SeriouslySeekingtoSave strongly strides straight into slaying her mortgage!

SeriouslySeekingtoSave

Peonie wrote: »

Yay, you are back. And what a lot of updates!

You have inspired me to post my SOA, soon...

Lol I shall get you a round tuit! And as you are not a kiwi you probably don't know what a round tuit is?

It is a round disk that hangs on the wall and has the following writting upon it -

Ahem!

'You always tell me that you will do so and so when you get around to it. So I have bought you your very own round tuit to hang upon the wall. Now that you have a round tuit, get to it!'

Or something like that anyway

SeriouslySeekingtoSave

Well the list of 'things to do' gets a leetle smaller. I've ordered my second chandelier (for the bedroom); it's a very colourful gypsy one that will look like a paint explosion hanging from the ceiling.

I've also applied for two new bank accounts, Santander for the £100 and the 5% for the first £2,500 in the account (fingers crossed it doesn't cause problems with my currently running 8% savings account with First Direct) and Halifax for the £5 a month. It will be a bit of a faff transfering money around all of the time but I'll set alerts in my phone to make sure I remember to do it.

I've also aplied for the TalkTalk phone/internet bundle via the uSwitch webside for the £60 Tesco voucher. My Plusnet account came to the end of the 12 months on the 13th so I can now officially switch over. Plusnet have been great I must say but this deal works out £5 a month cheaper with the voucher so.... After a year I'll be looking for another good deal so it might be back to Plusnet anyway

Mmm, what else? Oh yes, thanks to Martins email I applied for a CapitalOne cash back card a couple of weeks ago - the 5% for the first 2 months and 0% interest for 6 months. I was just about to pay for my yearly travel card (£1500) with a cheque from work when I saw that deal. So, I applied and my first transaction has nearly put me at the maxed reward. The chandeliers and a few more bits for the house will very soon see me hitting this. So that's another £100 for things I was going to buy anyway Actually, it's more than £100 saved because have a yearly travel ticket saves me two months of travel - at about £132 a month, that's actually around £360 saved. Very nice. Plus you get the Gold Travel Card when you buy a yearly ticket and that gives 30% off train tickets which saved me a little bit last year. I don't travel outside of zone that often but when I do it's nice to get that extra bit of saving. Every bit helps!

Still soooo much to do though. When I think about it I have visions of drowning myself in the sink but I remember that the sink doesn't work properly because I haven't gotten around to replacing the faucet! :rotfl:

So no suicide this week

Laters all.

SeriouslySeekingtoSave

Mmm, just ordered the box of chocolates from the Chocolate Tasters Club deal posted on the site. Along with an hours massage and facial which I got through Groupon, this is a reward to myself for surviving the decorating hell that I have been living in for the last 3 weeks. I am so sick of dust!

Little*Miss

Hey just wanted to say hi and good luck!!!:D:D:D

xxxxxx

Peonie

SeriouslySeekingtoSave wrote: »

Lol I shall get you a round tuit! And as you are not a kiwi you probably don't know what a round tuit is?

It is a round disk that hangs on the wall and has the following writting upon it -

Ahem!

'You always tell me that you will do so and so when you get around to it. So I have bought you your very own round tuit to hang upon the wall. Now that you have a round tuit, get to it!'

Or something like that anyway

No I'm not from NZ but I did live there for a few months and bunked in with some locals. But I do not recall coming across a round tuit.

Cheers, P.

wynnvegas

Great job SSTS,

Well pleased for you with the progress that you've made in a year. Wishing you an even more profitable 2011/12!

Cheers,

Billy

SeriouslySeekingtoSave

wynnvegas wrote: »

Great job SSTS,

Well pleased for you with the progress that you've made in a year. Wishing you an even more profitable 2011/12!

Cheers,

Billy

Thanks Billy. I've started to formulate some goals in my head and they are looking a little on the challenging side. Still nothing worth aiming for is ever easy is it? :-)

SeriouslySeekingtoSave

Well I have a job interview tomorrow (internal) that I have been meaning to post about along with some more detailed updates but lack of time keeps impeding my good intentions. Suffice it to say that I have my fingers crossed for this new position; not only will it get me out of my current job which is starting to wear me down/burn me out, but is is a new challenge, a step up in my career and, hopefully,a potentially decent payrise which will be of great help in keeping to all if the goals I have set myself for the next year of mortgage.

If I get this my coming year will really be a productive one!

Wish me luck :-)

museumworker

Good luck!

SeriouslySeekingtoSave

Through the job interview - didn't fall flat on my face so it's just a case of fingers crossed ....