my garden furniture, the saga continues

fizzel81

i would personally arrange to get it sent back

lynzpower

Panda, completely agree with you about spending. If you follwed the umming and ahhing over the last thread, its simply not an option to leave my flat so bare and without furniture.

I find it hard to spend the money out of the lodgers account (theres a seperate account specifically for this) quite difficult being both on & off the wagon at the same time IYSWIM. OH looks after the card & doenst know the pin, so I cant buy anything without him quizzing me to death can we get it cheaper. And of course, I have to run my decision-making across you lot too just to be sure myself Im doing the right thing. Its difficult though, I bought some light fittings the other day I was shaking handing my card over.

By next month, I will have paid for everything that the flat needs, and wont need to spend on it again till the final tarting it up in Jan to put it on the market, I anticipate very little. Everything else she brings in is split between debt & saving for solicitors fees etc with buying our new smaller, cheaper place

Dont worry gang, Im still very much a DFW!

lynzpower

fizzel81 wrote:

i would personally arrange to get it sent back

theres no way Im paying a couorier to take it back to manchester!!!

tesuhoha

What are you going to do if you end up with 2 lots of garden furniture? I think you should keep very quiet about it now and wait to see what happens. You will know if a few months go by that they have forgotten about it and then maybe you can sell it or are you going to cancel LX

amosworks

Lynzpower it sounds like you did the right thing. Unpack them use them, be happy, and if they ever turn up to collect them then tell them they're outside lol.

If your LX ones turn up now maybe you should return them or resell them? I dunno, what a saga lol

lynzpower

tesuhoha wrote:

What are you going to do if you end up with 2 lots of garden furniture? I think you should keep very quiet about it now and wait to see what happens. You will know if a few months go by that they have forgotten about it and then maybe you can sell it or are you going to cancel LX

Tes, basically, Im keeping the LX one, when it eventually arrives. If I get stuck with the woolworths one cos they cant be bothered to collect, I might give the woolies one to you, or any other DFW who needs/wants one!! :rotfl:

mountainofdebt

but I think that Woolies have 6 months to come and collect it......after that, if they haven't bothered then I think legally you can keep it.

calleyw

New_Panda_Bear wrote:

I would pander to your lodger a bit, you dont want to lose £6000 per year, tax free (so the equivalent to a £9k pay rise), for the sake of a couple of hundred £ tarting the place up a bit.

But is it not £6K tax free. It is only £4250 per year tax free you are suppose to pay tax on the rest.

Yours


Calley

beanielou

Under the rent a room scheme it is tax free

scottishspendaholic

Well done Lynz - I think you did the right thing and might end up being very lucky here!

This might be slightly unethical to suggest (and please don't flame me anyone - its just a suggestion) - but if you do end up with 2 pairs, could you sell one, once you are sure Woolies aren't going to collect? I'm sure event £20/£30 would come in very handy?

scottishspendaholic x