22 Foxhole East

DrCarrie

f0xh0les said:

Go away to a beach for at least a week and listen to the sea.  Even if I have to go alone. 

That's all really impressive stuff you have laid out there F0xh0les - exciting times.

I love going on holiday on my own!

badmemory

That is seriously good interest rates if you are already on £998 tax free with only £2 to go.  Either that or you are earning over £50k so only get £500 tax free.  Even so £498 isn't bad with the abysmal rates we have been getting until recently.

f0xh0les

I don't know why gov.uk says my tax free savings allowance has gone down from £9 to £2. I swear they think I am some dodgy character. Seems a daftly small amount to me. 

greenbee

They'll change it again when your tax code is readjusted when a job starts/finishes. They make assumptions about earnings based on one-time data (I had a big tax bill this year - which I'd expected - because I paid my redundancy money into my pension the previous year and got a big rebate. There was no way to tell them I wouldn't be doing the same every year!).

f0xh0les

Well the rotten council have put up all the car parking charges from yesterday.   There were no notices last week to say bank hols were suddenly not going to be £1 to park, so I have just paid £10 to go to work!  Terrible!!  Oh well, back on the bus tomorrow for me! £4.60 bus fare beats £10 or £12 parking fees.  I had noticed they had messed with on-street parking rates. 

@mark55man - it is a smidge over £200 to fill in the gap for that year, but it is £400 odd if I do it after April because of the price rejig, so just going to do it, and then it is done, iyswim.  I no  longer get my stamp paid since DS4 went off to secondary school, so I have done well, I am happy to pay it.

Was asked again at work if I was interested in the 16 hour job - I said no, they asked if I had anything lined up to go into, I told them I had always had something else lined up to go into in February. They were just filling a hole in my calendar.  Oh , they said (sad face).  I have not told them that I so far only have 4 days work in Feb, but straight after is half term, during which DH is off to foreign parts for 5 days being clever, and I need to be home to do the little things, like feed people and make sure DH is okay.  He is not enjoying being a working-from-home-dad while the kids do s0d all and I am at work.  He needs  to be pampered for a little bit.  It is all a balancing act.

mark55man

Fair enough  - We did much the same when OH had the chance for 3 years for £400.  But we did think hard and its looking increasingly likely that at least one of those years will be wasted.  But better that than having to pay 4 times as much later 

QueenJess

greenbee said:

They'll change it again when your tax code is readjusted when a job starts/finishes. They make assumptions about earnings based on one-time data (I had a big tax bill this year - which I'd expected - because I paid my redundancy money into my pension the previous year and got a big rebate. There was no way to tell them I wouldn't be doing the same every year!).

You can ring them about your tax code. I’ve certainly got them to change it before when I’ve had something that was a one off.

VintageHistorian

I do find it funny when managers go "Oh so what are your plans?", as if "my plan is to not work here any more" isn't a perfectly valid reason to not take up their oh-so-generous offer.

MrsCatz

Me too, or their shock that you are leaving for a better role for you. “Are you sure you really want to go, have you thought this through?”   Err yes thanks, ta ta

f0xh0les

They are chronically understaffed, pay the minimum wage, and talk about  how the kids who work there are thick - most are uni students - studying amongst other things criminology, education, accountancy, and architecture!! - the snobbery of managers!

Anyway, I am going to revel in my last 26 days working there, 6 of which will be days off.

I do like to be able to see the end is in sight.