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MF by the time I'm 50?

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  • Kittikins
    Kittikins Posts: 5,335 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    I've put 2 items on Eb*y now, 2 of DD's lovely flower girl things *sigh* but I've got photos and she'd look like a wrestler now if she tried to wear them, lol.

    Am completely and utterly skint...so am pondering keeping the eb*y money I'm going to get to put towards the spending money on holiday. Not sure what's gone wrong recently, think I've been spending on lawd knows what over the past few months to make up for being a bit down in the dumps. Anyway, nothing that a holiday won't fix :)
  • SmlSave
    SmlSave Posts: 4,911 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Hope you feel better soon Kitt :) ((hugs))
    Currently studying for a Diploma - wish me luck :)

    Phase 1 - Emergency Fund - Complete :j
    Phase 2 - £20,000 Mortgage Fund - Underway
  • Kittikins
    Kittikins Posts: 5,335 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    Thanks.....it's just the usual I think, bit bored, lonely, unloved, ex being a !!!!!! etc etc. I'm also a bit bored of my diet, silly but as I've lost so much weight, the incentive is less strong than it used to be!
  • SmlSave
    SmlSave Posts: 4,911 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Extra big (((HUGS)))

    I know you don't want to put on the weight but maybe a treat is in order?
    Currently studying for a Diploma - wish me luck :)

    Phase 1 - Emergency Fund - Complete :j
    Phase 2 - £20,000 Mortgage Fund - Underway
  • setmefree2
    setmefree2 Posts: 9,072 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    HappyThoughts-1.jpg


    Hope you're feeling cheerful soon:D
  • Kittikins
    Kittikins Posts: 5,335 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    Thanks cherubs, I'm feeling a bit less grouchy now.....saw my LL counsellor this evening and chatted through a few things, and got some new jeans and a gorgeous dress that I'll wow people with on holiday (she sells on secondhand clothes for charity that others have slimmed out of), felt much better - then the car engine warning light came on just before I got home. Grrr.

    Luckily I do have money put aside for car emergencies, just have to find a garage tomorrow morning whilst trying to do a million and one other things and having DD and a friend to look after.

    Oh well, at least I'm not feeling unloved, DD wrote I love my mummy and gave me lots of hugs tonight. She's very perceptive, bless her xxx
  • earthgirl
    earthgirl Posts: 3,762 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    Hope you are feeling better and the warning light was nothing!!
    15/5/12 Paid off Mortgage 1 (£220k) Bought Dream House:www: Dec 13 - Mortage 2 -£116,508. 15/7/18 Mortgage Free Again :j

    Progress not Perfection
  • Louba
    Louba Posts: 283 Forumite
    Hope you're feeling better :). I love the idea of selling on clothes that people have grown out of to raise money for charity, it's a total win win. My car is due a service very soon, until now it's all been covered by the company scheme but I bought it at the end of the lease term so I hvae to pay for it mayself, boo.

    Your DD sounds like a little star!
    Mortgage as at March 2010 £225,000 target for December 2012 £170,000. Blog link http://beautifulorpractical.blogspot.com/2010/07/oh-this-is-all-new.html :j
  • Kittikins
    Kittikins Posts: 5,335 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    Well....the car is going to cost £266 to fix, some kind of sensor, grrr.....

    On the plus side, I sold another book on Amaz*n and posted the clothes this morning, flipping expensive, I certainly didn't overcharge for postage....*sigh*

    Didn't sleep last night as my new double-glazing had some wrong fittings and I was worried that the men would tell me tough it has to stay like that (had new windows and a gorgeous front door that I keep on just wanting to look at as I lurve it so much, sad muppet, eh!), so today I'm feeling like death warmed up and have lots to do.

    But at least the car is still driveable whilst I wait for the part to come in, so I can have my first girly night out in centuries tonight (if I have the energy to get dolled up!)
  • setmefree2
    setmefree2 Posts: 9,072 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    Kittikins wrote: »
    Oh well, at least I'm not feeling unloved, DD wrote I love my mummy and gave me lots of hugs tonight. She's very perceptive, bless her xxx

    and that must make you one of the luckiest people in, well, the whole world :A
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