Am I ever happy?

Well I must admit to being happy with the weather on Wednesday, BUT, it was a little cool first thing in the morning.  I normally sit at the computer eating my breakfast with the window open, but on Wednesday morning, had to close the window as it was getting a bit nippy.

By the way has anyone seen the lady in the image above..........just a hint it's the ironing fairy.  I have no idea where she has disappeared too, but I wish she could come back as I am fed up of having to do all the ironing!!  I wonder if she's a tad fed up as I haven't paid her recently......actually never!!

As I am writing this on Wednesday night the red cardinal is attacking the window again.  This happens multiple times a day and is driving us all crazy.

The smart phone is still a whole lot smarter than me and between me and you the bloody thing is going back on the weekend, as I need one that does things more simply.  Luckily I have a 14 day trial period with this one.

We are trying to sort out some life insurance for when we have paid off our mortgage next month.  We already have some life insurance but we want to top it up.  Its a whole new minefield trying to sort this out.

One piece of advise though get as much permanent life insurance as possible when you are younger, as it's cheaper than when you are older.

I think that's enough whining for one day........now it's your turn!!

Home and Condo of the week and mortgages

Love this weeks "Home of The Week," despite it's price tag and lack of outside space.  Bit too modern in some places for me, but the size of the bedrooms and the principal rooms make up for that.  At least they did leave some of the architectural details and the details on the outside of the house is really nice.

The Condo of The Week, I could live without.   Although it is a good price for the size of the condo and the location.  It's just way too open for my liking, and if they are putting another two condo towers in there that could block whatever view you have that would not be a good thing.

Think I'll stick with my place in the country!!!

Over at Saving For Travels blog she talks about her mortgage and rounding down her total owed.   I did something similar this week.  We pay our mortgage weekly and it is an uneven number, meaning it isn't a straight $100 (only an example, I wish it were that little!!)  So I rounded it up and added an extra $9.17 per week to it, which may not seem a lot per week, but over the life time of our mortgage it will knock off around three weeks.  We are pretty fortunate, as we hope to have our mortgage paid off before the end of 2013.  So even if you can only afford to put an extra $10 per week/two weeks/per month, it may be worth while doing it?