Cheery's country living adventure

Karmacat

I hope the dragons all behave themselves today for both of you. And that there are no problems with the trains home. The worst trauma of my day today is having to buy The Sun so that I can have a cheap caravan holiday later this year :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Gosh that is pretty traumatic KC :eek: I'd be trying to find one someone had left behind on a train so I didn't have to give them any money :rotfl: :rotfl:

Having a good cathartic clear out of my desk and filing cabinet. Probably more useful stuff I could be doing but it dawned on me I started this job four years ago this week :eek: and still have all the paperwork etc from my first week, and all my notebooks etc too :eek:

Not sure the recycling bin is going to be big enough though :rotfl:

themadvix

They sometimes try to give away The Sun at my local newsagent... I'm betting not when they have the holiday offer on though!

Enjoy the decluttering Cheery! Very impressed with your intentions to make underwear! Organic bamboo jersey is very soft and comfy (I don't make my own though!)

Karmacat

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Gosh that is pretty traumatic KC :eek: I'd be trying to find one someone had left behind on a train so I didn't have to give them any money :rotfl: :rotfl:

I know what you mean, but I only use the train twice a month or so, and this thing runs daily for about two weeks and then its gone, kablooey.

Having a good cathartic clear out of my desk and filing cabinet. Probably more useful stuff I could be doing but it dawned on me I started this job four years ago this week :eek: and still have all the paperwork etc from my first week, and all my notebooks etc too :eek:

Not sure the recycling bin is going to be big enough though :rotfl:

I think thats pretty useful, actually :rotfl:I always feel like I want to do it while I'm at the accounts work, but by the time I'm done, I just want to bury it somewhere One of the crates I store my paperwork in has *everything* from when I bought the dratted French apartment, which has to be 2005 or so, I can't even remember any more, I bought it off plan and waited for it to get built before starting on the 15 year mortgage. Ug.

themadvix wrote: »

They sometimes try to give away The Sun at my local newsagent... I'm betting not when they have the holiday offer on though!

Exactly :rotfl: we've previously got five days away for about £35 each. Can't be bad.

Karmacat

1. get the new phone working: there's a lot of OTP codes that need to be received when I log on to finance websites.

2. English accounts.

3. French accounts for English tax records.

4. French accounts for French tax records (by the calendar year).

5. Home and contents insurance runs out 15 January.

6. Regular Savers have run out, must renew, and stash money safely.

7. Tidy up the paperwork, including throwing away the 7 years old English tax records. Plus maybe scanning the immensely thick finance paperwork that the French managing agent sends me (I never read it but I can quite believe I need it. I just can't have 20 years of that paperwork cluttering up my house.

8. Small bill to the French managing agent (and I mean small - two euros!). But there's a credit on my online account of around 190 euros. Sigh ....

9. Start using a substitute easy access account - I'm not sure what it pays now, but its got to be better than Principality, who're going down to 0.7% p.a.

10. Normal credit card payments - and I want to go paperless on my Nectar card one.

11. Need to give the kindle-for-authors website my bank details, they actually sent me a letter saying they tried to pay me but didn't have my correct bank details. I'm sure its a fiver or something, but it should still be done.

12. Just to make it a round dozen: unfreeze my very old cahoot account and get the money out of there, around £240.

13. Oh, another one: ages ago, I checked out whether I could use transferwise to bring some of those euros back to the uk, transferred into sterling. I used transferwise to send sterling out to pay the mortgage for a long time, but without the mortgage, money is building up in the French current account, right now there's 5287 euros in there, with the only bill in prospect being the accountant's, a shade under 500 euros (thieves!!! ). I could certainly bring back say 3000 euros - though the exchange rate isn't as good as it was, its about ten cents worse. Which is what makes me hesitate to do it immediately, I'll wait till more Brexit shenanigans. Even if the difference is only 5 cents, 5 x 3000 = 150 euros.

Oh good grief. Thirteen items.

Tescodealqueen

Karmacat There is a thread on here where they lost the codes every day so you don't need the paper coupons. Ok if you book online. it's done every campaign by Essex Boy

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6080940/sun-holidays-from-15pp-january-2020-codewords&highlight=sun+codes

Cheery_Daff

Definitely worth those holidays I reckon! Always up for exploiting a dreadful company for my own benefit if they're operating a promotion

Today is Monday Finances day :j YNAB all done and I"ve been keeping on top of putting things in the app and it was SO much quicker! :j

Took breakfast and lunch to work and did NOT visit vending machine :j I did meet Mr Cheery at the cafe on the way home though but that's not mindless unnecessary stuffing of my face so... :rotfl:

THREE letters from the DVLA today about the old car :rotfl: One a tax reminder, one a notification that it had been SORNed by the scrap man, and the third a cheque for £2.50 as a refund on last year's tax :money:

Made a new cover for my hot water bottle tonight :j Nothing fancy, just a piece of bright blue stiff fleece with some ribbon round the top and bottom. Took 10 mins and is most cheerful :j

Karmacat

Tescodealqueen wrote: »

Karmacat There is a thread on here where they lost the codes every day so you don't need the paper coupons. Ok if you book online. it's done every campaign by Essex Boy

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6080940/sun-holidays-from-15pp-january-2020-codewords&highlight=sun+codes

TDQ, thank you so much for that! I'm terrible for not looking at threads I'm not already subscribed to these days

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Definitely worth those holidays I reckon! Always up for exploiting a dreadful company for my own benefit if they're operating a promotion

Exactly

Took breakfast and lunch to work and did NOT visit vending machine :j I did meet Mr Cheery at the cafe on the way home though but that's not mindless unnecessary stuffing of my face so... :rotfl:

Not visiting the vending machines was the biggie, and you did that, yay

Made a new cover for my hot water bottle tonight :j Nothing fancy, just a piece of bright blue stiff fleece with some ribbon round the top and bottom. Took 10 mins and is most cheerful :j

Awww! I'm really looking forward to being able to do stuff like this. It'll have to be after the Financial Armageddon that is my January, but there we go

Karmacat

Erm, Cheery, sorry for putting my financial must-do list on your diary :o:o I thought I was on mine. I obviously wasn't thinking at all! I'll delete it and copy it over

Cheery_Daff

Don't worry, we've all done it! :rotfl: :rotfl: It's an excellent list and far better than any I have on here :rotfl: