Getting FIREd up 😀

South_coast

Still going to read the article though 🤣!

South_coast

So this week's money-saving/making actions were:
* £6.10 received in interest on my savings pots
* £5.94 received from TopCashBack. Raised a claim for yet another transaction which hasn't tracked
* £5.44 received from Prolific
* £10.00 gift card received from Consumer Pulse
* £5.00 gift card received from the forum about savings I've been involved in. I think this is the last one of these now, as they're shutting it down
* £5.00 of Nectar points cashed-in at Sainsbury's. The woman on the till was horrified that I wasn't using them for something exciting like wine, however I had been equally horrified that 500ml of (own-brand) olive oil, a loaf of (own-brand) bread and a tub of (you guessed it, own-brand, gravy granules) had come to £5.25 😱 - so it seemed like points well-spent to me!

In other news, my electricity supplier has confirmed that my direct debit is now set at £0.00, which feels extremely surreal, and is the first time I won't be paying for electricity every month since I left home in 2001. Not sure quite what to say/feel about that, so again I'll just leave it there and not ruminate further here. 

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday everyone 😀

South_coast

P.S. The Vanguard article was rubbish 🤣!

savingholmes

Lovely on the direct debit.

My emails from van would start off even worse 🤫

ruby_eskimo

Love all of the little money making actions for the week.  I was trying to keep track of mine but there's not a lot happening on that front 😂

South_coast

Well I didn't think I'd done very much, but it added up more than I thought!

edinburgher

@South_coast - I'm (very) late to the party but would also ask that you keep on doing what you do with the diary. Yes, you're different to a lot of the other diaries. Yes, you've had a bit of luck, fortuitous timing or decision making etc. To get here. Who hasn't? The boards would be very boring if everyone just wrote about meal planning and their last OP, it's important to read about and road test different ideas on our journeys

South_coast

Thanks Ed, that means a lot 😀 

With that in mind, I can reveal that I paid £13.71 into my ISA last night, which was the money I had left in my pots ahead of payday (still a couple of days to go, so hopefully I haven't forgotten something I need again 😳) Some more will be going in on payday as well, may as well do some speculation with the current market turmoil!

LadyWithAPlan

South_coast said:

So this week's money-saving/making actions were:
* £6.10 received in interest on my savings pots
* £5.94 received from TopCashBack. Raised a claim for yet another transaction which hasn't tracked
* £5.44 received from Prolific
* £10.00 gift card received from Consumer Pulse
* £5.00 gift card received from the forum about savings I've been involved in. I think this is the last one of these now, as they're shutting it down
* £5.00 of Nectar points cashed-in at Sainsbury's. The woman on the till was horrified that I wasn't using them for something exciting like wine, however I had been equally horrified that 500ml of (own-brand) olive oil, a loaf of (own-brand) bread and a tub of (you guessed it, own-brand, gravy granules) had come to £5.25 😱 - so it seemed like points well-spent to me!

In other news, my electricity supplier has confirmed that my direct debit is now set at £0.00, which feels extremely surreal, and is the first time I won't be paying for electricity every month since I left home in 2001. Not sure quite what to say/feel about that, so again I'll just leave it there and not ruminate further here. 

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday everyone 😀

Wow, inspiring for us all and you as well no doubt! I am inspired to do my own list (small as it would be in some areas!)

South_coast

Payday 🥳🥳🥳!!!