Comments for Behind Blue Eyes

Comment on Numbers on a screen by thud

thud — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:00:33 +0000

In my life I’ve been both profligate and frugal to pretty much the same result. We all seem to be at the mercy of forces beyond our control at the moment so I suppose both saving and enjoying ones self seems in order…squaring the circle yet again.

Comment on Numbers on a screen by stressedoutcop

stressedoutcop — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:37:52 +0000

“You’ll” – Forgive lack of awareness there !!!!!

Comment on Numbers on a screen by stressedoutcop

stressedoutcop — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:30:19 +0000

You’re Born Naked and when you check out you’re be just the same ………. what goes on in between is totally your choice. I’m not into having material things but like the comfort of having a nest egg …… old working class family made good makes me like that.

I just wish Mrs Stressed was better with her money. That share I tipped you is in The Mail today .. It’s a sign lol

Comment on Numbers on a screen by Electro-Kevin

Electro-Kevin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:42:46 +0000

Well actually I think you SHOULD be complaining, Blue. If there’s anyone who has a right to it’s you.

Comment on Numbers on a screen by Blue Eyes

Blue Eyes — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:56:45 +0000

Julia, damned straight!

Comment on Numbers on a screen by Blue Eyes

Blue Eyes — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:56:30 +0000

EK, I’m not really complaining. I have a lot of the material things I want. Despite my austere 2011 I still managed to upgrade to an iPhone and go to Japan on holiday. It’s hardly poverty.

SL haha, worryingly similar maybe! You don’t want to hand your laptop over to the forensics chap. A friend of mine felt the need to take the whole hard drive out of his computer before sending it off to get it fixed. I dread to think what he must have had on it!

Richard, can’t interest you in South America?

Comment on Numbers on a screen by scrobs

scrobs — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:55:00 +0000

I blame MS Excel, Blues! When I started off on my own, it was so easy to put numbers in columns based on expectations, only to have them altered downwards almost immediately!

Another door opened, and changed everything yet again and so on, until we’re on tenterhooks now with an expectation which could, just could, change everything positively.

So the last thing I’m doing for our business plan in January, is a bloody spreadsheet. I’ll do that if we get some money in for a change…

Comment on Numbers on a screen by JuliaM

JuliaM — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:17:30 +0000

“I sometimes fear that by concentrating so hard on being sensible I will wake up one day with a decent bank balance regretting that I have not enjoyed myself very much.”

Something to always bear in mind: You can’t take it with you.

Comment on Numbers on a screen by Richard Elliot

Richard Elliot — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:42:47 +0000

I was very ahead of my time, the ‘year of the cutback’ was before the credit crunch even started!

Me, I’m off to Vietnam for a holiday next year (hopefully).

Comment on Numbers on a screen by StevenL

StevenL — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:06:35 +0000

I sometimes fear that by concentrating so hard on being sensible I will wake up one day with a decent bank balance regretting that I have not enjoyed myself very much.

That’s the eternal dilemma isn’t it? I’ve been doing exactly the same thing. OK, if I quit the roll-ups, (which I need to anyway), start having homemade egg sandwiches for lunch, stop drinking midweek (even the traditional Thursday night bottle of plonk) and don’t buy any designer clothes this year (what – no flashy shirts???) I could probably stash £400 a month away somewhere (in the spread betting account or the ISA?) and try to hoover up some cheap blue chips to hold for the long term.

A year without a holiday? Rubbish! Another year with my ancient laptop?

OMG – you are just a shorter version of me! My old man, bless him, has just sorted my laptop after it’s been kaput for 2 months. I didn’t trust the computer forensics guy at work with it – he’s got some of that software that can download every file you’ve ever deleted, every email you’ve ever sent and every website you’ve ever visited!

As for the holiday, I’ve 10 days leave to use by April and quite fancy a week in Tenerife. Then again, maybe I should buy some shares or whack it in the spread betting account? I’ll turn 32 this year and still never have visited Asia. Maybe I should just pile up some cash and do that end of March/April when I can grab a few weeks off spanning both leave years. Argghhhhh!

Hopefully I’ll get the Aberdeen job and have an extra £400 a month to play with. But I’m also minded to start some new blogs too, take what I’ve learned over the years and have a serious crack at getting the hit counter up by going mainstream under a new pseudonym on consumer affairs.

I’ll uncork one of those bottles of wine my brother got me for Xmas later and mull it all over!