[Closed] No poll tax February.

Decorating the bathroom, almost as exciting as you 😀

£100 off the xmas consumerism albatros

It worked then?

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binners - Member

It worked then?

Poll tax?
Yes, it was a great idea.
It was however unpopular with a bunch of thugs who didn't want to pay their way.

😀

I hear they're making them pay tax for bedrooms now instead? The bloody layabouts 😀

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Those pictures of rioters aren't doing anything for me.

Can't the champion of corporate big business supply us with a laughing tory from his **** bank like he normally does?

A brother needs something to fap to, once he's finished this delicious pie, sourced from the local family butcher. 😛

Legislation is going through Scottish Parliament to stop Cooncils chasing up any remaining poll tax arrears in Scotland.

I would be asking for a refund, if I had paid it !

(the subtext to this is that a lot of people went on the electoral role to vote in the referendum, they had previously avoided it so they couldn't be traced, so were effectively disenfranchised - the LAs were licking their fingers at the thought of that extra income as a result)

I tell my kids I was in Trafalgar Square that day (I was, honest).

They look at their Dad and I can see them thinking 'Nah!'.

Twenty five years ago in April...I remember the "B******s to the Poll Tax!" tee shirts and the tall tales of rioting prowess from some of the other kids in my year at school who claimed to have been involved in fisticuffs with local plod that weekend.

My wife has just informed me that due to no council tax this month, we can now afford to re tile the kitchen. FML I have never tiled, nor have I ever had the desire to learn to tile. Why does she think I can just automatically do these things!

I pay mine off in full every year when the bill arrives (aren't i smug 😉 ), thankfully i'm in the lowest band in dumfries & galloway, and receive a 25% discount for single occupancy so it [i]only[/i] 😕 costs me £700 ish - that's still 3 weeks pay though.

Tiling kitchens? Loft insulation? Its a right old hot bed of Bacchanalian debauchery around here today 😀

GoPro for me and some obscenely expensive perfume for my wife- I was shocked when she told me how much it cost!

FML I have never tiled, nor have I ever had the desire to learn to tile.

I find the tiling bit easy, it's the grouting where it all seems to go wrong.....

GoPro for me and some obscenely expensive perfume for my wife- I was shocked when she told me how much it cost!

You pay £500 a month in Council Tax?

Our Council + water rates (neither bill in Feb / Mar) is something like £160 IIRC.

Car insurance, MOT and service.

Whoop-de-****ing-doo.

What about these poll tax riots?

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It was however unpopular with a bunch of thugs who didn't want to pay their way.

It was unpopular with most of the country, which is why it was scrapped.

I think I'll be spending £70 of it on a small mixing desk. a little more interesting than tiling , insulation or the costs of keeping a car running. the rest I'll probably spend on me

The band no longer has use of the PA we'd been borrowing for the last 2 years so we need a new PA. I don't have room in the car for the full monty, and besides, one of the other guys has just bought the speakers, so I shall provide the mixer & someone else can do the power amp and stands

PS round here we have March off as well 🙂

Nothing as I pay it monthly

I explained to them that I asked my employer to pay me over 11 months and as they had declined i would have to pay them monthly as well.

They moaned a lot about this but eventually accepted this. I had to turn up monthly with the cash for a bit as well before they would do DD

I've changed mine up into euros and i'll be spending it on beer and meat this weekend in Slovakia.

I find the tiling bit easy, it's the grouting where it all seems to go wrong.....

I'll be going for the little plastic spacer look..... Permanently!

Tiling kitchens? Loft insulation? Its a right old hot bed of Bacchanalian debauchery around here today

Living the dream Binners, living the dream 😉

Ours is paying off the bill for MCJnrs school trip to France in June.

dknwhy is definitely winning so far. Will there be Slovakian hookers? 😀

Another boring 12 month payer here!

binners - Member
dknwhy is definitely winning so far. Will there be Slovakian hookers?

It's my stag do so I hope so.

Good work! Make the most of it! This time next year you'll be weighing up the relative merits of loft insulation and grouting 😀

You can pay over 12 months? I'm on 10 as well, looks like another house and car insurance fap-fest for me this year!

Think it depends on the area.

This time next year you'll be weighing up the relative merits of loft insulation and grouting

We've been together for 12 years with 2 kids so are all but married in name. If it makes you feel any better, last month I had to spend the equivalent of the monthly council tax on resurfacing the shower tray 😀

My water is also over 10 months so my wife can spend an additional £264 a month on pointless frippery in both February and March...

on resurfacing the shower tray

WTF is that?

I'd have thought you just threw the old one out and put in a new one?

MrsDutch just ordered a new blind for our kitchen, its 30 quid more than Council tax payment so I'm even more out of pocket 👿

footflaps - Member

FML I have never tiled, nor have I ever had the desire to learn to tile.

I find the tiling bit easy, it's the grouting where it all seems to go wrong.....

GoPro for me and some obscenely expensive perfume for my wife- I was shocked when she told me how much it cost!

You pay £500 a month in Council Tax?

Our Council + water rates (neither bill in Feb / Mar) is something like £160 IIRC.

Oh hell no - it's about £160 a month I think, so about £300 total for the 2 months 'holiday' - I'm getting a Hero and the perfume is something like £80 or so.

Between that an my fuel bills dropping £30 a month it's like being a Boomer in the 80's - if only they could sell all the British Rail, Air, Steel, Gas etc etc again I might be able to buy a house by the time I'm 40...

Surface gets skimmed to repair the hairline cracks. Was cheaper than ripping it all out and damaging the bottom row of tiles.
Time will tell how it lasts. Was worth a punt though.

[i]somafunk - Member
I pay mine off in full every year when the bill arrives (aren't i smug ), thankfully i'm in the lowest band in dumfries & galloway, and receive a 25% discount for single occupancy so it only costs me £700 ish - that's still 3 weeks pay though.[/i]

You seem to pop up on many times on the forum regarding spending. How you managed to eat and spend what you appear to on £12k a year is remarkable.

Week in the Lake District for me btw.

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You seem to pop up on many times on the forum regarding spending. How you managed to eat and spend what you appear to on £12k a year is remarkable.

Ponics, worth their weight in gold (or the products thereof are) 😉

You seem to pop up on many times on the forum regarding spending. How you managed to eat and spend what you appear to on £12k a year is remarkable.

I think you'll find that £700 spent each year is still £700, whether you spend it in one go or in installments.

I can provide maths tuition if you want to supplement my lowly income. 🙂

Gary M : 24 years ago I was involved in a car accident that left me at 19 with a shattered spine and paralysed from the chest down with a piss poor prognosis due to bone fragments in my spinal cord, 4 months+ in hospital and wheelchairs, many hours of exploratory and rebuild surgery/removal of shattered vertebrae along with fusion of the rest along with countless hours of physio that was brutal but ultimately so worth it. From getting feeling back in my big toe after 3 months to movement spreading up my legs to managing to hobble out the hospital on crutches over 4 months later and over the next 6 months I worked till I was almost back to normal, needless to say there was a certain amount of insurance/compensation involved which eventually ended up in my bank account, so I did what any 19yr old in my situation would do - I spent a lot of it in the first 10 odd years doing whatever I wanted whenever or wherever I liked, sort of a bucket list in reverse - and I had a pretty **** amazin time, like achieving my ppl (just for the hell of it so I could fly around from game reserve to game reserve) when out staying with friends in Zimbabwe, but I got a bit sensible in my early 30's and trusted a good friend who deals with that sort of thing to sort out what I had left (how much have I frittered away 😯 , bloody good fun though) and he did a decent job so these days I have a certain [i]other[/i] income that supplements my meagre paid income from my job.

Good enough explanation? , btw - my total income is still below nat average so please don't think I'm living it up in any way possible, still don't own carpets or such like and I still live in a 1 bed council house but I spend what I have on stuff I want.

Good enough explanation?

Better than necessary, I would have just called him a **** and told him to **** off, if I was you.

But I'm not, I'm me, so settled with just making him look a bit thick as I'm sure you can fight your own battles. 😆

FWIW, I thought he was just expressing a bit of "awe" rather than doubting anyones honesty or integrity. But then I usually try to see the best in what folk have written rather than expect the worst.

Sbob, Nah it's cool, Gary m didn't mean it with that sort of taint to the question as he's not a snidey forum poster, I've never explained it before so I guess some folk may read my replies to posts and think wtf is he on?.

Ps - I don't have kids, nor a gf which prob explains it more than what I wrote above anyway - that's two of the most expensive drains on financial resources removed from the equation right away 😀

Edit : Pik n Mix - haha, nope... Prob the main reason why I did not receive a lengthy jail sentence, I had irrefutable evidence (and all my very detailed journals) to back up the fact that 50% was donated foc to those with a genuine medical need, that one was a good jury winning move.

You're right there somafunk, my post was in amazement at how you manage on a small income. It certainly wasn't a dig at all and I'm glad you had the intelligence to take the comment as intended.

Unlike this bitter and angry chap.

[i]Better than necessary, I would have just called him a * and told him to * off, if I was you.
But I'm not, I'm me, so settled with just making him look a bit thick as I'm sure you can fight your own battle[/i]

Back on topic...

No poll tax in Feb & March [i]just[/i] covers flights, transfers and cheapy hotel in Morzine for 5 days, so I'm off 'boarding with the lads from work. Still need to pay for my own beer though 🙁

I was at the London Poll tax march, anyone else?

Being a good boy I didn't get involved in any fisticuffs.

And good to see Somafunk's hobby spend explained, I am jealous, but I earn his wage net and have a mortgage 10 x my gross salary! (And lodgers)

A few bottles of Le Salette Amarone della Valpolicella Classico 2011

I always use it to catch up with the lies I've been telling the gas and leccy meter app...

I was on the poll tax march, listened to the speakers at trafalgar Sq for a it - got bored with it and headed off, as we were leving we saw police vans with fully tooled up riot police rushing out....... I remember wondering why at the time, as I hadn't seen any trouble at all.

£195 a month for us in our pockets. So VED for our focus at £290 next month , so that's in theory £95 in credit, but its house insurance renewal, which is £40 ish/ month. And I am sure the latest wife will find a way to burn the rest as a wine fund......... So, nothing to show as usual.

It's ok. Managed to rack up three parking tickets in the last two weeks so local council are still getting their money from me...

Will have a grand total of £154 to splurge on something from the next two 'free' months 😀

A new F/F lid and a service for the rear shock is planned. Might have £3 left to have a blow-out with an Asda's pizza and a can of Pepsi

Gary_M - Member

Unlike this bitter and angry chap.

The one who was laughing?
😆

I'll give you your first lesson free, just to show there is no malice.
😀

Peace out.

Don't forget , spend your poll tax on bike goodies!

It just takes the edge off the £1200 car insurance bill in January!

Car insurance will be covered, again. Woo. Hoo.

I do the same as Soma and pay it in a oner - being self employed and having no regular monthly income makes you allergic to any kind of monthly outgoing.

However back in my salaried days I used to be paid every 4 weeks, not every calendar month - so in effect paid 13 times a year. It meant once a year I got a pay packet with no monthly bills to take off it. That bill-free pay-packet landed in June for me so instead of council tax, rent and gas / electric I'd go to the art school degree shows and spend it on art.

I'll be buying another one of these..

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What the hell is poll tax!

Not got any special plans for the "free" months money. We've got plenty to be doing round the house so it'll soon vanish.

we can pay ours over 10 months or 12 months, so do it over 12

What the hell is poll tax!

it's a special tax which pays for all those polls every time an election comes round....

Sheesh, I only posted up there for VED on the focus 6 posts ago, 11 months has past. Bloody things due again next month....... but just sent £115 to Poland for a DT Swiss rear hub this month, as don't want any of that shoddy Hope stuff on my bike.......

Deposit for Centre Parcs (one of the French ones) for the Kids the Wife and I.

Les Arcs with my mates bought and paid for 🙂

£256 @ month £512 quid rich beyond my wildest dreams - but the washing machines knackred ho hum

It nearly covered the cost of my natty new wellies.

depressingly mine goes into the communual account so its going on blinds.

what i really need is some new forks and a jolly somewhere steep and rocky

Had to replace the washing machine 2 weeks ago

Got to replace the fridge this week.

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A couple of nights @ Peebles Hydro at easter with my 2 ladies. First time in 16 years the two of us have had 'normal' enough jobs to have easter weekend off together. 😀

^^^^ and a few sneaky rides round GT as well I bet 🙂

Nadda, pay a fixed amount in a joint account each month, so that'll just look a few £££ healthier.

Having the wooden floor sanded and varnished* though which will dwarf the "free" council tax.

*it's a nice floor, but how is it more expensive to maintain it than to have it ripped out and laminate put down?

BONUS - I'd clean forgot about this!

Would go towards one of the credit card bills Mrs North has run up for me, but I suspect she'll have accidentally spent out of the joint account again leaving it overdrawn (again).

I think women must eat money....

I always use it to catch up with the lies I've been telling the gas and leccy meter app...

This. ^