Teh busy

[cybermule]

Well, someone is finally coming round to value, maybe even buy, my dad's stamp collection on Thursday. It's a bit of a mixed blessing to be honest - I know I can't keep the stamps for ever, but selling something so precious to my dad is really hard to do. There might eb a lot of money involved, so I was thinking of treating myself to a holiday with some of it. Somewhere really cool, that my dad would have loved to see, but never got around to.

I don't know, really.

As well as sorting that out, I tied up a few loose email ends. And ordered some potatoes for my allotment. It's a pretty big patch, so I don't think it'll hurt to devote some of it to spuds.

I watched a programme on Thursday night about paying off your mortgage in two years. The level of disruption to my life would be unacceptable - this is why I work part-time, for the government... no hassle - but it made me think. It's not impossible that I could pay it off in the enxt five years, with little stress or compromise. Then I'd own my own house. Once I get my business plans off the starting blocks, I could work anywhere. Renting my house out, living by the seaside 6 months a year. It would all be a possibility if I pulled my finger out and got my finances sorted.

In other news faintly related to business, I'm sick to the back teeth of working with NLP coaches trying to set up websites. They may be hot as shit at coaching other people, but have no sodding idea what they want. Or at least, not until you made a trail page for them. Then they don't want it. I'm going to stop being so fluffy and start charging people for wasting my time. I'll have a think about it, and devise a quote system. Probably a quick home page, to give them idea, and a bill for finishing the rest of it.

Like I said, needs thinking on.

It really is a lovely day. I just cleared a load of waste out my front garden. People keep chucking rubbish into it, though :(

Comments

[zleetle.livejournal.com]

yay im an email end! woohoo!

curious - how many (%) of people own their home in the UK, and is it a goal on average? I was reading about homeownership on some biking/simple living website and people made the assertion that its less of a goal in other countries (non US countries) and that americans are home-crazy. (not suprising given the general craziness here, but whatev) So as a non american homeowner, I figured you might be able to give some insight, since I'm a bit too lazy to look up stats myself and just sort of want a general feeling anyway :D

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

yay im an email end! woohoo!

LOL - I meant it in the nicest possible way :)

About 70% of households own their own home:

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=821

It's heavily linked to sociodemographic group. So yeah, we're also quite into home ownership. But we're one of the highest % owners in Europe, I think.

On a personal slant, I wasn't really bothered about it until my parents sold the family home. Then I decided I wanted a base of my own, with a garden, and one that I could have paid off by a reasonable age so I could slack off a bit in my later years :)

[zleetle.livejournal.com]

yeah, that makes total sense. Like I said, it was sort of idle curiousity after this large "what is simple living" debate on a bike forum I read. I used to own but sold it to go to grad school - we are thinking about buying again but its so hard to predict where we're gonna be in the next 3 years, let alone 5, that I dont know if its worth it quite yet. But renting seems so wasteful, and theres not much hope of gardening or painting a color to suit :p

[dandelion-wings.livejournal.com]

people throw garbage around here all of the time, too. it sucks :((

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

It's horrible - I've even found syringes in my garden, and my area really isn't that bad :( I don't knwo what they're thinking - my parents were slack, but at least taught me not to litter, and there are plenty of bins around.

[unsane1.livejournal.com]

lol wtf...