2020 - 'Nothing in your life will change until you make the decision to change'

jwil

Payday today!  I haven't made any payments yet, just shuffled the bill money around.  I'll probably look at it tomorrow.

I'm quite annoyed as our joint account has had the fee taken twice this month, and not sure why.  I'll have to message to ask.  It did take us overdrawn as I emptied the account yesterday, but luckily as long as I had paid the money in by 3.30 it was ok.

DH has had his first furlough pay today, and luckily, it doesn't look too bad.  That's a relief for as long as that keeps coming in.

I'm trying to get a few more bits listed tonight.

savingholmes

Glad you've had first payment of the furlough money

jwil

savingholmes said:

Glad you've had first payment of the furlough money

Thank you, it's a relief.

jwil

Morning everyone.  Up this morning and paid all the bills and have shuffled a bit of money around towards my targets.  It feels nice to see balances growing for once.

We've ordered a new porch canopy for our back door.  The existing one is completely rotten.  That will be a nice improvement when it arrives.  DH has ventured to Asda to get some shopping for the neighbours and a few non food bits for us if they have them.  I've been trying to set up our old laptop for little jwil.  The battery is gone and it won't stay on for long on the power cord as it is presumably overheating.  The debate is whether to try a new battery or to get a new laptop.  It is missing a key and a bit battered so it is tempting to replace.  It would of course impact on my payments though which should be my priority. We do have some points built up on our nectar card so could potentially use that.  I think it's about £60 in value, so a decent amount.  I'll keep trying to resolve it for a few days first before we decide.

Thank goodness it's Friday.

DH's listings all went on yesterday for 10 days.  I'm setting up the next batch now.

I had a nice chat with a colleague this morning, it's nice to catch up.  I've got a webinar to do later and a few other bits before the weekend.  Better get on so I am not working too late today!

Have a good day everyone.

savingholmes

Good luck whatever you decide on a laptop. New porch canopy sounds good.

Kitten868

How much easier would it be for him to keep up on school work if you do buy a new one? My eldest is the same age as yours I think and I bought a refurbished computer from Amazon with a warranty. Much cheaper and means I can see how much use it is without investing £400 and being devastated when they inevitably pour a drink on it. It's fine for our needs - purple mash. We couldn't do purple mash on the tablet. Plus they sit up a desk and feel more like they're working.
The house all sounds very encouraging. And money ready for a few improvements! Very impressive. 

You're doing fantastically jwil. Keep going xxx

jwil

savingholmes said:

Good luck whatever you decide on a laptop. New porch canopy sounds good.

Thank you

Kitten868 said:

How much easier would it be for him to keep up on school work if you do buy a new one? My eldest is the same age as yours I think and I bought a refurbished computer from Amazon with a warranty. Much cheaper and means I can see how much use it is without investing £400 and being devastated when they inevitably pour a drink on it. It's fine for our needs - purple mash. We couldn't do purple mash on the tablet. Plus they sit up a desk and feel more like they're working.
The house all sounds very encouraging. And money ready for a few improvements! Very impressive. 

You're doing fantastically jwil. Keep going xxx

I wouldn't be spending £400!  £200 ish for a basic laptop.  I might look at refurbished, but would compare how it costs vs using nectar points as well.  I'll still give it a while to see if it improves first.  His school are putting a lot of powerpoints and links online and I'm not a fan of the tablet for school work,  They've got desks and so it's easier with the laptop.  Some of that might just be me who prefers a laptop though,  Maybe I'm a dinosaur

savingholmes

We bought DD a refurbished laptop from Am**** it was significantly lower priced than new (but still a lot) and came with a decent warranty

jwil

savingholmes said:

We bought DD a refurbished laptop from Am**** it was significantly lower priced than new (but still a lot) and came with a decent warranty

I'll keep it in mind.

I did spend last night fiddling with it and googling some of the issues.  The battery seems to have sorted itself out with a super long charge and a hard reset seems to have (touch wood) solved the turning off issue.  There does seem to be a problem with a cooling fan, but that error message hasn't come up this morning so fingers crossed.  DH picked up a new mouse for it, and I gave it a good blast with the air duster.  Hopefully I can get it to keep going a bit longer and we'll see how it goes.

jwil

We've had a fairly quiet day today.  Just a bit of tidying and sorting.

Inspired by SH, I've done a PAD towards the mortgage, £1.68.  It's been years since I've done it, so will try to keep it up.