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Zona rossa, arancione, gialla: le regioni che cambiano colore da lunedì 1 marzo
Tre regioni in zona arancione (Lombardia, Marche e Piemonte) e due in zona rossa (Basilicata e Molise). Torna in fascia gialla la Liguria. Sono dunque 6 le regioni interessate dal cambio colore da lunedì 1 marzo in base all’ultimo monitoraggio della Cabina di regia relativo all'epidemia di coronavirus. In Basilicata la decisione è stata presa a fronte dell'aumento dell'indice di contagiosità Rt, passato in una settimana da 1,03 a 1,51. Un parametro decisivo, considerando che invece i posti letto occupati in terapia intensiva sono 7, numero relativamente basso ma in aumento negli ultimi sette giorni presi in esame. "Anche se al momento la pressione sulle nostre strutture sanitarie rimane entro limiti contenuti, con 7 posti occupati nelle terapie intensive, e sul territorio registriamo meno focolai di infezione, nell'ultimo periodo abbiamo assistito a un aumento significativo dell'indice di contagiosità. E questa la ragione alla base della decisione del Ministero della Salute di portare la Basilicata tra le aree del Paese dove applicare le misure più restrittive", dichiara il presidente della Regione Basilicata, Vito Bardi. "Un sacrificio in qualche modo inaspettato, per tanti cittadini e operatori economici lucani, che abbiamo il dovere di onorare - dice Bardi - per piegare una volta per tutte la curva dei contagi e uscire dall'incubo della pandemia. Lo dobbiamo fare per i nostri cari, per la nostra comunità e per i medici e gli infermieri, a cui va la nostra infinita riconoscenza, impegnati in prima linea nella lotta al Covid-19. La mia speranza, condivisa ne sono certo da tutti i lucani, è che questa sia l'ultima grande prova da affrontare tutti insieme prima di vedere finalmente la luce''. Anche il Molise ha chiesto e ottenuto la zona rossa. "Ho richiesto di rendere tutta la regione Molise zona rossa da lunedì 1 Marzo. Il Governo ha accolto la mia istanza. È un momento delicato per il nostro territorio e chiedo al Governo - che gestisce la Sanità in Molise attraverso un Commissario nominato da Roma - di cambiare strategia e attivare tutte le misure necessarie. Da parte della Regione, per le residue competenze che ci rimangono, siamo a disposizione", scrive invece il presidente della Regione Molise Donato Toma su Facebook. L'ingresso in zona rossa comporta una, stretta con misure e divieti più rigidi: chiusura di bar e ristoranti, 7 giorni su 7. L’asporto è consentito fino alle 22. Per la consegna a domicilio non ci sono restrizioni. Chiusura dei negozi, fatta eccezione per supermercati, beni alimentari e di necessità. Restano aperte edicole, tabaccherie, farmacie e parafarmacie, lavanderie, parrucchieri e barbieri. A scuola, didattica a distanza per la secondaria di secondo grado, per le classi di seconda e terza media. Restano aperte, quindi, solo le scuole dell’infanzia, le scuole elementari e la prima media. Chiuse le università, salvo specifiche eccezioni. Stop allo sport, ad eccezione di quello di interesse nazionale dal CONI e CIP. Sospese le attività nei centri sportivi. Rimane consentito svolgere attività motoria nei pressi della propria abitazione e attività sportiva solo all’aperto in forma individuale. Sono chiusi musei e mostre; chiusi anche teatri, cinema, palestre, attività di sale giochi, sale scommesse, bingo, anche nei bar e nelle tabaccherie. Per i mezzi di trasporto pubblico è consentito il riempimento solo fino al 50%, fatta eccezione per i mezzi di trasporto scolastico. “Mi ha appena chiamato il ministro della Salute, Roberto Speranza, per comunicarmelo" ha detto il governatore della Lombardia Attilio Fontana. "Prendiamo atto della decisione, ma è arrivato il momento che i tecnici e gli scienziati studino e poi ci dicano in modo chiaro e definito come superare questo stillicidio settimanale attraverso regole stabili e sicure". "Le informazioni scientifiche ormai ci sono. I cittadini e le imprese devono essere garantiti nella vita quotidiana con un orizzonte più lungo della verifica settimanale. Hanno necessità di programmare e avere maggiori certezze. Il nuovo Governo può dare un importante segnale di discontinuità su questo tema e - sono certo - avrà al suo fianco le regioni”. Su Facebook è il presidente del Piemonte Alberto Cirio ad annunciare il passaggio della regione in zona arancione. "Il ministro Speranza mi ha appena comunicato che in base ai dati del report settimanale validato oggi (ieri, ndr) dal Cts e dal ministero della Salute, il Piemonte da lunedì sarà in zona arancione. L'Rt è cresciuto e si attesta sopra l'1 e la pressione ospedaliera sta aumentando". "Ci viene chiesto purtroppo un nuovo sforzo e so che è un sacrificio grande - aggiunge Cirio - al nuovo governo abbiamo sollecitato che i ristori per le attività costrette a fermarsi siano immediati. E' fondamentale", conclude. "Mi dispiace moltissimo per le restrizioni che condizioneranno la nostra quotidianità e tutte le attività, ma mi preme raccomandarvi la massima attenzione", ha scritto su Facebook il governatore delle Marche Francesco Acquaroli annunciando il cambio di colore. "Sapete quanto in altre occasioni mi sono battuto per chiedere di consentire lo svolgimento di attività personali ed economiche, ma in questo momento abbiamo il dovere di fermare il prima possibile questa fase di recrudescenza del virus a tutela della salute e della sicurezza di tutti i cittadini marchigiani", ha aggiunto. - Vietato circolare dalle ore 22 alle ore 5 del mattino, salvo comprovati motivi di lavoro, necessità e salute. Vietati gli spostamenti in entrata e in uscita da una Regione all’altra e da un Comune all’altro, salvo comprovati motivi di lavoro, studio, salute, necessità. Raccomandazione di evitare spostamenti non necessari nel corso della giornata all'interno del proprio Comune. Saranno comunque consentiti gli spostamenti dai Comuni con popolazione fino a 5.000 abitanti, entro 30 chilometri dai relativi confini, con esclusione degli spostamenti verso i capoluoghi di provincia - Chiusura di bar e ristoranti, 7 giorni su 7. L’asporto per i bar è consentito fino alle ore 18. Per la consegna a domicilio non ci sono restrizioni. Chiusura dei centri commerciali nei giorni festivi e prefestivi ad eccezione delle farmacie, parafarmacie, punti vendita di generi alimentari, tabaccherie ed edicole al loro interno. Chiusura di musei e mostre. - Didattica a distanza per le scuole superiori, fatta eccezione per gli studenti con disabilità e in caso di uso di laboratori; didattica in presenza per scuole dell’infanzia, scuole elementari e scuole medie. Chiuse le università, salvo alcune attività per le matricole e per i laboratori. - Riduzione fino al 50% per il trasporto pubblico, ad eccezione dei mezzi di trasporto scolastico. Sospensione di attività di sale giochi, sale scommesse, bingo e slot machine anche nei bar e tabaccherie. Da lunedì 1 marzo la Liguria entra in zona gialla. "Io credo che si debba cambiare passo e dare un minimo di prospettiva al Paese. Parlare solamente di chiusure generalizzate fino a oltre Pasqua senza ragionare su tutto quello che le Regioni hanno messo in campo per modificare il sistema non mi sembra francamente un cambio di passo", ha detto all'Adnkronos il presidente della Regione Liguria Giovanni Toti, commentando le ipotesi sulle nuove misure previste in un Dpcm per marzo in arrivo dal governo Draghi e la nuova possibile stretta che non si allenterà con ogni probabilità fino ad aprile. In zona gialla il coprifuoco è fissato dalle 22 fino alle 5. Dopo quell’ora ci si può muovere solo per esigenze lavorative, situazioni di necessità o per motivi di salute. Per spostarsi in quegli orari bisognerà fare un’autocertificazione. Resta l’obbligo di mascherina anche all’aperto, a eccezione dei bambini sotto ai sei anni, di chi svolge attività sportiva e di chi ha patologie. Le scuole superiori adottano la didattica in presenza almeno al 50 per cento ed entro il limite del 75 per cento. Per medie ed elementari resta la didattica in presenza, ma con l’obbligo di mascherina per i bambini con più di sei anni. Le università organizzano la didattica con le autorità regionali. Per bar e ristoranti restano le regole di apertura dalle 5 alle 18, consegna a domicilio consentita, asporto possibile con divieto di consumazione sul posto o nelle adiacenze. I musei possono rimanere aperti dal lunedì al venerdì tranne nei giorni festivi. Rimangono chiusi i cinema, i teatri, le sale scommesse, le sale da gioco, le discoteche, le sale da ballo, le sale da concerto, le palestre, le piscine, i parchi tematici, le terme, i centri benessere. I negozi sono aperti ma i centri commerciali sono chiusi nel weekend.
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Firecrackers fly as Taiwanese celebrate pared back festival
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Too Many Thoughts Living Rent-Free In Your Head? Try Mind Gardening
People have been describing thoughts, images and ideas as “living in their head rent-free” for years now. Urban Dictionary (the font of all knowledge) first published the phrase back in 2017, though it really took on a life of its own in 2018. The phrase became shorthand for the unprompted or uninvited trivia your brain stores – like the Just Eat song consistently playing in the background of your thoughts, or the fact that you can recall your first crush’s home phone number but not what you had for lunch yesterday. The use of the phrase articulates a real phenomenon that we are always, passively, absorbing and retaining information. A lot of the thoughts and ideas that populate our head is stuff that doesn’t pay rent, and probably doesn’t deserve to be there. Sometimes the things that accidentally stick in our brain are welcome. I often blow my own mind by reminding myself that Cleopatra lived nearer the time when the first iPhone was developed than the time when the pyramids were built (I KNOW). But more often than not, these sticky thoughts are unwelcome and mysterious in how they got there. It can make you feel like your mind is a cluttered, crowded place, full of images, objects and ideas you didn’t choose to bring in. This is why the concept of “mind gardening” is so refreshing. It takes the idea of gardening (planting, cultivating, nurturing and pruning) and applies it to the web of thoughts that cloud your brain. It’s not just that mind gardening sweeps out the cobwebs (though that can be a great side effect); it’s a whole new way to think about knowledge, creativity and how we learn. Instead of passively absorbing random pieces of information while scrolling online, you can make your mind a place that you’ve cultivated based on what you’re actually interested in. Anne-Laure Le Cunff is the CEO of Ness Labs, a learning platform dedicated to mindful productivity. She has long been a proponent of mind gardening as a way to embrace creativity and soothe an overworked mind. We asked her to explain what it is, why it works and how to use the technique without it feeling like homework. DashDividers_1_500x100 What is mind gardening? Mind gardening is a proactive way of cultivating knowledge, ideas and thinking in general. It’s very different from passive consumption – it’s like a proactive creation. Instead of just passively reading content, when you’re mind gardening you come across an idea or a thought which you treat like a seed. You plant it by making a note of it either physically or digitally. The cultivation comes in when you look for connections between your thoughts or seeds – as they grow they branch out and form unexpected connections. This is then harvested as new thoughts, new ideas, new content or just a great conversation with friends. There’s really a creation aspect, which you don’t really have with passively scrolling on social media. Where did the concept originate? For me, I started thinking about these topics when I realised that I was having a very unhealthy relationship with the internet in general and social media in particular, where I felt like I was consuming much more than I was creating. I have a few friends who really got into gardening in the past couple of years. Looking at them really investing and growing their actual physical garden made me think that it may be possible to apply a similar approach to our knowledge. And we have this expression in French called “cultiver son jardin intérieur” which roughly translates to “cultivating your internal garden”. This is when it clicked for me. I figured that there are so many things that we can borrow from actual gardening and apply to cultivating what’s in our mind. Why is it having a surge in popularity? I think people want to reclaim more control over the way they use their time and the way they use their mind. We’ve seen lots of people going through burnout for example. Even the fact that doomscrolling was one of the main terms invented last year shows that people are really struggling when it comes to their relationship with the internet. More and more people are curious about mind gardening because it is giving them an option to shift in mindset when it comes to their relationship with the internet. And cultivating your knowledge, creating, whether it is writing or having more interesting conversations, is a very fulfilling goal to have. I think that’s partly why we stretch ourselves too far when it comes to lack of control with the way we engage with the internet. Now people are trying to find ways to balance that relationship a bit more. Why is that active attention important? It reminds me of when people say that there are ideas that live rent-free in their heads. Basically, mind gardening is the opposite – you’re removing all of the weeds, you’re only keeping in there what makes you feel happier and more fulfilled, more creative, more knowledgeable, etc. It’s like making sure your ideas are welcome tenants instead. How does mind gardening affect your memory, if at all? I absolutely don’t want to make claims as to whether it changes the makeup of your memory. However a lot of mind gardening actually happens through writing, taking notes etc. And it has been shown that actually writing stuff down and engaging with it helps you both understand and remember stuff better. It’s called the generation effect. There are research papers showing that by creating your own version of a piece of information, you will understand and remember it better. This sounds a lot like studying (which might put people off). Something I think traditional education is not doing very well is that they basically teach kids that you need to learn in order to build a career and apply it when you become an adult. There’s this very transactional approach to learning. But I think a lot more people are starting to embrace lifelong learning – a way of learning that is more playful, that is driven by curiosity rather than a strict goal of improving your career, and that is more exploratory. You can start reading about a topic without really knowing what you’re going to discover or how you’re going to use it. But you’re learning for the sake of learning, which is beautiful and it’s amazing. How does the digital version of mind gardening play into this? As I explained, mind gardening can be practised in any way you find more enjoyable and practical but there are new digital tools that are making it easier. There is, for example, the tool called Roam Research. It makes it really easy to add new ideas to it, to connect your new ideas to past ideas, and to explore your mind garden by navigating these connections. It’s a completely different approach to taking notes than the old version that we had, the technical version, where you have to have an idea and you have to know exactly where you should put it, in which folder. With these new apps for mind gardening, you don’t need to know where this is going to go, you don’t need to know where you’re going and your own learning and discovery journey. You can chart the process of mind gardening for these connections to form and to appear and become more evident over time. So even if it feels like effort at first, it quickly becomes a natural part of your life? Absolutely, it’s like everything. You start seeing compound interest in your thoughts when you invest in them, when you invest in your ideas and thinking, when you invest in your curiosity. It’s the same as lots of beneficial habits. It sometimes takes a little bit of time at the beginning to get into it, to make it part of your routine. But once you’ve managed to do that, you are usually feeling more fulfilled, like you know more, you’re really happy that you got started in the first place. Like what you see? How about some more R29 goodness, right here?You Need To Budget Your Attention Like MoneyIn Defence Of DoomscrollingHow To Garden In A City – Without A Garden
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Money Diary: A 22-Year-Old Electrician In Grimsby On 17k
Welcome to Money Diaries, where we're tackling what might be the last taboo facing modern working women: money. We're asking a cross-section of women how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period – and we're tracking every last penny.This week: "Hi! I am 22 years old and I work as an electrical apprentice in the oil and gas industry. I am currently completing an HNC alongside my day-to-day work; I prefer this type of education as I get to learn vocationally and I get paid as I learn. I live at home with my parents at the moment and I am very fortunate to have very little outgoings. I have worked throughout the pandemic so I have been able to save up some money to hopefully move into the home my boyfriend is buying!"Industry: Oil and gasAge: 22Location: GrimsbySalary: £8.20 an hour, for 40 hours a week.Paycheque amount: £285 weekly after tax, national insurance and pension.Number of housemates: Five (Mum, Dad, sister C, her boyfriend B, and my brother A) and seven pets (three dogs and four cats).Monthly ExpensesHousing costs: £0. I am very lucky that my parents don’t charge me rent to live at home, although they do ask that I put the money I would spend on rent in savings so I put £50 a week in a help-to-buy ISA.Loan payments: £0. I have a credit card that I pay off in full each month and no student loan as I didn’t go to university.Utilities: £0 as I still live with my parents.Transportation: I own my car, insurance £73 a month, fuel £60 a month and I pay my tax yearly. I would usually pay at least double the fuel but I am not travelling anywhere other than work at the moment. I would also top up my HumberTag for the Humber Bridge with £20 as my boyfriend lives in Hull but I cannot see him because of the lockdown at the moment.Phone bill: £35 contract, £5.50 insurance. Savings? Weekly £50 into a help-to-buy ISA, £25 into an emergency fund, £25 in a holiday fund and £12.50 each in a car fund and a gifts fund. I currently have £5,300 saved between all of those accounts.Other: I pay £9.99 a month for Spotify and £0.79 for iCloud storage. I try to keep to £100 a week for spending.Day One6am: Wake up ready for work. I really don’t like rushing in the mornings so I slooowly get ready and leave for work at 7.10.7.30am: Arrive at work and fill up the kettle for the team, make myself a Quaker Oats porridge from a box I bought previously. Have a cup of tea. We all chip in to buy tea, coffee, milk and sugar etc.11.30am: After a quiet morning of paperwork, it’s lunchtime. My work provides free meals which is fantastic. I choose jacket potato with beans and cheese and a pineapple pot for after. Also have a cup of tea.12.30pm: Back to work!3.30pm: After a slow afternoon of checking stock and ordering new bits I go back to my desk to finish some college work for my end point assessment. Also have a cup of tea and a Hobnob as a colleague brought in biscuits.4.20pm: Go and get ready to go home. I get really dirty while at work. I change out of my overalls, wash my hands and face, then brush my hair and put it up into a bun. I leave at 4.30pm.5pm: Arrive home, Mum has made vegetable pasty and chips. Yes! I then shower and crack on with some more college work as I have an assignment due in a week.7.30pm: I finish with my work for the evening and do a Boots order to replace some products: The Ordinary Hyaluronic Acid 2% + B5, CeraVe Moisturising Cream and Eucerin Aquaphor Soothing Skin Balm. I have pretty dry and sometimes flaky skin so these products are a go-to for me. I also order new shampoo and conditioner as mine are running low and I find my hair getting greasy soon after washing it. I’ve heard that your hair can get used to products so I’ve switched it up and gone for the Aussie Calm the Frizz range. £37.23 with next-day delivery.9pm: I spend the rest of the evening watching TV and FaceTiming my boyfriend.10pm: Go to sleep!Total: £37.23Day Two5.30am: Wake up before my alarm so just do that thing where I lie in bed, waiting for it to go off.6am: Alarm goes off. Today I am on compassionate leave from work as it is a loved one's funeral. Their passing was a shock to the family as they were previously healthy and only went into the hospital around a month ago.9am: Arrive at the crematorium.10am: Arrive back home. Sadly we are unable to hold a wake due to the national lockdown, which is a shame.2.30pm: I have scheduled a meeting with my tutor to go over a recent assignment. I then spend time on a different task to take my mind off things.4.30pm: Mum has done oven pizza for tea so I get some pizza and go back to working.8pm: I finish working and catch up with my boyfriend on FaceTime. We watch First Dates together.10pm: Go to bed.Total: £0Day Three 5.30am: Wake up before my alarm goes off again.6am: My alarm goes off, I ignore it.6.30am: Get up and get ready for work.7.30am: Arrive at work, make tea and porridge. I check my emails and see I have to be at my work location at 8! I wolf down my porridge and rush out of the office. I didn’t even get a sip of tea.11.30am: I made it on time and we have a busy morning pulling cables into place as part of a crane upgrade we are currently working on. Have lunch of tomato, chickpea and pasta soup and a cheese baguette.12.30pm: Have a cup of tea then back to work!4pm: Get back to my desk and get a drink before leaving for home.5pm: Arrive home and Mum has made meatballs and pasta for tea. I have a portion then have a quick shower before working on corrections on my assignment.8pm: Finish the corrections on my assignment and resubmit it to my tutor to do some final checks before properly submitting it. So close to being done now and I’ll be so relieved once it’s out of my mind. FaceTime my boyfriend and watch YouTube until bedtime.10pm: Turn out the light for sleep.Total: £0Day Four1.30am: I wake up but roll over and go back to sleep, this is a bit too early!5.30am: Wake up again but lie awake waiting for my alarm.6am: My alarm goes off so I get up and get ready for work.6.30am: Today is Friday so it is also payday! I get paid weekly as an apprentice so I move any remaining money from the previous week from my spending account into my savings account.8am: I arrive at work and do the usual routine of filling the kettle. I make myself a porridge and coffee as I am really tired this morning.10am: I arrive back at my desk as the people I am working with have a meeting. I use this time to do some paperwork and scanning for college.11.30am: Lunchtime! I choose vegetable pie with chips, peas, vegetable gravy then chocolate cookies for after and that’s all washed down with a cup of tea.3pm: Get back to my desk after an afternoon of planned preventative maintenance on one of the company’s offsites. I make a cup of tea, do my timesheet and send it off then catch up with the team until home time.5pm: Get home and have jacket potato with cheese and beans. I had planned to do some more assignment work but decide instead to have a chilled evening.6.30pm: I go and have a 'pamper' shower where I exfoliate and shave and then moisturise my whole body. I never do this in the week as I usually have really quick showers but I like to take the time on Friday to make myself feel a bit more human after being at work all week as it is a really dirty place.7.30pm: I settle down to watch TV and chill out in bed. I re-download Instagram – I delete the app every Monday as I find it really affects my productivity in the week. I have none of the other social media apps on my phone and I rarely check them but I always end up down an Instagram hole so deleting the app stops the urge to constantly scroll.11pm: Go to sleep, excited to get a lie-in tomorrow.Total: £0Day Five5.30am: Wake up. I have no idea why I wake up at 5.30 every day and it is so frustrating.8.30am: I wake up again after falling back to sleep. My Saturdays are always really slow, especially now we are in lockdown again.10am: Scrolling through Instagram I find a cute mug and order it to go to my boyfriend’s house directly. £1312.30pm: I finally get up and out of bed, shower and get some toast and tea. I then carry on scrolling my phone.3pm: I read the article on Refinery29 about budgeting your attention like you would money so I put down my phone, make a cup of tea and pick up my book instead.4.30pm: I get hungry and Uber Eats has 50% off a vegan burger so I order that. My sister joins me but sends me her portion of the money. I try to eat mainly vegetarian as I really don’t like the thought of meat and I hate the texture of lots of it although I eat meat at home as it means my mum doesn’t have to make multiple meals but any meal I choose/cook will be vegetarian. £19.34 but I get £9.50 back from my sister so £9.84.5.30pm: I have finished my food and I really enjoyed it! It is nice to have such a good option at a big chain food place. I carry on reading my book.7pm: I get in bed and watch The Pembrokeshire Murders three-part series on ITV player. I find this kind of show really interesting but so scary.10pm: Fall asleep while watching TV.Total: £22.84Day Six7am: Wake up. I didn’t wake up at 5.30 today, hooray!10am: Get up and dressed, then go downstairs for tea and toast.1.30pm: I spent the morning scrolling on my phone and reading my book so I decide to have lunch of a cheese toastie and then do something productive.2pm: I start work on my design assignment. I have to complete engineering drawings for each of the 12 parts of a reception desk I have designed. This part takes the longest and I have put it off until last. I have completed the rest of the assignment apart from this.3pm: A nightmare happens and my computer crashes so I reset it and go to make a cup of tea to take a break.5pm: My nanna arrives at my house as she lives alone and is in our support bubble. We have Sunday dinner and spend some quality time together.8pm: My mum takes my nanna home. Snow is forecast for overnight which is so exciting!8.15pm: Go for a shower and then get in PJs and get in bed to FaceTime my boyfriend, we watch an episode of First Dates together. It’s really hard to be away from him in lockdown. We live a 40-minute drive from each other so we can’t meet for a socially distanced walk as neither of us would be in our local area.9.30pm: Go to sleep so I get up and dressed at a reasonable time.Total: £0Day Seven6am: Wake up due to our old pug barking. He is going deaf and blind so he often thinks he sees or hears something and barks until we go downstairs to see him. He was barking because one of the cats was at the back door. I let the dogs in the garden and make myself a cup of tea. I then let the dogs back in and go and get back in bed.6.15am: I have one last scrolling session on Instagram before I delete the app again.8.30am: I have Mondays off as I receive day release from work to complete my HNC course at college. However college is online at the moment so I work from home.11.30am: I have spent the morning completing the corrections on my maths assignment and writing it up neatly. I then scan and submit my assignment to Turnitin.11.45am: Submit my design assignment to Turnitin.12pm: After completing all my work I go to Tesco to get some bits for lunch and some other bits I need. £22.87 in total but £14.03 with Clubcard savings and £5.50 of vouchers.12.30pm: Have lunch. I bought myself the Bol sweet potato Caribbean jerk with rice and beans. I love the Bol ready meals as they contain a lot of fresh veg and textures. This one is delicious.1pm: I dust, hoover and tidy my bedroom. Once I’m finished, I decide I want to organise my chest of drawers so spend a few hours doing that.5pm: Mum calls me for dinner, tonight it is chilli and rice. I don’t eat it all as I am still full from lunchtime.6pm: I go in the shower and then get in bed to watch TV and FaceTime with my boyfriend.10pm: I go to bed ready for work tomorrow.Total: £14.03The BreakdownFood/Drink: £23.87Clothes/Beauty: £37.23Entertainment: £0Travel: £0Other: £13Total: £74.10Conclusion"This is a fairly average week for me in lockdown, especially as I didn’t buy fuel. I am saving up all the budgeted spending money I don’t use to put towards fun things once the lockdown is eased and we have a little bit more freedom."Like what you see? 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