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  • I've had quite an interesting week of incidental MSE stuff where supermarkets and food are concerned:

    Two free lunches at work (part of a reward and recognition scheme).
    Only £11.50 on food this week (£6 fruit and veg, £5 Sunday Roast meat and £0.50 after vouchers on an £5.54 supermarket bill)
    Plus got the Nectar points from the chap in front of me who was definitely flirting but made quite a large purchase.
    Car shared once this week - would love to do more of that but so difficult to get people to pair up on a regular basis.

    And just one-none supermarkety/food MSE stuff:

    Listed 26 items on Preloved - dunno if anything will sell, seems quite slow on there at the moment.
    MFW: Nov 2008 £156k, Jun 2015 £129k, Jun 2017 £114k.
  • Urgh... the Annual Mortgage Statement was the only letter on the door mat today. And that's probably more attention than it already deserves.
    MFW: Nov 2008 £156k, Jun 2015 £129k, Jun 2017 £114k.
  • Crikey I missed two annual updates.

    Currently £113773 and regularly overpaying £223.95.
    MFW: Nov 2008 £156k, Jun 2015 £129k, Jun 2017 £114k.
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