Only freedom will do

earthgirl

We are also bbqing like crazy... think we managed one in the whole of the last year in Scotland!

edinburgher

earthgirl wrote: »

We are also bbqing like crazy... think we managed one in the whole of the last year in Scotland!

We had our second last night

Giving serious thought to buying a 30kg sack of decent hardwood charcoal, but I could be getting ahead of myself!

Goldiegirl

edinburgher wrote: »

Giving serious thought to buying a 30kg sack of decent hardwood charcoal, but I could be getting ahead of myself!

Steady on - you may already have experienced the whole of the summer! :rotfl:

edinburgher

Oh wow - our plasterers have done an absolutely cracking job repairing DD's walls - we will use them again :j

Should be able to start decorating this weekend

choccielover

edinburgher wrote: »

We had our second last night

Giving serious thought to buying a 30kg sack of decent hardwood charcoal, but I could be getting ahead of myself!

Haha, one sure way to guarantee a summer of rainy weekends, buy a new bbq enough charcoal to last the summer

Zola.

Late comer to this thread, read most of it over a number of days!

Are you still invested with Vanguard Life Strategy Edinburgher? I have just started recently on the 80 platform.

edinburgher

Yes, still invested in Vanguard Life Strategy. We use the 80% fund to invest for DD and I use a mix of the 100% fund and one of their bond funds for myself.

I was also quite excited to read about their target retirement funds that are now available through some brokers, a great idea that's quite popular in the US that basically boils down to 'choose your retirement date, invest monthly, leave the rest to us'!

Zola.

Are you planning to hold LS for as long as possible?


Yes I saw that retirement fund, looks interesting!

I may try to get my partner to invest in this, my pension is decent enough, I put in 4%, the company puts in 6% each month.... whereas my partner only gets a matched 1% or something awful !

ajmoney

Hi Ed, how are you, your family and your empire?

I am looking for a bit of advice re calculations, if you get a sec could you look at the last post in my thread please?

hiddenshadow

edinburgher wrote: »

I was also quite excited to read about their target retirement funds that are now available through some brokers, a great idea that's quite popular in the US that basically boils down to 'choose your retirement date, invest monthly, leave the rest to us'!

I have my US pension pot with vanguard split into age-64 retirement date and age-59 retirement date. So far they haven't changed allocation as far as I can tell, but that's still more than 20 years away. I do like the "set it and forget it" style, though.