Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.

staffordjas

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Need a cider , or 2, or 3 or 4 or more....:pint::pint::pint::pint:

Stressed after 2 hours nearly getting divorced trying to scan & upload documents on a printer which decided to play up. Take selfies for I.D...fill millions of forms in electronically both on phone and laptop.

Might be second nature for most people , but being an OAP now ( and yes I've finally got my state pension payments scheduled after a cock-up their end) it takes me hours instead of " it's easy to do" minutes.
 

staffordjas

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Got to agree, it’s deffo a sellers market. My lad recently bought. He was looking for a 4bed in a village area eastish of Stafford. He’d already sold his old place. Most houses he was interested in had already been sold more or less within a day or 2 of listing The first house he saw that he was interested in sold for £345k (30k over asking price) he dropped out at 310 due to work needed. He paid 350 for the house he finally got & that was 15k over asking price. Sellers & agents weren’t interested in offers from anyone who hadn’t already sold & were ready to move.
When I was about to put my house on the market back in 2020, estate agents wouldn't even let me look at certain houses without an offer on my own. Their loss.
On the market now , but really just getting a feel of what's out there for this weekends outing for viewings. A real bonus if the one especially drops in ours laps, but hopefully in time one will come along where we will enjoy living the rest of our life out.

Just can't imagine what it will be like after over 41 years in our first house together . (And my whole 66 years of being born and bred in Stafford). But no family or close friends left up here , and the carriage clock we got with my works wedding present collection finally conked out last week. Seems like it was giving us a sign...
 

staffordjas

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Probably a bit late to the party but don't go with an agent!!

We sold our house for FREE with Strike last year!

Why pay??
Being absolutely hopeless with computer and smart phone technology , want to make it less stressful if we can have someone guiding us along the way and within phone calling or 'walking to the office in desperation' distance to help with paperwork.

Example........ after over 2 hours last night trying to fill in 4 documents , photo ID etc , scanning (with a printer / scanner which chose last night to play up and go on strike ) we had to amend one detail on the advertising brochure before the final document could be signed off.


After a sleepless night worrying whether my late night email to them had actually reached them ok , got amended brochure through at 6.30am . Got up then while laptop and printer were still working to sign the 2 documents. That took me nearly an hour !

Could have waited til today if I hadn't managed it in the end, but would have been a bit stuck without that option with an online only agent.

Then (not important but thought I'd have a go incase I had to attach a document in future) practiced attaching a photo of my passport onto an email as a PDF to son for safe keeping . One hour later , and lots of googling, still unsuccessful. :( .

Resulting in tearing my hair out , having words with hubby before he went off to work. He tried to show me how he does it at work , but couldn't find the options his works desktop computer has on our laptop.

So....now taking the laptop , and good old fashioned pen and paper down to Worcester tomorrow to get son to show me how to attach something in document/PDF form once and for all and write it all down step by step . He doesn't know yet that after working a 9 hour shift from 4am he's got a session teaching me supposedly simple things . He won't be too happy :hmm: but I need to know for if the solicitor starts requesting documents to be sent attached to emails. Probably just one click on something that I can't find......

Right...I'm going back to bed for a much needed kip !

Edit....I thought I was .....another document just come through now to sign ! :lol: 5 minutes to wait til office opens to ring and check I'm doing it ok.....
 
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staffordjas

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Good luck. The stress will be all worth it I am sure.
Thanks :DWe're both thinking it's time to move , even though we will be sad to leave and a lot of stress . (Christ , I'm stressing now thinking about having to pack everything up. ) So much to look forwards to down there though. Already got several viewings booked in .
 

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
Being absolutely hopeless with computer and smart phone technology , want to make it less stressful if we can have someone guiding us along the way and within phone calling or 'walking to the office in desperation' distance to help with paperwork.

Example........ after over 2 hours last night trying to fill in 4 documents , photo ID etc , scanning (with a printer / scanner which chose last night to play up and go on strike ) we had to amend one detail on the advertising brochure before the final document could be signed off.


After a sleepless night worrying whether my late night email to them had actually reached them ok , got amended brochure through at 6.30am . Got up then while laptop and printer were still working to sign the 2 documents. That took me nearly an hour !

Could have waited til today if I hadn't managed it in the end, but would have been a bit stuck without that option with an online only agent.

Then (not important but thought I'd have a go incase I had to attach a document in future) practiced attaching a photo of my passport onto an email as a PDF to son for safe keeping . One hour later , and lots of googling, still unsuccessful. :( .

Resulting in tearing my hair out , having words with hubby before he went off to work. He tried to show me how he does it at work , but couldn't find the options his works desktop computer has on our laptop.

So....now taking the laptop , and good old fashioned pen and paper down to Worcester tomorrow to get son to show me how to attach something in document/PDF form once and for all and write it all down step by step . He doesn't know yet that after working a 9 hour shift from 4am he's got a session teaching me supposedly simple things . He won't be too happy :hmm: but I need to know for if the solicitor starts requesting documents to be sent attached to emails. Probably just one click on something that I can't find......

Right...I'm going back to bed for a much needed kip !

Edit....I thought I was .....another document just come through now to sign ! :lol: 5 minutes to wait til office opens to ring and check I'm doing it ok.....
This would be me. I used to have a husband who would take care of everything. How on earth I managed get round to buying this house, I have no idea.
I now have 2 sons who have taken up the torch, but it's always on their terms, not mine. Mine is right now when I ask, not an hour later when they've finished doing sod all.
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Cancelled my Spotify account and deleted the app this morning because of all the Joe Rogan stuff. Probably should have done it sooner anyway with how poorly they treat the artists, but anyway. Might give Deezer or Apple Music a try.
I'd been thinking about doing this and moving to Deezer. The only thing stopping me really is that we have a family plan so there's 3 of us that would be affected and nobody really fancies spending hours re creating playlists, favourite artists and albums etc. I don't suppose there's a way of exporting that sort of data is there?
 

SketchyMagpie

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I'd been thinking about doing this and moving to Deezer. The only thing stopping me really is that we have a family plan so there's 3 of us that would be affected and nobody really fancies spending hours re creating playlists, favourite artists and albums etc. I don't suppose there's a way of exporting that sort of data is there?

I haven't looked into it fully yet but I have seen you can export playlists from Spotify in Excel CSV format which can then be imported to at least Apple Music, not sure about Deezer. Not sure how reliable that is or if it works.... shall investigate.
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
I haven't looked into it fully yet but I have seen you can export playlists from Spotify in Excel CSV format which can then be imported to at least Apple Music, not sure about Deezer. Not sure how reliable that is or if it works.... shall investigate.
I've answered my own question regarding Deezer. It's built into account settings and seems simple enough.


Might set up a free trial and test it out.
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
I've answered my own question regarding Deezer. It's built into account settings and seems simple enough.


Might set up a free trial and test it out.
Took 21 minutes to import my data. Only problem is it couldn't import 15 tracks, for some reason.

Will spend a few days using the new interface and seeing if I can get on with it, as well as testing the all important Android Auto, when out and about. All good so far though...
 

That-Crazy-Rat-Lady

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Definitely :pint:

Good job I didn't go back to bed! 14 viewings booked so far since going live at 9am , including one today so rushing around re-hiding everything inbetween millions of phone calls and trying to fill a form in on-line for the solicitor, which I've got stuck on. (Maybe the person coming to view today can help me :lol: )

Woohoo that great news!

I know the feeling - we actually hid stuff in our campervan when people came to view our house!

We'd really outgrown our house and shove cupboards weren't cutting it!!
 

staffordjas

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I'd better get hubby as my secretary at this rate as we drive down the motorway tomorrow, posed with phone, pen and notebook . 18 now :)

Seeing if I can catch up with the 25 other viewings for one of the houses we're going to see....
 
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Glam

Mad Cat Woman
I have just made a 5yr old estatic. He's Dangermouse mad, and I've just knitted him this :-
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It isn't perfect, before anyone says owt. But he loves it. He quite likes Dinosaurs too, Told his Mum, I ain't knitting owt else!
 
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