apples. God not had an apple since about September just before dentist ran amok with his pressure washer
Sorry Pete i don't have the laptop tonight, can't have it all the time i suppose, i'll need to save up and buy my own one, as long as it's nice and shiny
well folks i'll have to love you and leave you, i'm falling asleep here
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