Breaking Through, Travelling On

edinburgher

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Goldie mentioned Skybet, that's a good shout. More importantly than the introductory offer, they do a weekly recurring free bet. I currently make c. £8.50 a week out of it, a good way to boost your total? I know that £8.50 isn't a huge amount, but remember that each weekly £ of income = £36.81/mth you don't need to earn for the future. So £8.50 a week can be worth £11k of pension pot (if you remember our ERE maths)? :beer:

gallygirl

Karmacat wrote: »

0.93% of the net figure I'm aiming for

Superb, nearly at 1% :T:T:T and great result on the ornament. Though now I'm picturing you as a crazy bag lady, carrying it around on the off-chance you'd find someone to buy it :rotfl:.

Karmacat wrote: »

You know what, its the whole pension thing - actively working on my ability to fund my retirement properly has given me a whole new lease of life, its very enabling :beer: and I have you and edinburgher and Tilly to thank for that :beer:

That's so lovely to read, it's so great to have all the support on here, what a difference it makes :T.

Karmacat

edinburgher wrote: »

I've not updated

Tsk!

Goldie mentioned Skybet, that's a good shout. More importantly than the introductory offer, they do a weekly recurring free bet. I currently make c. £8.50 a week out of it, a good way to boost your total? I know that £8.50 isn't a huge amount, but remember that each weekly £ of income = £36.81/mth you don't need to earn for the future. So £8.50 a week can be worth £11k of pension pot (if you remember our ERE maths)? :beer:

I do remember! I couldn't work it out now but I remember understanding it :rotfl: and £8.50 sounds absolutely great to me. I'm sure I didn't join skybet before. I'm going to get cracking on m.b.ing next week. I'll have to study how to take advantage of all these weird one-off offers from betfair, I don't have a clue how to use them.

gallygirl wrote: »

Superb, nearly at 1% :T:T:T and great result on the ornament. Though now I'm picturing you as a crazy bag lady, carrying it around on the off-chance you'd find someone to buy it :rotfl:.

Thanks Gally! It does rather sound like I was wandering about with an ornament peeking out of a dirty raincoat, doesn't it :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I've sold a book this morning, apparently, though its only one of the £0.01 ones on Amazon - it'll make me about 30p :rotfl: but again, it'll free up space. Counselling book thats entirely inappropriate for my approach, so I'm glad to send it to a new home.

That's so lovely to read, it's so great to have all the support on here, what a difference it makes :T.

Definitely. People are so supportive on here, its really wonderful. Makes you think, doesn't it, when we choose our peer group actively like this, the world is our oyster - we can all spiral upwards together.

Might be a bit disturbing as an image, to view lots of oysters spiralling up into the sky, thats what comes of mixing metaphors :rotfl: but the sense of humour you bring, Gally, as well as the determination, is very precious :T

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

Ah, yes it is good to temper frugality with care and humour. What else is there?

gallygirl

Karmacat wrote: »

It does rather sound like I was wandering about with an ornament peeking out of a dirty raincoat, doesn't it :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Karma goes shopping.......

Karmacat

Touting for business, more like :rotfl:

Anyway, this afternoon, I *made* myself do some pruning - the neighbour's leylandii in the front :eek: they've cut it twice for me while I've been here, but there's a new grandson, so I think that arrangement has gone west... I've done about half - it takes me a bit longer because I have to chop it up to fit into the ordinary bin (bin politics at work)... looks better even now, though the fencing is utterly desperate ... might need a builder type person in.

Cleaned the porch windows too ... yuk, is all I can say :rotfl:

And thats it, I'm bored with being good :beer:



ETA: okay, as well as the Senior Railcard, or whatever its called, I've just found out I'll also get free prescriptions! I thought all those benefits were going up with the pension age ... seems not. Thank heavens.

rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

...Thanks Gally! It does rather sound like I was wandering about with an ornament peeking out of a dirty raincoat, doesn't it :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: ...

KC I was picturing you as the character out of Sesame Street...

...Psst... do you want to buy a lettter P?

Goldiegirl

Karmacat wrote: »

You know what, its the whole pension thing - actively working on my ability to fund my retirement properly has given me a whole new lease of life, its very enabling :beer: and I have you and edinburgher and Tilly to thank for that :beer:

Thank you
I think we all inspire each other round here, as I get so much help from everyone's diary. There's not a day goes by where I read something and think 'I must look into that'

Karmacat

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: yep, thats it RT

Goldie, you're very welcome. And thats true, isn't it, about the help - at the moment, frinstance, I'm on the over 55s board, I've just found out about the railcard and the prescriptions - not that I *have* many prescriptions, but its all good

rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

...I'm on the over 55s board...

KC any chance you can post a link to that board? Discounts for OH would be great!