Travelling On

Karmacat

1. Put mastercard onto automatic, go paperless

2. Update my security document - in process.

3. Check what savings accounts are active - in process.

4. Standardise the details I have on them - in process.

5. Shuffle money between savings accounts, add new ones.

6. Buy some premium bonds.

7. Check with bro on the probate bank account. - in process

Most of this thats left is really, really fiddly.  I haven't touched the mastercard yet, and bro is rushed off his feet, I'm not going to rabbit to him about the probate account.  I need to standardise the details, ie check what each is earning, because I'm not sure my list is quite up to date, and then I can decide what to move - I'm going to do it quite simply, the 0.1% or less money is going into premium bonds, government income bonds, or a cash isa. 

Thats the plan of action, running alongside:

- getting fitter.

- carrying on with the garden (and contacting the fencer!).

- cooking - I don't think about food until I'm really hungry, and I *must* stop doing that.

- downloading anything left for genealogy, especially before my home-based library subscription to Ancestry expires at the end of August.

That'll do!

apple_muncher

Karmacat said:

  This is genuinely one of the most challenging things I've ever considered doing. 

Don't know about others, but this ^^ is how I feel about all the financial stuff you do!

beanielou

apple_muncher said:

Karmacat said:

  This is genuinely one of the most challenging things I've ever considered doing. 

Don't know about others, but this ^^ is how I feel about all the financial stuff you do!

As do I.
Way way out of my comfort zone & beyond my capabilities.

badmemory

Karmacat said:

But I don't have a previous pattern, badmemory.  I haven't used a sewing machine since I was 12 years old, which is why this is all a big deal for me, and why I have no idea how to thread the thing. 

I sympathise with this entirely.  I had to buy a new machine a lilttle while ago, the last one died of old age & still haven't figured out how to thread it.  I really hate all those little pictures.  Why can't they just tell you how to do it?  I keep putting it off!

Cheery_Daff

Lots of stuff going on for you KC! Definitely a good plan to keep it simple on the nightie front. I've found even some supposedly 'beginner' patterns quite baffling - I think it's REALLY difficult for people to communicate something they know well to people who don't know it at all. Good luck! X

Karmacat

apple_muncher said:

Karmacat said:

  This is genuinely one of the most challenging things I've ever considered doing. 

Don't know about others, but this ^^ is how I feel about all the financial stuff you do!

beanielou said:

apple_muncher said:

Karmacat said:

  This is genuinely one of the most challenging things I've ever considered doing. 

Don't know about others, but this ^^ is how I feel about all the financial stuff you do!

As do I.
Way way out of my comfort zone & beyond my capabilities.

Awww, thank you guys!  It's financial office admin - it's fiddly, and detailed, and needs writing down - but it's done by everyone who has savings but not enough savings to go to an IFA.  I have a bit more because I'm past the end of my working life   And in the first part of my working life, I was in financial admin and management, for a big charity, so it's known to me.  For me, the fiddliness is daunting, but do-able.  But I appreciate your support, because the thing *is* daunting! 

..... 

Karmacat

badmemory said:

Karmacat said:

But I don't have a previous pattern, badmemory.  I haven't used a sewing machine since I was 12 years old, which is why this is all a big deal for me, and why I have no idea how to thread the thing. 

I sympathise with this entirely.  I had to buy a new machine a lilttle while ago, the last one died of old age & still haven't figured out how to thread it.  I really hate all those little pictures.  Why can't they just tell you how to do it?  I keep putting it off!

And the threading is only the first step for me!  Imagine a cheeky 12 year old in a gymslip, being called "depraved" by the sewing mistress.  That's me.  I never took to it

Cheery_Daff said:

Lots of stuff going on for you KC! Definitely a good plan to keep it simple on the nightie front. I've found even some supposedly 'beginner' patterns quite baffling - I think it's REALLY difficult for people to communicate something they know well to people who don't know it at all. Good luck! X

Thanks Cheery!  Absolutely, I'm *so* ignorant about sewing, especially machine sewing.  It's why I'm in awe of the work that you've posted up in the past.

apple_muncher

Is there a utube video on threading your particular machine?

Karmacat

Thats a good question, apple - right now, I don't know .  It's old, but it is computerised, and it's an Elna, it's pretty good.  It *may* still be threaded I don't remember, its still stashed upstairs and I won't be getting it down till I've done a few craft-type things on my kitchen table. 

Completely cloudy grey sky today!  Dear me ... I need to finish off cleaning all the shopping thats hanging around.  And I confess, I found some cheese from last week I didn't put away - its been exposed to very hot temperatures in the porch, not safe to eat.  Annoying to throw away food that was perfectly good when it arrived in the house! 

Suffolk_lass

If you say what model of sewing machine you have, someone might be able to help (I have an old "original electric" model of singer and I have the instruction booklet which I could photograph the relevant bit of, if it were that one)