What improved your quality of life, so much, you wish you did it sooner?

Building a home gym

Whenever I need a mental break I can just pop in there and crank up the music
Wish i had room for that, lad i know did it outside with scaffolding poles and stuff during lockdown it looks class but no room here so i just walk, 10-12mile at a time it was on my usual circuit but after moving to Boro i need to find a new route.
 
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Doing an online food shop. Hated going to the supermarket and fighting my way through families with prams and crying kids running around just to get to the bread aisle, now I can do it in my own time in the peace and quiet of my living room and not have to panic buy just to get out of their!
 
One thing that hasn't been mentioned so far...

Doing an online food shop. Hated going to the supermarket and fighting my way through families with prams and crying kids running around just to get to the bread aisle, now I can do it in my own time in the peace and quiet of my living room and not have to panic buy just to get out of their!
God I wish I could get my wife to agree to that. She says she likes shopping and encourages me to go. Not a frickin chance.
 
One thing that hasn't been mentioned so far...

Doing an online food shop. Hated going to the supermarket and fighting my way through families with prams and crying kids running around just to get to the bread aisle, now I can do it in my own time in the peace and quiet of my living room and not have to panic buy just to get out of their!
I'm the opposite - but i completely get where you're coming from!

After months, or almost years of been stuck in and taking daft things like a big shop for granted. I do try to go when i know it'll be quiet as i don't like the big crowds, but i find it quite therapeutic now and its a good way for me and our lass to get a break from the kids 🤣
 
Buying scales. Seeing my weight was a real motivator to reduce it, as opposed to when i knew i was getting a bit bigger but didn't have any motivation to do anything about it. It's been a downward trend since the day i bought them and I feel far better for it.
 
Going to a 4 day week.
Realising beautiful women were invariably toxic and narcissistic and seeking a mate with a good personality/sense of humour meant you enjoyed life.
Accepting Britain is full of quiet sneaky Tory voters and sadly always will be
Agreeing that displays of male anger were wrong because they put fear into women and children, but forgiving myself if I erred because how I behave was ingrained from a young age
and the most important...
Never ever comparing myself, or what I have/haven't got, to someone else. Be happy in your own skin, your own life
 
This may initially sound negative, but in my mind it isn't.
I have stopped worrying about living a long life.
My parents died in their 70's and 80's suffering from cancer, loneliness and the dementia. I did my best to help, but I couldn't do enough to help and family lived a long way away.
I have moved to be closer to where my grown up children live and have semi retired early but have only a few years worth of pension to live on. I have a few health conditions which should mean that I have to be careful of what I eat and drink.
So I have challenged the accepted norm. I dont want to live long, I want to have a quality few years.
Therefore I enjoy a drink in the local, my diet has changed and I enjoy what I eat. I enjoy activities which are dangerous and when I pass away my kids will inherit the remainder of my pension.

If my future involves sobriety, eating veg and results in me in an old folks home playing bingo and talking about the war. I will know that I have failed to live my life as I want to.
 
Jacking a job in.
Just done it for the fourth time.
Some of the shyte and stress I've put up with over years through being brought up to 'see it through' and 'stiff upper lip' is ridiculous. No job is worth it.
Massive lesson learned.... the second you walk out of that door you are forgotten about.
 
Jacking a job in.
Just done it for the fourth time.
Some of the shyte and stress I've put up with over years through being brought up to 'see it through' and 'stiff upper lip' is ridiculous. No job is worth it.
Massive lesson learned.... the second you walk out of that door you are forgotten about.
I've been very close to doing this on a number of occasions but being of a certain age - walking out without a plan B can be scary. Having said that, I am all for taking chances and seeing what happens.
 
I've been very close to doing this on a number of occasions but being of a certain age - walking out without a plan B can be scary. Having said that, I am all for taking chances and seeing what happens.
Easier for me because I had the confidence after the first time to do it. On two occasions they asked me back for more work with more money.
Years ago I was close to a nervous breakdown due to stress at work but hid it and put up with it and struggled through it but I'm sure it took it's toll. As you suggest we're brought up, especially, I'd say, if you're from a working class environment, to man up and get on with it no matter what.
 
getting rid of all my grass, knowing i will never have to mow the lawn again is great and i can enjoy the garden more now haha

and i stopped reading political threads on here :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 
Easier for me because I had the confidence after the first time to do it. On two occasions they asked me back for more work with more money.
Years ago I was close to a nervous breakdown due to stress at work but hid it and put up with it and struggled through it but I'm sure it took it's toll. As you suggest we're brought up, especially, I'd say, if you're from a working class environment, to man up and get on with it no matter what.
Yeah - I was always brought up with a work ethic that men go out to work and get on with it until retirement comes. The thing that has held me back is guilt - so I bite my lip and get on with it.

Crazy when you think about it.
 
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