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

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  • Mashed my last 6 spuds! 19 days to go!!:eek:

    Did some more Music Magpiing - 24 CDs for just over £12.
    Mortgage Free Wannabe
    1st April 2015
    Outstanding Mortgage (1&2): £75023/£76400 Target MF date: Jun 2019 (49 payments)
    Target OP (2015): £1500
    Outstanding Mortgage 3: £77000
    [STRIKE] Outstanding Loan: £1161 [/STRIKE] What Loan!
  • mummalove
    mummalove Posts: 924 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 500 Posts Combo Breaker
    Hi everyone..what a lovely sunny day! I have:
    • received in the post a voucher for free carafe of orange juice and a voucher for a free innocent veg pot :p
    • completed 3 surveys already on Toluna for 6000 points, nothing elsewhere but will keep checking
    • a day of washing mostly on 30 degrees, all drying indoors though - I actually find with the sun streaming through the windows, it all dries quicker than outside as I put all the tops on hangars on the curtain poles!
    • heating has been off all day so far
    That will do for now....
    "A smile takes but a moment...
    ...but the memory of it lasts forever"


    :D
  • TallGirl
    TallGirl Posts: 6,234 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    edited 12 March 2011 at 6:51PM
    This week I have:
    - paid for my golf club membership by credit card earning clubcard points and saved £150 by paying annually. Going to transfer it to my new Barclay card and pay it off over 12 months at 0% keeping the balance in a 5% current account. Also would have left us short if we had to pay it all now.
    - used a Groupon voucher for a day out saving £22, got 25% off lunch plus BIL paid so cheap day out as diesel is free with my company car.
    - done 8 MS
    - got 2 more lined up
    - relisted 6 items on Ebay that did not sell last time.

    That will do for now.
    Save £12k in 25 No 49
    PB Win 21 £225, 22 £275, 23 £900, 24 £750 Balance Dec 25 £32.7K  
    Plan to move to Denmark for FIRE by Autumn 2025 “May your decisions reflect your hopes not your fears”
    New diary aiming for fire https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6414795/mortgage-free-now-aiming-for-fire#latest

  • Sepa74
    Sepa74 Posts: 962 Forumite
    I have had a good MS day.

    I did loads of washing and hung them out... they're now just airing on the clothes horse. :A

    A friend delivered some old cupboards that I will use for storage in my newly water-proofed garage. I'm giving her my old bike shed in return.

    I logged into my nectar account and made my first Amazon nectar purchase. I have £50 worth of points on my card, :eek: so need to think about the best way to spend them. That is the result of years and years of flashing my nectar card but never really thinking about spending the points. Might keep them for Christmas presents?

    All small things, but it's nice to have somewhere to record them. :)
    Borrowed £150,000 in an offset tracker mortgage in May 2007 - MFD May 2041 (67)

    Jan 2012 - £125,620.02 / 2,913.87 / Nov 2032 (58) :beer:
    Apr 2012 - £122,901.88 / 3,170.91 / Jul 2032 (58)
    Jul 2012 - £122, 589.02 / 3,507.99 / Sept 2032 (58)
    Oct 2012 - £120,476.31 / 3,889.42 / July 2032 (58)
  • Sepa74
    Sepa74 Posts: 962 Forumite
    Ooh! Forgot something! Decided to buy the TV Unit from Dwell, so saved £50 on something I've had my eye on for quite a while.

    The clincher was that at the moment I can't get to the powerpoint to switch all the electronic equipment off at the wall as well as on the boxes themselves, so the new TV cabinet means I'll be able to save a little more power! :rotfl:

    I worry that I am a little obsessive sometimes....
    Borrowed £150,000 in an offset tracker mortgage in May 2007 - MFD May 2041 (67)

    Jan 2012 - £125,620.02 / 2,913.87 / Nov 2032 (58) :beer:
    Apr 2012 - £122,901.88 / 3,170.91 / Jul 2032 (58)
    Jul 2012 - £122, 589.02 / 3,507.99 / Sept 2032 (58)
    Oct 2012 - £120,476.31 / 3,889.42 / July 2032 (58)
  • Iris_Blue
    Iris_Blue Posts: 1,421 Forumite
    edited 12 March 2011 at 8:11PM
    And from me today :

    *Comps entered: 6
    *Toluna 2x 3000 point surveys
    *Booked a online free delivery slot (10pm-11pm ouch!) with ocad0 using a £15 off my shopping voucher code. I OP'd the £15.
    *Paid off holiday balance in full on last possible day
    *Bought loadsa stamps before they rise in price also they're delivered free with 0cad8 shopping so I don’t even have to leave my house!
    *1 x n vista survey
    I can't be bothered updating this anymore
  • Have been missing in action on this thread in the last few days...i dont have much to add unfortunately...OH is away on a very expensive stag do :mad: so not much money saving going on.

    A few small things
    • All washing done at 30 degrees
    • Managed to go to MrS and pick up only what i really needed and completely avoided everything else :D
    • No wine for me tonight as OH is away and its no fun on your own...every cloud has a silver lining :rotfl:
    Credit card £4461.15Home mortgage £137117Buy to let mortgage £83,000
  • curlygirl1971
    curlygirl1971 Posts: 1,367 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    edited 12 March 2011 at 8:29PM
    Thanks for the reminder about the stamps IrisBlue!

    * YouGov survey 50 points
    * Shopper Thoughts 50 clubcard points
    * Put a new Tesco Clubcard key fob on my BF's keys so he can earn points for me. He already earns nectar points for me :cool:
    * Shopped at Aldi and then picked up some other bits (that Aldi don't do or don't do cheaper) from Tescos
    * Put a fleece on and decided to stay in rather than go to cinema
    * Registered with Kantar in the hope of getting on a panel
  • cha97michelle
    cha97michelle Posts: 5,818 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    Well, dooyoo has been down most of the day AGAIN!!! much to my annoyance, so i have switched my attention to surveys instead.

    I submitted a query to maximiles as i bought my new cooker at John lewis last October through them. I was owed nearly 2500 points, and needed them to get to over 3000 to get a voucher. I got a lovely email within minutes and they added the points. I got a £10 sainsbugs voucher which i will put away for our summer hols in October.

    I then watched some videos on there and did a 150 point survey and some profile surveys, so i am at over 700 points again on there. Must try harder with that one, but its on a 2nd email address i forget to check.

    I've also caught up on quite a few surveys for other companies in my inbox, so all points are building up nicely.

    Going to take a night off though tonight as my throat is sore, and get on with some knitting while watching a DVD. The baby it is for was due 2 days ago so time is slightly pressing there.
  • katsu
    katsu Posts: 5,023 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Mortgage-free Glee!
    edited 12 March 2011 at 9:57PM
    Today I:

    * took 2 bags of goods into the CS and spent no money on the way out (resisted the wool as priced at around £1.69-£2 a ball)
    * went to other CS to look for cheap wool - nothing perfect so bought nothing.
    * bought a snack whilst watching the rugby but no drinks (friend bought for us both and we made them last)
    * came home and ate some filling HM bread with peanut butter and banana to top up starter eaten in pub
    * did my daily greggs comp entry and my dorset cereals
    * did some Tol votes - got screened out of surveys
    Debt at highest: £8k. Debt Free 31/12/2009. Original MFD May 2036, MF Dec 2018.
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