Learning to walk before I run

South_coast

edinburgher said:

£6 paid into the WTSHTF fund today (thought about changing it a la South_coast but couldn't bear to be that positive )

Ha ha, that's me - Mrs Sunshine 🌞!

edinburgher

I wish the Tandem instant access account wasn't substantially better than my Zopa rate but it is. Closed about 6 savings pots and stuck them all in Tandem, worked out about a 13% improvement on previous rate. I don't like the lack of pots but YNAB can cope with all money in one place.

Suffolk_lass

I keep thinking we should move our PB into a guaranteed interest account but then it would not satisfy that little feeling I like so much from a win. Between us we have had ten wins this year (7 for me, three for DH) but I have three times more in my name so he is actually doing better than me. 

CCW007

edinburgher said:

Boss excelled themselves this week. Their best contribution was reviewing a piece of work, identifying a typo (a bracket was missing) and telling me with an email that also contained a typo.

Reminds me of a previous boss who had to correct something every time. 

On one of my reports she corrected (incorrectly) my punctuation which I forwarded to her boss who also had  to correct something every time, complete with track changes so he could see the correction; he promptly corrected it back to how it was originally and everyone was happy  

Cheery_Daff

I was once writing a document - saved on the shared drive, but clearly unfinished, only a couple of paragraphs with a list of bullet points at the end as notes, DRAFT clearly in the title. I'd not sent it (obviously - not finished and nowhere near deadline), but  project lead (who was fortunately not my actual boss) spotted it on the shared drive, and went in and made loads of tracked changes, basically scribbling all over it with a red pen 🙄 At least wait til I've actually finished drafting the darn thing! 🙄

edinburgher

I am glad to see that micromanaging tools are widespread

I have signed up for Tax Free Childcare today, a remarkably simple online service, kudos to the gummint and their IT developers. I have also cancelled my Childcare Vouchers and this will take effect after my next payday. We've been getting them for c. 7 years and I'm feeling a bit out of sorts as this was one of the longest relationships of my adult life That said, we were going to run out of vouchers in a couple of months and would have persistently had a deficit from that point forwards. 

TFC seems slightly less generous on a "per pound" basis but it's big enough to offer something off every pound paid in, IYSWIM? As such, it will help us get through the last of the expensive years. I appreciate the account only works up until they are 11? but that's fair enough,our experience has shown that pretty much every child is sick of summer clubs etc. by the time they are old enough for secondary school

I have also stuck a wodge of multiple receipts through ZipZero, hoping to capitalise on advice offered by South_coast. Still not entirely sure I did it right (loaded an offer to "my offers", took a photo of my biggest receipt for each retailer and then added secondary receipts by taking photos of other receipts from the same retailer for smaller amounts?)

DD1 loving P4 so far

beanielou

Was just going to ask if your DD was back at school yet. 

Glad she is enjoying P4 so far 😊

killerpeaty

My former boss once started rewriting my own notes to myself... By once I mean multiple times, in front of me. 

savingholmes

The tax free childcare sounds interesting. I'd not picked up on that - but then I'm not at that stage. Will it help with the impending blackhole?

Suffolk_lass

Is P4 4th year of school?