My mortgage clobbering post

Frith

£1100 for flat roof repairs. 

The proper tiled roof is now leaking into the bathroom. Have asked 2 companies for quotes for that. 

Have applied for 2 jobs and one voluntary job. 

Frith

£3922 in the bank but £1000 will have to come out of that for repairs to the main roof, completed a couple of weeks back.

£1000 saved secretly for son 1s wedding.

At some point I will have to save for a newer car. Mine is now 22 and very tired.

I had £15 invested on Trading 212 and have made £100, so that's nice.

The only necessary house thing is to have some electrical repairs done (nothing has worked in the extension in the nearly 3 years we have lived here). The quote for everything, including the new consumer unit, was £1500.

My job is still poor.

Little else to report! I have cracked on with the gardening, removing the front lawn and planting wildflower seeds and widening the borders in the back garden.

Frith

Electrical work finished! 2 1960 bakelite fuseboards changed, 4 sockets replaced, 5 wall lights and a live wire nailed to a floor (!) removed.

Need to save again now.

Skint_yet_Again

Great news that the electric work is finished Frith. Eeeek to the live wire nailed to the floor 😳 glad that is sorted.

Sorry to hear your job is still poor

Frith

Bank £2634

Stocks £113.15

Frith

I've had an afternoon of looking at finances.

Plenty of credit with Eon and British Gas. Chopped £6 a month off Eon with a 24 month fix at £81 per month. Gas is only £6 a month at the moment.

Finally got round to taking my ex's name off the water bills. They had to close the account and open a new one (no idea why) so some credit should be paid to me shortly. Lay on the pavement to give them a meter reading!

Left my job a while back so have phoned the district council today and should be refunded some council tax in 10 days.

Ebay owes me £40.

Quidco owes me £20 something.

Changed bank again to Coop so hopefully should get £125 shortly then 3 x £25 over 3 months.

All this money should just about pay to have the living room floor tiled. (Plastic adhesive squares on concrete at the moment). Nearly been here 3 years and this will be the last downstairs room to be done.

Living on UC and carer's allowance now. I didn't get an interview for the job I applied for last week. Manager 12 (or 13) in 2 years shouted at me and wagged her finger in my face for sitting down and looked very surprised when I quietly walked out and drove off!

Bank £3030

Stocks c£85

Skint_yet_Again

Well done on walking out Frith! Hope it hasn’t been too hard financially. Looks like you’re back on your feet now. Can you do them for unfair dismissal? Shame on them.

3 years in your new place… where has the time gone!

beanielou

Well done on voting with your feet.

Frith

Will need to save hard shortly.

Tiles bought and delivered. (In the sale at Topps Tiles). Just got to pay the guy when he fits them.

And... the MOT on my car expires in September so I am looking for a replacement. Mine is 23.

beanielou

Why do you need to replace a 3 year old car?