Only freedom will do

ramorth

Aye he's awfy guid

edinburgher

I have been a consumate over achiever today

• Got petrol, went to the bank and went to Asd@, B&em, HB and Lidl
• Completely stripped down my aquarium in advance of laying laminate floor tomorrow
• Got all remaining kit required for laying laminate floor
• Placed 3-4 MB, £20 profit or so
• Tasty HM dinner of fishcakes (Rachel Allen recipe), aligot and cabbage
• Cleared out loads of cardboard and assorted nonsense
• All of Mrs E's Christmas presents have now arrived
• Bought a few more Christmas presents
• Put up new lightshade in spare room
• Considered a Lov3film subscription, it would seem to be the cheapest legal way of getting access to the sorts of series we like

Cream crackered now, off to read Monevator with a big mug of tea :coffee:

slowlyfading

If you do sign up to lov3film, remember to sign up via a cashback site

edinburgher

Hey there SF

Unfortunately now they're under the big Am@zon banner, I can't find any cashback

slowlyfading

Oh, are they? That's rubbish

gallygirl

edinburgher wrote: »

I have been a consumate over achiever today

• Got petrol, went to the bank and went to Asd@, B&em, HB and Lidl
• Completely stripped down my aquarium in advance of laying laminate floor tomorrow
• Got all remaining kit required for laying laminate floor
• Placed 3-4 MB, £20 profit or so
• Tasty HM dinner of fishcakes (Rachel Allen recipe), aligot and cabbage
• Cleared out loads of cardboard and assorted nonsense
• All of Mrs E's Christmas presents have now arrived
• Bought a few more Christmas presents
• Put up new lightshade in spare room
• Considered a Lov3film subscription, it would seem to be the cheapest legal way of getting access to the sorts of series we like

Cream crackered now, off to read Monevator with a big mug of tea :coffee:

I too have achieved stuff today:

• Queued up in Argos for 5 minutes to get DS & gf's Xmas present. Gave up, will do tomorrow.
• Returned stuff to Next
• Went to Asda
• Started some edigital surveys. Got bored. Will do tomorrow.
• Watched 2 films (He's Just Not That Into You - better than it deserved to be & Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - good film but what happened to the book?)
• Drank gin. Will probably do that tomorrow as well

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

gallygirl wrote: »

Seconded :T.

Thirded (sorry for poor grammar :rotfl:)

The information you posted for my DD has been invaluable and you are responsible for her starting with S&S at the age of 18 :T

Tilly x x

Karmacat

No pressure for the brilliance, ed, but you are, you know! Fourthed

Interesting about Lo** ilm - I think I do want some sort of subscription, but I really don't want to pass any money to the BBC, not after the cavalier way they used licence money to overpay George Entwistle's leaving money, and who's now back in their employ anyway

Enjoy your fish

edinburgher

Enjoy your fish

I did not enjoy my 10.5 hours of laying laminate :eek: Still, 70% done, hope to finish the actual boards tomorrow, will take another evening again for the beading etc. :eek:

edinburgher

Deep in the jungle of DIY hell, payday has come around again.

• Money shuffle
• £320 to Emergency Fund
• £140 to S&S ISA (on top of our standard £165/mth)
• Work pension issue finally sorted, an extra £800 paid in and the value is now c. £12k :beer:
• Earned a £10 bonus in a MB offer last night, ended up being paid 50p for the privilege!

My future self is happy and relieved and offered me a big thank you for staying the course with the pension issue, which finally took 53 weeks to resolve. I had a lot of feelings reinforced during this period. I really hate work confrontation. I am tenacious when I need to be. Nobody cares about my future more than me

In immediate terms, I gained a pension boost of £2,000, of which I paid £650 (less than £400 in real terms, salary sacrifice avoided tax and NI). I've also recovered over £600/year in future pension (something like £14k + growth over my expected career).

When I look at our merry band of retirement wannabes (Goldie, KC and the people over on the pensions thread), I realise how important this is. Glad I'm taking the 'pain' now.