Getting FIREd up 😀

PennysIntoPounds

The coffin is to signify where interest rate money dies because for some reason someone chose to.. pay to not have their earnings available? I am baffled 

South_coast

Click and collect order placed with Boots. A combination of points offers and using a gift card I bought last week when Ed tipped us off about the £2 TopCashBack bonus means I'll be getting 90p ZipZero + £6.75 Boots points + £2.25 TopCashBack (already received 😀) = £9.90 on a £22.58 spend. I'll take that 👍!

And people think MSE'ing isn't worth the effort 🙄!

South_coast

1 litre of Sainsbury's own-brand olive oil: £7.80 😳😳😳

1 litre of unleaded petrol only 138.9p!

Viking_mfw

South_coast said:

1 litre of Sainsbury's own-brand olive oil: £7.80 😳😳😳

1 litre of unleaded petrol only 138.9p!

I wouldn't like to try unleaded in my salad dressing though!

South_coast

TBH, I'm tempted to give it a go at those prices! I'm sure the last bottle I bought was "only" £6.85, which can't have been that long ago 🙁

South_coast

Car insurance sorted (good job too, as I hate, hate, hate doing it. No idea why, as I have much more tolerance for doing boring surveys, and they earn me a lot less in a lot more time than I might save by shopping around on insurance 🤷‍♀️)

So, renewal price was £513.93
Best price online was £465.56
Called current insurer, and because I'm such a valued customer (been with them 4 years apparently, which I'm surprised by!) they brought it down to £443.10

Still a lot, but better than it might have been!

South_coast

(Have also just amused myself by working out that 1 year's car insurance = 57 litres of olive oil. This is clearly how I should consider all purchases now - what is the equivalent in olive oil terms 🤔🤣?)

CCW007

South_coast said:

(Have also just amused myself by working out that 1 year's car insurance = 57 litres of olive oil. This is clearly how I should consider all purchases now - what is the equivalent in olive oil terms 🤔🤣?)

Our IT guy worked out how many giraffes the weight of all our printing equated to recently.  

killerpeaty

CCW007 said:

South_coast said:

(Have also just amused myself by working out that 1 year's car insurance = 57 litres of olive oil. This is clearly how I should consider all purchases now - what is the equivalent in olive oil terms 🤔🤣?)

Our IT guy worked out how many giraffes the weight of all our printing equated to recently.  

10/10 IT guy I love him/her

Why has your car insurance gone up so much though? 

South_coast

Ooh, I like the giraffe idea, although slightly more obscure as a frame of reference (and no nearby safari park to visit and get an idea of scale 🤔)

I think insurance for everything has just gone up loads lately, KP. No reason why mine should be pricey, sensible car, 20 years no claims, no points, no prangs in the last 5 years, a lot less miles than previously. The only thing that might add to it is that I need business use for travelling to work meetings etc, but I've always had that so no reason to justify the huge increase! I'm just glad to have it done with really, and on the plus side it's another £443.10 stoozing at 5.2% 🤷‍♀️