What new skill do you want to acquire in 2007 to save money?

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Hi

What new skill do you want to acquire in 2007 to save money?

I want to learn how to tile properly rather than get someone in to it for me.

I have some to do for my own house, but also my parents want some doing, so I thought I would attempt this myself... should not be too hard to master (I hope).

So, what other skills do you want to acquire in 2007?

magyar

Good question. I've been persuaded (against my better judgement) to take the photos for my sister's wedding this summer, so I'm going to learn how to use my D-SLR camera properly...

save-a-lot

That is another one of mine to do actually. I do not have a D-SLR, but I do have a 9MP Finepix S9500 which I really need to get to grips with and learn how to use it properly

Wyndham

Wedding photos... very very dangerous. If they go wrong, you can't go back and do it again. magyar, does your sister want you to do it rather than a professional?

I'm going to take more photos with my D-SLR, and hopefully build up a portfolio I can sell.... not sure if it will work or not, but I'm going to try! Staying away from weddings though.....

magyar

Wyndham wrote:

Wedding photos... very very dangerous. If they go wrong, you can't go back and do it again. magyar, does your sister want you to do it rather than a professional?

Tell me about it - I'm almost thinking that I'm going to pay a professional (it's one area where, when I got married, we didn't scrimp at all). However, it's only a very small wedding (immediate family only) so the plan is currently that my sis+husband to be will go to a studio later and have a couple of 'posed' shots in wedding dress+penguin suit. So really I'm there as a 'journal' photographer.

Sillychuckie

I'm still working on the turning silver to gold thing... Tricky stuff.

steady__eddie

I'd like to be able to work out my gas bill and check that all these thermal thingys that they reckon I've burnt actually equate to the money that they demand with menaces.

Ian_W

Water into wine for moi.

Should be a piece of pish really,
been doing the other way around for neigh on forty years!

roswell

work out what im going to do with my pension plan before april because i have all of it in one fund not good apparently. new selections have to be in by april.

Try get into fund investing / shares when i get my head round it all.

smilermonkey

I am going to learn to create fire-sculptures next year. I am a carnival artist and have decided to add another string to my bow to get more work! Have also met a woman who was a staff trainer for many years and we are going to try and put together our skills to offer creative business training...meant to be really good money.

save-a-lot

Wow, fire sculptures sound exciting