Sunday, 15th January 2006
Money money money
After lamenting my new-found poverty after Christmas and subseqent January sales, the universe seems to have unexpectedly decided that I'd spent too much, and is consequently trying to reimburse me.
First was the £283.54 interest on my 2-year Nationwide Christmas bond that came in. (Not that I can touch any of it until next December, but woo!)
Then was the completely unexpected £513.16 tax rebate from my 2003/2004 gap year. (Mega-woo!)
And then I discovered £0.01 interest in a Young Person's saving account which hasn't had a penny in it since I turned 18, thereby turning nothing into something. (Tiny-woo, but yay!)
Apparently the financial goodwill of the universe didn't extend to letting me win the £70 million Euromillions last Friday, though. Poot. Still, I'm not too unhappy with the rest :-)
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We missed out on the £70m, too.
BUT - the car cleaners in the supermarket carpark washed our's, even though we hadn't asked for them too, so couldn't charge us (or, obviously, put the dirt back on).
Almost as good a result?
I left 50 quid in a Lloyds account when I left the UK in 1996.
I wonder whether it's gone up through interest, or been wiped out through bank fees.
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