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a fifo wife {Confessions: ebay just had to share}

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Okay so I just had to share as I’m on a super de-clutter get rid of stuff campaign this swing that… well actually no that’s a lie…I have yet another confession…I maxed out my credit card…I don’t know how it happened well I do and now I have to fix it..I’m ashamed beyond words because well I don’t have the spare funds right now to fix it and I NEED to fix it now. All of it it has to go. The full amount. Not pay this much this month and we will charge you 24% interest as a penalty for your stupidity. Argh.

I hate that I have done it. It’s hanging over my head like a murder charge. It was irresponsible and stupid. That money that could have gone on the mortgage, rates, insurance, kinder fees, surgery fees, hospital fees all that’s due right now but instead it went on what…crap I don’t even know where. Im going to use the excuse a friend of mine uses every time she buys something new (which is really a serious problem for her) it made me happy…well it did at the time and now I’m very unhappy at the debt and the stupidity that I spent money I didn’t really have. I had a plastic card but not money in my hand. However It’s not a massive credit card let me redeem myself a little but still I’m so friggen angry at myself.

I’m angry because it was done by me. ME. I’m the one who says to my husband and kids…now you could have the Scooby snacks that you don’t really like and are buying for the packaging or your trip to the snow this year or you could buy that sound system you want or we could put new blinds in the house. They always make the right choice after my little double standard hypocrite voice as tilly tallied them. Christ, talk about double standards what a hypocrite I am. Truly I hate double standards and what have I done…gone and done it. Crap. Crap. Crap.

Anyways there is a point to my gabber EBay is having  free insertion of items for up to 30 items a month. I’m not sure of the other details. I’m sure the other charges still apply but if you got some stuff lying around that you need to get rid of or you have a credit card that needs to be taken care why not head on over. Just make sure that you describe your item well..Ebayers are bargain hunters expecting a lot for their money..well thats what one messaged me when I listed a $65.00 pumpkin patch bomber jacket for $5.00..if your not keen on ebay do a garage sale….FIFO husband is the king at those but seriously great for getting rid of ‘stuff’.

Oh just so you know…I’m not a rep for eBay or anything like that. I just managed to make a little money last time I was decluttering and made $760.00 from ‘crap’ lying around the house and that I thought I would share. Oh and that money went towards the mortgage not making my feet look pretty in new shoes.

Have great Saturday my friends I’m off to mow the lawns before the handsome FIFO husband is home Tuesday…we did a short swing…man I could get use to that..

X Deb

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a fifo wife {fifo life: my dirty little seceret}

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Okay so I had an unexpected visitor drop by yesterday. No problem but the house was a mess. A mess. My house doesn’t take long to get messy nor does it take long to get clean but crap I just hadn’t got around to vacuuming the floors, putting the folded washing away and straightening up the lounge room.

This visitor was another mother. One that just seems to have her ‘crap’ together. She is an artist, well respected member of the community and an all round lovely women. She wondered through my home chasing after her son trying to get him to the car; all the time looking, well that’s what I thought. Everyone wants to look in my house. I know because they tell me and people take pictures of her in the winter monthswhen its tourist season. She, my home is old, original and she’s beautiful. So I know she was looking well in my head she was. I kept saying sorry about the mess…I just can’t seem….. I had a busy day. I was pathetic really.

That fleeting visit left me in such a bad mood for the rest of the day. I felt like my cover had been blown. Like I was fraudster exposed. That my dirty little secret that sometimes it takes me till 7pm at night (if at all) to get my crap together was blown. So here I am trying to reason with myself that imperfect is good. It’s what I prompt. A little mess is okay. Yet yesterday it felt like this untidiness because in the scheme of things that all it was but it was like being caught with my pants down. It was horrible.

So when I got up this morning the mess really wasn’t that bad and crap after all I say there is one of me and three of you boys, four of you dogs, one of you cat and four of you chickens (well actually they just take of themselves) and just cut myself some slack. But I just can’t seem to do it. I can’t because I have seen her house and my neighbours house and both their partners work away (albeit not a four week swing and their children are grown more and they don’t have a menagerie living under their roof but…) so why can’t I just get it together all the time and why can’t I stop comparing. Why can’t I? Their life is not my life.

Perhaps it’s because I spend too much time doing stuff for me and my kids? Because happy and noisy is better? Yes I know I should not have gone on my runner for that half an hour and vacuumed and tidied up instead but I needed that time on my precious noisy old runner with Emenimen pounding in my ears. I needed it more than I needed to vacuum. Just like taking my baby to another swim lesson was more important but there was the price to pay so to speak and I was caught out.

So there is my dirty little secret out to one more person in the world and soon the whole world will know that some days I can’t get my crap together no matter how organised I look or feel. No matter how well planned out the day. Today though is a different day. I have got my crap together. The floors are done, dishes put away, Christ even the chickens have been fed and it’s not even 10am.

I’m ready and waiting for you today…

 

Have a great day lovlies..

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a fifo wife {whats for dinner: singapore noodles}

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I found this recipe a year ago ofn www.bestrecipes.com.au and the kids love it…so quick and easy. Add extra vegetables and meats to suit. Can be made ahead and warmed through or even eaten cold. I even freeze mine down. It defrosts perfect.

What you will need:

1 pack of 450g thin egg noodles

2 eggs lightly beaten

2 chicken thigh fillets sliced

1 onion sliced

2 cloves of garlic

1 carrot grated

3/4 cup of frozen peas

2 beef stock cubes (I use the massel brand) dissolved into 3/4 cup of water

Handful of bean sprouts (optional)

Soy sauce to taste

1 teaspoon Curry powder (this is to taste to start off with a sprinkle and add accordingly)

 

How to:

Bring a pot of water to the boil. Add noodles and return to the boil. Drain.

Heat wok. Add a splash of oil. Season egg with salt and pepper. Cook until set. Remove chop set a side.

Add a little more oil and cook chicken. Remove from wok and set aside.

Add onion, garlic and cook until soft. Add vegetables, curry powder  stir fry for two minutes then add stock cubes.

Add bean sprouts (optional)

Add noodles to vegetable mix along with cooked egg and chicken.

Toss through some soy sauce to taste.

xx Deb

 

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a fif wife {me: a case of the dissappearing post…}

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I wrote a post. It was good. I come back from swimming lessons to publish said blog and its gone. Crap. It was a blog about my Wednesday. It was bit of whinge and whine but it was good I promise…witty almost.

I cant work out what happen. I guess my crazy non savvy technological knowledge at work.

Anyway here we are back from the ridiculously cold swimming council pool. Swimming lessons for B3. The last one that I have to get into the water for I’m sad (surprised?) and glad. Pretty soon I shall be required for nothing…NOTHING. I shall be put into those wretched potato fields to fill in the time where I was dressing, feeding, wiping bums. All that time will be free because I’m no longer required. What to do.

However now I’m ready to pursue the remainder of the day. Cob web’s, floors and shop…the excitement of it all is over whelming.

Shall be back soon.

xx Deb

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a fifo wife {interiors: wentworth falls cottage}

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Its all a bit yum…a country cottage somewhere in Wentworth Falls NSW. Love my vintage interiors. They have dont this so well their use of colour and vinatge. Vintage furnishings make things so homely. Which is exactly what you want in a home, yes? Home to Micheal and Jane Frosh and their three babies. It looks all so leisurely which is exactly how I wasn’t scrambling out of bed at 730 having overslept because I had  six hours count them six hours of deliciously unintrupted dreamless sleep. Now Im running on the back foot..damn it oh well.

Have a great Tuesday my lovlies,

xxDeb