Karmacat: I'm passionate about my DFW journey to riches

redsquirrel80

Hi Karma, looks like you've had lots of thinking going on - your plans sound fantastic. I had lots of strawberries and champagne at the weekend, definitely a good combination!

Karmacat

Hi all! Not time to say hi properly, cos I'm working at 11am for an hour..... but just to answer Gemmzie very quickly, I honestly don't know, is the sad answer - the rate on the foreign exchange markets is very different from what's available to peeps like us. When I needed actual euros to actually spend (when I went to my sister's house in France, in March) Thomas Cook had the *worst* exchange rate - 1.19 then. The Post Office was better, about 1.21. But the best was a little local shop, which gave 1.23. Sorry I can't help more. I'll have a think at lunchtime, and check out what the fx markets are doing then.

Karmacat

the universe is pleased with me! I just qualified for my first ever focus group! £40payment and £10 to be on time :eek: Its in London on Friday, and I'm going to be there anyway! Happy camper here, a whole square filled in in one hour!

Gemmzie, the software at cmc markets, the spread better I use, is showing the current money market rate for euro/£ as E1 = £0.8112. I just went over to expedia.co.uk, and their currency converter is as follows:

Conversion results 1.00 Euros = 0.80 British pounds sterling Exchange rate: 0.797257 Rate valid as of: 1/9/2008


and the other way round it shows as follows:
Conversion results 1.00 British pounds sterling = 1.25 Euros Exchange rate: 1.254300 Rate valid as of: 1/9/2008

Hope this helps.

Karmacat

Hi El, hi Red - strawberries and champagne for us all soon, I hope, all these big plans have to bear fruit (ooh, didn't notice the pun before I wrote it down!). Bank Holiday in the USA today, so no Dow Jones open for me to play with, but we'll all get there.

boredofbeingathome

As ever i amazed at your dedication re money..the strawbs and champers..i can deal with.

Karmacat

boredofbeingathome wrote: »

As ever i amazed at your dedication re money..the strawbs and champers..i can deal with.

:eek: Now thats downright scary, Bob! :rotfl:

OTOH, I *am* pleased that I've got 3 mystery shops this week. Just come back from the first one, and it was right by a Lidl, so I bought some more tatties, some 50% fruit strawberry jam for 79p, and some vacuum packed beetroot, also dead cheap, I love that.

I'm a sad git!

benbenandme

Has your matched bet settled yet KC?

Karmacat

More :eek: I haven't checked yet!

boredofbeingathome

Karmacat wrote: »

:eek: Now thats downright scary, Bob! :rotfl:

OTOH, I *am* pleased that I've got 3 mystery shops this week. Just come back from the first one, and it was right by a Lidl, so I bought some more tatties, some 50% fruit strawberry jam for 79p, and some vacuum packed beetroot, also dead cheap, I love that.

I'm a sad git!

Nah not a sad git..but the beetroot:eek: i wish they had a blah symbol for that:o The rest sounds good though and well done on the mystery shops. I only seem to get one in a blue moon! There must be a blue moon coming soon! :cool:

redsquirrel80

Poor Bob, beetroot everywhere you go! Good shopping there Karma