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  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,614 Forumite
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    Just spent ages trying to find a filler on amazon that would let me buy what I wanted for DS and get free postage without spending more than the value I had left on an old gift certificate - not easy but I did it. and you can never have too many recipe books...
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  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,614 Forumite
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    Avon stuff arrived already - great service considering postage was free!

    have been sticking to my diet for two whole days now!!!! so I should have lost a stone by now surely? Just hoping to get down into my nice clothes for xmas. bonus is I have saved money as I've not bought any fizzy pop or snacks at work, still have a tenner untouched from last weeks money.
    Mortgage OP 2026 £0/2000
    Mortgage OP 2025 £7700/7000
    Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000

    Mortgage balance: £33,821

    Make £50 a month Jan £0
    Boiler fund £925/3000

    ”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)
  • jinky67
    jinky67 Posts: 47,812 Forumite
    Avon stuff arrived already - great service considering postage was free!

    have been sticking to my diet for two whole days now!!!! so I should have lost a stone by now surely? Just hoping to get down into my nice clothes for xmas. bonus is I have saved money as I've not bought any fizzy pop or snacks at work, still have a tenner untouched from last weeks money.

    i would have thought at least a stone too:D
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  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    Just spent ages trying to find a filler on amazon that would let me buy what I wanted for DS and get free postage without spending more than the value I had left on an old gift certificate - not easy but I did it. and you can never have too many recipe books...

    Don't forget this site for free delivery...

    http://www.filleritem.com/uk.html
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  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,614 Forumite
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    I did go there originally Z but then decided to look at cookery books and find a wee cheapo that did free delivery. Really you can never have too many cookery books! Homemade sweets and stuff - just what you need when you're on a diet... which incidentally is still going rather well and I'm just reading the TA free training program at the mo.
    Mortgage OP 2026 £0/2000
    Mortgage OP 2025 £7700/7000
    Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000

    Mortgage balance: £33,821

    Make £50 a month Jan £0
    Boiler fund £925/3000

    ”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)
  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    I'm just reading the TA free training program at the mo.

    Now is that free from TA's or something different..? ;)
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
    "We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
    "Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky."
    OMD 'Julia's Song'
  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,614 Forumite
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    ZTD wrote: »
    Now is that free from TA's or something different..? ;)

    :rotfl: both hopefully, although the beret has a rather fetching pompom or is that just up here?
    Mortgage OP 2026 £0/2000
    Mortgage OP 2025 £7700/7000
    Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000

    Mortgage balance: £33,821

    Make £50 a month Jan £0
    Boiler fund £925/3000

    ”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)
  • jinky67
    jinky67 Posts: 47,812 Forumite
    :rotfl: both hopefully, although the beret has a rather fetching pompom or is that just up here?

    you out hunting?:T
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  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,614 Forumite
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    jinky67 wrote: »
    you out hunting?:T

    is that for foxes or men?:p not really keen on the military types due to ex, not big into uniforms!
    Mortgage OP 2026 £0/2000
    Mortgage OP 2025 £7700/7000
    Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000

    Mortgage balance: £33,821

    Make £50 a month Jan £0
    Boiler fund £925/3000

    ”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)
  • jinky67
    jinky67 Posts: 47,812 Forumite
    is that for foxes or men?:p not really keen on the military types due to ex, not big into uniforms!

    ah I was forgetting about that:o
    :heartpulsOnce a Flylady, always a Flylady:heartpuls
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