Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

I'm assuming VAT at 17.5%. You have to go back quite a way to find it 15%.

Work is £252.20
Travel £ 24.40
Total: £276.60 (total pre VAT)
VAT: £ 48.40 (VAT at 17.5%. VAT is charged on travel costs)
Total: £325 (includes VAT at 17.5%)

That looks good. I no longer care if it's right, but that looks good so that's what I 'm doing.

Thank you guys. Tbh, its ok if they dispute it, because really then at least dialogue is opened on the issue.

PasturesNew

Watching superscrimpers on channel 4. This family overspend by £2k/month!!!

Blimey.

260 takeaways/year for starters.

There seems to be a couple and a daughter who looks late teens.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

I'm assuming VAT at 17.5%. You have to go back quite a way to find it 15%.

I am gobsmacked at how fast time is flying. 15% VAT was 1 December 2008 to 31 December 2009.

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/vat/forms-rates/rates/rate-changes.htm

I could have sworn it was "recent"

Remember the rules boys and girls .... all sing along.... "No income tax, no VAT ..... no money back no guarantee ..."

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've no idea where I was that evening.... I can say "probably at X ...." and "almost 99.99% sure I'd have been alone" .... I did a post on MSE at 6pm, but I was probably chatting on another website that has no record/timestamps.

So ... on the basis it might be me that did it .... I now need to Google my way out of the country

How do you check back that far on here?

tomterm8

misskool wrote: »

wonder if doozer or someone else can help? we want to build a front porch but I am getting a bit confused. We are a semi-detached at the end of a row of semi's. So we have a public footpath on one of our sides.

Would we be able to build the porch under permitted regs or would we have to apply?

We can't do anything on our right hand side (I wanted a kitchen lean-to utility bit) because that faces the public footpath and we'd have to get PP.

You probably don't need PP (unless you have already gone past your extension allowance, you are building closer to the public footpath, you are in a conservation area, you are in a AONB or SSSI etc), but it is best to contact the planning officer and ask them. They are normally quite helpful.

lostinrates

Looks like we're in uk. Both of us for at least another year now. It's all very odd, and I know Dh would like reason and unbiased NP opinion on today's events but it's just too public here. Certainly what happened today neither of us could have forecast. It's very much out of the blue. Dh is so strained he's saying he's not sure whether to trust its a good thing, especially as the gift horse (Trojan?) was proffered by you know who. We're both getting a little weirded out, to the point I have wondered if I should change ids on here. Surely not, if anyone had the time to gain insight to Dh from a pseudonym that could possibly be his illiterate wife they are not busy enough at work, right? I am aware however, any one who really knows us would know this is me. I think the people who know you can always make trouble anyway though, if they were so minded. See, I'm at it now too, seeing a good thing as a potential bad thing.....

Starting again, in brief, good news, we're staying here for a while!

lostinrates

For some reason I can't pm ATM, but in response to someone who has pmed, yes thanks, I will in the next couple of days when it's clearer THANK YOU!

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

If I woke up tomorrow and all new money had ceased to exist and the fairies had switched our currency for old money in the night .... I'd be 100% comfortable from the start.

12 pennies [d] make 1 shilling
2 sixpences [6d] make 1 shilling
4 thruppences [3d] make 1 shilling (5p)
20 shillings make £1.
1 florin = 2 shillings (10p)
1 crown = 5 shillings (25p)
Half a crown = 2/6d (12.5p)

It was written like this: 6/6d = six shillings and sixpence = 32.5p

1 shilling is 5p, as 12 old pennies had to go into 10 new pennies, there were some duplicates - e.g. 9d and 10d both became 4p. 3d and 4d were both 2p too. These 9/10 and 3/4 combinations were constant along the chart. So 1 shilling and 9d = 9p, as were 1 shilling and 10d.

There's probably an online calculator where you key in the LSD and it turns it into New Money.

There's a reason they changed it then! :eek:

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

Surely not, if anyone had the time to gain insight to Dh from a pseudonym that could possibly be his illiterate wife they are not busy enough at work, right?

Right.

And if they did, what would they learn? That he was unhappy? If they genuinely didn't like him, it wouldn't make much difference to their behaviour if they knew that his plan might be to move on.

I hope you're happy soon with the developments

tomterm8

Doozergirl wrote: »

There's a reason they changed it then! :eek:

Yeah, it was part of the cost of joining the European Union. They changed it to new money in order that we could easily switch to another decimal currency at a later date.

Old money looks difficult to our eyes, but it is a matter of training more than anything: people used it for hundreds of years without trouble.

Edit: LiR, I have always said that you shouldn't post anything on Money Saving Expert you wouldn't want other people to know in real life. I know people who have been tracked down on here in the past. It is a popular enough forum that there is a chance that someone you know in real life might read what you post.