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  • Peonie
    Peonie Posts: 1,471 Forumite
    And from me.
    Pots: House £6966/£7100, Rainy day Complete, [STRIKE]Sunny day £0/£700[/STRIKE], IVF £2523/£2523, Car up-keep £135/£135, New car £5000/£5000, Holiday £1000/£1000, MFW #16 £2077/£3120
    MFiT3 #86: Reduce mortgage from £146,800 to £125,000
    Mortgage Sept 2014: £135,500, MF Oct 2035 Peak July 2011: £154,000, MF July 2036
  • elantan
    elantan Posts: 21,022 Forumite
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    Hi Tilly hope your family member is ok, hope you all manage to get a rest as well xxx
  • Courgette
    Courgette Posts: 3,242 Forumite
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    Sorry to hear this. Look after yourself too xxx
    Updating soon...
  • ajmoney
    ajmoney Posts: 6,488 Forumite
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    Thinking of you and your family x
    MFW 2025 No. 7 £2731.07/£2700
    MFiT-T7 No. 6 £5515.91/£30,000
  • gallygirl wrote: »
    Allegedly, yes :cool:. Good freezer fodder, keeps the shopping bills down. I've eaten at Tilly's - she feeds them up well first :T.
    My cooking reputation will be in tatters at this rate :rotfl:
    I don't mind running in the rain but doing press ups on the ground in it is a little too hard core for me :o Good luck to you!
    This will be quite entertaining to see as I can't actually do one complete real press up :eek:
    Hi Tilly,

    Hope you don't mind but I've subscribed on elantan's recommendation.

    Thistle
    You're very welcome. The MFW guys are amazingly helpful and mad so we all fit together well :).

    Best wishes Tilly x
    2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
    2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
    Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j
  • Why dont you do somrthing fun, (unless you do enjy taking boots camping?). I love my zumba, think its cos I get to wiggle my bum and dance like a complete nutter for an hour, always leave dripping (attractive I know), tried hula hooping class the other week too.
    This really made me think, as why would I want to roll tyres etc but it comes down to strength. I need to feel physically strong, however I've also looked into Zumba and there's a class a short drive away so I am going to be brave and have a go. I think I'll love it. Dancing around like a complete nutter seems right up my street :T
    brizzledfw wrote: »
    Always knew you were completely loopy:rotfl: just so glad you had the good sense to drive off again:T;)

    I wondered if I could have some advice Miss T...we often have childcarers living with us. With our hours and trips alway it's the only way but as DC get older and as I am part time maybe it's less needed. But we really don't mind sharing and so I am thinking about lodgers...do you have any suggestions re do's and don'ts? Also do you cook for them( think you do) and would you do a deal whereby you lessened the rent if they did a bit of babysitting etc....just really thinking about the options.

    Cheers and hope you're having a great weekend
    Fortunately I PMd you before we had the phone call so I hope it helps. Last bit of advice if you ask them to pet sit, or babysit, pay them a rate, rather than reducing their rent. When we had a language teacher living with us I started off not charging rent, but kids having free lessons. Lessons soon got forgotten about so rent was charged. Happy arrangement though as she stayed 2.5 years :T. Really does show I like a houseful.
    elantan wrote: »
    These boot camps seem to be really popular, don't think I'm fit enough for one just yet ... Think ill stick with waiting till my shin splints heal so that I can start running again, obviously the waiting for the shin splints to heal is very hard work, that chocolate doesn't lift itself into my mouth you know ;)
    I hope your shin splints are healing - I ate loads of chocolate last night :o

    Best wishes Tilly x
    2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
    2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
    Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j
  • Thanks for your lovely wishes, it was a bit of a b£gger of a day.

    Need to crack on as we sold £160 ish of stuff on eb@y last night.

    Tilly x x
    2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
    2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
    Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j
  • lulabelle1
    lulabelle1 Posts: 2,706 Forumite
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    Hugs Tilly x
  • elantan
    elantan Posts: 21,022 Forumite
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    That's a good eBay run you've had :)
  • misscousinitt
    misscousinitt Posts: 3,655 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee!
    Sorry you are coping with illness in the family - its always difficult and my heart goes out to you.

    Well done on keeping everything going - my house usually goes to pot when we've had a family crisis.

    Please take care of yourself too and well done on the ebay sales...

    MCI
    Mortgage Free x 1 03.11.2012 - House rented out Feb 2016
    Mortgage No 2: £82, 595.61 (31.08.2019)
    OP's to Date £8500

    Renovation Fund:£511.39;
    Nectar Points Balance: approx £30 (31.08.2019)
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