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Another payment to NT's mum; retirement recovered a bit; etc.

September 17th, 2015 at 09:14 pm

NT's UK rental income came in, and I was able to send 400 pounds to his mum. That leaves us owing her 1000 pounds by my calculations.

I peeked at my 401(k) as I've done every few days since the market stumbled. I'm back over $80K at least, though still under the high of $84K-$85K that I hit in early August. Performance wise, my holdings are still down about 5% from Aug. 11.

Our living room furniture will be coming next week! This puts us under the gun to A) replace the accessory stuff in the room (side tables, storage and art) and B) trim our foster cat's claws before then (he unwittingly gets them caught in our current old loveseat, pulling long strings from it, and our new furniture will have a similar material to the loveseat). To that end, we've trimmed two claws (we'll need to do just a couple at a time because it stresses him out) and listed the furniture we want to get rid of on FB and Freecycle. Only a few pieces have gone, so I'm going to try again on Craigslist and another FB site. When I get a chance! It's been a busy week.

We don't really have money carved out to buy the furniture, but we're ahead of where we need to be on saving for our UK plane tickets, so I'm thinking we take some from there and make it up later.

We had our basement bathroom inspection and our contractor has news about the results, but we haven't connected with him yet. Sounds like there does need to be work done, so I'm glad I resisted the temptation to spend the last $4K of WV money.

We're having a house meeting tonight to talk about various things, among them applying for city approval to turn our garage into an accessory dwelling unit (granny flat). I found the application online and my downstairs neighbor sounds interested in helping me investigate it. But I want to make sure no one has any concerns before we move forward.

I've started dieting and joined a pedometer challenge at work. I lost one pound last week, but I've been trying to eat less and walk more this week, so we'll see if the results are any better when I weigh in Sunday. Ideally I want to lose 15 lbs. (well, 14 now) before the whole Thanksgiving/Christmas season of decadence starts. So I'd need to lose a bit more than a pound a week!

4 Responses to “Another payment to NT's mum; retirement recovered a bit; etc.”

  1. alice4now Says:
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    Good luck with the weight loss challenge!

  2. Liz Says:
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    Lots of fun exciting stuff!

    We have 6 cats (yes, 6...oooof that's a lot of poop). And we trim their claws ourselves. 4 of the 6 hate it so much but we just blast through it, kind of like ripping a bandaid off. The squirmy ones (who tend to be bitey as well) get wrapped into a towel and only the paw being worked out is out. We can usually get all 6 cats done in 15 minutes. Work as a team, and don't be afraid to hurt kitty - you won't. We've been doing our cats' claws for years and years. They get over it fairly quickly.

  3. ceejay74 Says:
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    Thanks Liz! Our old cat didn't mind, and our middle cat didn't need it because she's not scratchy (with people or furniture). We did 3 more claws last night with him wrapped in a towel, and he didn't moan quite as much as the previous time, so we hope he's finding it not as bad as he thought it would be. Plus he gets treats after, and we NEVER give treats outside of mealtime, so that's pretty exciting for him. Smile

  4. FrugalTexan75 Says:
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    Ceejay - are you interested in Bounts? You can earn giftcards for UK and US just by connecting your pedometer (fitbit) or Runkeeper, etc. apps. I've earned enough points for a $5 Walmart card already. They've got great customer service too. Smile My code is laura1828 if you'd like to try it out. (just google bounts)

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