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

Sea_Shell

Aldi are the same...too easy to go "ooh, running socks" or "ooh, jigsaw puzzles" along with your groceries.

Step away from the special buys!!  😂

LHW99

Audaxer said:

Sea_Shell said:

Well I've just splurged £150 on a new Garmin for running/swimming!!

How outrageously extravagant of me.😎

In my defence, my current one is over 15 years old...but it's lost its "beep".  I think I've had my money's worth out of it.

I remember my Garmin Edge 500 for cycling cost about £250 back in 2013. It's still going strong but if I did have to change, I think the current upgraded models are still around the same price.

We have a tiny very old one for mapping walking routes - it got toally lost when we moved because it couldn't find the usual satellites, took it about half an hour to get itself sorted - bless

jimpwarsop

Sea_Shell said:

Aldi are the same...too easy to go "ooh, running socks" or "ooh, jigsaw puzzles" along with your groceries.

Step away from the special buys!!  😂

Middle of Lidl, and Aldi is mostly where their profit is made.

cfw1994

Sea_Shell said:

Aldi are the same...too easy to go "ooh, running socks" or "ooh, jigsaw puzzles" along with your groceries.

Step away from the special buys!!  😂

But surely that is where the fun lives 🤪

I had the pleasure of building a patio last week…well, crazy paving inside an ex-pond 💪
Popped an Isle of Wight shape in…& Lidl have an amazing solar lighthouse, which naturally had to live at The Needles…..might get another for St Catherine’s later 🤣

Before filling in the sea around it:

michaels

cfw1994 said:

Sea_Shell said:

Aldi are the same...too easy to go "ooh, running socks" or "ooh, jigsaw puzzles" along with your groceries.

Step away from the special buys!!  😂

But surely that is where the fun lives 🤪

I had the pleasure of building a patio last week…well, crazy paving inside an ex-pond 💪
Popped an Isle of Wight shape in…& Lidl have an amazing solar lighthouse, which naturally had to live at The Needles…..might get another for St Catherine’s later 🤣

Before filling in the sea around it:

I feel some toy cows may also have a place there somewhere....

Ibrahim5

Sea_Shell said:

Forerunner 55.   

It's got pool swim mode too.  I used to have a "swimovate" swim watch, but the battery went and was expensive to replace.

It's supposed to be good for cycling too. I guess we aren't allowed to talk about that.

Sea_Shell

You know that interest rates are rising, when you find yourself (yet again) with 15 accounts and rising!!!

At the start of the year, we had 5.

Bravepants

Sea_Shell said:

You know that interest rates are rising, when you find yourself (yet again) with 15 accounts and rising!!!

At the start of the year, we had 5.

Are you doing fixed interest savings ladders?

Sea_Shell

Bravepants said:

Sea_Shell said:

You know that interest rates are rising, when you find yourself (yet again) with 15 accounts and rising!!!

At the start of the year, we had 5.

Are you doing fixed interest savings ladders?

We're doing all sorts!!!

Yes, some fixed savings ladders over 1 year or 6 months, plus some new Reg Savers @ 2.5%

Our average rate across all our cash is currently standing at 1.94%

Sea_Shell

So glad we took out the Eon V12 fix back in mid-April.

So it might have cost us a bit more in the meantime (about £21 so far), but this should pay off come October, by which time we'll probably be about £40-45 "behind" the cap.   I'm sure we'll claw that back pretty quickly, of the back of the most recent predictions.

Although quite where we'll be come April 23, heaven only knows....all bets are off in that regard.

Lets just hope the UK has another mild winter...as, sadly, a harsh one could really push some people over the edge.

I've tried to help family in this regard (giving them the low-down on what's happening/available) and it's fallen on deaf ears.  Oh well, can't say I didn't warn them.   As the financial "guru" of the family , it's quite funny (sad) that they don't listen to me.