Getting FIREd up 😀

tudorfan39

South_coast said:

South_coast said:

In cheerier news, the council have updated their website to say all rebates to Band A properties will be paid on 09/05, so that will be a handy boost to the coffers

Well it was not paid on 09/05, so not sure what's going on there 🤷‍♀️ Checked their website and the page that was saying that has now disappeared (good job I took a screenshot, so I know I'm not completely mad). Oh well, at least I wasn't relying on that to pay for things yesterday!

Our council in Sussex said payment will be initiated on 9/5 and in banks in the 12th. I wont hold my breath though!

South_coast

We had the same thing about the computer system, Ruby, but they then did give a definite date (still not received 🤦‍♀️)! Too many other things to be chasing at the moment, will wait for someone else to complain about it (the same strategy I employ with things like flashing lights in the corridor)

South_coast

Aha, it's just arrived 👍

South_coast

....and I've promptly spent half of it on petrol. £76 to fill up now - the same car was £55 four years ago 😱! £55 now in the petrol budget until the end of the month, need to fill up at least once more so that's clearly not going to be enough. Looks like I'll be raiding the grocery budget, as that's the only one with anything left 🤔!

edinburgher

Petrol has gotten ridiculous of late - our average spend is up to £83 a month - Dacia (not Ferrari)

South_coast

£83 a month sounds like a dream - I'm considering putting my budget up to £250! By comparison, groceries is £100 - and I get change 😮!

South_coast

God, I am so bored of doing surveys about work on Prolific! I reckon 95% of what they've given me in the last few months is about interactions with supervisors and/or coworkers, either real or hypothetical. I think about work enough when I'm actually in work, give me something else to think about when I'm not, please!!!

edinburgher

@South_coast - if you don't mind me asking, is Prolific worth the time you spend on it? Care to hazard a guess as to annual earnings?

Your grocery spend is phenomenal, we're at c. £550 a month for 3 and a baby, but we eat meat, we eat well and that also includes a sensible amount of alcohol and treats.

South_coast

Ask away, Ed! That's what this place is for! I think Prolific is worth it, not so sure about the majority of others. So far in May I've cashed out £15.44 from them. Scrolling back through my submissions, I'm averaging about 2 surveys a day, of probably an average of 5 minutes each?  So for me, as tax-free earnings during the ad breaks when I've got no-one else at home to talk to, I think it's worth it. For you, with your family, almost certainly not! If I didn't do it, then I'd probably just fast-forward through the ads and squeeze in another TV programme before bed - and I probably don't need to watch more TV!

I do wonder about my grocery spend sometimes, as even I'll look at my shopping list and wonder how on earth that's going to feed me for a week (and that's after writing it on the opposite side of the page to the weekly meal plan, so I know exactly how it's going to feed me 🤦‍♀️!) But the numbers don't lie, I put £100 into the grocery account on payday, and there's usually about a tenner left to get some bits for the food bank at the end, so it must be right! Not eating meat does make a massive difference, though - lentils and split peas will always be cheaper than even the most basic mince and sausages. Batch-cooking too, it's dull, but it works. 

South_coast

Just realised I didn't answer the bit about annual earnings, but I've just checked and I'm on lifetime £1,942. Think I'm coming up to about 7 years on it, so that gives me £277ish a year, which feels about right. I think it came out as my top earner of the year when I did the detailed comparison last year