Learning to walk before I run

beanielou

Don’t get too carried away! 

edinburgher

beanielou said:

Don’t get too carried away! 

Two ice creams for the girls, a cake for Mrs E, a coffee for me, money for four lottery tickets replaced and a tenner for my S&S ISA. That was a mini adventure

Watty1

Don't let that lottery win change you Ed!

debtfreewannabe321

edinburgher said:

beanielou said:

Don’t get too carried away! 

Two ice creams for the girls, a cake for Mrs E, a coffee for me, money for four lottery tickets replaced and a tenner for my S&S ISA. That was a mini adventure

Last of the big spenders! Congrats on the win 😉😃

edinburgher

Folks! 

Get ye to TCB - £5 cashback on a £20 voucher purchase via TopGiftCards

pavlovs_dog

edinburgher said:

Folks! 

Get ye to TCB - £5 cashback on a £20 voucher purchase via TopGiftCards

really appreciate you sharing these, I never seem to see the emails in time otherwise.  I shall channel your virement approach and channel my cashback pennies towards buying my next premium bond (I only ever buy them with free money from cashback/surveys etc.  I think of it as a lottery ticket where I get to keep my original stake).

edinburgher

You are very welcome PD, I never get the emails, either. I managed to get Mrs E to buy a voucher, too, so we have £40 of anniversary takeaway to look forward to and it cost £28.40. Cashback was paid into the Home Maintenance budget line.

A bit of a pants day. Bosses were all off, so I slacked off a bit. Did lots of Prolific instead but sickened myself of it (£30 or so). Had plenty of work to do but couldn't drag the horse (myself) to water. Got 4-5 easy bits of work either out the door or moved on.

I think it's just frustration and a reminder that I'm not happy where I am. No progress on potential new job yet, things take time in my place of work. I'm looking elsewhere, too, but not much out there of interest. I'm trying to earn more but there's no real focus to it. There's not enough overtime in the world to quit the workforce in the next decade!

Oddly enough, I found it easy enough to do an hour of overtime focused on one task that's a bit less intellectually taxing. Well, intellectually taxing in a more easy to focus way.

FIT payment of £215 is winging its way to me

S&S ISA topped up by another fiver, UK plc is getting a bit of a kicking but I'm long my fellow Brits

Suffolk_lass

Ooh, great FIT tariff. When I first followed you, you were talking about this and I ignored it (because the house is thatched, not because I did not believe you. Over the subsequent years you have done well with the FIT scheme while we missed out, by delaying. There's a lesson there in terms of seize the day

edinburgher

We have done relatively well with the solar panels, even considering the fact that our orientation is several degrees off optimal. Still, they have washed their own face(s) and we have had reduced bills for a decade now, to boot. In the unlikely event we stay in this house in retirement, I would go the whole hog and double the amount of panels with large battery storage etc. New panels produce c. 50% more energy for lower cost than we paid. Definitely one of my better carpe diems  

edinburgher

Am trying my best to pull myself out of my work funk, accomplished 75% productive days for the week and fixed a mistake that I made last week like a genuine growned up. Nobody ripped my head off, which just goes to show that nobody holds your mistakes against you unless they're a jerk or you kill someone

1. Overtime done for the week

2. Withdrew £7 from Prolific

3. £3.63 

not particularly looking forward to tomorrow, we're getting a new broadband line fitted and they will need to drill through either a wall or a window frame.