£77,366.35 reasons to be debt free!

In_my_dreams

Yes I have been fairly productive for a change

Had to do some food shopping as let OH do the shopping and he spent £85 on.....what so that's the last time he will be trusted at Mr T's!!

Also have lovely coiffeured children who are respectable to take our rather than a little boy who looks like he has had a bowl on his head!

savingholmes

sounds like you are doing really well - great to get £10 for nothing!

macgirl

Hi IMD, glad you had a good day! Money making aplenty :T

Hope poor doggie is better now too. BTW, did you hear about Go GO Hamster? Apparently, it has dangerous levels of toxins I'd considered it for DD too, but had second thoughts....
Enjoy the rest of your productive week x

In_my_dreams

Just won £10 on BB :j

Have entered work syndicate for a one off week for Euromillions, on the basis that if they win and I don't I'll be gutted!

Hoping to have a good freebie day today!

miemie

well done on the win.

In_my_dreams

I think I've been quite good today with money :eek: Had to buy some cleanser and chewing gum as necessary or bad skin and bad breath! Took lunch in but then boss bought me a bigger and fattier lunch, and so I ate homemade lunch on way home and didn't have to have anything when I got home - so saved money I thought. :rolleyes:

Just been to last school play (thank you, thank you, thank you!) and had to buy raffle tickets for £1, allowed them to prise it from my hand.

Have been told my appraisal is due at work (8 months overdue!!) and now need tips on how to ask for a payrise Not had a rise since I started about 4 years ago, role has changed, I am earning a lot of money for the firm - but there has been all this awkwardness in the last few months so I feel strange about having an appraisal anyway. They have been very good to me and are generous (i.e. buy lunches, take us out etc) but I need extra money in my paypacket....how to ask without appearing greedy?

Any tips gratefully received

hypno06

I hate appraisals and asking for extra money - I am certainly not the best person to give advice......so I won't.......other than to say ooh I don't envy you

Good luck!

ramblingtree

Any useful things for you on this site:

http://www.businessballs.com/payrise.htm

Never had a job where I could ask for a payrise so can't give advice. All I can say is go for it! Worst that happens is they say no.
Well done on the low spends, and hope you win the raffle!

In_my_dreams

Thank you both for scaring me even more :rotfl:This is the first time I have had to think about asking as in other places it has been a January thing and you don't need to ask. I just think too much time has passed for me to leave it again. Done all the right things and worked out I have earned over £200k for them this year alone and I certainly earn nothing near that :eek: Was going to use these figures to justify it...

RT - will go and have a look at that website. Might say that I have a £17.5k challenge and therefore I should have a payrise :cool:

hypno06

I worked at one place where our fee target was based on 3 x the cost of employing us.

So, I had to take my salary, the cost of my car (oh those were the days), bupa, Nat Ins etc, and then triple it to get the amount I was expected to earn the firm.

So perhaps do something similar in reverse, if you can find out some sort of appropriate "multiple" for your particular industry?