KonMari 2017 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

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Well done MMF007. :T

I also looked through nail polish, I have 2 large toiletries bags full. 1 holds gel polish, which is all I use now on finger nails, the other normal polish, I kept a few of the normal ones for toe nails and then bagged some up for my niece.
As I'm just on maintaining my kondo efforts , I find after reading your results ,I go back and see if I can get rid of anything else!! I'm quite envious that you can throw things away still.:rotfl:
I reorganised kitchen cupboards yesterday, nothing to go though. I also kondoed weeds from dd2 s front garden.

I have wrapped dgsons presents, and bought both dds ,which I will wrap next week. Need to buy for the boyfriends , plus a little girl. Then I'm done. Apart from food for the day only, as it's my turn to cook.

Siebrie

I'm back in the attic

DD2 has tried on many trousers and shorts, and about 10 pair are now in her wardrobe. Many pairs are in the donate-to-Africa pile, and the others are neatly folded in one of the huge containers.

All my st Nicolas shopping is done, and the first items will leave the attic tonight, when dds put up their shoe, sing a st Nicolas song, add a carrot for his horse and go to bed in anticipation of a small gift in the morning. We will repeat this exercise every Saturday and Wednesday before the main event on 5 December.

Slinky

Interesting to hear of different traditions in action Siebrie, I'm not aware of anybody I know doing those!

Slinky

I've spent the day recreating our travel records for our house search and purchase. Sifting through emails and electronic calendar to remind me of dates we viewed, checking of diaries we keep in the cars for mileage records. Has been a bit of a task but I think I'm there now. Have discovered we've racked up nearly £2.5K in legitimate mileage claims we can set against our business which will help offset some of the costs we can't claim back.

Just going to get in the shower then we're off to Pizza Express (Tesco vouchers) and Paddington 2.

greent

Slinky wrote: »

Thanks green but was this replacements during tenancy or between lets? According to what I'm reading the fact our rental 'business' hasn't started yet, ie we've not yet had our first tenants, the cap-ex stuff can't be claimed.

For us it was replacements during tenancies and overhauling in-between. It could still be worth phoning HMRC up about what you can/ can't claim this tax year, based on this bit I found:
Expenses incurred before your rental business began
Expenses you incurred before your rental business started are tax deductible. The expenses must have been incurred within seven years before the start of your business and have been incurred wholly and exclusively for the purpose of preparing your property business for trading. HMRC asks ‘would the expense item in question been allowed as a deduction if it had been incurred after the rental business started?’

Got to be worth a try? - as I said, I've always found them to be helpful - they would rather help out beforehand than have to deal with an error after the fact And I've asked some really 'dumb' questions and re-asked, just to make sure!

MrsPorridge

Not sure what happened to DH today - but I'm not complaining - he took a desk and a swivel chair to the dump!

daisy_1571

Like siebrie I've been in the attic. Another car boot full to the tip - misc bits of plaster and insulation cutoffs from when the light shaft was built, ANOTHER box of this old house magazines from the 90s, old squashed cardboard boxes etc, in other words: what the flippin'eck were we keeping it all for in the first place??? Lots of paperwork down for burning, couple of books and clothes to current charity shop box, couple old tshirts to current ragbag for said cs, couple of bike related stuff onto the bay (leather trousers etc), some past it books to the paper recycling, some random bits of wood my granda had kept now on the burning pile. Some other stuff that we want to keep has been cleaned and will be stored in a tub with lid as we now have some of these emptied. I'm now out working in the eaves and even though I'm dinky short, I'm not very dinky around these days so it's blinking awkward maneuvering around getting boxes through the uprights and myself back out too so I can go through each box without ending up looking like the hunchback by the time im finished and find i can no longer straighten up:rotfl:.

That's the back of the house now fully clear in the eaves bar one box I just couldn't face trying to empty. I'm sure it has folders of paperwork from 19canteen so will bring it down tomorrow to add to the pile.

Tired now, so its 4 post hill for me with my hot milk, rock n roll :cool:

Dxx

Slinky

greent wrote: »

For us it was replacements during tenancies and overhauling in-between. It could still be worth phoning HMRC up about what you can/ can't claim this tax year, based on this bit I found:
Expenses incurred before your rental business began
Expenses you incurred before your rental business started are tax deductible. The expenses must have been incurred within seven years before the start of your business and have been incurred wholly and exclusively for the purpose of preparing your property business for trading. HMRC asks ‘would the expense item in question been allowed as a deduction if it had been incurred after the rental business started?’

Got to be worth a try? - as I said, I've always found them to be helpful - they would rather help out beforehand than have to deal with an error after the fact And I've asked some really 'dumb' questions and re-asked, just to make sure!

Thanks greent, where is that quote from please?

greent

Slinky wrote: »

Thanks greent, where is that quote from please?

Hi Slinky - from landlordzone - https://www.landlordzone.co.uk/information/tax-deductible-letting-expenses
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Topcat123

;)Never throw anything away you will immediately regret it.;)