I got an email from M&S advertising their new Jaeger line. I was mildly interested but the emaciated model was a complete turn off. I didn't even scroll to page 2. Edit to say: not turn off but disturbing. I can't unsee it.😐
I've just spent 30 mins trying to access my Annual Statement which is apparently ready to view on my Tesco mobile account - except I can't find it anywhere. Go to Live Chat, they are too busy, go to Help, their step by step guide bears no relation to what I can find. I've given up. Need to find out why they're charging me about 50p more each month rather than what the monthly charge is. I don't use all my free minutes or texts.
My usual SM has a thing for the last couple of months where everyone who pays by debit card is invited to round their bill up to the nearest euro and the spare cents thus garnered go to a charity. We've had the French version of RNLI and now it's cancer research. Seems like a good idea.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I run a parallel "Open Office" rolling spread sheet for my credit card, with spending sub-divided into catagories.
It's something I like doing, "it's almost like having a job."
Over a period of a few months it can surprise me on what apart from grocery and household items, what I spend money.
I'm not reliant on being able to access my account on-line, it rarely isn't, but could cause some people problems if their's aren't.
It always balances with the statement, "but you never know."
I have a similar rolling spread sheet for my current account.
All my monthly direct debits are entered for the year in advance, a figure for anticipated credit card payments to clear the account each month and a figure for "spends."
"Theoretically" on January 1st, I can estimate how much money I'll have in the bank on December 31st.
I have a third sheet which gives me "what came in and what went" out each month and what the totals for each should be at the end of the year.
I also compile a budget each year, for "ins" and "outs" but include a figure for contingencies.
I'm always pretty close to the budget, but if we decide to "lash out" on something that would blow the budget, I just alter the budget accordingly.
Unlike the budgets I had to set and submit to the "bean counters" for approval, when I was working, these were "set in stone."
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Edit to say: not turn off but disturbing. I can't unsee it.😐
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Incidentally, do you have one of those little leather coin wallets?