What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9

[Arzosah]

Ditto to a lot of that, most of my stuff is digital these days (and I've often used a scanner to get stuff stored on my computer and backed up to make *more* of it digital). But some of the stuff I'm currently doing is tax papers from 2015-16, which I'm able to discard this year - and a lot of the "income" proof is receipts from ATMs, which photocopied clients' cheques - and since I was a therapist in my earlier life that stuff *has* to be shredded. And when I retired it was because I was so ill with chronic fatigue, so shredding also didn't get done. And then my mum was ill and died, so what energy I had was focussed on that and the aftermath.

I still have to do a tax declaration, but my affairs are a lot simpler now. I'm lucky in a lot of ways - this is most certainly a First World problem! - its just time-consuming, even if its important to make space.

[Nurseandy]

Building local relationships in our new area this morning - There was a pheasant shoot in the field opposite our house a couple of weeks ago, windy day & some of the shot landed on the house roof. I was at work and wife didn't want to go outside to talk to them. This morning a guy in a pick up was parked in the field entrance in a shooting vest so I stopped to chat. He was the organiser and (as expected) mortified about shot landing on the house and promised future shoots will be further away from the house. As way of recompense there's a few pheasants coming our way too. Turns out he's also the local gritter driver so very handy to have made acquaintance.

[Frnc]

I hate doing my tax, so I do it on about April 6th every year to get it out of the way. I keep previous year's forms downloaded, copy the answers and tweak the figures if necessary. The lodgers rent is pretty simple on the rentaroom scheme anyway, because you don't have to put expenses down. You are allowed to simply put income and then deduct £7,500.
Interest is way below threshold anyway so not worth spending too long calculating to the penny.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Gave the boss lady's car a quick service well 8000 miles ago she bought it and the dealer said it had a full service.. hmmm the filter tells me otherwise even the oil filter canister had more than 8k miles of rust on it

I'll get Christmas out the way and give it a full going over....

Needs a set of tyres too although plenty of tread they are erm poo.... Currently pricing up all season tyres for it

[ForgeCorvus]

Had a customer give me a square bale of straw for my help today ... That's the chickens happy after I've hoovered out the car

Top man! Straw in my motor is the same as yours!

Try a single duvet cover (not the wife's best guest set), a square bale fits in easily and gives you a big hank to twist up into a handle. This saves having to hoover the car (and still end up with bits in all the nooks and crannies)

Got another lamp on order this one will apparently run on cooking oil or kerro can see cooking oil been too thick but for ,£9 it's worth a try if needs be it'll get lamp oil

Got a link?

[Yorkshire Andy]

Had a customer give me a square bale of straw for my help today ... That's the chickens happy after I've hoovered out the car

Top man! Straw in my motor is the same as yours!

Try a single duvet cover (not the wife's best guest set), a square bale fits in easily and gives you a big hank to twist up into a handle. This saves having to hoover the car (and still end up with bits in all the nooks and crannies)

Got another lamp on order this one will apparently run on cooking oil or kerro can see cooking oil been too thick but for ,£9 it's worth a try if needs be it'll get lamp oil

Got a link?

I got given it at work it was in a big Polly bag but by the time I'd wrestled it in the car some bits escaped... The chickens are a funny bunch this year's pullets bogged off outside (covered) whilst the old birds went ballistic scratting about looking for grain heads ..



This lamp

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/364041463306

It should have been here Friday... But yodal ...

[jansman]

Had a customer give me a square bale of straw for my help today ... That's the chickens happy after I've hoovered out the car

Top man! Straw in my motor is the same as yours!

Try a single duvet cover (not the wife's best guest set), a square bale fits in easily and gives you a big hank to twist up into a handle. This saves having to hoover the car (and still end up with bits in all the nooks and crannies)

Got another lamp on order this one will apparently run on cooking oil or kerro can see cooking oil been too thick but for ,£9 it's worth a try if needs be it'll get lamp oil

Got a link?

I use a large tarpaulin- straw still finds a way.

[jansman]

Building local relationships in our new area this morning - There was a pheasant shoot in the field opposite our house a couple of weeks ago, windy day & some of the shot landed on the house roof. I was at work and wife didn't want to go outside to talk to them. This morning a guy in a pick up was parked in the field entrance in a shooting vest so I stopped to chat. He was the organiser and (as expected) mortified about shot landing on the house and promised future shoots will be further away from the house. As way of recompense there's a few pheasants coming our way too. Turns out he's also the local gritter driver so very handy to have made acquaintance.

That’s a perfect way to become friends with local natives like yourself.

[Arzosah]

I hate doing my tax, so I do it on about April 6th every year to get it out of the way. I keep previous year's forms downloaded, copy the answers and tweak the figures if necessary. The lodgers rent is pretty simple on the rentaroom scheme anyway, because you don't have to put expenses down. You are allowed to simply put income and then deduct £7,500.

I wish! I have that stupid investment property in France, and for a long, long time the rules about how to declare the money seemed to change every bleeping year, it was agonising. A bit better now that I've paid off that mortgage, but still horrible.

This year, for the first time, I have to figure out how to declare the state pension - if it was what I'd actually received, a "cash basis" thing like when I worked, that would be lovely, but its not - that needs further study on my part

Still, my shredder kind of works again (if I fold stuff up so that only one side is used ).

[Frnc]

This year, for the first time, I have to figure out how to declare the state pension - if it was what I'd actually received, a "cash basis" thing like when I worked, that would be lovely, but its not - that needs further study on my part

I just had a look. All I could see was a box for amount you were entitled to receive in a year, and another for state pension lump sum, whatever that is, plus of course any company/private pension.