Project Mortgage Neutral Begins

Suffolk_lass

Is there a FB page for your community? It's a great way of getting personal recommendations for tradesmen to do things where you live in a closed group, as long as you don't have loads of people hijacking it as free advertising.

ajmoney

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

Is there a FB page for your community? It's a great way of getting personal recommendations for tradesmen to do things where you live in a closed group, as long as you don't have loads of people hijacking it as free advertising.

I will have a look but I am going to put something on my own page as some of my friends are in groups that might be able to help.

savingholmes

I looked at your link - so glad we encouraged you to go - it looks absolutely amazing. The ABTA tip was worthwhile remembering too.

We paid about £3.2K for a new combi boiler a couple of years ago for a 4 bed house. That included getting rid of the old emersion tank in the airing cupboard and a tank in the loft. If we had wanted a like for like replacement it would have been between £1-2K. We've saved so much gas since doing it though and we love having a usable airing cupboard and a more usable loft space.We got recommendation from our neighbour who had had theirs done

ajmoney

savingholmes - I have two recommendations to try now, one from the electrician and one from Mr AJM who needed his heating fixing so I will give both companies a call.


I am at risk of doing too much at the moment or rather not giving myself any time to stop. I need to sit and work out what the priorities are I think as I don't necessarily want to give anything up. After the time with the doctor from my self referral (I don't know if I put on here that I had been discharged from him) I am getting a lot better at seeing the signs of stress and anxiety and dealing with them but this time I definitely feel like I am losing control. I am glad I am seeing the triggers though.

ajmoney

Right, this month I want to try and knuckle down with the petrol and food spends. Over the next couple of days I will total up how much they cost me last month and then see if I can make a small saving although February should be easier with fewer days. In all honesty I don't think I can save on my fuel so I just need to make sure I am budgetting correctly. I went down a brand level for my porridge oast this afternoon as I didn't have time to go to Ald!, so instead of branded I got suppermarket own although didn't go to the saver level. I am going to try and look for some good meal ideas that are a bit cheaper too to see if I can reduce these costs. I am on target to get rid of my small mortgage by the end of the year but maybe a few pennies will help bring it a little closer.

ajmoney

I don't like this new look forum although I am never a fan of change, maybe once I get used to it I will find it easier.  It took me ages to find the threads I follow that are now under bookmarks.  I always used to click on view first unread post, anyone know if that is still a thing?

Radish72

Its horrible isn't it, also took me ages to find followed threads under bookmarks, only way I can find the "first unread post" is to click on notifications

ajmoney

Radish72 said:

Its horrible isn't it, also took me ages to find followed threads under bookmarks, only way I can find the "first unread post" is to click on notifications

I found the notifications eventually. Any idea how I change subscriptions? I subscribe to a lot of threads but I don't set email notifications to try and keep my emails down but they have all reset and I can't work out how to change it. 

ChasingSunshine

For email subscriptions look under Profile, then 'Edit my profile' and it lets you turn off the email notifications. Really missing the last post bit of subscriptions as thats have I used to navigate the forum. Hopefully all the glitches get sorted soon. Last read post and smilies are both missed though.

Suffolk_lass

ChasingSunshine said:

For email subscriptions look under Profile, then 'Edit my profile' and it lets you turn off the email notifications. Really missing the last post bit of subscriptions as thats have I used to navigate the forum. Hopefully all the glitches get sorted soon. Last read post and smilies are both missed though.

If you click on notifications it will show you threads that have new posts (that you have commented on previously) or where people you have favourited have posted, I believe.