It's time to start digging up those Squirrelled Nuts!!!!

Sea_Shell

Have had an "admin" morning so far.

Applied on line for DHs maturity funds

Submitted new GP registration forms

Paid alarm service bill

Just the eye tests left to book.

Sea_Shell

Our ISAs are at record high valuation today, overall!!

Could do with little slide back before we invest this year's allowance 😉

But then if you hope the market rises in the long term, then you're always going to be breaking new highs.

Still feels a bit too good to be true 😲🤔 ( or a lot!!!)

enthusiasticsaver

Our ISAs and SIPPS are also doing very well.  9.19% over the last year even after paying IFA fees. Normally we take out £10k a year from our SIPPS to subsidise our DB pensions since taking early retirement almost 4 years ago but if things continue we may take out £20k next year to cover our big holiday assuming it finally goes ahead and to gift money to our children and maybe change one of the cars. 

Sea_Shell

AlanP_2 said:

I support those who are prepared to spend whatever it takes to have comfortable, effective glasses.

I've worn glasses for more than 50 years now and they are the item I wear longest each and every day so thin lenses varifocals are expensive but worth it. 

I've just calculated that mine have cost me about 1p per hour worn.   

5 years x 365 x 15 hrs per day = 27375 hours / £300 = 1.1p

Pretty good value compared to some other items in my wardrobe!!   

At least my glasses still fit.

Ibrahim5

I only pay about 0.2p an hour. I never thought about the running costs for glasses before.

AlanP_2

Sea_Shell said:

AlanP_2 said:

I support those who are prepared to spend whatever it takes to have comfortable, effective glasses.

I've worn glasses for more than 50 years now and they are the item I wear longest each and every day so thin lenses varifocals are expensive but worth it. 

I've just calculated that mine have cost me about 1p per hour worn.   

5 years x 365 x 15 hrs per day = 27375 hours / £300 = 1.1p

Pretty good value compared to some other items in my wardrobe!!   

At least my glasses still fit.

You need to wear them 24 hours a day and really maximise the investment.

Ibrahim5

I remember being in a family hotel room with the kids. "Just turn the lights out and the kids will fall asleep. We can then watch TV", my wife told me. Of course I fell asleep too and woke up with broken glasses. Not a good idea.

Bravepants

I've been wearing glasses for over 40 years (I'm pretty blind without them) and I think I have developed some sort of psychic connection to them. I can put down my keys, phone, wallet or other items and I then lose them! Not so with my specs, I always seem to instinctively know where they are like I have evolved some sort of special secret power over the decades of using them.

sheslookinhot

I have the opposite problem. I often take my glasses off to enable me to see with more focus for some close up task I am doing. Then I shout “ nobody move, I can’t find my glasses” 😂 

Terron

sheslookinhot said:

I have the opposite problem. I often take my glasses off to enable me to see with more focus for some close up task I am doing. Then I shout “ nobody move, I can’t find my glasses” 😂 

Me too.

Though I knew exactly where I had put them earlier this year - in the usual place on my bedside table. Then when I went to get them I trod on them Must have knocked them off during the night. Luckily the lenses were OK.