Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.

Gramaisc

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I've noticed a few times on eBay, with a Buy It Now item at, say, £17.99, that, as the 'amount available' dwindles, another 1 will appear on the front, making it £117.99.

It may be quite easy to think "I might as well get it now", having looked at it a few times and not notice the extra hundred quid at that point.
 
Thehooperman

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littleme said:
Type 2 can be insulin dependent? I didn't know that? How does that work, I thought I ly type 1 needed insulin???? I'm type 2 Metformin dependent......
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I'm on a combination of Metformin and insulin but still classed as Type 2. Apparently my pancreas is still producing some insulin but not enough to keep my sugars down.
 
littleme

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Thehooperman said:
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I'm on a combination of Metformin and insulin but still classed as Type 2. Apparently my pancreas is still producing some insulin but not enough to keep my sugars down.
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Well I never knew that. I've varied from 3 to 1 Metformin over the last few years....never knew type 2 could have insulin too.
 
Thehooperman

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proactive said:
However did you cope with such a hardship?

You poor soul.
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When I started work we were paid weekly and then in the 80s we had the choice to be paid four weekly into a bank account.

It took a long time for people to adjust their spending so that they could afford to wait the first four weeks without any pay.

It was quite a hardship for many of us to start off with, especially as, like a lot of my colleagues, we had a young family to provide for.
 
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staffordjas said:
It amazed actually , that when GEC wages started getting paid into the bank they had to provide a cashpoint machine outside the cashiers office for people to get their wages out. But the works had to pay the banks for the banks cash machines to be on premises.
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When I first started work (1987) I was given a cheque in a brown envelope on a Friday......at Friday lunch we would run (I mean run) into town to deposit our cheques into the RBS, & get paid out cash...... Then we'd run to the chippy and get cheesy chips/chilli chips,/chips....and run back to work while eating the chips.


It was a Friday, so the dentist I worked for would usually cancell all the patients in the afternoon so that he could go & play golf (we weren't open at the weekend). We were stuck there till 5 pm telling people the dentist had been taken ill....

* 10 years after I left that job, the dentist was prosecuted for hypnotising & ' intefering' with patients...I was contacted by police/prosecutors but I had no evidence to be used as he sent nurses out of the room once the patient was hypnotised!
 
Noah

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Starting a long, long time ago, never been paid in cash. Money paid into bank monthly and a payslip telling you how much had been paid into your bank.
 
joshua

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Started with a weekly brown envelope (with the translucent window) then when they switched to bank payments i remember Keith Flynn the deputy manager of NatWest being set up in the HR office to open accounts for us.
My first cashpoint card and chequebook (felt like such a grown up)
 
PeterD

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When I worked at Butlins we were always paid on Tuesdays and the entire workforce right up to 1995 when I stopped working there, in cash, in brown pay packets. I worked at other holiday camps and it was a similar set up.
 
staffordjas

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Hubby has still got all his type written payslips now every one of them , , which he had with his cash in an envelope. (I wasn't allowed to sling them during the house vmove)
 
Cue

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staffordjas said:
It did spark as the black one was put on the battery connection last night ( bloke in a van came over & helped us , he put it on the battery terminal)
I asked Halfords bloke where I should put the black one inside the engine bit , as couldn't really see anywhere . He said on battery terminal :hmm: but sons Googled it & said could explode in some cases putting on battery connection.

(Hopefully won't need to experiment with it again unless I'm driving sons car as his battery is getting on a bit. )

Thanks for advice folks . Much appreciated :up::)
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If using a small jump starter pack, they usually don’t push enough juice through to spark until you turn the engine over, so red to red and black to black is fine. At least that’s what our Anker one does, it knows when it’s connected, confirms the connection but won’t actually start feeding large amounts of power to the battery until you try to start the car. That’s what I gather, anyway… they generally have reverse polarity and spark protection either way

If you’re jumping off a live feed, connect it to the chassis of the car under the hood - so the unpainted bit.

Interesting find when I jumped our Leaf (yes, EVs have a 12V too) is that it actually immediately woke up the car when I connected the cables to the battery. Alarm blaring and all as they generally do that. It was like that scene in Dr Who Season 3 where Captain Jack suddenly wakes up with a big gasp of air.

My takeaway: EVs don’t need much juice to keep their low voltage electrics going, to the point that the trickle feed from a jump starter can handle it
 
staffordjas

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Cue said:
If using a small jump starter pack, they usually don’t push enough juice through to spark until you turn the engine over, so red to red and black to black is fine. At least that’s what our Anker one does, it knows when it’s connected, confirms the connection but won’t actually start feeding large amounts of power to the battery until you try to start the car. That’s what I gather, anyway… they generally have reverse polarity and spark protection either way

If you’re jumping off a live feed, connect it to the chassis of the car under the hood - so the unpainted bit.

Interesting find when I jumped our Leaf (yes, EVs have a 12V too) is that it actually immediately woke up the car when I connected the cables to the battery. Alarm blaring and all as they generally do that. It was like that scene in Dr Who Season 3 where Captain Jack suddenly wakes up with a big gasp of air.

My takeaway: EVs don’t need much juice to keep their low voltage electrics going, to the point that the trickle feed from a jump starter can handle it
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My quick start device says it won't start until it recognises its connected safely. It's now under the car seat.

Only just read the box the other day & realised it charges phones, laptops, torches etc as well. I bought a rechargeable car/ work torch whilst in Halfords the other day as well which charges off it.

I was looking around the engine the next day to try to spot somewhere to clip black to for future emergencies, but couldn't spot any obvious places. So just anywhere 'grey looking' attached to the car that it'll stay on then, away from battery?


Just glad it decided to die on me last week , rather than next weeks early morning airport run!
 
Cue

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staffordjas said:
I was looking around the engine the next day to try to spot somewhere to clip black to for future emergencies, but couldn't spot any obvious places. So just anywhere 'grey looking' attached to the car that it'll stay on then, away from battery?
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You’re fine to connect the quick start to the battery, it shouldn’t spark I wouldn’t have thought
 
staffordjas

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Cue said:
You’re fine to connect the quick start to the battery, it shouldn’t spark I wouldn’t have thought
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Was just thinking about if I used jump leads again. (Especially if driving sons car & not got my quick start with me). The quick start says it won't start unless it's connected correcty.
(Which reminds me I must re-write my BIG instructions again ,so I can see in a panic ...must have come out of the boot sometime when son & co retrieved their belongs from airport runs )

Just can't believe it's now 10 months since we moved in , and just had a text from previous owner ....she's had to send her V5 documents here , so can I let her know when they come.:mad: When we changed all our car documents back in July , we got them sent to our new address not the old one! So surely her new documents will now have still have this old address on ??? :ohno: ( She sent a parcel here at xmas as well as "forgot to change the delivery address". Thought that was just a one off slip up, but seems now she's taking the p1ss!)
 
proactive

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staffordjas said:
Was just thinking about if I used jump leads again. (Especially if driving sons car & not got my quick start with me). The quick start says it won't start unless it's connected correcty.
(Which reminds me I must re-write my BIG instructions again ,so I can see in a panic ...must have come out of the boot sometime when son & co retrieved their belongs from airport runs )

Just can't believe it's now 10 months since we moved in , and just had a text from previous owner ....she's had to send her V5 documents here , so can I let her know when they come.:mad: When we changed all our car documents back in July , we got them sent to our new address not the old one! So surely her new documents will now have still have this old address on ??? :ohno: ( She sent a parcel here at xmas as well as "forgot to change the delivery address". Thought that was just a one off slip up, but seems now she's taking the p1ss!)
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The is no legitimate reason why she should need any of her documentation still to be registered at her old address.

If she gets speeding fines etc then they go to your house. Not a problem as, even though you live at that address you are not the name of the registered keeper.

HOWEVER

If she accumulates unpaid fines/defaults on car payments etc, etc and your house is the registered address, you may find that you have bailiffs knocking on your door one day to seize goods from the registered address and that does become a problem for you.
 
tek-monkey

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Spent part of this weekend in Lincoln, not by choice. A friend was visiting his mother in the USA and was told if he leaves again he loses his green card, so he's staying there. Means we have a whole flat to strip out and pack up, sending the most important bits on to him and getting rid of the rest.

We're meant to be going yo Latvia in a few weeks and haven't really prepared for that yet, so it's less than ideal timing.
 
staffordjas

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proactive said:
The is no legitimate reason why she should need any of her documentation still to be registered at her old address.

If she gets speeding fines etc then they go to your house. Not a problem as, even though you live at that address you are not the name of the registered keeper.

HOWEVER

If she accumulates unpaid fines/defaults on car payments etc, etc and your house is the registered address, you may find that you have bailiffs knocking on your door one day to seize goods from the registered address and that does become a problem for you.
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:eek: Going to have to have a word with her . We managed to change everything over straight away when we moved in , so no reason she can't and it's 10 months today since we moved here.
 
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proactive said:
The is no legitimate reason why she should need any of her documentation still to be registered at her old address.

If she gets speeding fines etc then they go to your house. Not a problem as, even though you live at that address you are not the name of the registered keeper.

HOWEVER

If she accumulates unpaid fines/defaults on car payments etc, etc and your house is the registered address, you may find that you have bailiffs knocking on your door one day to seize goods from the registered address and that does become a problem for you.
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Not to mention the potential damage to your credit rating if the address should get black listed.
I wouldn’t get in touch with her, just return to sender as “not known at this address”
 
proactive

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EasMid said:
Not to mention the potential damage to your credit rating if the address should get black listed.
I wouldn’t get in touch with her, just return to sender as “not known at this address”
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And of course, any parking fines that arrive for her and that you don't forward to her in a timely fashion so that she can pay more cheaply within 14 days (say you selfishly go on holiday or are ill), you'll find she blames you for and demands you pay the difference as it's your fault.

I would do exactly as @EasMid says. You owe her nothing, you just bought a house of her, you aren't friends or family. In fact she sold you a house where an existing water issue caused you untold worry and stress. You need to be firm.
 
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