Early-retirement wannabe

atush

My oldest moved out in april. but as a newly trained CA he is usually sent a way a lot (I told him why pay for an apt you are not in lol). But he comes home at least once a month for a feed

But the other 2 are in their last year. And god I miss them when they go, but get them home again and in a month (or less with twin 2 lol) we are on each other's nerves big time.

TBH, now I actually look forwards to them being gone And I especially like making them hug me goodbye- they hate that. our duty is to torture them with our affections.

But Max the dog, he gets very depressed when they go. Given mine is a house of boys/men, he does miss them.

kidmugsy

atush wrote: »

My oldest moved out in april. but as a newly trained CA he is usually sent a way a lot (I told him why pay for an apt you are not in lol). But he comes home at least once a month for a feed

Now then: does he bring his laundry to be done?

atush

kidmugsy wrote: »

Now then: does he bring his laundry to be done?

Nope he doesn't. thank goodness lol.

He does ask for lifts to the airport though

The others bring home laundry of a questionable nature esp bath towels which look horrible lol. Last years bathmat had to go straight in the bin.

Currently in a motorway hotel, having dropped one off today. Fully stocked with groceries and fed a nice lunch and dinner. I am exhausted lol.

Tomorrow I will get on the landlord's case as there are a few problems. They had 6 weeks of the property being empty, but they did nothing to it.

gadgetmind

ManofLeisure wrote: »

Well done to Mrs Gadgetmind. Crikey, after 20 years away from the world of work, what an achievement.

Yes, she's pretty pleased. She'd applied for a couple of jobs before and heard zilch (not even a "no thanks"), then she applied for this one, got an interview, and was called only a couple of days later to say she was their preferred candidate.

It's nice work too as she's visitor assistant at a very nice local country house that's council owned.

I'll bang her entire income into her SIPP for the tax relief as she won't be paying tax. However, I'll need to take care as she'll also be getting a teeny weeny LGPS pension. (About £70pa for each year she works, but that would cost £1750pa for us to provide, so no complaints.)

tell_it_how_it_is

gadgetmind wrote: »

I'll bang her entire income into her SIPP for the tax relief as she won't be paying tax.

Don't be tight, with a brand new exciting job at least let the poor mare keep her first week's wages all for herself.

gadgetmind

tell_it_how_it_is wrote: »

Don't be tight, with a brand new exciting job at least let the poor mare keep her first week's wages all for herself.

Given what she's been spending for the last 20 years, I'm managing to keep my generosity in check!

hugheskevi

I'll bang her entire income into her SIPP for the tax relief as she won't be paying tax.

Good to hear that - mainly as I am using it as evidence that the 20% of my wife's income which she gets to keep for herself is generous - especially as that doesn't even include credit card purchases (which are closely monitored however...)

(it isn't as draconian as it sounds - it all goes towards a good cause, namely early retirement...I just do all the investing)

gadgetmind

hugheskevi wrote: »

the 20% of my wife's income which she gets to keep for herself is generous

We've always pooled everything and I don't even have an account in just my name. Her salary will go into the same account as mine, and sums will then fly off towards savings, pensions, ISAs, etc.

As for credit cards, we always speak to each other up front about any large purchases but it's Mrs G who checks credit card and bank statements. She does the day to day money stuff, I do the longer term investing, and we both muck in when it's tax return time.

greenglide

gadgetmind wrote: »

We've always pooled everything and I don't even have an account in just my name. Her salary will go into the same account as mine, and sums will then fly off towards savings, pensions, ISAs, etc.

As for credit cards, we always speak to each other up front about any large purchases but it's Mrs G who checks credit card and bank statements. She does the day to day money stuff, I do the longer term investing, and we both muck in when it's tax return time.

That is exactly what we do as well!

Does everybody not do this:think:

ManofLeisure_2

greenglide wrote: »

That is exactly what we do as well!

Does everybody not do this:think:

I don't think they do and I suspect many end up in the divorce courts.