Mortgage free in Forever Home :-)

skint_spice

Sounds a pretty garden centre!

beanielou

A quiet day here but did manage to get two loads of washing dried on the line.
It's the wee things  

My bag for FRiday's trip to the charity shop started!

KajiKita

skint_spice said:

Sounds a pretty garden centre!

It was 😊

KK

KajiKita

beanielou said:

A quiet day here but did manage to get two loads of washing dried on the line.
It's the wee things  

My bag for FRiday's trip to the charity shop started!

Whoop and well done 👏 😊

KK

KajiKita

Having a quiet and lazy start to the day here. Mr KK has headed off to Newbury with his best man to (hopefully!) sell lots of stuff at a regular militaria sale. I meanwhile have come back to bed with a cuppa and have earned another £5 on Pr1me Opinion and have sent it off as an OP. Have to earn another c. 500 points and then get £20 hopefully. Cycling through the survey providers seems to be doing the trick to increase my earnings a bit …. 

Waiting for the first of Mr KK’s washing loads to finish (the really filthy, stone dust covered one) - that will go out on the line as I start the next one for him. There is much laundry folding, sock pairing and putting away to do from yesterday. I would like to clean the water jug and change the filter, empty the kitchen bin and eat non-carby, non UPF food all day. I haven’t watched Gardeners World from Friday evening yet, so will watch that over breakfast and breaks. 

I want to do something more proactive / productive/ effective with my savings, so will split out c. £5K to something high interest / one withdrawal a year, £5K PBs (just for the fun of it! 😉) and leave the rest where it is, so I can get to them quickly if needed. My savings tracker sheet will need some tweaking to accommodate all of this. 

I think it’s time to start on the tops of the chests of drawers and rationalise / clear them so I can shuffle things around to remove the empty one. At the moment it has an ornate old fashioned three section French mirror on it and is acting as my dressing table - the one next to it would work just as well as a dressing table, but needs the stuff moving off it to the third one …. which is covered in books. So, I need to start on the third one and work back …. (Forgive the waffle but it’s actually been quite to ‘think this out’ on here! 😊)

Hoping also to spend some time in the garden clearing and planting - broad beans down by the greenhouse and the purple leaved shrub I bought yesterday in front of the contorted hazel. 

KK

Cheery_Daff

I'm imagining your bedroom like some kind of furniture shop with 17 dressing tables in a row 😂

Good plan to do something extra with savings 😊

KajiKita

Cheery_Daff said:

I'm imagining your bedroom like some kind of furniture shop with 17 dressing tables in a row 😂

Good plan to do something extra with savings 😊

I’m not surprised. 😊 To be fair, it is a bit bonkers … I am remembering how utterly exhausted we were when we moved in here, 4 years ago this month. It was that awful winter where it rained heavily every day for about six months, we had two kitchens and bathrooms worth and I had almost two bedrooms of stuff to try and get into what is not a very big house here, plus we had week after week after week of trying to empty Mr KK’s lockup where he had stored so much stuff when we moved out of our last house and into rented. It was epic …. Followed in short order by Covid, furlough and redundancy / new job the following spring / summer, I’m not entirely surprised that I just put up with a lot of it it until now. 

But, I am reinventing myself now and sorting the house out is a big part of it! 😊

KK

KajiKita

Done some good stuff today 😊
- water jug scrubbed and reusable filter set up again
- kitchen bin emptied and wiped down
- kitchen sink scrubbed - Mr KK wipes up water spills after doing the washing up each night, but the grease and limescale that builds up eludes him 😉
- kitchen and section of conservatory floor to outside that attracts all the little stones from the drive on all our feet and paws, swept and spot mopped
- reactivated my PBs account which usefully still existed - £25 sent over to it from immediate savings, need to juggle a bit more to get the £5K in there. Looked at cash ISAs as I don’t have any but it made my head spin - none of them seem that good 🤷‍♀️
- cat sat on me - we both fell asleep on the sofa for a bit! 😳🤷‍♀️❤️😊
- topped up my windscreen washer bottle
- pruned Mr KK’s beard (at his request!) 
- two loads of Mr KK’s washing dried (mainly on the whirlygig - which doesn’t whirl any more so I have to rotate it periodically 😂), folded and back upstairs 
- my washing mainly wrangled - one small pile to take upstairs and hang up  
- did work on the border under the contorted Hazel but after two hours had only cleared c. 1m2 so gave up on that and got my broad beans in - much easier and more satisfying and I can sow the next batch now. 

Mr KK made £265 at the sale after expenses today, and is hoping to make more next weekend as that is the proper militaria sale whereas today was more of a car boot (and as usual, Mr KK’s best man made them late, so a lot of the money had been spent by the time they got there). He has also vacuumed the whole house when he got home 😊❤️

Broad beans:


Plants plonked in clear patch of Contorted hazel border to show intention! 😂:


KK

redofromstart

My Marcus cash isa is 4.6%. Was easy enough to open etc. worth it for me or I'd be paying tax on the interest elsewhere. 

KajiKita

redofromstart said:

My Marcus cash isa is 4.6%. Was easy enough to open etc. worth it for me or I'd be paying tax on the interest elsewhere. 

Thanks for the heads up. Will have another try … 😊

KK