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22/3/2019

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..at your comments on yesterday's post! (Especially Lotta's.)

However I had an idea...
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I made my own version with things I already had.
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I could have used a much bigger bag (this is the duvet ready to go to the laundry) but since I plan to just write things on bits of paper I decided the small version would do.

I am dealing with money matters right now.

It makes me anxious.

What is the emotional baggage that is keeping me back?

It's the fact that my Dad became bankrupt when I was about 12 years old.

I am going to write that fact on a piece of paper, put in the bag, hang it on a hook and see what it's like to do the necessary financial business without it!

What will you put in your bag? (No need to go into full confessional mode here if you don't want to - though feel free...)
11 Comments
Gail
23/3/2019 01:58:23 am

Nothing to see here.
I just need a ziploc, clear sandwich size bag. ( can’t believe I typed that with a straight face ;-)

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Lotta
23/3/2019 04:06:10 am

That made me laugh Gail!

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Freda
23/3/2019 04:40:56 am

Me too Lotta.

Freda
23/3/2019 04:40:25 am

Love it Gail!

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Lotta link
23/3/2019 04:05:38 am

I like it! It’s good to notice these things when they come along otherwise it's like the unclaimed luggage carousel at the airport - just keeps appearing again and again until someone spots it, by which time it’s pretty battered!

Having said that, my baggage handlers are currently on strike... they got overworked yesterday… :-)

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Freda
23/3/2019 04:42:23 am

You are so good with the metaphors Lotta! Still laughing here (which is so good when I am dealing with the finances..). Thank you.

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Lucille
23/3/2019 11:11:04 am

We children were lined up when I too was about 12 and told that Things were not Good. The money had run out and there would be big changes.
I have been on high alert for those changes ever since and have only just noticed that bit of stray baggage when considering whether I had anything to put in the bag.

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Freda
23/3/2019 03:07:11 pm

It is astonishing how it stays with you, isn't it? I have been anxious about money since I was 12! (Am finding putting it in the bag quite liberating...)

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Julia
24/3/2019 04:44:02 pm

What a terrific post, Freda...and i hope that it was effective to put your “baggage” in that bag and get on with the finances...mine is different:
“One must always go to the rescue when anyone needs help.” Self-sacrifice and all that! That is a tough one for most women anyway..but certainly for me...:-) am trying to draw lines in the sand...loving lotta’s metaphors..and also...may i add something that was helpful to me a few years ago re: finances? Each time i tackle the stack of bills or the annual tax paper-work, i say a little prayer of thanks that we have all the money we need to do this..there is no cause for worry..because for me, that worry was firmly LODGED in my responses to finances...we are not alone! Times were tough for most of our parents; and maybe for most of us also.

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Viv link
25/3/2019 03:00:33 am

Must have missed this post Freda - it made me smile - I would need that laundry bag... even for writing them down on paper!!
We were homeless once - it was a difficult time - perhaps I should write about it and it might make it feel part of my past rather than the threat still being ever present.

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Mary R.
26/3/2019 04:04:19 pm

I smiled with a chuckle at seeing the Bag label. I have some things to think about a a result. I get peeved at my husband because of his anxiety about money when in my eyes we have plenty. I always want to say something to the effect of let’s give it all away and then we can ENJOY being poor instead of worrying about it so much! That is not to say I don’t carry round the baggage that is being talked about .

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