Nice People 13: Nice Save

PasturesNew

Today's HutH might be of interest to some Herts people. Couple from Herts who'd given up jobs and moved north to do property development.
He was an electrician/local councillor (might have owned his electrics company); she was a probation officer. They both gave up jobs/moved in Jan/Feb 2014.

Names: Richard and Anne-Marie

Bought £50k, spent £12,500 (inc fees), agents on show valued it at £70-75k, now SSTC showing at £68k on RM.

Bought in June this year, so 5 months to date for two people to make £5,500. Bet they're pleased they both gave up well paid jobs to try it out!

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

If you are the sort of person likely to install a hot tap, you are probably the sort of person likely to install a water softener and reverse osmosis thingummy on your drinking taps.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Maslow's Hierarchy of Posh Purchases.

I want the tap but not the softener:(. But we do have hard water .

Wheezy_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

Loaded up at Lidl though - with essentials and unnecessary fattening goodies Milk, muffins, cereal, tinned tomatoes, tinned meatballs, bin liners .... and chocolate covered sultanas, fruit pastilles and mini cheesecakes

Your body is your temple eh?.

PasturesNew

Wheezy wrote: »

Your body is your temple eh?.

Yes - and it needs goodies to appease the Gods.

If you were a God would you be more pleased if somebody brought you a turnip? Or some sweeties?

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yes - and it needs goodies to appease the Gods.

If you were a God would you be more pleased if somebody brought you a turnip? Or some sweeties?

One of my favourite home cooked curries is turnip curry. Its delicious. With those summer tender turnips especially.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

This gardening lark's an expensive game ...especially noticeable if you don't want to do any gardening. Yesterday I tried to buy some bin liners that'd fit the pop up garden waste bin I bought to gather the leaves I don't want ..... having also bought a bit of trellis to catch them/gather them .... and a leaf rake I bought.

Just that lot to date's now cost me:

£7 Leaf rake
£2 Trellis
£10 pop up bin
£2 bin liners big/strong enough to line the bin
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£21 to gather/dispose of leaves I don't own and don't want. Not to mention the fact I've to pay a gutter clearing man to clear the leaves from the gutters as they're full! And, while he's up there, he'll have to insert the "hedgehogs" which'll cost about £75-100.

Bl00dy leaves - and bl00dy tree owners.


And, on the subject of gardens, let's not forget I've also bought a lawnmower and a small trowel thing and a lopper and bush clipper.... so there's another £60-70 gone.

Would you rather live in a flat hearing upstairs's washing machine dancing across the kitchen floor?

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

I want the tap but not the softener:(. But we do have hard water .

We have the softener but not the tap.

Talking of hot water, there is an ikettle. You turn it on via an app on your phone. Thus saving you getting to the kettle before the water is hot.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I flick the kettle on and stand beside it until it boils..... I've never realised this was unusual.

Kettle routine:

Put a mug of water in kettle, grab a cleaning cloth from draw.

get out what's going in mug, put in mug, put away.

If time ( might not be if it was herb rather than coffee or tea bag) Grab cleaning cloth ,,,clean a surface or fridge door or something like that.

Pour kettle,

Add milk if necessary

Throw cloth in dirty cloth bucket wash hands, grab drink.

Wheezy_2

Kettle routine:

- pour water in kettle
- flick on kettle
- take coffee/tea/bachelors soup and apply to mug
- open fridge if milk is needed
- trip over westie who joined because he thought the fridge was being opened to give him a treat
- pour hot water in mug
- drink coffee/tea/bachelors soup
- get told off by Mrs Wheezy because I boiled too much water

Yodel_representative

mystic_trev wrote: »

Just having seeing they're being delivered by Yodel, I'll start chasing the order sometime later next year!

Have you received the results of your scan?

Hi. If you’re still having problems with your delivery feel free to send me your details to the email address on our profile page. I’ll see what I can find out for you. Chloe.