Edinburgher gets cracking!

slowlyfading

Freedom fund is looking good! :j and your bread sounds delicious :drool:

edinburgher

We have made a contribution to the stupid tax!

WFH today as Mrs E has to go to hospital for a small procedure. Went to the car this morning, but battery was dead. As we are currently parked several streets from the flat, neighbours weren't really an option. A friendly mechanic showed up after about an hour and was very good not to take the Mick (we'd left an internal light on). We'll hopefully get a refund from our breakdown cover, but not sure. I didn't pay the guy, but he had a note of who was paying (a company I'd never heard of). Do breakdown services use 3rd parties who pay for repairs and then invoice people later on?

I'm not sure which line of the budget applies - probably car repairs or emergency fund...

Very little news on the MFW front, payday tomorrow. We have been a little naughty and are perhaps £70 in the red. By in the red, I mean metaphorically, we haven't had actual negative money in ages.

• £2 to Freedom Fund (at least £1 added every day this month)
• £4 to Remortgage Pot
• £2 to Kitchen Pot
• Turned a tiny TCB payment into 34 Mr T points :rotfl:

Alchemilla

Easily done E.
Hope Mrs E is ok.

edinburgher

Alchemilla wrote: »

Easily done E.
Hope Mrs E is ok.

Thanks Alchemilla, she is absolutely fine. Currently resting on the couch with Pride & Prejudice DVD and a couple of fingernail sized painkillers

BlueMoo

:wave:

Hello, just started reading your diary last night when I couldn't sleep so though I would come and say Hi!

Seems like you have really changed your lifestyle in more ways than one - what with DFW to MFW.

Got to say - Mrs E has good taste with P&P. Is it the BBC version?

edinburgher

Got to say - Mrs E has good taste with P&P. Is it the BBC version?

Absolutely - I don't know why they've bothered adapting it again since

A hectic day at work, with lots of little meetings and a huge quantity of audit actions wrapped up. I have been (ahem) nominated for 'Colleague of the month'

For anyone who has read about my love hate relationship with my job over the last couple of years, I must finally be doing something right! There were 14 people nominated, so I have no thoughts of winning, but for the first time ever the best part really is taking part.

This evening has been chilled out, with lots of looking after Mrs E. I have hoovered, polished shoes and made a big pot of vegetable soup in the PC from the random carp left at the bottom of the fridge (I think most of it was vegetables...)

Payday for Mrs E today, so the official start of our financial month.

I have decided that the new target for the Freedom Fund will be £80 (double last month, £189.41). Seeing as I beat the target by more than that for November, seems perfectly doable. On the other hand, don't want to overdo it as this is the second last salary before :xmastree:

I'm not doing targets for Remortgage Pot or Kitchen Pot, as I'm not sure what we have spare for the month.

• S@ntander to N@tionwide and H@lifax money shuffle completed
• Raised TCB claims for a couple of purchases that didn't track
• Paid tax refund cheque in for Mrs E
• Didn't buy any booze!
• £3.36 to Freedom Fund (36p interest for the month)
• £2.59 to Remortgage Pot (59p interest for the month)
• £1.63 to Kitchen Pot (63p interest for the month)

Happy Friday all! :beer:

muddywhitechicken

edinburgher wrote: »

A hectic day at work, with lots of little meetings and a huge quantity of audit actions wrapped up. I have been (ahem) nominated for 'Colleague of the month'

Well done ed :T

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Well done on your nomination Mr E :T:T:T

I hope Mrs E is recovering well and P&P is the most beautiful book. I've never seen the DVD but it sounds a good one for a rainy Sunday afternoon for the female Tilly brigade.

Best wishes Tilly

skint_spice

edinburgher wrote: »

Do breakdown services use 3rd parties who pay for repairs and then invoice people later on?

I have had someone else sent out by a breakdown service in the past, I had heard of the company (local) before but they did send the same company both times rather than turning out themselves - was about five years back and it was one of the big two breakdown companies;) Never paid anything...

HelenDaveKids

Whit Woo ED!!