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Just for fun and I suppose interest but within the next few weeks we will get £60 from the scheme, so what will you spent it on?
For me personally I don’t know what I’m going to do yet but it will be something for the kids.
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More than likely it’ll go on a takeaway when one of my kids is here and petrol.
I just filled up and used £34 in a week. It’s not like I have any sort of social life it’s just been hospital, physio and picking up/dropping off my daughter when she comes for a visit.
Please excuse spelling/typos. Apart from being a clot it turns out I had one on my cerebellum that's now causing various problems!
Normally it would pay for a nice lunch somewhere, but unfortunately our induction hob blew up yesterday (literally!) so it’s going towards the £600 cost to replace and install a new one ?
Heating bill. It will make a small contribution towards the extra gas used because MrsW has had to work from home through the winter, which of course her employer doesn’t care about. Unlike MPs who have been getting a generous allowance…
Heating bill. It will go someway to covering the extra gas used because MrsW has had to work from home through the winter, which of course her employer doesn’t care about. Unlike MPs who have been getting get an allowance…
Presumably she’s saving money by not having to travel to work and not spending money at lunchtime whilst she’s there though? I don’t know the detail, but isn’t there an adjustment you can make to your PAYE tax code if you work at home to offset a proportion of your costs of working from home?
HMRC allowed £6 a week without a full assessment. But yes, my commute is more expensive than my heating bill at around £75 a week. Food etc not so much, as I used to bring a flask and packed lunch ( public sector, so no free coffee and the only offering in the canteen is £2 a cup – kettles are banned as they use electricity….).
In life, it's not who you know that's important, it's how your wife found out.
Glos Guy, MrsW would use 1.5kW of electric commuting (less than 3 miles round trip), so we save that although working from home she’s probably using much of it running computer equipment etc. She would buy drinks at work but food she would take with her. So very little saved by not going to her workplace.
Our gas bill for the quarter to Christmas (heating and a gas hob) was £368. This quarter will be much more.
As Abercol says the govt tax allowance is £6 a week. I must check if she’s claimed it this year…
My £60 will be going towards the £1,035 for the adaptions to my new car so only another £975 to go.
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Glos Guy, MrsW would use 1.5kW of electric commuting (less than 3 miles round trip), so we save that although working from home she’s probably using much of it running computer equipment etc. She would buy drinks at work but food she would take with her. So very little saved by not going to her workplace. Our gas bill for the quarter to Christmas (heating and a gas hob) was £368. This quarter will be much more. As Abercol says the govt tax allowance is £6 a week. I must check if she’s claimed it this year…
£300 a year is better than nothing I guess. I presume that you wouldn’t be sitting in the cold if your wife was at work though (I thought you were retired but I may have misunderstood)? Our gas and electric currently averages £630 a quarter and that’s with a price cap that’s just ended, so before all the increases that are heading down the rails. Reckon we will be at £1k a quarter before long and even more when Russia turns off the gas pipelines in response to the sanctions imposed by the West once they invade Ukraine! ?
My £60 will be going towards the £1,035 for the adaptions to my new car so only another £975 to go. ?
I really feel for you ChrisK. I fail to understand why adaptations that are legitimately required to keep a Motability customer mobile aren’t all fully funded by the scheme. It’s not as if they can’t afford to. People shouldn’t have to go cap in hand for grants either. It shouldn’t be means tested. It should be needs tested.
It will go towards AP for next car due in July, as have the other payments.
Joss
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Previous car:Peugeot 308 GT Premium 1.2 Pure tech Petrol.My British Gas fix ends next month so no doubt it’ll go towards my first months direct debit that will be more than double what I’ve been paying. Roll on summer!
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Skoda Karoq SEL.
We are already £1000 a quarter for gas on an old fixed 2.8p tariff, currently working form home, no heating on. Temp says 18.2 deg, so chilly, but not unworkable. Pesky listed building with no insulation!
Workplace now making noises about going back, so there is that. I have no idea how much my commute will be since ditching the diesel (£70-75 a week) for the EV (around £25ish a week?) for my weekly spend.
Perhaps more importantly, the time saved by not commuting is a not inconsiderable 11-11.5 hours a week.
In life, it's not who you know that's important, it's how your wife found out.
putting mine toward a new tv. already got 70 off, and with the 60, makes £130 off so a good price of 270 for a new panasonic 43″ 4k….
Current Car: Hyundai Kona Premium EV...2 way 40kg hoist
Last Car: Toyota C-HR Excel Hybrid...4 way 80kg hoistGas combi boiler repair ?
Unfortunately I have suffered a brain injury and occasionally I get confused and often say the wrong thing.
A vet bill, had to rush my cat to the vets this afternoon.
Have received (within the last hour) my email from Motability saying it has been processed.
An Indian takeaway or 2!
nothing at these prices, I need to save for when extension ends in 2 years 😛
My £60 received today!
What will i spend it on?
£16 for hand car wash at my local Tesco superstore.
£10 donation to RNLI
£15 holiday fund.
£9 Americano coffee, sandwich & slice of chocolate cake from my local Cafe Nero.
Sure, kinda boring choices i guess however none would’ve been possible without the motability refund so i’m happy!
My £60 received today! What will i spend it on? £16 for hand car wash at my local Tesco superstore. £10 donation to RNLI £15 holiday fund. £9 Americano coffee, sandwich & slice of chocolate cake from my local Cafe Nero. Sure, kinda boring choices i guess however none would’ve been possible without the motability refund so i’m happy!
£16 for a hand wash? bloody hell.. you get a good one here for a fiver
Current Car: Hyundai Kona Premium EV...2 way 40kg hoist
Last Car: Toyota C-HR Excel Hybrid...4 way 80kg hoistThe cheapest hand carwash at my local Tesco here in Surrey is £12 but this time i’m plumping for the intermediate option at £16. Perhaps next years £70? refund will see me going all-in for the premium valet at £25 which will get me one of those dangly tree shaped air freshener thingy’s for FREE!
My £60 received today! What will i spend it on? £16 for hand car wash at my local Tesco superstore. £10 donation to RNLI £15 holiday fund. £9 Americano coffee, sandwich & slice of chocolate cake from my local Cafe Nero. Sure, kinda boring choices i guess however none would’ve been possible without the motability refund so i’m happy!
£16 for a hand wash? bloody hell.. you get a good one here for a fiver
Cheapest one around here is £8 for a car but it irritates me that we have to pay £10 as we have an ‘SUV’ even though our X1 is smaller than many cars! Id love to know how much of that income is ever taxed, given that I think that most of the guys there are hot off the RNLI cross channel taxi service that Graeme is funding ?
A week of McDonalds. Talking of car washes, we stopped using ours, having told the guy “the boot is electric, tell me when you have finished and I will close it”, to hear one almighty slam a minute later. I told him, if it is damaged you will get the bill, and now we use the automatic wash at our local supermarket.
£4 for a hand car wash, £5 if you want it dried with a chamois leather.
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