JetsetBkk

What a great thread! That's my "Fixed deposit account" bank. But I usually photocopy everything back home before going to immi. the following day. Good to know ????. Might try that next year. 18 for me. Or is it 19? Just the change to 12 months' bank statement caught me out once. ???? Such a joker!

Not really. I go to the big room 101 for my re-entry permit. Also, before I went the retirement route, I regularly had to go to room 101. Never problems, just the time it took to do anything. I think SkateWash was having a laugh! ????

I've got one of them. ????

I did a rough Google search to come up with 50% growth after 18 years: https://www.inflationtool.com/british-pound/2003-to-present-value This is isn't the one I found, but near enough. This is more like inflation rather than bank investment.

I like the "joker" guy outside room 103 who checks your papers - usually have a laugh with him when I go for the yearly extension.

Interesting way of describing corruption. ????

The dog was not impressed!

Actually, WhiteBuffaloATM is Pretty Much Correct with What He is Saying, but I Don't Like The Way He Says It. ???? So, if you put the 800,000 in a bank 18 years ago it would now be worth about 50% more. So if you put it in a zero interest account, you'd have lost 400,000 over 18 years which is equivaled to (drum-roll...) 22,000 baht per year. Does that number ring a bell? ????

Never Complied with Financials.Always Objected to Financials in Principle. Agent Always. Been in a tiny minority explaining this for months now. Shouted down by the Righteous -Its- Illegal Crowd. No, its Not ……and this Proves It…..Immi Passport Stamp on Immi Computer is ALWAYS Legal. If I had done it "your way", I'd be 400,000 baht out of pocket by now.

Excellent ideas! I like the first one, but I don't have a winch. The stump looks like a coconut tree - it has a ball type root system. But I doubt if my pickup has enough grip on the grass to pull it out. The block and tackle/pulley one looks pretty good too, but too much stuff to get. I think I'll start with the club hammer and axe (plus or minus wedges). Stay tuned for pictures! ????

Yes, I'm going to whack the axe as hard as I can with the 3kg hammer and never check to see what is happening to it. ???? Actually, I did read (after I bought the club hammer) that using a wooden mallet is recommended rather than the club hammer. I'll be gentle. Honest. But today I spent 4 hours mowing the "lawn". Now knackered. PS. Thanks for the tip about wedges - I'll see if my local h/w store has them.

I was thinking more like taking a photo from the same spot every day for a few weeks months.

Maybe the IO thinks "Blimey, this poor farang is living on 65K a month. No point in squeezing him for any pocket money."

OK, I'm all set! ???? Don't expect an update for a few days weeks!

A sledgehammer and an axe! Brilliant! ???? I'm off to Global Hardware tomorrow! Amazing what stuff is out there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_maul

Not doable if your a retiree and never worked here or paid taxes And you can't sing.

Thanks for the tip! I can get my pickup in there, no problem. I'll add it to the list of options!

Thanks - never knew about that. I knew about that! (From my Chemistry days... tissue paper soaked in a solution and allowed to dry... ???? )

Well, I've got pleny of time on my hands... like, forever! So it's not that I don't want to pay, but I'd rather do it myself, if possible. I'll try to sneak a picture of my landlord's attempt at burning a stump that's over the road. I think it's been about two weeks... smoldering every day... ???? But his is not a coconut tree stump, it's like my stump - Alstonia Scholaris or "Indian Devil Tree". The white blossoms (in October, November) stink!

Ah, that's good to know! And thanks for all your tips. A bigger problem for me is all the roots that have either come up from the ground or, more likely, the ground has settled causing the roots to show. They are an even bigger pain when it comes to mowing! I was thinking of raising the grass level by buying a truck load of soil to fill in the gaps between the roots! These trees were much taller - 50, 60, 70 feet - but made the garden very dark and gloomy. So I had them cut down to 4, 8, 12 feet tall - that was about a year ago. They have now grown back incredibly well, but so has the grass beneath them which never used to see the sun! So mowing the grass has now become a priority.

I'll make a note to come back to this topic on Monday!! Best of British luck to you!

That's what I was thinking. My old statements often don't have a recent entry, so the I/O needs to see the date range printed at the top of the statement to to determine that it covers the whole year. But if you make a deposit or withdrawal just before you get the statement, the statement will show it in the list of activities. I think I'll add that to my list of things to do before getting the extension.

That's an excellent idea. I was thinking of doing the same, but my "everyday" account was below 800,000 for a while but back up over a million now. So I'll present the usual fixed deposit SCB account with bank letter and statements, but keep the "everyday" account statement and letter in my brief case in case they want to know what I've been living on. Of course, this may all change depending what happens in the next few months.

I guess I would if it was the only option, i.e. go back to your own country or stay in Thailand. But I would try to "accommodate" them if I could, I wouldn't just give in at the first hurdle. It was probably the tattoo on your neck... ????

Here are a couple of stumps of old coconut trees: The one in the foreground is many years old and has been eaten away by various bugs, but the one in the background is about a year old. My landlord has been burning one in another garden by lighting a fire at its base, but it hasn't burnt much after a couple of weeks. Would a good axe do the job? Any recommendations - size, weight? I don't want to hire a JCB digger to dig them up. The main reason for getting rid of them is that the stumps make mowing the grass around them a real pain.