Mortgage free by 2023 (!)

Karmacat

Sounding good, debtfree, except for the bleepy not-smart-meter.

badmemory

Seems about par for the course with smart meters!

debtfreeoneday

I see that nectar are running a smart fruit and veg challenge. Signed up. Didn’t understand it but somehow gained 350 points today so that’s a bonus. £9.25 requested from Prolific but stuck somewhere in cyber space. 

South_coast

Ooh, excellent thank you. I have also signed up. Apparently I buy an average of 59 portions per month, which is impressive as most of my shopping is done elsewhere 🤔?

debtfreeoneday

South_coast said:

Ooh, excellent thank you. I have also signed up. Apparently I buy an average of 59 portions per month, which is impressive as most of my shopping is done elsewhere 🤔?

I don’t shop that much there but I buy 7 portions each month according to them. 

greent

Ooh - I've also just signed up - thanks! 

Not impressed by the offers of extra points on f&v that I don't normally buy..... 🙄🙄 there's a reason why I don't buy those items - no one in my house likes them! 

Suffolk_lass

Re your decision to buy an air source heat pump, I asked the only person I know with one and she was rather critical - it is noisy, and despite assurances it could be located away from the house wall, the installers cautioned against it (burying stuff, then having to dig it up for maintenance seemed to be their reasoning). She says her house is really cold in winter, about 16c.

They have had it for about 8 years so do check with the newer ones

debtfreeoneday

Suffolk_lass said:

Re your decision to buy an air source heat pump, I asked the only person I know with one and she was rather critical - it is noisy, and despite assurances it could be located away from the house wall, the installers cautioned against it (burying stuff, then having to dig it up for maintenance seemed to be their reasoning). She says her house is really cold in winter, about 16c.

They have had it for about 8 years so do check with the newer ones

It’s in already!

debtfreeoneday

Feel like I haven’t been on here much at all. Life been busy. 

So where am I?

Air source heat pump installed and solar panels also going in. Bit of a backstory as to why we are doing this which I’m not going to go into but they will be better than our previous heaters and we have log burner back up and will install a second burner if we need to. 

Money wise we have had a result of the PPI tax rebates so should have about £250 coming our way this week. Another one has been refunded via DHs tax code so it’ll be interesting to see his payslip this month. A further one has also been refunded via a cheque which I need to chase with the tax office as it hasn’t arrived yet. 

Ticking on with surveys and doing well on free money this month. Cant believe July has nearly gone either!

CathT

Good news about the PPI  and tax refunds. DH was on emergency tax for about 6 weeks when changing jobs last year and I'm baffled that he's not due a refund but we've checked the gateway and still no luck.

What do you have planned over the Summer? Time is going so quickly Isn't it.