Small windfall - not sure what to do with it!

arunadasi

leo2moss wrote: »

Thanks to everyone for the advice. I really do struggle with the maths of this (something like dyslexia but for numbers - ie, I get the theory but the calculations let me down)

That makes two of us. I'm glad there's a name for it!

leo2moss

arunadasi wrote: »

That makes two of us. I'm glad there's a name for it!

The trouble is that when you say "dyscalculia" no-one has a clue what you mean!! But it really is a kind of number blindness - I look at figures and always seem to transpose them. The girl at work who does our mileage claims is a saint - the previous one used to get shirty and return them to me to fix myself without any note of what I'd done wrong (and often after the cut off point so I'd have to wait till the next pay to get my money.) This one just corrects any mistakes for me or shouts me over to double-check what she thinks I was meant to put down!

continualdiamond

Can i have it :rotfl: , i could really do with £300 right now, washing machine just packed in this morning, i have a drum full of wet clothes that i cannot get too, it won't let me open the door :mad: .

Im going to be hand washing, while we save up for one, oh the thought, ewww.

arunadasi

leo2moss wrote: »

The trouble is that when you say "dyscalculia" no-one has a clue what you mean!! !

I just did some research on it and see that it has hardly been acknowledged at all and nobody seems to be looking into it. I get very confised at the simplest sums; I have no memory whatsoever for numbers, they mean nothing to me. I was never able to learn my times tables, and when I am adding I have to use my fingers -- at 58! I can't even calculate change owed to me. Questions regarding time confuse me; I never know if it is backwards or forwards, especially when it comes to the changeover to Daylight savings. It never used to be much of a problem when hubby was healthy as he did all the hosuehold finances, but since he took ill and I've had to take over it has all become dreadful. I sit over the most basic calculations for hours.

I see this has become somewhat of a thread derail (sorry!). Maybe we should start a dyscalculia thread. I've always felt so very stupid; whenever I do IQ tests I get very low scores because I fail the maths parts.

leo2moss

continualdiamond wrote: »

Can i have it :rotfl: , i could really do with £300 right now, washing machine just packed in this morning, i have a drum full of wet clothes that i cannot get too, it won't let me open the door :mad: .

Im going to be hand washing, while we save up for one, oh the thought, ewww.

OMG - that happened to me a few years ago. Nightmare! Probably a silly question, but have you switched the power off? That might unlock the door, although you'd need a big basin under the door for the resulting mini flood!

leo2moss

arunadasi wrote: »

I see this has become somewhat of a thread derail (sorry!). Maybe we should start a dyscalculia thread. I've always felt so very stupid; whenever I do IQ tests I get very low scores because I fail the maths parts.

Not a bad idea to start a thread - bet there'd be a few folk on here who'd contribute.

Rustvaar

Be sure to add a link to the new thread if you decide to create it. I'm good with my money because of my problem with numbers - I really try to focus what's getting spent where even if I can't get the maths right myself.

I also seem to confuse '5' and '7', which is a bit of a weird one I guess

leo2moss

Rustvaar wrote: »

Be sure to add a link to the new thread if you decide to create it. I'm good with my money because of my problem with numbers - I really try to focus what's getting spent where even if I can't get the maths right myself.

I also seem to confuse '5' and '7', which is a bit of a weird one I guess

I'm not very technically minded so don't know how to create a link!

Rustvaar

Once a thread has been made if you copy the URL from your address bar, that'll be the http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com part and if you either paste it into a reply or if you're feeling really adventurous there is a small globe with hyperlink in your reply tools - if you highlight a word and then click that globe it'll ask for the URL, type it in and it'll look like this!

Bit of a de-rail but hoping it's helpful