The Edcawber Principle

beanielou

Plodding is always good

edinburgher

£4.62 paid off a CC.

Payday today - nothing particularly exciting to report - although I do note with satisfaction that this was the last wage where a deduction will be made for the extra leave I purchased last year. This is one of the three wage rises that will affect me by next month

In other good news, we're hopeful that a small windfall might fall into place by the end of next week.

Suffolk_lass

A small windfall - how lovely! Spend some, save some, pay some off?

edinburgher

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

A small windfall - how lovely! Spend some, save some, pay some off?

I think it will all go to debt SL, we will be using the bulk of my back pay for DD's birthday and fun stuff, so it seems appropriate to be sensible with this money? It's not a life changing amount, expecting low ££££

beanielou

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

A small windfall - how lovely! Spend some, save some, pay some off?

Agree with this:D

Suffolk_lass

Maybe some spring bulbs in a pot for Mrs E? - Personally I always hope for freesia which smell so lovely, as long as they are the scented ones - who knew the SM sold them without ?

edinburgher

Can freesia be kept indoors? Mrs E and I are not green fingered, very lazy when it comes to plant care!

No payments today, will be starting BTs to new credit card by Friday, so don't want to accidentally transfer too much.

Karmacat

Not a clue on the freesia, Ed, sorry, I'm not much of a flowers person

Suffolk_lass

Yes you can, but if you were starting from scratch, they prefer a cold windowsill, greenhouse or conservatory. Although not currently available, this DIY kit is aimed at indoors - here. They are in the SM as cut flowers now but bulbs from scratch take about 4 months so not for now as a plant from scratch unless your shops have them (florists sometimes do, less so SM)

Also Sarah Raven is quite good on advice (here).

If they do not have pots in the shops in shoot or bud, you might be looking at cut flowers.

Alternatives
There are lots of pots of crocus, hyacinth, narcissi etc in garden centres that would happily live on a window sill and then when they wither and die back, you could lift the bulbs and plant them in the garden (pot or bed) in September to see them again next Spring.

I buy the end of season unsold pots from the local garden centre when they are £50% or less and I can see what they are and how tall (and smell any fragrance). I have had some unexpected introductions where the wrong thing got in with my bulbs and this is cheaper.

edinburgher

Thanks SL - you are a mine of information!

I think my gardening will largely need to consist of weeding in the near future! I have a week off in April, plan is to sheet mulch some of our less attractive beds and avoid doing anything with them this year :think:

Small windfall has turned out to be very small Hey ho, a few £££ better than nowt. I know you shouldn't count your chickens before they hatch and all that, but our estimation was off by 9x :eek:

Big payday shop today - as well as the usual groceries I picked up 9 bags of dry cat food on offer (20% off + a 10% off voucher); some home maintenance bits and bobs; petrol and 4kg of our favourite coffee. The coffee was pretty dear (just over £50), but will last us until mid-July and is ethical in all kinds of ways :rotfl:

I have transferred as much as I could to big BT card - £13,950. This will leave £1,400 or so that I will have to transfer to a card with a 2.99%? fee for another interest free year. The plan is to pay off this paid transfer a.s.a.p. and just pay the minimums off the big card (these will start at a somewhat eye watering £350/mth). I did try and open another free BT card, but was declined and would rather pay the fee than risk any more rejections. Looking forward to closing at least 4 credit cards by the end of the month.