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

lavinia21

well done gally your going so well keep up the good work and try away from those oh so tempting shops.

Radish72

lavinia21 wrote: »

well done gally your going so well keep up the good work and try away from those oh so tempting shops.

and stay away from estate agents windows & Rightmove

gallygirl

Radish72 wrote: »

and stay away from estate agents windows & Rightmove

You know me so well

gallygirl

Well, exciting day here, If I say I spent £2 on a flag for DS's gf and £2 on an inflatable torch for me I'm sure you can guess where I've been :j. I thought it was great, even if there was constant rain/drizzle . Paralympics tickets also turned up so really looking forward to it now .

Letter came from Egg re drawback. That's letter, not letters. Phoned them up, they'd only ordered it on one account :wall:. Can only ask for the drawback once I've had both letters.

Mortgage payments gone out. Just under 126k on joint mortgages, £5,843 on own btl :j. May even meet the MFiT challenge, pretty miraculous as I've done most of it on my own .

Small quidco payment coming but that will be it until after holiday .

11 sleeps .
Going to get weighed, day about to go downhill . Too much :EasterBunand :spam: :rotfl:.

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Evening GG, beginning with a 5 is FAB - go girl x

gallygirl

Thanks Tilly .

Managed to lose 1/2 lb as well (that'd be the lack of a vest top under my tunic :rotfl:). Seriously need to motivate myself though - have discovered I have hardly any photos of myself (not just at my heaviest, I just hate having my photo taken ), have asked a friend to send me one to stick on the fridge :A.

ammonite

Good luck with the weight loss, I was following slimming world had lost 10lb until baby ammonite took residence in my tummy (had about 3 stone to lose so a mere drop in the ocean) Now I'm trying to limit the gain but hard when not following a diet (other than the crisp and sweets diet ).

Well done for getting into the 5's !:D

gallygirl

Can't stand this flaming weather :mad:. Ran the numbers again, best I can come up with is get level with Mr GG Jan - Feb 16. At that stage there will be around 17k os on mortgages so looking at Aug 16 with us both paying off. Can't get it any earlier . Unless I sell my body. A lot. Which may knock a week or 2 off :cool:.

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Hi GG, your post did make me laugh, reminded me of lots of conversations with my sister.

Really good news on the mortgage front and August 2016 is not far away- if we keep telling each that, then I am sure we will be fine

What is really scary is youngest Tilly will be driving shortly after we become MF - I will need the extra money to pay for car insurance :rotfl:

Edit: weather awful, pouring pouring pouring

Night Tilly x

gallygirl

Poorly GG . Don't really know what is wrong - like a v bad cold but without the runny nose & sneezing, achy & hot/cold & v weak. Off work yesterday & today, on the plus side, saved me petrol money.....

Spent on new lights for living room. Been looking on & off for a while, found some on Amazon. When I was ordering it said there were only 2 wall lights left - just checked and it actually is out of stock so just in time. £70 for ceiling light & 2 wall lights, less than 1/2 the others I was looking at & better than the ones I wanted which would have been over £400 :eek:.Hopefully I will be able to fit them myself, been a while since I did it but basically it's a big plug, right .

7 sleeps till holiday :T, well, 6 really as staying in hotel at Gatwick next Thurs .

Tenant has been offered a new kitchen, still in box, not sure what the story is but basically someone bought it then changed their mind :eek:. Seeing it tomorrow and will see if we can get it to fit. Would have to pay for fitting & worktops etc. Can't afford it really but existing kitchen probably 30 years old so worth it if workable .