It's a mix.
After buying a new camera and telling various members of my family, I've suddenly found myself the owner of a number of useful bits of kits, including the largest flash I've ever seen.

I've also discovered that my company have been giving me pay rises without my knowledge, presumably inflation adjustments. This does, however, also mean that I'm even crapper with money than I thought.
( Kroney, Mon 30 Sep 2013, 10:27, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

How the fuck can you not notice a payrise?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 30 Sep 2013, 10:28, Reply)

Nono, not "a" payrise
several payrises over three years.

I only just noticed this morning.
( Kroney, Mon 30 Sep 2013, 10:29, Reply)

That your take home pay had increased a number of times?
You must get paid too much if you dont notice how much turns up in your bank or you do overtime every month, meaning each wage is different
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 30 Sep 2013, 10:31, Reply)

This morning I noticed that I was getting more than I thought.
I tracked through my payslips earlier and discovered the series of payrises. It's the first time I've looked since they stopped sending paper copies about four years ago.

I do get guaranteed overtime, yes. That fudged the figures somewhat.
( Kroney, Mon 30 Sep 2013, 10:37, Reply)

With standby support, out of hours support and chargeable overtime
I have no idea what I'm going to get paid each month. Today's pay is over £1,000 more than a base month though \o/
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 30 Sep 2013, 10:39, Reply)

I do one to two late shifts a month
so my take-home is usually somewhere between one to two hundred more than basic. It's enough to disguise small fluctuations.

But basically, this is down to me being a financial know-nothing money flid.
( Kroney, Mon 30 Sep 2013, 10:42, Reply)

Mrs Cow keeps track of the cash
to the penny
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 30 Sep 2013, 10:43, Reply)

OG is forcing me to organise
in the face of my not inconsiderable resistance.

I've still got a five figure sum languishing in a 0.75 percent interest account because I've not yet got around to putting it anywhere sensible.
( Kroney, Mon 30 Sep 2013, 10:46, Reply)

In fact, it's only this month that I moved it to an account
that doesn't cap interest payments to sums of under 5 thousand.
( Kroney, Mon 30 Sep 2013, 10:48, Reply)

eek
Get it moved!!
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 30 Sep 2013, 10:51, Reply)

I think I might get my wages paid into an account in my mum's name
and get her to give me pocket money.
( Kroney, Mon 30 Sep 2013, 10:53, Reply)

I just made this joke to OG
she said it "might be a good idea"

:((((
( Kroney, Mon 30 Sep 2013, 10:57, Reply)

This is what wives are for.

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 30 Sep 2013, 11:01, Reply)

Christ.
And I thought I was a money flid....
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 30 Sep 2013, 10:52, Reply)

Seriously, I'm utterly useless. In my somewhat meagre defence, it runs in the family.
My grandad kept about 2 thousand pounds scattered around the house in old VHS cassette boxes.
( Kroney, Mon 30 Sep 2013, 10:53, Reply)

My gran had about that much in her handbag when she died.

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 30 Sep 2013, 11:06, Reply)

I'm pretty much the same as you.
As long as the card never says 'declined', that's good enough for me.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 30 Sep 2013, 11:36, Reply)

What cam did you get?

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Mon 30 Sep 2013, 10:32, Reply)

The LeslieGrantham 1000

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 30 Sep 2013, 10:33, Reply)

Pentax K30.
I inherited a Pentax ME film camera at the weekend, too.
( Kroney, Mon 30 Sep 2013, 10:36, Reply)