Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

lostinrates

Inadequately marbled cheesecake.

Its maple pumpkin. I didn't swirl enough. Oops.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ah - they tend to be:
• A chair
• A packing box with some random wood over it + a teatowel over the top

Lol. Mine is actually a chest of drawers that was left behind. It is actually quite nice (maybe one of my jobs for the weekend can be to take some photos to bore you all with). One of the handles was missing, but I found it + its screw in one of the drawers so it only took about 5 seconds to repair.

silvercar

Only on this thread would someone declare being near to an Ikea a positive attribute. I though Waitrose was the marker.

I just wish 1-bed houses were priced per sq ft the same as bigger ones

Something to do with a bathroom, kitchen (and in your case) a garage also being requirements.

Nikkster wrote:

Since moving, I have a kind of dressing table so my earrings aren't buried away at the back of a drawer. I've been trying to make a special effort to try and remember to put some on each day.

I have just bought a new jewellry box. Made by Stackers. You can add to it in layers when your collection expands and build it piecemeal. So I have one layer that is teeny wheeny little boxes, so everything can have its own space. The beauty is that layer s come off vertically, so the remaining layers don't tip.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

You have a non sparkly sparkly corner now, eh? I find a ribbon ideal for earrings, Hanging them in pairs makes them easy to find and the ribbing makes them more secure than just hooking them over something with less grip...I hook them through the fabric.

Most of them are in a cupcake-shaped tin I'm on the look out for a jewellery stand (used to have a mug tree, but my mum disposed of it years ago when she thought it was no longer wanted), and I was thinking of putting them on some ribbon on that.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

I wish that were an achievable tax loophole for jobs

I think the main thing is there are no employer contributions for anything. That plus they don't have to work out what is a liveable wage after tax means is supposed to encourage sponsorship of PhD students as it becomes less costly.

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

Inadequately marbled cheesecake.

Its maple pumpkin. I didn't swirl enough. Oops.

Oh dear. Well, I suppose I will have to eat it all as you won't be wanting it.

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

Apart from .... when .... when I met you probably. In fact, that was the last time I "went out" for anything except bread/beans or visiting mum.

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I rest my case.

The IOW ferry is not a barrier to you. It is not limiting anything you do. In extremis or for planned visits, the savings on property prices would pay for your ferry ticket.

On moving in you could have a one off vist to IKEA, you can walk to the ferry terminal form IKEA, it would be closer and quicker than where you live now.

It is a safe, affordable, seaside location. GDB has given you the economic risk model.

Its Margate or IOW. IOW is more westerly and Ferry costs offsets the time/petrol to Margate for olds visits.

The drawback of the IOW is that I have said I will visit..is that the problem?

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Forgive me, PN, but within a 3 mile circle of that property, and for a price band +10%/-10% of that property, with at least 2 bedrooms, Rightmove reports over 100 houses. Surely, they can't all be NBG?

I agree that £460/sq ft is a lot for that area. And a 1-bedder is not a great idea, anyway.

Yes, they're all bad .....
There's a council estate with a bad name.
+10% is out of the question, the budget's £190-200k TOPS. No borrowing power whatsoever.

I've just done that 1/4 mile search then filtered out: retirement and it comes down to 5 - 4 if you exclude the starting property:

£153k mid-terrace shared ownership, allocated parking for one.
£199k older, mid terrace. Wrong side of the road and no offroad parking.
£190k old/done up, no parking, right on road, odd/small rooms
£200k on the bad council estate. It will also need a few thousand in some tweaks/potential issues/maintenace in the first year or so.

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

We're getting closer, we have a place.....spirit, is that ok?

We just need a date......:rotfl:

I was only volunteering IKEA for Pastures, happy to travel nearer to you.

Shorter weeks after xmas, still to agree the days i will work, so not quite able to set a midweek date yet.

Looking forward to meeting you, as I will have more time for friends.

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

This one confused me for quite a while http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-42740456.html

That'd be a good one! You could have lodgers ... and run off to the annexe if they get on your t1ts