Eating a Vegetarian Elephant

debtfreeoneday

I so get this, we had the smart meter installed and every month I get an email requesting a meter reading. I was being good and doing it then forgot one month and guess what - they took the reading from the smart meter. Argh - isn’t that what they are supposed to do every month?

kaycastle

Hiya @Chiglepig
Ooh I had a good read of your fireside post, thank you.
Finding hidden money is the best feeling - £10 note is very good find. This reminds me of a couple of weeks ago - I found my 1ps and 2p collection. I counted them up and I had 66p in 1ps and 66p in 2ps. Spooky.

South_coast

You've just inspired me to check my "holiday purse" - not opened since my last trip abroad in November 2019. I've got €40 😮! Now comes the "to exchange or not to exchange" dilemma. BF and I have already decided we're not going abroad together this year, plus my passport expired last year, so they'll probably have discontinued those banknotes by the time I get to use them.... May try and sell them to BF, as he has a golf trip booked for a few months' time 😀!

greent

I discovered 250 ish euros and around $50 in my passports folder Am keeping them!

Orangetoes

I found 40 euros in mine too... not sure it's worth changing though. Would love some 🌞

Chiglepig

Excellent foeign currency scavenging all, makes me itchy to get away to spend it - eventually!

powerspowers

I found €25 the other day! Hopefully it will still buy at least a coffee by the time we can travel again. 

Hope everything’s well with you Chiglepig 

Chiglepig

powerspowers said:

I found €25 the other day! Hopefully it will still buy at least a coffee by the time we can travel again. 

Hope everything’s well with you Chiglepig 

Good thanks, PP, same to you

Chiglepig

Very little progress to note here on the financial front as we approach the mid-point in the month.

• DD's allowance has now stopped until the end of July (her job is term time only), so that's a gain of £20 a week.
• DH actually hasn't yet claimed his pension (despite me thinking he had), because the form doesn't make sense and TP are no help, they just say "take financial advice" - he knows exactly what he wants, just not how to get it from the form
• Filled out THE LONGEST ever survey about financial products this morning, only to discover it was only 40 nectar points, talk about wanting value for money. I'll avoid Ipsos Mori polls from now on unless they are offering serious money.
• S&S ISA is muddling along gaining and losing the same few pounds every week (I know, I shouldn't look).
• Spending is holding steady at lockdown rates, even with a few theatre bookings on this month's card, and events and shows booked and postponed last year are beginning to show up in the calendar.

And our electricity supplier didn't hook up the smart meter properly and are now completely confused because the information the installer left doesn't appear to make sense - but at least they will stop hassling me for a reading now!

South_coast

Chiglepig said:

• S&S ISA is muddling along gaining and losing the same few pounds every week

Sounds like it's on a diet 🤣!