Other What's ruining your life right now?

The car was running on fumes before it went in for its mot yesterday. Garages dried up, luckily enough passed the mot with no issues, checked five again today and not a drop.

 

Mixed news from my son. His car failed its MOT, first one away from home...had a bit of a meltdown.
Looks like a single suspension part, and there's an OK garage 5 min walk from where he works.
Good thing I persuaded him to have it tested 10 days before the deadline.
He was able to buy £30 of petrol on the way home, so he's good for the rest of the week at leat.
Hopefully things will have settled down by the time he next needs to fill up.
Good luck with filling up those cars running on fumes

 

162AFCAA-3D1C-411C-B7BC-18E092037FD7 by DeanSUNIAIU posted 29 Sep 2021 at 18:15

What I was expecting.

28862958-2037-45F8-AC8A-A099DB89BC50 by DeanSUNIAIU posted 29 Sep 2021 at 18:15

What I received.

Not a happy camper.

 

Oof, that's pretty nasty!

 

Indeed, and not a cheap CPU either.

 

Just had to cancel a "lads weekend"* 'cause one of the attendees (well the prime organiser!) son's got the COVIDS

*when i say lads weekend, i mean renting a flat in the big smoke, and playing board games and just relaxing; nout fancy nor any significant quantities of alcohol as most of us have kids so have zero tolerance on the drink front...

 

Sat down to work out a few finances today, felt like I was on track to be debt free come middle of next year and at the moment I actually am. Then a few realisations hit me....

Totally forgetting we're travelling up north for a wedding soon, new suit had to be ordered, pay for hotels on arrival, food & drinks + petrol

Then the following month is my sons birthday, my partner has a habit of going completely over the top. no matter how much I plead and beg her not to buy continuously from now until November she probably still will...

That is quickly followed by an MOT, probably could do with a service at the same time realistically, will definitely need some new tyres and sitting at 173k miles its bound to have something looking a bit ropey... did I mention its a BMW?

Then we get into Christmas (repeat going over the top x10000)

 

Gout

not had an attack in over 4 years since doing a 9 month stint on allopurinol, currently eating paracetamol and ibuprofen like candy. To make matters worse I have a job interview tomorrow of which I'll have to wing through gritted teeth.

 

You have my sympathy there.I haven't had a really bad attack in a long time, but last time I did I couldn't put any pressure at all on my foot without excruciating pain.

 

Not being able to spend any money today, yeah I know 1st world problems;
> Harley haven't got a part in (although I'm kind of glad as it's way way way over priced and I think a 5 quid piece of Chinese plastic might work as well)
> Bloke on Ebay refused my offer (c'mon it was only a tenner shy of his asking price)
> A thread on here hasn't progressed from price check to for sale

 

Blimey that is high, do you have a mining farm or something.

 

Ah that is not so bad, I looked at the monthly in your image that says £326, whereas if you only use £1500, that's £125, which is a LOT more frugal than us. So now you ruined my day

 

"I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable. Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things."

I suggest you bypass the meter.

 

Ouch.
Sod that for a game of soldiers, I'm currently paying £100 a month and building up a credit reserve for winter.

 

I spend £88 a month on gas and electric and I put 10kwh in to a car every other day, i used on average about 21khw a day... I think to be completely honest here, with the way the prices are going, getting solar with battery storage at the cost of about £9k is looking more and more appealing and will likely be a requirement in days to come. How anybody spends more than I do given what I run daily blows the mind though!

 

Easier than you think, tbh. My oven, fridge-freezer, boiler, and hot water heater are all upwards of 10-15 years old. I can't change a single one of them because I rent and they belong to the landlord. Newer appliances would mean better energy efficiency but that's simply not an option I've got. When **** breaks they'll try and repair as cheap as possible it to squeeze as much life as possible out of it. Even when stuff does eventually have to be replaced they'll get the cheapest possible replacement that barely functions, not something energy-efficient.

It never used to bother me so much because I used to have power-hungry servers running constantly, but I made a conscious effort to get rid of as much "server" infrastructure as possible and move it all to the cloud. (I do have stuff running 24x7, but one's a Raspberry Pi and the other two are low-power desktops - not exactly sucking down 3090 wattages!)

I'm moving to Octopus and my bill is going to be around £130-ish a month. At least it's marginally better than the £140-ish that EDF were charging!

 

We're spending £180 a month, probably only putting 30kWh a week into the car? 6,000kWh electric and 29,000kWh gas. The trick is to have high ceilings and a permanently occupied house, and to do a million loads in the tumble dryer every week.