The ultimate incentive worked! Now onto phase two

Tete_en_l'Air

Ugh Birdie, don't envy you having to live out of a suitcase for a fortnight and work somewhere strange. Does the hotel have a pool/spa??

Glad the baking went well Flower - what did you make? A big birthday cake?

Phew, I've spent the last 2 hours doing big piles of photocopying and running about and I'm wrecked! Shows how much physical work I don't do every day!

Dinah93

http://www.ifs.org.uk/wheredoyoufitin/

How come NIM and I are so poor when we're in the 90% band?! Had to do it for just us 2 as a household as when I did it for our actual household we weren't on the scale anymore!

Interesting stuff though.

Flower08

:rotfl::rotfl:confirms that OH and i are poor.

I made cupcakes that Dinah gave me the recipe for, have yet to do the taste test though so it could still have been a disaster. You never know though i might have found myself a new talent for baking :rotfl:

Tete_en_l'Air

I did a sort of estimate based on OH and I even though we don't live together and came out as 86% and should apparently have £715 per week to spare!! Seems a bit of a funny old thing calculating that, doesn't take into account all sorts of things.

*Falls into a daydream about what she'd do with £715 disposable income per week*

ETA - Oh, I think you need to do the taste test Flower!!!

Flower08

Tete_en_l'Air wrote: »

ETA - Oh, I think you need to do the taste test Flower!!!

It is very tempting, i swear they are looking at me :rotfl:
OH should be home from work in about an hour so going to give him one then see how they have turned out.

Dinah93

Have you frosted them yet?! I found they're lovely looking with frosting and a grating of chocolate for decoration (white is prettiest!)

I thought that chart just literally took into account income, tax and council tax?

Dinah93

Oh hang on, it wants net income, is that before or after tax one?! This may explain why it thought we were so rich!

Okay, makes more sense now, we're at 77% instead of 90%! Still seems high considering NIM earns £14k a year!

Tete_en_l'Air

It does, which seems a bit pointless. Obviously you can see why the Institute of Fiscal Studies would be interested, but it's not much use too the rest of us!

Flower08

Yep they are frosted and look quite good even if i do say so myself lol.
Apparently my cat enjoys a bit of frosting aswell, i dropped some on the floor while i was doing it (im very messy in the kitchen) and she had it straight away, hope it doesnt make her ill!

Tete_en_l'Air

What's frosting made of - it's not normal icing is it?