Making chicken feed of my mortgage

Fortune_Smiles

Beautiful MWC - love your taste.

Fortune x

muddywhitechicken

misscousinitt wrote: »

Lovely rooms - I am totally jealous of your lack of clutter!

MCI

Anna_Glypta wrote: »

Me too - puts me to shame

Fortune_Smiles wrote: »

Beautiful MWC - love your taste.

Fortune x

Thank you!

I don't really do lots of "stuff". For example, we use the "good" crockery everyday rather than have two sets. I also gave a lot of our wedding presents to Oxfam rather than put them in a cupboard/the loft because I didn't like them

I don't keep books either (apart from cookery books). Mr MWC insisted that we had a bookcase so I bought one last year. I then spent a small fortune buying sets of books so it would look pretty My books still go to the charity shop and any Mr MWC wants to keep still go in a bag in the under-the-eaves cupboard so they don't look untidy on my bookcase :rotfl:

muddywhitechicken

Eggs IN 6
Eggs OUT 0

Butternut squash soup with ricotta & sage dumplings for dinner followed by leftover cheesecake - I feel sick now

Alchemilla

I love the cushions too.

muddywhitechicken

Here is my bookcase - Mr MWC says that I'm mentile! I say slightly odd :rotfl:



One day I will read the books on the top two shelves but at the moment they are just show books...

Shelf 1 - Penguin clothbound classics
Shelf 2 - Puffin classics
Shelf 3 - RC handbooks, gardening books, misc
Shelf 4 - Cookbooks (overflow from the shelf downstairs)
Shelf 5 - Travel books

In money news, one of my ISAs received £138 interest at the end of August :T

Alchemilla

Pretty top shelf.

MallyGirl

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

I don't keep books either (apart from cookery books). Mr MWC insisted that we had a bookcase so I bought one last year. I then spent a small fortune buying sets of books so it would look pretty My books still go to the charity shop and any Mr MWC wants to keep still go in a bag in the under-the-eaves cupboard so they don't look untidy on my bookcase :rotfl:

Gosh! I probably have bookshelves in every room except the bathroom. Most rooms have several. I do re-read things. Amazon in the US has announced a service where you get the electronic version of books if you buy the paperback so I might finally go a bit more electronic. I like to lend books to my SIL who cannot afford her own so I don't buy ebooks atm as there is no way to share them with her.

muddywhitechicken

Alchemilla wrote: »

Pretty top shelf.

The Penguin Clothbound Classics are so beautiful :cool:

http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/pubsetpages/clothboundclassics/

I've been very good though and not bought any since I joined MFW:A

(I'm hoping that Father Christmas will bring me a couple though!)

muddywhitechicken

Eggs IN 5
Eggs OUT 11 (1 box sold for £1.50, 5 eaten for dinner)

Dinner was scrambled eggs on toasted sourdough bread with fried homegrown cherry tomatoes - delicious

In money news:

My 3-year e-bonds mature tomorrow :j

I've been invited to join my employer's 2013 sharesave scheme. I probably won't bother this year as I already pay in £200/month to the scheme (maximum = £250/month) and I don't think this year's Exercise Price is that great - I have until 18 September to make a final decision

muddywhitechicken

The value of my e-bonds increased by a total of £466.68 over 3 years :T

The money has now been transferred into my savings account until I decide what to do with it. Probably a MOP however I am meeting with a financial advisor tomorrow so I may as well wait until after that meeting before I make the final decision. £2,000 of the money was given to me by my mum years ago and part of me thinks I should re-invest that money again. She did something similar with money my grandad gave her - never spent the capital but spent the interest on fun stuff.

Nice, sentimental idea but I'm not going to be able to do much fun stuff based on current interest rates!