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  • *Jellie*
    *Jellie* Posts: 3,018 Forumite
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    Wow- you've got a lot done. Well done.
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  • Well done on the loft clearing - I think I will follow Katsu's approach and buy some plastic boxes to put some stuff into. We really have far too much up there - it seems like an enormous Frog at the moment. I don't like to prevaricate but in this case I seem to be.

    One Saturday in January will see the loft emptied, sorted and stuff replaced. It's in black and white now, but cheekily not on my diary :rotfl:

    Happy New Year to you and your family.

    Tilly x
    2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
    2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
    Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j
  • newgirly
    newgirly Posts: 9,343 Forumite
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    Its the last day of the year already! Decided to do a full 2013 wish list (like the one seen on GG's thread):


    -Pay £10,733 (savings £10,200 - op's £533) minimum
    -Set a monthly challenge, something different each time
    -Clear loft
    - re-do garden
    - decorate living room/conservatory/hall
    - lose over 1 stone
    - stop drinking
    -Earn £2013
    -make at least 1 homemade item per month for next xmas
    -Have as much fun with kids as possible, a couple of trips to alton towers and a big halloween party :D
    -spend a bit less time on laptop and read :o
    - learn to use the sewing machine I desperately wanted and have not used in over a year
    -Get out in the fresh air exercising
    - make a payment a day to the mortgage even if I don't have the money and its just 10p
    - make own bread ALL the time (must do as mum bought me electric knife for xmas!)
    -keep a stock of batch cooked meals at all times for me and dh
    - Do minimum of 1 survey per day
    - start ebaying properly

    Thats it so far!
    MFW 67 - Finally mortgage free! 💙😁
  • ajmoney
    ajmoney Posts: 6,466 Forumite
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    I have been inspired by the list in your last post, going to go and work out one of my own
    MFW 2025 No. 7 £1130/£1200
    MFiT-T7 No. 6 £2873.51/£30,000
  • lulabelle1
    lulabelle1 Posts: 2,704 Forumite
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    Amazing goals, good luck
  • *Jellie*
    *Jellie* Posts: 3,018 Forumite
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    Great goals- I'll be sewing too.
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  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,415 Forumite
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    Good list :D, and good luck with the list!

    I used my sewing machine for some mending yesterday, it took me longer to get it out and set up than the sewing part did :o
    Mortgage OP 2025 £6200/7000
    Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000

    Mortgage balance: £36,260


    Money making challenge £38/400

    ”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)
  • Great list! Good luck for 2013,

    Squirrel
    Paid off mortgage nine years early in 2013. Now picking and choosing our work to fit in with the rest of our lives!
    Still thrifty though, after all these years:D
  • newgirly
    newgirly Posts: 9,343 Forumite
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    Happy new year everyone :beer:

    We had the quietest new year ever, a meal deal from mr t, no alcohol and I spent 12 o'clock parked down a country lane waiting to collect dd from at a party at her friend's.

    This morning I still feel ill, but have woken up in such a positive mood, sun is streaming through the house for the first time in ages it really is lovely (if showing up the dust a lot :rotfl:)

    I'm off to weigh myself :eek: and then hopfully do a bit of housework/ironing and catch up with some more diaries.:D
    MFW 67 - Finally mortgage free! 💙😁
  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 13,871 Forumite
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    Happy new year - I love your idea of a challenge a month to keep up the momentum :)
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