This morning, having my third FANTASTIC shower in my new house, I reflected upon what a difference a shower makes to your day. The landlord signed the death warrant on my tenancy the day he replaced the inadequately powered shower (which had finally broken) with one of a lower specification. The ridiculous cheapness of the rent was the main thing holding me there after that. It certainly wasn’t the brown dralon germ-infested lounge suite.
I thought, if I’d stayed in my old house and been able to pop round the corner for a pay-shower, how much would I pay? I put a price of £1.50 a day on that, definitely worth that much. Then I wondered how much more I actually am paying than back then. It worked out at something like £15 a DAY!
Actually, the rent at the old place had gone up by the time I moved out so actually I’m paying £9.33 a day over my old lifestyle. I’ve put up my shower fee to £2 … just need to find another £7.33 of lifestyley goodness … :-)
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I bet you don’t have rubbish parking permits where you are now. That should add a few pence at least of lifestyle?
oo good point. That’s 23p a day in costs, plus £1 per day or part-day per visiting friend, plus 16p a day on average of no longer getting parking fines when all the marked bays are full. So let’s call that 50p a day.
£6.83 to go :-)
How about all the money you’ll save by not being able to just pop out to Jacksons ;-)
hmm, that’ll save about £1 a day, but doesn’t really count as an advantage!
Aww OK £5.83
Irate telephone calls to landlord complaining about crapiness of house? Just a guess mind!
Just enjoy it!
Being able to knock a wall down and rebuild it, cos you can…priceless.
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