_{Pegwell Bay at lowtide with a little group of beachcombers. Monday 8 April 2024 at 18:07 BST}

Weekly savings round-up

HIVE's wrekt or is it?
Well, got up this morning and the prices were down. Time to buy some HIVE, I thought, I hadn't been expecting this and had a look to see what loose change I had. Then I thought:

Wait a minute, I was a bit disappointed last week that the price had dropped by the time I came to withdraw to fiat and I didn't quite get my full Capital Gains Tax Allowance.

That's extra money in the kitty, now. I could spend some of that on more HIVE, recover the HIVE I cashed out and put the rest into savings until the price goes up a bit. Then pull it out and claim the original investment costs (the one I've just taken from the CGA) against it. Well, I'm as pleased as a dog with two tails at thinking that up.

So that's what I did. Also threw in what I'd lost from inflation and curation over 14 days, so now I should be pretty much where I was. Plus I have a kitty for price increases.

Keychain
I've had a few problems with @keychain, which was producing lots of gobbledegook in the username field when I wanted to send tokens. I didn't understand the advice that I received from keychain, so I asked the IT folks at work. I'd had it on FireFox, they suggested uninstalling from FireFox and installing on Chrome, which I did and which works.

It's a pain in the arse, though: everything is set up on Firefox but the authorisation is on Chrome and everything has got be re-entered. Sigh.

LEO
So LEO is going a bit bonkers, then, 4,500+ sold in the last 24 hours and hovering around .38 HIVE. Good thing I topped up to 15,000 LP when I did. Still haven't seen anything about LeoAds payouts for March. Anyone would think they were busy 😁.

Savings Goals

Let's see how we're doing:

2024 Savings Goals

Progress

• EDSD - Swapped these back to HBD - a three day process and then your HBD is liquid to do as you please. I'm back to 15 EDSD already, financed through a side hustle. (More about side-hustles).

EDS Income Token | Fixed and Variable Savings Plans
EDS Dollar (EDSD) Release Post

• Blogging - Haha! Well, work put paid to my plans for extra blogging. Yesterday, I was in bed by 6pm, and asleep by 7pm. That's the kind of week it's been. Never mind, there's a new week starting. HBD looks better because the interest paid out this week.

• Saturday Savers Club - 2024 Launch and FAQs. Fifty registered savers and counting! Lovely post here about one person's experience with Saturday Savers Club Anyone can join at any time by commenting with their goals on the weekly post on the @eddie-earner account (also follow @eddie-earner for news about EDS). Our first subscription savings plan is on point too, the first payout was last week!

• HSBI - HIVE basic income - I'm growing these through sponsoring HPUD and other challenge posts over on Saturday Savers Club. It'll have a nice boost this week.

What's New

It was a very busy week this week, with a very good outcome. This morning I was out at the crack of yawn to meet my niece, and my grand-nephew, who I was meeting for the first time (he's seventeen next week)! Really lovely to spend time with them, and she's a great organiser, so I shall be seeing her brothers soon.

My little side hustle went well, we've started to agree some principles for the business plan. I had a sit-down meeting with the Treasurer and sorted out some stuff, too, like how we're going liaise over credit control.

The Treasurer doesn't think we will get enough additional bookings a year to cover the cost of my role. It would be 200 extra bookings across the two buildings (5 a week). Almost feels like a challenge, I might open a book!

Meanwhile, over in my main hustle, I agreed a new contract, short-term and nice compensation (very welcome). We're on our way to finalising the pre-grant agreement work for the grant that was agreed a week or two ago. My plan is that everything will be done and dusted by the end of April. It may take the funder a weeks to sort things out, but funding should start flowing by the beginning of June.

Knitting is going okay, I've been inspired to get started again, thanks to @gillianpearce and I've met up again with the Monday knitting group again. I bumped into my French group in the pub yesterday, classes will start again in the Autumn, which will be great, plus I hope there will be some trips to France and the French film club in Sandwich.

So there we are.

Have a good week, everyone!

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