Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I just weighed myself which confirmed that I cannot go another 9 months without exercise.

Less beer and pies then!

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

I got distracted looking at the preview of Martin's email ....

I guess we have to subscribe when we sign up .... to this day I've not read a single one of them.

To be honest, the whole "point" of this website is mostly completely irrelevant to my life/lifestyle. It's mostly about saving money for families ... and saving money on buying pricey stuff.

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

Less beer and pies then!

I don't have the requisite self control for that solution!

PasturesNew

I found most of the Complainers programme a bit boring to be honest. Got distracted reading the DM online instead....

As it was all about London, London transport, Londoners .... it lost my attention as it's all alien to me.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I don't have the requisite self control for that solution!

Embrace your inner l4rd4rse then ... and bin the scales

I've not got scales... well, I might find some in a box when I finally unpack .... in which case I've not used them for 7 years since I boxed them up. But, I might have ditched them at some point in an effort to continually try to minimise my portable belongings.

I bought/enjoyed a Pukka pie, chips and mushy peas the other day

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

I guess we have to subscribe when we sign up .... to this day I've not read a single one of them.

To be honest, the whole "point" of this website is mostly completely irrelevant to my life/lifestyle. It's mostly about saving money for families ... and saving money on buying pricey stuff.

I've never signed up either - on Tuesday evenings, a link appears at the top of the forums, then at some point later on the link on the rhs updates.

Much of it is family stuff, but there are some useful things in there too.

The Green Deal stuff includes some pricey things I've been vaguely thinking of anyway - insulation (loft is insulated, but the house has solid walls), boiler, new front door (though I'm not sure whether they have nice looking high performance doors ). And if I wanted internal solid wall insulation, I guess now would be a good time to do it (before I start decorating etc).

But there aren't enough details to look at online - make everyone advertise the cost of an assessment on their website, can I have a bit of external insulation (the house is half clad at the front - would make sense to externally insulate this as it needs re-doing anyway) etc etc.

Ultimately I'll probably just not do anything about it.

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

I've never signed up either - on Tuesday evenings, a link appears at the top of the forums, then at some point later on the link on the rhs updates.

I don't look around the screen
I just come here and read posts.

Nikkster wrote: »

Much of it is family stuff, but .... The Green Deal stuff includes some pricey things I've been vaguely thinking of anyway .

My house, being quite new, has an EPC of B. Won't be doing any insulation stuff....

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't look around the screen
I just come here and read posts.


My house, being quite new, has an EPC of B. Won't be doing any insulation stuff....

I've just tried looking for mine, but its not in my 'house buying' folder. Think it was G rated or somewhere around that...

Edit: Found it - didn't have a paper copy, it was in my emails.

Current rating E (low E), with G being the lowest possible rating.

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

I've just tried looking for mine, but its not in my 'house buying' folder. Think it was G rated or somewhere around that...

You can check the original EA listing on RM, it might be on there.

I am renting a "C". It's warm.... very warm. So I expect the "B" to be better.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

What an utter waste of time.

I know it doesn't come easy to you, but have you been chasing your solicitor at all? I'm sure things only moved as fast as they did for me (which still wasn't that fast) because I was in close contact with my solicitor (or their colleague anyway) so they kept pestering the other solicitor. You should be much further along by now - you're not faffing around with a mortgage!