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All the small things - tell me what you have done to be MF today

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  • CathT
    CathT Posts: 7,133 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Am avoiding doing the increasing pile of washing until Wednesday when the weather forecast implies that I will be able to line-dry it!
    June 2025 - part 1 - £19,145 part 2 - £21,973 Total - £41,118 29 months to go!
  • Aaleigha
    Aaleigha Posts: 615 Forumite
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    Turned heating down
    Put washing on line - when it started to rain I put it on the drying rack in the bathroom it's all on hangers as when I iron it tomorrow it will take less effort and time so saving some electricity
    Emergency fund £10,000
    Several categories with savings in
    Cars, house maintenance, birthdays
    Etc I have about 10 categories

    Really happy to be debt free after being a compulsive spender
  • Aaleigha
    Aaleigha Posts: 615 Forumite
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    it has gone nippy again BUT I've decided if anyone in the house is cold then they can get off their bums and turn the heating on. If they can't be bothered then they can't be that cold ;)
    Mine all have to put sweaters on first
    Emergency fund £10,000
    Several categories with savings in
    Cars, house maintenance, birthdays
    Etc I have about 10 categories

    Really happy to be debt free after being a compulsive spender
  • greent
    greent Posts: 10,784 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    • Reduced time that heating is on in the morning and evening every day
    • Have been using up strange food in cupboards
    • Have not bought a shop loaf for about 6 weeks - been baking all my own (slightly cheaper but much yummier)
    • washed laundry with HM laundry gloop made using hotel bars of soap :D
    • decluttering continues - things being sold on ebay/ facebook
    • OH keeps booking his business train tickets and getting Nectar points
    • OH has been working a lot more from home - massively reducing fuel costs (and wear and tear on car)
    • lots of clothes down from loft in next sizes for DS2 & DS3. Outgrown clothes of DS2 which are still in good nick put in loft for DS3
    • really concentrating on using up toiletry stash (inc all those nice ones received as pressies and 'saved for best')
    • Shopping mainly once a week now that I don't need to buy bread every other day:D
    I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul
    Repaid mtge early (orig 11/25) 01/09 £124616 01/11 £89873 01/13 £52546 01/15 £12133 07/15 £NIL
    Net sales 2024: £20
  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 13,899 Forumite
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    washed laundry with HM laundry gloop made using hotel bars of soap

    How is it going GreenT? I still have 6 bars of soap and some borax lurking under the sink that I was too wussy to use up for that purpose! :o
    • £7 to S&S ISA pot
    • Using up random food from cupboards (brown rice and chickpea salad, anyone?) :rotfl:
    • Continuing to make HM sourdough bread, culture topped up this morning
  • Laundry gloop? Sounds interesting.

    Today I had leftover spag bol from the freezer instead ordering pizza (which I really, really wanted to do) and have done a couple of surveys - all of which will go to the op pot. :)

    MGx
    :jMortgage free 08.08.19 :j
    2018: £19410.25 / £9,300 2017: £7646.64 / £11,000 2016: 4557.98 / £11,000 2015: £10,230.37 / £11,000 2014 =£6703.26 / £11,000 2013 = £4288.51 / £8000 2012 = £1600/£5000 2011 = £2579/£3000
    MF date was Nov 2041 - mortgage neutral 23.07.18

  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 13,899 Forumite
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    Poor you mortgage_girl, I used to hate surveys! Hope they were rewarding.
  • I don't mind them as long as i'm multitasking with something decent on tv. I do pick and choose though and only do the ones worth a decent amount. I had a stroke of luck with one of them as it took me straight to the completion page ;)

    MGx
    :jMortgage free 08.08.19 :j
    2018: £19410.25 / £9,300 2017: £7646.64 / £11,000 2016: 4557.98 / £11,000 2015: £10,230.37 / £11,000 2014 =£6703.26 / £11,000 2013 = £4288.51 / £8000 2012 = £1600/£5000 2011 = £2579/£3000
    MF date was Nov 2041 - mortgage neutral 23.07.18

  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 13,899 Forumite
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    £145 paid to S&S ISA, buying my way out of the rat race one unit at a time ;)
  • JimLad
    JimLad Posts: 950 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    On my youtube channel i put amazon affiliate links to the products I review. When someone clicks a link it tracks any purchase they make in the next 24 hours and gives me 3-5% comission even if its not the item I linked too.

    Yesterday someone ordered about £1000 worth of computer parts netting me £33! Cha ching!
    Mortgage Free 22/03/17
    MissWillow is my OH!
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