The Edcawber Principle

edinburgher

Our water is lovely, no limescale. We've been using our kettle for a decade, not a hint of residue

edinburgher

£85.32 to be paid off the CC (Am@zon voucher shuffle to buy DD a new car seat). Please with the price - there was a Flash Deal or similar to buy the same seat at £109. It looked good, but I shopped around, went full circle and found the same thing £25 cheaper :beer:

Unfortunately I've come to the realisation that MIL will probably want a new seat too and that really rankles. We paid for 1/2 of a £250 car seat for her last time and she has honestly used it 3 times since DD was born :mad: Might try and sell that one and just give her a pro rata refund for what she contributed.

edinburgher

Mrs E has reined in my grumps - apparently DD's seat for MIL's car was a compromise choice that should last for a bit longer :j

Had a stressful but fun day taking DD and 4 of her cousins around Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, running around in the park like maddies and then visiting my parents.

Poor stepdad has his leg in a stookie after an accident and I helped my youngest brother build him a bed on the ground floor of their house. We have a bit of an odd relationship with them. On the one hand, they're very loving and great at keeping in touch, but we're not really the sort of family who helps each other out with practical things all that often. You know - the sort of guy you try and buy a drink for and he flat out refuses to let you (and means it)!

It felt good to be doing something helpful for him after all the teenage/young adult days where he rented vans/helped us fix confusing things or lift heavy !!!!. Not much, but a little something back

edinburgher

Rolled my regular Monday payment to the CCs together with a couple of others that I was unable to make over the weekend as V1rgin were busy updating my account. £282.94 paid off this morning. I also made an OP of £0.76 to the mortgage - so you can't ban me from MFW :rotfl:

No particular Milestones, but the Virgin CC has now ticked under £5,xxx, which means that of my 4 CCs, only 2 are above £5k. Still a lot of hard work ahead, but feeling like it might ever get paid off

Also updated NW spreadsheet (boring as the mortgage payment etc. doesn't go out for a fortnight) and am just about to complete the final set of transfer out forms for a small pension that I am consolidating. Once this is done, I'll only have one DC pension, which will make the admin very simple when I transfer to the Vanguard SIPP (hopefully by the end of the year) :j

Karmacat

Good finances, Ed (and I'm loving the £0.76 OP!) and very sweet about your stepdad. Not experienced it in the family, but I've seen a very bad teenage stepdad/stepdaughter relationship become a truly connected adult relationship. All the more powerful for that.

And I think you're an absolute hero for taking on four of little DD's cousins in one go :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

edinburgher

Oops - not taking credit for that one KC! There were 5 children and 5 parents, I'm still absolutely knackered

We were out from 10:30-17:00, that's a very long day when it comes to active time spent doing kiddy stuff.

Edit: Then again, at least one sibling was checked out as they followed the football results, so I guess it was 1.25 children per adult (or "nearly 1:1 ratio of staff to guests" (as the fancy cruise brochures boast)) :rotfl:

Karmacat

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

No adult could have done it on their own, actually, thinking about it but I still think it counts as A Jolly Good Thing especially given the timing!

beanielou

Looking good

edinburgher

£1.22 paid off a CC.

DD has decided that she wants to use the toilet after seeing one of her cousins toddling off to the bathroom with Mum - spontaneous toilet training? :rotfl:

I am off to London town tomorrow and am quite excited :j

beanielou

Enjoy London Town