Five Year Fix, Five Year Plan

rtandon27

Merlin's_Beard said:

...That's definitely not an acceptable attitude to have! 

I justify the excessive book purchases by saying that the vast majority are 99p, they are all books that I want to read, and that one day I will read them...

So true, especially as the Mr. currently has 5 bookshelves overflowing in the house!  He says he's read them all, but I've not seen him read anything recently & at least 3 of the thickest ones are new & don't look like they have been opened! - LOL

The best thing about electronic books is not having to share them - it's murder trying to read the next chapter when the book disappears from where you left it!

Merlin's_Beard

Spoke too soon on the Netflix - tried to log in again today and it's throwing me out as not in the right household. Bah.

My external hard drive that I use as a back up also seems to have gone the way of the dinosaurs - not connecting to anything on the network, nothing can see it. There are a lot of media files on there that I would want to save, but also there are photographs from the last 15 years or so. Ironically, the hard drive was a backup to the laptop that died last month, so they're pretty much lost. Have emailed a local data restoration specialist to see if they might be able to help - if they can, their price list suggests it's going to be around £350 to recover 3TB of data.

In a way, this is because I've held off replacing everything in favour of saving a house deposit then rebuilding emergency fund, so I'm not 100% surprised that everything is falling to bits now. It would have been nice if the hard drive could have waited for me to re-back up the photos onto the new laptop though!

On a brighter note I've paid for a course in the summer for work, and work reimbursed me within about 48 hours of me submitting the claim. All the travel and accommodation is going to be on me, but I'm going to extend it into a holiday.

Cold feeling a lot better by this weekend, but I'm still giving myself a day of pretending that I'm ill and lounging around doing not much. De-Christmassed, laundry, and general pottering.

LadyWithAPlan

The trip sounds great.. I had a friend who was a vet and every year he found a jolly - I mean work course- somewhere hot and fabulous to so...

I am also still on lazy go slow... but its not even a week into the NY

Aimingforthegoodlife

Hope you feel better soon! EF is looking great and you totally deserve to buy all the books with how hard you work. Will keep popping by

killerpeaty

Gutted for your external hard drive. Hopefully you can recover the info, even if only some.

savingholmes

Hope you recover your data

Merlin's_Beard

Very quiet here with little in the way of updates.

External hard drive still isn't sorted - when I chased it up last week, my email had gone into their spam and disappeared. They also needed me to provide a drive to transfer the data on (or they can charge me for one), so I had to get that sorted as well (£120 for a 5GB USB). Hopefully should be able to drop it off on Tuesday and then I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Still have done nothing about a table or chairs for the kitchen/diner. Something of a decision overwhelm going on - too much choice, don't know where to start! It can be a February goal.

Sitting here listening to Isha trying to huff and puff and blow my house down (thankfully it's made of brick!)

Merlin's_Beard

Haha my mum has just texted me to tell me Martin Lewis is talking about mortgages on ITV, because she knows I don't pay that much attention to personal finance....!

I always knew that woman never listened to me 

I don't think she's really clocked what fixed rate until 2027 means, either...!

South_coast

That sounds like my Mum, who proudly told me she'd got marriage tax allowance sorted in less than 5 minutes....about four years after I said they should claim it 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ Funnily enough, I think that was prompted by seeing ML on TV too!

But the best one was BF asking why I was bothering overpaying my mortgage, as "We'll be on negative interest rates soon" (2020) All together now: Hahahahahahaha 🤣!

LadyWithAPlan

lol ! 

Hope you get your hd fixed