Gallygirl's "A journey of 121,226.67 pounds begins with a single penny" diary

BookWorm

:T Well done GG :beer:

gallygirl

So, filled in mortgage free roll of honour, linked to first diary in 2008 :eek: and decided to have a trawl through it.

Highlights from 2008:

• Won £78 at bookies from mystery shop
• Won a camera from a comp I entered while doing another mystery shop . Sold for over £200
• Aw I miss Stuart GMC and FB
• "WHY AM I THE ONLY PERSON IN THIS HOUSE WHO KNOWS HOW TO CHANGE A TOILET ROLL :mad:" :rotfl:
• I did a LOT of mystery shopping :eek:
• Bought Juliet Bravo car whom I loved for 6 years till someone ran into her and killed her
• Got excited about mortgage rate being cut to 3.99% - we ended up over 2% lower than that!
• "I have also won a replica of HMS Victory (I need to check it's not a lifesize model :eek:)" :rotfl:
• Both of Mr GG's closest friends were very ill but gladly are still with us

To be continued at some stage with other years, that was fun :rotfl:

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

FANTASTIC NEWS

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Tilly xxxxxx

Karmacat

Gally!

Congratulations!





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and these :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Well done you, I'm really pleased for you both

xxx

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ourcornercottage

Well done really inspiring

Pearla*Merle

Whoop! Whoop! Utterly brilliant news, well done! :T :T :T

Am so grateful you've shared your journey with us - and now absolutely loving hearing about (& seeing!) your fantastic adventures of freedom - such inspiring stuff! Thank you! xx

PS yay for new spreadsheets

edinburgher

gallygirl wrote: »

our mortgage balance appears to be:

£0

You win!

Ps. I'm sorry the rest of your smilies never made it...

EatingTheElephant

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Fantastic news, congratulations

gallygirl

How could I forget that one Tilly :rotfl:.

gallygirl

As I'm trying to stay awake to watch the meteor shower:
2009 Highlights:

• "Euro up to €1.12, lets have some wine & nuts to celebrate _party_ ." Hmmmm, that puts a bit of perspective on the current rate .
• Interest rate down to 1.49% - that didn't take long to drop 2+%!
• February - "Interesting article in Times Money today, things may be on the up for savings rates & Saffron & First Direct are both offering 7% fixed rate regular saver cash ISA's." :eek::eek::eek:
• Went to NY and went in a jellycopter
• "So, much to my incredulity, things are still on track to pay off mortgage #1 by end of Aug 2011, and all 3 mortgages by end of Aug 2016 :T" - called that one right :j
• :rotfl:Mr GG & I had a serious fall out and subsequent make-up, reported as:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Bought nice bedroom furniture for DS and spare room - and DD now has spare room furniture which looks fab :T.
• Musings - " More importantly, are interest rates likely to rise by 1.51% in the next year? Probably not, but likely to be on the rise by then." :rotfl:
• Again, lots of mystery shopping, also ebay action. Well done me, I was a little grafter :T.
• Em, I appear to have gone to Spain six times :rotfl:, plus the Canaries and NY
• "OH was successful at interview for job he has been doing for several months, but has now had phone call to say job no longer exists" - I have zero recollection of this .
• "Work a bit yuk at the mo, may be drafted back into old job for a while _pale_. Which will serve me right for moaning about the problems in that dept. " - wtch this space for 2010!
• Ventured onto savings board, came back and reported "Made me appreciate what a lovely, friendly board this is so thanks peeps" - nothing has changed :T
• TallGirl appeared :T