Hurrah, my MFW quest has started

lulabelle1

Have a wonderful few days away, you deserve it! L x

abouttimetoo

Thanks Lula, had a really great few days. Everything rang perfectly right from travel to fab hotel, fab place, fab food, great weather and lovely people

The only small blooper was I thought I had paid in full for the hotel and I hadn't! Not too much of a disaster as only a balance of £150 to pay but still £150 I hadn't accounted for this month

Regards
ATT

abouttimetoo

Well my stooze credit card balance now sits at nil :j

This is the first time in approx. 12 years that I have not had a credit card balance of some description and although I've never paid interest on it - most of the time I've had the full amount owing elsewhere in savings accounts - it still feels great to not have any balances anywhere

Just updated my signature. I've made the main £500 OP, £250 to savings and £250 to a share option

I'm not yet sure if I will OP or save any more his month as I've had that unexpected (aka forgotten!) £150 holiday balance, some spending money, a birthday and a few meals out this month

Regards
ATT

abouttimetoo

My Ifone has died :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: What a complete disaster! I've had various calls with Apple this morning and though very helpful we are no further forward; so, I've got an appointment at the Apple shop to see what can be done

Got a couple of electrical problems to sort at home too, nothing of a dangerous nature just things like house alarm not working etc

Hope you are all doing well with you MF plans

Regards
ATT

abouttimetoo

abouttimetoo wrote: »

I seem to be racking up a number of 'home jobs' to do, I don't normally list them here but think on this occasion I will as they are swilling round my head

• [STRIKE]ring H@lifax pretending to be family member to see why the £5 R£wards wasn't
  paid out this month (funds and DD's all paid as per T&C's)[/STRIKE] Hmm, not starter and not going to argue for a fiver, they've changed the account back so £5 will resume next month
• [STRIKE]visit local work office to send expenses receipts[/STRIKE]
• close a number of old bank accounts where rate has expired
• open two B0S Vantage accounts for family member
  • one down, one to go
• contact N@T West for family member to see why they have not send internet banking reset details after getting locked out
  • one done, one to go, can only open one a day so the other can wait until I get back
• When on-line banking password reset, transfer funds out of rubbish savings account rate
• ring sharedealing company to find out why some things they have sent me include other account numbers in my name that I have no awareness of :eek:
• clean car in and out so that it looks half way decent so that I can finally get car hunting and get part-ex price
• [STRIKE]take pair of shoes and trousers back to shop, shoes hurt and trousers not for me
  and not the right size[/STRIKE]

My deadline for these tasks is 30th June as what with holidays then two weeks working away I'm not going to get much opportunity

Regards
ATT

So much for the 30th June deadline, still some of them to do and the list has got even bigger

FloppyDisk

Good luck with your long to do list, abouttimetoo, I daren't write mine out, it'll put me off starting!

Big congratulations on clearing the CC balance. I'm attempting to do the same without sacrificing my savings and should have it done by Christmas. Will you be able to put more towards other pots now?

abouttimetoo

Hi Floppy

Thanks for stopping by and welcome to the MFW gang too

Yes, that £200 per month is now free for other pots, however, I've just started a £250 month share option so it's kind of swings and roundabouts IYSWIM

Other tasks achieved today

• Some paperwork sorted (note the some!)
• Expenses paperwork sent
• Finally been able to make some on-line payments as problems with a new debit card which took some time on-line and on phone to start
• House hovered
• Dishwasher emptied

I also had a debit to my credit card for Annual travel insurance, I knew mine had just expired so wasn't happy they had just renewed it so was a about to call to complain, however, the paperwork sorting had revealed renewal letter and notice of them automatically renewing if I did not get in touch :eek:

Oh well, saves me a phone call and I'm hoping to get away later this month so would have had to shop around so the only unknown is could I have got it cheaper and with a cashback

Regards
ATT

abouttimetoo

abouttimetoo wrote: »

My Ifone has died :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: What a complete disaster! I've had various calls with Apple this morning and though very helpful we are no further forward; so, I've got an appointment at the Apple shop to see what can be done

Got a couple of electrical problems to sort at home too, nothing of a dangerous nature just things like house alarm not working etc

Hope you are all doing well with you MF plans

Regards
ATT

Not much further forward, a three hour journey, £8 travel expenses all to confirm that the phone is dead and it's a manufacturing fault. Apple say it's of warranty but my service provider says in warranty so I'm now waiting for a call to establish what's what. So.... looks like no phone for me for a few days

It's scary how much of our lives are on these sort of devices, I can't tell you how many times a day I go to use it only to remember can't use it. I've got a few personal calls to make too but can't get at the numbers and gawd knows how many people think I haven't replied to text messages

Regards
ATT

abouttimetoo

I've got quite a way to go until pay day so don't want to count my chickens but I think I may be able to manage extra OP or funds to savings this month so that's good news

Regards
ATT

abouttimetoo

The monthly gas and electricity bills are in, the gas was £33.88 so continuing to come down now the weather is improving. I don't have the electricity bill to hand but after payment the account is £26.89 in credit so I'll update the bill here later

I need a trip to Mr S's today but hopefully won't spend more than £30. Other than that I shouldn't need to spend anything more this weekend

My accounts are still looking fair and I've just been reminded that I'm owed some money from holiday spends to I need to work out what this is and it will be repaid. It should be about £150 so that's good :j

The weather look good today so hope it's the same for wherever you all are

Regards
ATT