Breaking Through, Travelling On

Goldiegirl

It's good that you got a payment into the French account, but the tax return on a confusing site is pretty stressful.

For me, I find any dealings with the tax people stressful, but normally it comes out right in end. Hopefully yours will too

Karmacat

I used to find the tax return incredibly stressful, Goldie, but it seems less and less the more I do it. I knew I could muck around with the inputting, while being truthful about the amounts, as well, so that helped!

This morning, its the turn of the French accounts, as soon as I've made another :coffee: should do it today, as they go to an accountant, but there's a lot of scanning to be done, as they accept scans, not just originals in the post. Lots cheaper, which is good

Karmacat

I had to get the French chequebook from a desk drawer, and took the opportunity to do 10 minutes decluttering :rotfl:

DECLUTTERING
14. Bitty stuff from top desk drawer! Plastic dowels, screws, a Shaun the Sheep head from a keyring that disintegrated :rotfl: plus trying to store things more logically. All broken jewellery together. All pins together.

And a question. How many paperclips do I need? I have approx 2,500

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

DECLUTTERING
14. Bitty stuff from top desk drawer! Plastic dowels, screws, a Shaun the Sheep head from a keyring that disintegrated :rotfl:

Do you often keep sheeps' heads around? :eek:

Karmacat wrote: »

plus trying to store things more logically. All broken jewellery together.

Fix, sell, dismantle (assuming you're handy enough to construct new pieces) or chuck. No good as it is.

Karmacat wrote: »

All pins together.

And a question. How many paperclips do I need? I have approx 2,500

Well I have a similar, but different question: How many bottles of champagne does one person need? I was sorting my booze yesterday, and decided I had a very "1st World" problem... :rotfl:

Karmacat

ZTD wrote: »

Do you often keep sheeps' heads around? :eek:

Only cute ones :D:D

Fix, sell, dismantle (assuming you're handy enough to construct new pieces) or chuck. No good as it is.

You're right, spot on ... and I'm absolutely sure I'm not up to fixing, so chucking it is. Some of it might go to scrap gold, but some is just junk, and scratched, yukky junk at that, nothing I'd want to send to the charity shops.

Well I have a similar, but different question: How many bottles of champagne does one person need? I was sorting my booze yesterday, and decided I had a very "1st World" problem... :rotfl:

Ooh, I lurve your problem :j As for my paperclip problem, I think I can afford to send a 1,000 clip box to the charity shop. A lot of that carp has been kept in a little box that originally held chocolates ... that can go, but its going to be a bit hard: it contained Mozart Kugelm (Mozart balls? sp?) from when I went to Austria on a drama society bash while I was at college :eek::eek::eek: Its obviously very strong plastic :rotfl:

Another problem has reared its little head in the meantime: I don't think I paid my VAT bill in France last year :eek: I have an email proving that I checked it with my accountant, and an email back from them saying it was fine, but .... it isn't. Somebody hasn't been paid - whether its them, or the VAT, I don't actually know, but not enough money has gone out of my account for them *both* to be paid :eek: So another email has winged its way to my French accountant, and I hope they realise I'm not going to pay any dratted penalty. Grrr.

beanielou

Pass one to me Z

I am a bit of a hoarder when it comes to stationery too~~maybe not 2500 paperclips though~ did you count them

Karmacat

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: No Beanie, even I'm not quite that anally retentive Just two full boxes, and a half full one.

And **already** I have good news on the French VAT front. My little flat is no longer VAT-payable :j Accountant has replied already (in English, bless her). I've never, ever known anyone to consistently reply so fast as that woman. And it turns out she *is* as efficient as I originally thought she was. She's a saint :T

beanielou

Great news on the French VAT front :j :j

Karmacat

Yep! I just had *another* interesting experience paying via the secure server on the accountant's website - I used my mastercard, so I got nectar points for it too I won't do it again, I'll set up a direct-debit-alike for next year, but I'd told her I was paying it immediately, and I wanted to give it a go, so I did

Got to actually do some paid work now

DECLUTTERING
15. Some wrong-size staples let go

gallygirl

Karmacat wrote: »

As for my paperclip problem, I think I can afford to send a 1,000 clip box to the charity shop.

Are you sure? Bearing in mind you're thinking of resurrecting the whole 'buy a flat' idea, that could generate a lot of paperclip-demanding stuff .