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

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  • amycool
    amycool Posts: 866 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary Combo Breaker
    It must feel amazing to pay such a huge chunk off in one go! Congratulations! :)
    Mortgage (Start Sep 2014)- £70,295/£0 - 100%
    Overpayments - £48829.37 :j:j:j
    Mortgage paid off Jan 2020
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    Well, adventuring went well :T but can't say any more yet :o.

    Mr GG away so spent the evening playing on property websites etc. Not much point planning on getting mortgage free if you can't scheme a little :rotfl:.

    Busy day tomorrow - btl stuff, MS and edig surveys plus picking Mr GG up from station at some stage.

    I have just realised something. I don't like to eat in places that have pictures of the food on their menu. But I don't like making recipes that don't have pictures :D. Discuss.
    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
    :) Mortgage Balance = £0 :)
    "Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"
  • icontinuetodream
    icontinuetodream Posts: 992 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Another 'accidental' house perhaps?? ;)

    Well done on the payment!! :j :T (she says with not even a tiny bit of jealousy....could have paid off my mortgage with that! :D)

    I also don't like eating in places with pictures....always bitterly disappointed with the food they bring in comparison to the food promised...but then, I don't like recipes with piccies either... guess I don't like to realise where I have gone wrong!! :rotfl:
    Mortgage 12.12.12 £55842 12.12.13 £42716 14.12.14 £28837 13.12.15 £25913
    Mortgage OP £50/£600 House Fund £420/£5000
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    icontinuetodream wrote: »
    Another 'accidental' house perhaps?? ;)

    :eek::eek::eek: No way Jose :eek::eek::eek:

    Tonight I made flatbreads for the first time. They were flat and breadlike :j:j:j. I did that kneading and rolly-out thing (and with a rolling pin, not a wine bottle :rotfl:) and made them all stripey. It appears there is at least one thing I can do with flour unsupervised :T. Cost around £1.44 for 12 :), Plus the fuel to go and get the SR flour as I didn't have any. Obviously I found the 1kg unopened bag approx 30 seconds after I got home :rotfl:.
    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
    :) Mortgage Balance = £0 :)
    "Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    gallygirl wrote: »
    still on 40k :(.
    :T:j:T 39.8k :T:j:T

    Spreadsheet plotting :D
    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
    :) Mortgage Balance = £0 :)
    "Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    New laptop :j.

    Windows 8. !!!!!! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
    :) Mortgage Balance = £0 :)
    "Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"
  • Fortune_Smiles
    Fortune_Smiles Posts: 5,125 Forumite
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    gallygirl wrote: »
    New laptop :j.

    Windows 8. !!!!!! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:



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  • patanne
    patanne Posts: 1,286 Forumite
    edited 6 August 2014 at 11:31PM
    My resident IT expert (DS) wouldn't let me have Windows 8. He said it was rubbish & so I have invested in windows 7. But oh how I want the spreadsheets back that came with windows XP. The XP had what I wanted there - in your face - no problem finding what I wanted at all. This I have to go searching for everything - the only things I can see are the things I really don't want. The air can get a tad blue at times! I'm not known for my patience with inanimate objects!

    You have my complete and utter sympathy. I've never been able to see why they have to change them at all, add to them yes but change them no. They must do it so that we over 30s (well in my case double that and counting) have to ask the 10 year olds how to do something.
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    I had never had or used an Apple product till I got iRene :smileyhea. Worked out how to use it (except how to make folders :o) just fine. I know how to use Windows so obviously Windows 8 wouldn't be a problem.......

    Like I said....... !!!!!! :mad::mad::mad:

    It's bad enough needing to do all the normal new set-up stuff (like remembering all passwords :eek:) without trying to work out how to flaming well find my desktop :mad: And don't get me started on Outlook :eek:

    Off to that London place today. Safe to say Willie Windows won't be going with me :rotfl:.
    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
    :) Mortgage Balance = £0 :)
    "Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"
  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 13,902 Forumite
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    I have heard that Windows 8 is the Windows Vista of the modern age. I wouldn't expect it to stick around for long...
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