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

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  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    gallygirl wrote: »
    Today's list:
    [STRIKE]Food shopping - Aldi & Asda
    Drop ironing off with cleaner as excessive build up, mainly DS's shirts. That will be £24 I expect :([/STRIKE]
    Contact company who did service card etc for garage last year to see if they are still doing it. Suspect not as it's nearly up and they haven't been in touch. Will be great shame as it saved me a fortune :(
    [STRIKE]Ebay - relist all stuff which hasn't sold.
    Return books to library to avoid fine.
    Post Office to collect new battery for lappy.
    Email local paper about intro offer - supposed to be 35% off but website is only showing 25%. Will be buying subscription for whole year - it's just gone weekly and is excellent :T.
    Investigate proper walking sandals for Spain. [/STRIKE]
    [STRIKE]Invent new and exciting meals.[/STRIKE]
    Invent new and exciting ways to pay off mortgage :).

    So, that's the morning taken care of :D.

    Have a good day all. At least it's not raining - yet!

    Managed to make some progress. Forgot about garage so will need to wait till next week. Sandals ordered - about £1 cheaper to order online so obviously have done that :rotfl:. Not very exciting meals planned.
    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"
  • MoneyMission
    MoneyMission Posts: 652 Forumite
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    Glad you had a nice holiday.

    Have you seen Martin and Martina since you've been back? They're mahoosive!!
    MFW Challenge 2019 - £2,420 / £2,420 - 100% :T
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    MoneyMission wrote: »

    Have you seen Martin and Martina since you've been back? They're mahoosive!!

    Yes, been watching them :D. Martin was sitting on top of Martina earlier, mum shoved him off in the end :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: »
    Today's list:
    [STRIKE]Food shopping - Aldi & Asda
    Drop ironing off with cleaner as excessive build up, mainly DS's shirts. That will be £24 I expect :([/STRIKE]
    Contact company who did service card etc for garage last year to see if they are still doing it. Suspect not as it's nearly up and they haven't been in touch. Will be great shame as it saved me a fortune :(
    [STRIKE]Ebay - relist all stuff which hasn't sold.
    Return books to library to avoid fine.
    Post Office to collect new battery for lappy.
    Email local paper about intro offer - supposed to be 35% off but website is only showing 25%. Will be buying subscription for whole year - it's just gone weekly and is excellent :T.
    Investigate proper walking sandals for Spain. [/STRIKE]
    Invent new and exciting meals.
    Invent new and exciting ways to pay off mortgage :).

    Oh dear, didn't get much further, though have ordered sandals.

    Can't find paperwork re house so phoned estate agents as house at bottom of garden (em, it's not that far away but you know what I mean :rotfl:) is empty, but sold. Estate agent said will ring him & find out - assuming he will know as he will have copy of plans. Happy to go ahead if ours, though there are conifers on the other side which the buyers might want (with any luck!) to cut down so may delay till they move in. If not ours then better for seller to know so he can decide what to do rather than let buyer find out on another viewing.

    DS more or less emptied loft looking for paperwork. Loads of books to go to CS. Chucked all my OU stuff out, that's 6 years of my life gone :(. Few other things to go to CS.

    4 day week this week, following on from 2 days last week, don't want to overdo it :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"
  • ammonite
    ammonite Posts: 1,429 Forumite
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    I'm on a 0 day week this week...just like last week! :j Next week's 5 day week is going to be a shock! :) Hopefully you can find out about boundaries soon :)
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    Just realised that as of 1st June I was 48p ahead of schedule :rotfl:.

    Heard nothing about boundary so will phone tomorrow.

    Will also phone about service card.

    Planning on early morning swim tomorrow :eek:.

    Unexpected trip to London so picking up currency for DD's birthday.

    Busy day, and have to fit work in also :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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    gallygirl wrote: »

    Heard nothing about boundary so will phone tomorrow. Looked again in the same place I looked last time and found it :o. It was with a bunch of stuff with old address on it which I thought related to sale of that property. FENCE IS NOT OURS :T but that means I have to wait for seller/buyer to fix. I have spoken to estate agents.

    Will also phone about service card. Phoned - not doing any more :(

    Planning on early morning swim tomorrow :eek:. Well - therein lies a tale :rotfl:. Up at 6.30, at pool 6.45. Pool closed as Queen coming :(. Cleaner turned up early as she wanted to get up the town to get a good place to see the Queen. Told her I wouldn't go to the end of street to see her so the Queen would have to put herself out for me. Arrived back at station from London. In carpark on phone. Royal Train pulls in, waits 5 mins then pulls out :rotfl:. Hello Queenie, thanks for making the effort :wave:. TBH, curtains were shut and don't even know is she was on it (no security or meet & greet etc), but whole episode really amused me :rotfl:.

    Unexpected trip to London so picking up currency for DD's birthday. Done :)

    Off to cut the grass :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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    Forgot to say am currently reading Fifty Shades of Grey omg.gifHSmind-blowing.gifHSwhistle.gifheadscratcher.gifHSquestion.gif:o. Luckily I don't understand enough to be truly shocked by it :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"
  • mfwin2019
    mfwin2019 Posts: 150 Forumite
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    Just finished it in 2 days but local library have Lent out all copies of 2nd book - what am I going to do!!:eek:
    Declutter 2023  110/520
    Jan grocery challenge 324.44/350 25.56 spare
    Feb grocery challenge 204.45/280
    March gc 0/310

    23 minutes a day self care, decluttering, tidying or cleaning 
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    mfwin2019 wrote: »
    Just finished it in 2 days but local library have Lent out all copies of 2nd book - what am I going to do!!:eek:
    The LIBRARY :eek::eek::eek::eek: I wouldn't be seen out in public with it - I have it on my kindle. Which is great as you can't easily skip to the rude bits :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"
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