Earthgirl's Final Battle

earthgirl2

Hello Karma, Beanie, Madvix and apple, and anyone else, although I can't think why anyone would actually want to read this. It keeps me going though! So a quick weekly review:
Money making:
I have applied for the amex card to get nectar points 
I am still doing a couple of online lessons per week after school. I will advertise for face to face bookings again now children are back to school.
Should really focus on easy ways to up my income, but I am near the top of the tax bracket. I could really do with a lodger again - the last one moved out before covid. We are nervous of doing airbnb again as there is a lot of shared space.
Money out:
I saved quite a bot of money getting a rescue kitten from cats protection at the weekend, in terms of I didn't buy an expensive kitten from a breeder - or worse still - get scammed. 
I have an amaz0n voucher from work, so I will use this to get cat food. I improvised cat toys, bed and litter tray.
Our weekly shop was £75 - budget of £80.
I'm meeting up with friends every other week for a face to face chat. A few weeks ago I cooked mexican, it was quite cheap. This week I think we are just meeting somewhere for drinks so should be quite cheap.

General
Kittens are not cheap, but we have wanted a pet for a long time and this seemed a good year to get a kitten to allow it to settle as we are not going out much. I really need to get on with tidying up the spare room, it is full of papers. Also, I will try to sort out my tax so I know exactly how much I have left before I hit the next tax bracket.

A_Frayed_Knot

Hi eg2
You probably know this already (I only found out last week !!!) that if you apply/log on to Gov.uk, they hold all sorts of info regarding your empliyment/expected salary for the year/expected tax for the year and how much extra you can earn before hitting the next tax bracket.  Hope that helps a little, may be slightly different for self employed though.

I also need to clear spare room - filled with more than just papers, think yourself lucky 

Karmacat

How lovely to get the kitten, yay!  As for the tax bracket thing, remember about claims you can make to bring down your net profit.  

And as for who's reading - there's probably a *lot* more than you think.  Posts of mine on my diary get the usual 3 - 5 maybe 8 thanks.  And when I posted a link to my Norwegian photos in 2018, over 120 people clicked on it to have a look!  Not monetised, of course, itw as on flickr, but it was lovely to think of lots of people looking at those photos.

Have a good week, earthie, enjoy the kitten

Hazelnutty

Hey Earthgirl! I was a regular reader of your diary too but have only recently come back to MFW myself. Sometimes I just read and thank as I haven't got anything useful or interesting to say (although admittedly that doesn't stop me either sometimes ) I also can't keep up with all the fab diaries on here so I inevitably miss posts. But people are definitely reading

beanielou

The kitten will bring you so much joy. 

I have just very recently got a rescue cat after loosing my boys in July. 

TallGirl

Nice to have you back another lurker here. 

apple_muncher

Oh beanie - that's great news!

Earthie - you just dropped that into the conversation, didn't you! Was it planned? I assume not, given that you improvised toys, bed + litter tray!

earthgirl2

A_Frayed_Knot said:

Hi eg2
You probably know this already (I only found out last week !!!) that if you apply/log on to Gov.uk, they hold all sorts of info regarding your empliyment/expected salary for the year/expected tax for the year and how much extra you can earn before hitting the next tax bracket.  Hope that helps a little, may be slightly different for self employed though.

I also need to clear spare room - filled with more than just papers, think yourself lucky 

I didn't know this about the website. I will have a look thanks!

earthgirl2

anielou said:

The kitten will bring you so much joy. 

I have just very recently got a rescue cat after loosing my boys in July. 

Congratulations Beanie! I might need a bit of cat help!

earthgirl2

The kitten was kind of planned and not. We applied to cats protection a couple of times. They said we could have a kitten but then didn't send the photos or paperwork and becasue it's volunteers I didn't want to chase too much. Then I was just told here is the paperwork if you pay she will be deliverd tomorrow - so I did
She is helping me type
I have quite a few cat questions:
Should I get accident and illness insurance? About £6 per month.
Should I worm and flea myself quite happy to do the spot on treatment? Vets offers this, plus 6 monthly check ups and claw thing for £14 a month. Is this a good deal?
Where do I find out how much to feed her ? she eats more than double what they said originally but I'm just feeding her constantly. Maybe I should feed less?