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edinburgher

Alchemilla wrote: »

Goodness you will be earning more at that than work soon!

For roughly a week, I've been on £50k

If only I was good at real work, then I'd actually get to that amount some day :rotfl:

edinburgher

What a lovely manafternoon I've had

Watched the rugby with the Sunday paper and some mini poppadoms, cleaned out the fish tank filter and am currently cooking roast beef with roast new potatoes, carrots, onions, savoy cabbage and HM gravy. There may be an open bottle of Cotes du Rhone and cake for dessert :j

I figured after my financially productive weekend, a tenner spent was reasonable.

Mrs E was out for afternoon tea with a sibling's partner, apparently they are not so productive :eek: I shall keep schtum, none of my beeswax...

ljaneyr

Both Mrs E and myself are very lucky to have found men who cook We enjoyed a lovely roast dinner earlier too :T

Would have been beans on toast if I had to cook

Dobbibill

Another good result on the Rugby Ed :T :T :T

in_need_of_direction

And so say all of us!

edinburgher

Does anyone else ever find themselves making extra OPs or saving more when work is stressful?

This has been a really stressful fortnight, I find myself stashing cash to pay into the S&S ISA.

I'm not sure if it's a) healthy b) unhealthy or c) neither

In the meantime, I console myself with the fact that one day I'm going to log in to my ISA and discover that I have enough money to not worry about it any more

misscousinitt

I think it's a way of keeping in control.

It goes one way or the other for me - I either go mad - spending on meals out etc... or keep a tight reign of every penny - no middle ground.

MCI

edinburgher

Of course you're right MCI, although my splurges are becoming smaller and less frequent. I have come to realise that my savings rate is just about the single aspect of my financial life that I am in complete control of.

Karmacat

Having control of your life is a wonderful thing - and lets face it, if your response to stress is to pay more into your savings, thats about as good as it gets, bearing in mind we all have stress ... spoken as someone who deals with the fallout of people's *unhealthy* reactions to stress. You can probably imagine some of them, but some of them are nightmarish.

Go for it, Ed!

edinburgher

Well, savings and occasional mad freakouts

Or whatever the PC version is.