Edinburgher gets cracking!

gallygirl

edinburgher wrote: »

We had half a whole leg of Serrano ham, it is proving very tasty! Actually healthier than I'd imagined, less saturated fat and very filling with all the protein.

I agree :T. Shame about the crusty bread, alioli and olives I have with it :rotfl:.

edinburgher wrote: »

That was a good holiday, but I feel a bit like I squandered it sitting on my !!! drinking beer.

Em, where exactly was the squandering in there? Aren't holidays for doing what you want? Or do you mean it was time you could have spent eating Serrano ham, bread, alioli and olives .

edinburgher

I didn't have nearly enough olives or aioli! :rotfl:

Had a weirdly productive day:

• Froze the stock from yesterday - delicious - I could sit and eat a bowl of it!
• Took down the Christmas tree and all other decorations - neatly boxed away for 2014
• Went to Asda with Mrs E
• [STRIKE]I'm starting Couch to 5k after dinner![/STRIKE] I ate chocolate cake
• Listed 6 eBay items
• Listed an Amazon Marketplace item
  

Off to polish shoes.

We have a spare room again...

*Edit: Already sold the Amazon item and 1/6 eBay items

edinburgher

Apparently work didn't get awesome in my absence

• £3.86 from an Amazon sale
• £19.59 from an eBay sale
• Paid £15 of change into the bank
• £34.59 to 2017
• £4.86 to Freedom Fund
• £4 to Home Improvement Pot
• £2 to Kitchen Pot
• Completed VO survey, I can now claim a £10 voucher. Probably going to save £15 for an Am@azon code.

Off to cuddle up on the couch with Mrs E.

slowlyfading

What's your 2017 thing? Sorry if I missed that

BookWorm

edinburgher wrote: »

• Completed VO survey, I can now claim a £10 voucher. Probably going to save £15 for an Am@azon code.

Hi Mr E

Did you know that you can claim £10 Am@zon vouchers via the Flexecode option on VO? It's very easy to use.

edinburgher

slowlyfading wrote: »

What's your 2017 thing? Sorry if I missed that

Nope, it's a new one! Mrs E and I want to move house in 2017, something like this would do nicely (linky)

Did you know that you can claim £10 Am@zon vouchers via the Flexecode option on VO? It's very easy to use.

I certainly did not! Thanks for dropping in BookWorm

Another grim day, but I did helpful work, slogged on and got home to my lovely wife.

• £10 Am@azon voucher claimed thanks to BookWorm, will probably eBay that if possible
• £9 to 2017
• £2 to Freedom Fund
• £4 to Remortgage Pot
• £2 to Home Improvements

slowlyfading

That house is lovely I don't know about you, but today dragged big time for me - can't believe it's only Tuesday

edinburgher

Today was a really nasty combination of bad news but really busy. At least the busy-ness-itude took the edge of the bad news!

slowlyfading

Oh dear, hope the bad news wasn't too bad

edinburgher

It was pretty horrible, not one I'd talk about here, but we both have our health, each other and a generally very good lot

On the more cheerful 2017 front (I've no room for pots in my sig now), it's basically it's a larger scale plan to a) renovate parts of current home and b) move to new home. We need to save c. £13k over 3 years, seems manageable based on past efforts.

If we can retain our current or similar jobs for 3 years, we should have enough equity to move to something like that without an additional deposit, one of the good points about reducing the term.