The Road to Financial Security

Pushkin

Had to take the dog back to the vets yesterday, nothing to do with the blood cell problems she had in the summer but a torn dew claw. She is on antibiotics and the paw is bandaged, vet is hoping it will grow back on it's own. Another £65 gone though, and if she needs the claw removing that will mean an operation...

cookie9

Hope poor dog gets better soon. Great news on almost breaking the £100,000 barrier.
Hope work life balance gets better and you are less stressed.

CathT

Hope the work stress is reducing and the future is clearer. Well done om the mortgage, it is a brilliant milestone once you hit 5 figures.

Pushkin

Thanks Cath - mortgage reduction really seems slow going but I guess it's all inthe right direction. Work is not great but I"m not going to discuss it for a bit or it will set me off again.

Hi Cookie- dog has been signed off by vets again so is now in rude health. Hopefully won't be back to vets again in near future.

No money news really, finally able to re-list the phone the buyer never paid for on £b@y - so fingers crossed that sells this time. Still chasing up the refund from P@yp@l as they still took their commision payment.

Got a refund from BG as we were in credit so thats gone into savings. Bought some theatre tickets as a surprise Christmas present for DS - used cash back site, and relieved to be making progress (albeit slow) with Christmas shopping.

Pushkin

Pay day for me today and I am delighted that I had nearly £400 leftover in my current account - transferred total of £800 to slush fund. The high surplus is due to not using my credit card too much.

Few spends coming up, haven't bought many Crimbo presents yet and my car needs a service.

On the subject of cars DH wants to kick off the hunt for my new one tomorrow so we'll go and have a meander while DS is at his club. Intend to buy in December as DH says this is a good time to get a deal as car sales aren't high - that is logical to me.

Luckyinlife

nice work pushkin :]

£800 is a huge amount

how much the slush fund currently ?

Pushkin

LuckyinLife - Slush Fund is £2,575, I typically use it to pay for one off bills (car stuff, annual insurance, DS clubs etc) but am trying really hard to build it up right now. If I do end up taking redundancy I'd like to get as much as possible in there.

Luckyinlife

Aww thats a great idea i currently just pay things like that out of the monthly allowance after bills

defiantly helps to have as much saved as you possibly can

close to 3k as well really great pot :]

BookWorm

Just stopped by to say hello as I've not been in for a while. Have a lovely weekend Pushkin

Pushkin

Hi to you too Bookworm - have been keeping up with your diary Am having a good weekend thanks, we went to see The Martian yesterday, thought it would be dull but really enjoyed it.