Burlesque Babe's Re-building life but back in debt diary

hypno06

Ooh, new job :T I am sure it will be just what you need to start getting that balance right.

Burlesque_Babe

The interest from my bond whizzed its way to my current account today - £330. I also had £110 I could pull from my shares which is also on its way.

I am painfully aware that I haven't put any money back from my savings last month - the 'to live' money and the MOT/car tax money. Gulp.

And my washing machine has packed up this afternoon :rolleyes: It tripped the circuit just as it started to heat the water and keeps tripping it when I re-try. I've changed the fuse and I'm wondering if it is the element. I've done some reading and apparently it is really common for washing machines to do this as the slightest sign of wear, or a problem trips the RCD. It's full of water and washing :rolleyes: Luckily I have clothes for tomorrow and I can hand wash a top for Friday and I have lots of towels/teatowels but it is such a rubbish coincidence that the first time in months I need to be at home next week - I will be working full time!!! OH is going to have a look at it tomorrow - god forbid he doesn't go to football practise tonight and try to sort it for me. He will want me to buy a new one - unless the fault is very obvious he won't want to commit to saying what it is and he hates me even mentioning getting someone in to do any kind of repair job. I have had a 'kettling' boiler since March he has said he will sort by getting the stuff to put through the system. I've said I'll buy it - but he knows someone who will know something better that he can use.......I'm still waiting.....:rolleyes:

Anyway, so perhaps a new washing machine is on the horizon. Hopefully not.

ZTD

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

OH is going to have a look at it tomorrow - god forbid he doesn't go to football practise tonight and try to sort it for me. He will want me to buy a new one - unless the fault is very obvious he won't want to commit to saying what it is and he hates me even mentioning getting someone in to do any kind of repair job. I have had a 'kettling' boiler since March he has said he will sort by getting the stuff to put through the system. I've said I'll buy it - but he knows someone who will know something better that he can use.......I'm still waiting.....:rolleyes:

Stuff him...give him a deadline, then if he fails to meet it then "Just do it!"

"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Patton, George S."

skint_spice

Could OH maybe bring his WM over for you to use for a while? I'm assuming his stuff gets done at yours anyway... washing machines and irons are probably my least favourite things to spend money on so you have my sympathies.

Burlesque_Babe

surprisingly - he does his own washing skint !!!! (insert fainting smiley!) I told him on the text I would be using his washing machine for a while

skint_spice

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

surprisingly - he does his own washing skint !!!! (insert fainting smiley!) I told him on the text I would be using his washing machine for a while

a couple of years maybe....;)

Burlesque_Babe

lol.....nah, far too much of a fag to keep taking my washing over to his place.

ZTD

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

lol.....nah, far too much of a fag to keep taking my washing over to his place.

He can pick it up when he leaves in the morning.

Burlesque_Babe

it would never get done :rotfl: He goes straight to work at 7.30 and doesn't get back to his house until around 7pm (he is working full time at the moment on a contract in Southampton). He takes enough time sorting out his own washing - I have never known anyone to take so long to hang out washing or to iron 2 or 3 shirts.

Burlesque_Babe

I've just had quite a surprise. I'd always thought that I would have to escape my mortgage deal pronto when I can next July as I knew the new rate would be 'something' plus 'x%' and I guessed it would make it more than the 5.44% I'm currently fixed with.

Apparently (dug out the last offer) i'll go from fixed rate of 5.44% to Barclays base rate plus 1.79%........and I've just read that their base rate is .5%........so I'll be on 2.29% ??? Am I right or having a mad moment - because taking a couple of years off the term and going onto 2.29% would reduce my payments by £150 per month!!

Obviously a lot could happen between now and July interest rate wise and I still want to be in the best position possible to swap if I can - but blimey - I could live with a rate of 2.29% :rotfl:

You're now going to all laugh at me and say I've got it wrong, aren't you