Travelling On

beanielou

The fence should not need painted for at least the first couple of years Karmcat   

debtfreeoneday

We did our fence last year and haven’t painted it. It was pressure treated. I’m hoping not. That’s a job I don’t fancy. 

Karmacat

That's good news then!  Thanks for the feedback people, much appreciated - yes, it's obviously really nice wood.  I haven't had the words "pressure treated" used to me, but I'll check.  

Utterly *freezing* here today!  Like the rest of the country, of course.  Not a chance I'll be going out there today to do anything, except put the tealeaves taken from teabags onto the soil, and finally put the insulation cap onto the outside tap, oops.  It's very sheltered, I hope I'm not too late.  

I was doing a fair bit of tidying and getting things back into their place yesterday, it felt very useful.  I'm going to be having even more time at home right now because of all the reports about police arresting people who are out in ones and twos, most of whom seem to be my age and in the sort of isolated spots that me and my sister go to.  Not going to take that chance.

Karmacat

Hurray, I genuinely did look at 10am as a starting time for financial work, and kept to it.  Slight digression, because the fencer's invoice came in, and I wanted to pay it straight away, he was good to me, and my big online payments are blocked because I'm halfway through a pin change, so it took an online chat and 2 phone calls.  Hey ho.  But I have a ta-da list!
1. Paid the fencer.
2. Did the webuybooks offer, and received money into paypal, my preference.
3. Payments to Principality regular saver not currently automated, though I think I can, but at least I've set up Jan and Feb - that's plenty to get me out of the financial admin hole.
4. Downloaded two sets of paperless automatic statements, the bank and a cc - victory!
5. Just the start - downloading the statements made me tidy up the computer files for the tax declarations.  All done now.

So, the Big List had crept up to 119, and I've done 4 today.  Well, not today, but done, at any rate.  My phone's calculator tells me that that's 3.36%   There are plenty of other small jobs on the list, but I might actually get the tax papers down: 2019-20 has got mixed up with the current year, it would be nice to sort that out.  Though I'm going to have a cuppa tea right now.

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, I like the idea of working out what percentage of your list you've ticked off! Well done!

apple_muncher

Can you end up in a negative percentage? Because that's where I'd probably end up!!!

rtandon27

Cheery_Daff said:

Ooh, I like the idea of working out what percentage of your list you've ticked off! Well done!

LOL - I was thinking the exact same thing! 😁

Karmacat

Very possibly  if I looked at my original list of 109 items, and then compared it to my current list - after the 4 jobs done I've written above, my current list has 115 items there you go, negative percentage   

Suffolk_lass

rtandon27 said:

Cheery_Daff said:

Ooh, I like the idea of working out what percentage of your list you've ticked off! Well done!

LOL - I was thinking the exact same thing! 😁

And me too!

Karmacat

I love it    Okay:-

115 - 109 = 6

6 / 109 x 100 = 5.5

Negative percentage of 5.5%  and given how little of it I've done today, that's entirely appropriate