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

Ibrahim5

We use over 30000kwh. I have always seen a new boiler as a false economy but it may be worth it now if I can get someone to fit it for a reasonable price.

Sea_Shell

Ibrahim5 said:

We use over 30000kwh. I have always seen a new boiler as a false economy but it may be worth it now if I can get someone to fit it for a reasonable price.

Ours was almost 30 years old, so it was on our to-do list.   Glad we did now!

Its pilot light alone was using 4 kWhs per day!   Didn't realise until we got our smart meters.

ian16527

Ibrahim5 said:

We use over 30000kwh. I have always seen a new boiler as a false economy but it may be worth it now if I can get someone to fit it for a reasonable price.

Try Heatable - I was very pleased with the service

MallyGirl

Ibrahim5 said:

We use over 30000kwh. I have always seen a new boiler as a false economy but it may be worth it now if I can get someone to fit it for a reasonable price.

we used 28,000Wh gas in 2020 and had a new boiler at the end of the year - regardless of whether it is cheaper, it is certainly better and the house actually gets warm. I haven't looked at the 2021 figures yet.

Terron

Sea_Shell said:

michaels said:

bluenose1 said:

Well hate to brag but I won £25 on my £9k stake. 
I have said before my oh thinks I am too impatient checking and prefers to wait for the envelope through the door rather than check online for his stake of £27k, but between you and me I know he hasn't won anything

Uncle Ernie gave me £25 this month too - what of it?  Well my entire holding is the £25 I was given when I was christened a lot of years ago.

Of note though, that £25 had it been invested in an account which kept up with inflation would now be worth over £400 whereas the total winnings that I recall are either £75 or £100.

Well done!   DH, until recently, had £21 from when he was born too.   Never won anything...and still hasn't.

I and my sisters were each given £21. The elder of my sisters had won three times by the time she was 16. The other two of us got nothing.

enthusiasticsaver

We had a new boiler a few years back and our gas usage has gone down.  Our electricity usage unfortunately has gone through the roof probably due to us having underfloor heating in our conservatory and kitchen which DH insists on keep putting the temp settings up and then I put them down again.  

ex-pat_scot

enthusiasticsaver said:

We had a new boiler a few years back and our gas usage has gone down.  Our electricity usage unfortunately has gone through the roof probably due to us having underfloor heating in our conservatory and kitchen which DH insists on keep putting the temp settings up and then I put them down again.  

Ah - the fabled "thermostat wars".
However your circumstances seem unusual since your roles appear to be reversed from the normal alliances.

trevjl

We still have one of those old dial type. I set it and take to knob off to avoid the thermostat wars !!! Heating allowed on 1st November, if you're cold put something thicker on is my normal statement. hence my £63 a month bill, harsh man that I am   

Sea_Shell

Our best performing ISA fund is down over 10% off it's high at the end of last year.   Buying opportunity?

We were going to put DH's TFLS into this fund (as we shouldn't need it for many years), but don't have the cash just yet, so are seriously considering transferring from our lower risk fund into this one, and then replacing the money when the TFLS comes in (c.£15,000)

Our "best"  fund is a Global Opportunities fund, and is 100% equities in (mostly) US, and having looked at the 3 months charts, very closely follows what the NASDAQ has been doing.  

Our "safer" fund is only down 1.55% for the same period.

Decisions, decisions?!?

Audaxer

Sea_Shell said:

Our best performing ISA fund is down over 10% off it's high at the end of last year.   Buying opportunity?

We were going to put DH's TFLS into this fund (as we shouldn't need it for many years), but don't have the cash just yet, so are seriously considering transferring from our lower risk fund into this one, and then replacing the money when the TFLS comes in (c.£15,000)

Our "best"  fund is a Global Opportunities fund, and is 100% equities in (mostly) US, and having looked at the 3 months charts, very closely follows what the NASDAQ has been doing.  

Our "safer" fund is only down 1.55% for the same period.

Decisions, decisions?!?

It might work out well but sounds a bit risky if it takes you above your risk tolerance. I suppose it depends how you would feel or react if you transferred the money into the high risk fund and it then fell another 10% by the end of the month.