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Re: From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future
I’m with Cheery and RT, I think you need a bit of GP specific fun and distraction. January is a tough month for all of us and the washing wrestling is always a frustration to some degree. I get your …6 -
Re: From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future
Tired/furstrated/gumpy? - I usually take myself to the sofa with a warm blanket, a cuppa something, an audiobook and a timewasting game or a bottle of nail varnish. - Have a bit of me-time GP - your …7 -
Re: Love Holidays - stressed!
Just to highlight this potential problem with booking with companies like Love Holidays and On The Beach. As they don't have their own airlines, they book seats on Jet2, TUI, Ryanair, Easyjet a…1 -
Re: Love Holidays - stressed!
They should pay something towards it.1 -
Re: Mortgage Free Plod
Thank you @CrazyBee787 🥰1 -
Re: What makes a smart meter go offline?
Agreed; a happy comms hub has green LEDs that flash every five seconds, and unhappy one has a different colour and flash pattern, no LEDs at all means a dead comms hub ☹️2 -
Re: £10-a-Day Challenge: 2026
I'm torn today, because my budget runs from 24th - 23rd of the month because of my pay date, but that makes everything else complicated. It means my spreadsheet doesn't make things easy.. W…1 -
Re: 2026 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD - our Year of Redistribution
* Daily To Do list - written the night before * Sort out sleep patterns - initial targets: bed by 03:00, up by 10:30 * Don’t put it down, put it away + deal with mini tasks as soon as they are notice…26 -
Re: misstara's mortgage free diary
Have been to the gym this morning and then popped to S@insbury's afterwards to get a few things - £13.09 spent. Home, showered and a very yummy brunch of scrambled eggs on toast with smoked salm…2 -
Re: Annuities as part of pension planning
Makes sense then. I note that the outcome of delaying the annuity purchase can be more, less or the same income as buying it now. Annuity rates will almost certainly go up with age (although that de…2
