Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

gallygirl wrote: »

A new one on me as well but I think it's:
Rootle: To move in a leisurely and unfocused rummaging manner .

Example: I had a nice rootle with KC in some charity shops last week .

:j:j:j Thats the one. Rootle-ootle-ootle

KC - check out End of the World Night on C4 tonight on whatever their iPlayer equivalent is .

Ooh! I hadn't signed up to C4 iplayer thingy - I have now, and its playing in the background - there's no facility to download and watch offline, which has always discouraged me in the past, as my download speed can be pathetic, but right now, its doing fine (didn't know Chandra Wickramasinghe was still going! He looks good )

rtandon27 wrote: »

:DHappy Easter KC & all the 'rootling' chums!:D

Hope you all have a glorious day & that the sunshine peaks out at least once!
:EasterBun
(our choccy got scoffed on Friday so today is a healthy fruit salady morning!)

Thank you RT! No choccy for me - I had lots of grapes delivered in my supermarket stash, along with bananas, so I'm all good

carbootcrazy wrote: »

Just been having a pootle/rootle online and have just found Pinterest:j. I can't understand how I never discovered it before today. I'm hardly a pioneer am I?:o

I can confidently say that I'll be [STRIKE]wasting[/STRIKE] spending a lot of time on there from now on:). There's a lot of financial advice from what I can see so at least I'll be doing something useful;)

Good for you! I haven't joined, but it looks fascinating , and I love some of the images.

I had a country walk today, from the stables where my niece goes riding - an ancient greenhouse had been taken over by the very free range hens, and they'd established dust baths and special places to watch the riding lessons, I'm not kidding it was like a hen spa :j

Goldiegirl

Karmacat wrote: »

Thats very interesting, about Amazon and about the postcards - Goldie, that might be as steady for you as the jigsaws? CBC, there's nothing I'd like more than handing over control of the packing to someone else :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I'm a control freak in oh-so-many ways, but not that particular one

Orf to Bedfordshire now, night night

I'd certainly hope to be able to sell the cards that I don't want to keep. The main attraction is the excitement of buying an old bundle of cards as you never know what you are going to get. There are so many coincidences in life, so I could end up with one sent to a family member - that'd be amazing. It'd be very much like the jigsaws - enjoy them for a while, and then move them on so I can get so more to play with.

On the subject of coincidences, I've sold a CD this evening, to a person in a house in Carshalton, a couple of doors from where we were going to buy a flat in 1980.

carbootcrazy wrote: »

What a lovely and interesting post, Goldie with lots of valuable advice about postcards. And thanks to you too, KC, for mentioning websites where it's possible to check on fashions of different periods etc.:T:T:T:T

I've sold postcards before but not in great quantities and nothing particularly interesting or expensive. Maybe some of this batch will prove to be the equivalent of a winning lottery ticket;):rotfl:. Had a lovely evening just reading through some of the messages on the backs of a lot of the cards. Such beautiful handwriting in most cases too, even for such short and simple greetings. Was also amazed at the speed in which they must have been delivered, at least locally. Someone posted one early one morning making arrangements for the same evening!!!! I suppose in pre-telephone days (for most 'ordinary' people) it was the only form of rapid communication with several deliveries each day. The Royal Mail has certainly gone downhill since then:(

I agree with you, Goldie, that postcards are the ideal eBay item to post:j

In the past, I have managed to sell some cards at amazing prices. £35 was the best, but I've sold a few others for £20. They were the winning lottery tickets

But lots of others went for 99p!

Karmacat

Oh my! Thats a good lottery ticket :j

I've tidied the bathroom before a spring cleaning type event I didn't know it was that untidy And there's a line of washing out too :j with a beautiful blue sky overhead :j

I don't want to do much more than clean the bathroom and a bit of weeding today, so I've been pootling about on the computer (as opposed to rootling ) - turns out I've chosen exactly the wrong time to try to become a kindle author, independently-published sales have fallen by 75% in the last 4 months because of Kindle Unlimited :eek: oops. Back to the drawing board, for other forms of writing in addition. On another tab, I have open a favourite MrMoneyMustache article of mine "A millionaire is made ten bucks at a time" :j I know that peeps on here will understand that

edinburgher

I have open a favourite MrMoneyMustache article of mine "A millionaire is made ten bucks at a time

I seem to recall that article was a bit ambitious re. how much people can save, one of those daft MMM ones along the lines of 'if you save *only* $400/week for 20 years you can retire'?

Still, it takes me back to a Hargreaves Lansdown article that was a lot more basic, but along similar lines (i.e. regular savings add up). It's very simplistic, but it makes the point well.

I can remember thinking 'how on earth do people invest £5/day?!' Little did I expect to be surpassing that figure by 5-6x in a couple of years

Karmacat

Well, thats true - ambitious, simplistic, you name it but the principles, ah, the principles - little bits add up, you can take control, you can do more than you think. I love it. And you do too thanks for the HL article

edinburgher

Absolutely, simplistic principles can create powerful changes, once you accept this it seems to get a lot more straightforward to plan :T

Karmacat

Ed, I have to ask what a "boost" in terms of m.b.ing - are they going to shoot me on the questions thread? I just haven't heard the term, it must be new since I was last doing it ... can't find it anywhere in the intro either.

Cheery_Daff

I enjoyed that article too General principles apply to anything I suppose - take tiny steps in the right direction and you'll eventually get there. I've been applying it to writing articles at work - I'm supposed to as part of job, but there's rarely any actual time to set aside for it, so I've been chipping away 10, 20, 30 minutes at a time - it all adds up!

Same with money - spend 70p a day on chocolate, and it adds up to a fair bit in a year... :eek: (ask me how I know.. :rotfl: )

Karmacat

How true is that :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: In the same way (well, sort of) I've been trying to bring some sense of priority to my working life. This is it so far:

10 hours client contact
4 writing sessions
3 editing sessions
2 m.b. sessions
2 cleaning sessions
3 gardening sessions – max 1 hour each
tidying – maybe half a "session" per day.


So, most days will have client work; they'll have something around writing or editing or both; and they'll also have either gardening or cleaning.



They'll *always* have tidying :eek: :rotfl:


I can't pin it down any further than this, because the basis is the client work, which is different amounts of time on different days, and not always routine either. But per week, I think this is pretty good.

edinburgher

A boost is basically an enhanced price for a short period, narrowing the gap between the bookie and the exchange price. For example, Skay have boosted Dicosimo to win the 2.45 at Fairyhouse from 2.25 to 2.5.

Good boosts are usually an ideal way to use up free bets (high odds), to qualify for minimum spend offers like the Skay free bet club and they can be what amounts to a free arb (as the exchange price can be considerably lower).

With arbs, I tend to use them where available and I have some free float money. If it's £4 or less, I will underlay in the hope of a (lucky) big pay off, it it's over £4 profit, I'll just lock in the free money.

Hope that isn't too much detail