FIRE Girls Pension Diary - Aim High & Dream Big

MallyGirl

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82157264#Comment_82157264

my battery is installed outside- internal installation in lofts and the like are no longer recommended.

Firegirl

Good point about fire risk. I think this is the reason the OH said to put the battery on the outside wall rather than in the garage.

@QrizB your right it’s fox

michaels

Research suggests that an ice car kept in a garage is 18x more likely to catch fire than a home battery system.

Firegirl

I feel like the biggest fire risk is my teenagers leaving their chargers on at the wall without anything plugged into the end of them 🙄

mrklaw

ours is in the side passage, lives in a little lean to with ventilation for the summer and lightly insulated for winter

Firegirl

@mrklaw it sounds like a pet you have 😆

Firegirl

I’ve been quite active on early retirement planning, replanning and obsessive calculations. I’ve worked out I would like approx 2k a month. I had a week off and lived the way I’d want to. So going to the gym and mostly bringing my own coffee/lunch. Occasionally buying a coffee there. This also included a few lunches out and my husbands and my weekend coffees/breakfast/lunches whatever we fancy doing. Also includes my monthly Direct Debits and Standing orders. I noticed I spent more food shopping but I made much nicer dinners because I had time to ponder.

I’ve some decisions to make soon. These largely depend on my sanity levels and I think that will rule the decision rather than calculations.

Option 1 Stay in corporate job full time for a few more years.

Option 2 Go part time and work for a longer period.
Option 3 Full career change to lower stress job.

As I type this I’m actually realising this is a time line. Work full time until I feel I can’t do it anymore. Then go part-time and finally change to a lower stress job. The movement between these phases will likely be out of my hands and based on how I’m feeling.

There may be changes afoot. 🤔