Cheery's path to fulfilment - finishing the DIY, looking after myself, appreciating the garden 🌻

beanielou

Nice wee payout. Good to keep for your wee break. 🥰

KajiKita

31 days off … wow! 🤩 I wouldn’t want to go back after that!! 😂😂

Hope you have a lovely break and I applaud the idea of using prolific monies to cover your break away 😊

KK

Tescodealqueen

Cheery_Daff said:

JGB1955 said:

We print less than 50 sheets a month and bought a cheap (less than £50) HP printer and pay £4.49 per month for printing 50 sheets with their HP Instant Ink deal.  Any 'unused' sheets get carried forward. Works out well for us.

That does sound like a good deal! Will investigate if we end up not being able to fix this one properly, thank you 😊

We used to do that HP plan for some years but changed about 18 months ago and bought an Epsom printer that had an ECO tank from the Q** shopping channel. It came with spare ink and we are still on the first fill. It might be worth looking into if you can get a deal. My OH prints photos and we do print for family members too because they were having to use the local library and were shocked at the cost when they  needed to print some official documents when they moved house. 

joedenise

We've got the Epsom printer with the Eco tank as well.  We've had it about 3 years and still on the first tank so still have the spare one to use (if I can remember where I put it!).  Has certainly been economical to use.

edwink

We've got the Epsom ET-2250 printer with Eco tank.  We've found it very economical and it was definitely a good buy for us.

Edwink 

Cheery_Daff

Thank you for all your printer tips! I am stowing them away, although our current one will suffice for the time being. Other official doc has been dispatched using an online printing service for £8.75, including postage. Considering the alternative would have meant paying for both printing and postage, or driving an hour each way to work and still paying for postage, this allowed me to get the task done in one go and not have to think about it anymore.

Mr C got part way to his dad's but then felt nauseous and had to stop. I offered to collect him but he said no. Haven't heard from him since... I'm just he's just visiting a pal but I'll check soon.

Took the recycling out. Went for a run. Finished work. Mowed the grass. Sorted a time for my mum to visit next week.

She's got her senior bus pass, and we were very excited to see if she could get here for free 😂😂 If you should need similar information, I've learned today that Traveline is the place to go - you can filter to exclude everything other than local bus/walk. It's going to take her 5 hours each way (as opposed to less than 2 in the car) but it's free, she can knit and eat her butties on the way, and she is happily treating it as an adventure 😃

Right, gym membership, strimming.

Cheery_Daff

🙄 Gym membership is now some shoddy centralised service, and their phone line has cut me off twice 🙄 Submitted through the contact form, let's see if it gets swallowed by the goblins... They allow you to cancel in the first 4 days of the month so it wouldn't surprise me if they waited til Tuesday and denied all knowledge 🙄 One of the reasons I wanted to ring!

Tescodealqueen

Your mums bus journey reminds me of the Timothy Spall film “the last bus “ where he travels the length of the country on his free bus pass. Got mine last year and haven’t even used it yet but a project for the  future perhaps

PennysIntoPounds

Good for your mum 💪🥂

Cheery_Daff

Tescodealqueen said:

Your mums bus journey reminds me of the Timothy Spall film “the last bus “ where he travels the length of the country on his free bus pass. Got mine last year and haven’t even used it yet but a project for the  future perhaps

Ah yes, someone else mentioned that recently! Must watch it!