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Pippi’s pulling up her stripey-socks for the final sprint towards the Good-Life……………

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  • pink68
    pink68 Posts: 333 Forumite
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    well done Pippi! it's always good to complain when you're right and they're wrong!

    thinking about you and the rotten weather. poor chilly chooks :(
    Credit Card debt £10247.17 1/1/2020
  • Pippilongstocking
    Pippilongstocking Posts: 16,336 Forumite
    Hey Maty and Pink thank you!

    The snow is in the utility room, which often has the door open - leading to the hall - might have something to do with it - putting the humungous curtains up helped - :) but hadn't seen the extent of the draught til the snow told the tale.

    I'm now staying home - updated my FB to say I'm now in hibernation :)

    Utility dd - electricity only - £100 -will be higher in winter but is lower in summer so thats the average. (other bit of dd - phone/bb, insurance, dentist, mob phone)

    Pink hen water froze - IN the shed today - we topped them up with warm water. Poor girls - they will need socks soon!!!!

    Keep warm - I'm not going anywhere for a while (um maybe next week...........weather dependant!)

    What everyone doing for xmas?
    Total debt 26/4/18 <£1925 we were getting there. :beer:
    Total debt as of 28/4/19 £7867.38:eek:
    minus 112.06 = £7755.32:money:
    :money:Sleeves up folks.:money:
  • lucielle
    lucielle Posts: 11,512 Forumite
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    Becoming a hermit!!
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    Total Debt Dec 07 £59875.83 Overdrafts £2900,New Debt Figure ZERO !!!!!!:j 08/06/2013
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  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    MatyMoo wrote: »

    In 30+ years of driving I have NEVER heard a traffic report for Orkney until tonight on my way home from work, it sounds really awful up there today Pippi so please take care :eek: Loved, loved, loved the driving mantra :D

    Me too MatyMoo, and I'm glad to see you got back safely Pippi, I pictured how exposed your house was so am glad you made it safely and invoked the magic power of the ducks :D

    Congrats on paying off last company debt. Em, can someone tell me what happened please? Last I read they had offered you a 60% settlement - did they go back on it?
    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
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  • MatyMoo
    MatyMoo Posts: 3,176 Forumite
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    gallygirl wrote: »
    Congrats on paying off last company debt. Em, can someone tell me what happened please? Last I read they had offered you a 60% settlement - did they go back on it?

    When Pippi rang to pay it off in early December they said there was a typo in their letter and it only applied to November and not November and December :mad:

    She was then encouraged to write to the ombudsman (I think) who took them in hand and miraculously they had to back track sharpish :D
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  • urg123
    urg123 Posts: 1,997 Forumite
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    Pippi,

    What wonderful news! What a great way to end the year. Does that mean you are debt free (except for the loan)?

    Keep safe and warm - it makes me look rather foolish to be worried about the small snow flurries here in London!

    Urg x x
  • Pippilongstocking
    Pippilongstocking Posts: 16,336 Forumite
    Thank you chaps so much :) weather does sound evil.

    I have now only penguin face (long term pay it when you can loan from a pal 0%)

    And that student loan thingmy
    Total debt 26/4/18 <£1925 we were getting there. :beer:
    Total debt as of 28/4/19 £7867.38:eek:
    minus 112.06 = £7755.32:money:
    :money:Sleeves up folks.:money:
  • EssexHebridean
    EssexHebridean Posts: 24,424 Forumite
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    And you've updated your signature! :j:j:j:D
    🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
    Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
    Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
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  • Pippilongstocking
    Pippilongstocking Posts: 16,336 Forumite
    EssexHebridean wrote: »
    And you've updated your signature! :j:j:j:D

    Its finally sinking in EH - no *real* debt anymore - nothing in owed to a company, nothing in default, nothing being overly juggled, nowt on my main cc, little on my other one, rent put away for next month already, extra work done to pay for jan rent, contingency for feb if I need one - blimey!

    OMG I've turned into a grown up - how did that happen????

    I'll have to rectify that immediately! Well I do still have my overdrafts - they'll get worked on after end of thesis etc.

    Hope you're good - I can't sleep hail/snow/something (rocks?) battering off the windows at force.

    Hope LT OK - she's not been about tonight..........
    Total debt 26/4/18 <£1925 we were getting there. :beer:
    Total debt as of 28/4/19 £7867.38:eek:
    minus 112.06 = £7755.32:money:
    :money:Sleeves up folks.:money:
  • Pippilongstocking
    Pippilongstocking Posts: 16,336 Forumite
    We're shut up here due to snow :)

    Got plenty food in, got plenty work to do - extra work cancelled today.

    Off to sort out the hens............................
    Total debt 26/4/18 <£1925 we were getting there. :beer:
    Total debt as of 28/4/19 £7867.38:eek:
    minus 112.06 = £7755.32:money:
    :money:Sleeves up folks.:money:
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