Mortgage free in Forever Home :-)

redofromstart

We had a very basic poor interest joint savings account with £1 in which was opened online with the same bank as my current account. It meant I could pay joint or in his name cheques in using the App. V useful especially as I would then transfer to me so win win. 

dawnybabes

Phew, read it over the last week ! 

Grr to ex boss, but just think how threatened by you he must have felt to nudge you out !

Happy belated birthday.

after I once got to the Till in home bargains and realised my purse was sitting on the settee at home I came home and put apple pay on my phone !

KajiKita

redofromstart said:

We had a very basic poor interest joint savings account with £1 in which was opened online with the same bank as my current account. It meant I could pay joint or in his name cheques in using the App. V useful especially as I would then transfer to me so win win. 

We have two joint accounts (don’t ask - long story 😉🤷‍♀️) and our own accounts. We like knowing that all the fundamentals are covered from the joint account (mortgage, utilities, council tax, weekly groceries, cat food etc etc) and then the rest is our own 😊 We contribute relative to our respective take home pay across the year as Mr KK obviously doesn’t get holiday pay etc.

dawnybabes said:

Phew, read it over the last week ! 

Grr to ex boss, but just think how threatened by you he must have felt to nudge you out !

Happy belated birthday.

after I once got to the Till in home bargains and realised my purse was sitting on the settee at home I came home and put apple pay on my phone !

Hello Dawnybabe 😊
You don’t mean you’ve read my entire diary …?? Oh dear … 😂😂😂 I hope it wasn’t too boring! 😉
I’ve always worried that if I had some kind of electronic pay function on my phone that I would be even more spendthriftly inclined than I am already, with a card! 😳😂 But I suppose there isn’t that much difference these days … 🤷‍♀️ Something to consider 🤔

KK

KajiKita

Okay, so I have spent money today. <puts hands on hips>

On me! 

I went looking for colour and cheerfulness in tops, having failed miserably for the past few years and I FOUND SOME!! 

I do not care! <stamps foot>

I want some colour and clothes for the weekend that are not the same as I wear for work. 

Now I have them, they will last quite a while (years, and I don’t worry about being fashionable 😉) - I’m not hard on smart wear as I keep grungy old clothes for the garden 😊

- MnS have agreed my refund 👏
- Had my haircut with a slightly less fierce undercut. My hairdresser was super sweet and not only knocked a quarter off the cost of my haircut but he also offered to cut it for free if I can’t find a job in time … bless his idiotic soft heart 🤩❤️😊😉 (this is same chap I kicked the tush of, as he was being run into the ground doing cheap men’s haircuts because he was overrun due to not charging enough so he didn’t have the time to do the more value-add ladies cuts … ! 😉)
- No win on the PBs … 🤷‍♀️ Ah well, there’s always next month, yes? 😉
- 15% discount on the tops I bought from one establishment for giving them my email and signing up for a catalogue - that saved me £32! 😊
- Mr KK is rearranging his Man-Cave … sorry, sorry, garage, to make room for an integrated sandblasting cabinet. There are various things appearing outside that I think could be sold … a bulkhead for a Vauxhall combo van and a slightly art deco, chrome fire guard for two possibilities … 😊 <rubs palms together 😉> 
- Unpacked my birthday flowers, washed the base of the stems, trimmed them, released them from the arranging tape and put them in a big vase - they look much better ❤️
- Walked the peelings buckets down to the compost bins … 

I’m not tracking calories or energy expended today as we are going out for dinner to our favourite restaurant. I weighed this morning - no change after a week! 🙄😳 I start again tomorrow! 

KK

Humdinger1

An integrated sandblasting cabinet? Please explain @KajiKita as I plainly haven't lived! Love Humdinger xx 

KajiKita

Humdinger1 said:

An integrated sandblasting cabinet? Please explain @KajiKita as I plainly haven't lived! Love Humdinger xx 

Umm … perhaps this is a good thing! 😉
Basically, atm Mr KK has a sand blaster that he has to use outdoors with a head mask. The sand goes everywhere and although he does his best to recover what he can, inevitably you lose quite a bit. 

An integrated unit means that he puts his hands in through sealed holes, with the item he is blasting in from the right and then the hose is inside the glass topped, sealed cabinet with the item and Mr KK’s hands. I think it will limit the size of what he can work on in there but it would be so much quicker to set up and put away, plus the sand won’t end up everywhere and no head mask. 

Something like this:

Does that make sense?

KK

Humdinger1

Indeed it does; thank you! What kind of thing  do you use it for? Xx

KajiKita

Humdinger1 said:

Indeed it does; thank you! What kind of thing  do you use it for? Xx

Ummm … many, many of the parts that come as part of Mr KK’s vehicle restorations arrive with, let’s say, a patina and texture of rust! The first thing you do is to sand blast the parts back to bare metal, to see how much of the bare metal you actually have and what needs cutting out and new pieces of steel welding back in … It’s a loooong process … 😉😊

KK

KajiKita

Humdinger1 said:

Indeed it does; thank you! What kind of thing  do you use it for? Xx

For very big things, like a truck chassis, he hires a mobile unit who has much bigger kit, much more sand and more compressor power. But he’s mainly restoring old motorbikes atm, so something that powerful would obliterate the mudguards on something like a bike, unless the operator is very skilled and Mr KK doesn’t seem to rate a single one he’s hired so far … 😉

KK

redofromstart

Have a lovely dinner out.

the more I read, the more I think Mr KK and Mr Redo would have got on.