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LBM in 2003.. What have I been doing since??!

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  • brizzledfw wrote: »
    Hi folks

    Plan for today:

    - enjoy looking after girls and their mates. Enjoy it rather than trying to juggle it with work duties...in fact I may put an out of office on...:eek:

    - find 4 more items to EBay and list. Another home collection this eve so need to clean up before person arrives. It's fine ( I hasten to add) but I have my pride!!

    - strip and change beds. Put out another load of washing on and then dry all around the house :eek:

    - make HM pizza dough for tea and see what we have for toppings. May do HM syrup pudding for afters so could make some HM ice cream. So a few bits maybe needed from shops.

    - make HM bread in BM

    - meal plan for rest of week. Has slipped as have been away and OH has been eating left overs! So very MSE but...

    - check bank accounts. Do expenses. Do mileage for last month.

    - go for a run....it's been so long but I need to start some exercise. :eek:

    Laters

    Brizzle

    Enjoy spending time with the girls, ours aren't on school hols until next week although I still have DD1 languishing in bed today with this bug.

    Sounds like a busy day ahead for you ! Enjoy !! :D
    LBM July 2011 - Finally took control Nov 2011 DFD Sometime in the distant future ! :eek:
    Total debts Nov 2011 [STRIKE]£96796.75[/STRIKE]:eek:
    Total Debts JUL 2020 £00.00
    Cleared Jul 2020 £96796.75
    :T
    Emergency Fund / Rainy Day - £5500 . DMP Mutual Support Thread 428
  • NewLeaf_2
    NewLeaf_2 Posts: 2,116 Forumite
    Hey Brizzled I agree if you are working anyway might as well get paid.

    Loving the 3p payment x
    Mortgage: £280,752/ £262,515.84
    hmrc:£16760/£5,480.20
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  • jwil
    jwil Posts: 22,441 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Definitely if you are doing the hours then get paid for them!

    I can beat you on the 3p payment I'm afraid :p I paid 1p for a few days to my credit card last year - I *really* hoped it annoyed them! :D

    I was in Brizzle -land last week for the day. DH and I just went out for a mooch about for the day, haven't been for a while. It was nice, though I had to get him to push me every time we got to a hill :rotfl:
    "Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee
  • brizzledfw
    brizzledfw Posts: 7,302 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    edited 13 February 2013 at 11:08AM
    thanks guys...easier said than done though as I have already sent a few emails this morning... but thats the line of work I guess. Everyone works more hours than they get paid for...mine is just more acute as I get a PT salary!! But I am going to pursue it this year..it has to be resolved one way or tother.

    Done the bread though and about to make an onion tart to deal with the mountains of onions we seem to have accquired. also stripped beds and WM on so have staggered into life:o


    We like Brizzleland, jwil...an underrrated city methinks...but Abel Tasman in New Zealand does pip it!!!:rotfl:

    Onwards and upwards. Thanks for dropping by
    MFiT-T4 Member No. 96 - 2022 is my MF goal :D
    Winter 17/18 Savings Rate Goal: 25% [October 30%] :T
    Declutter 60 items before 31.03.18 9/60 ** LSDs Target 10 for March 03/10 **AFDs 10/15 ** Sales/TCB Target 2018 £25/£500 NSDs Target 10 for March 02/10 Trying to be a Frugalista:rotfl::T
  • brizzledfw
    brizzledfw Posts: 7,302 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    95p to the dreaded Te3co card..do love sending payments which start £0.:T
    MFiT-T4 Member No. 96 - 2022 is my MF goal :D
    Winter 17/18 Savings Rate Goal: 25% [October 30%] :T
    Declutter 60 items before 31.03.18 9/60 ** LSDs Target 10 for March 03/10 **AFDs 10/15 ** Sales/TCB Target 2018 £25/£500 NSDs Target 10 for March 02/10 Trying to be a Frugalista:rotfl::T
  • brizzledfw wrote: »
    95p to the dreaded Te3co card..do love sending payments which start £0.:T

    Yey !! :T
    LBM July 2011 - Finally took control Nov 2011 DFD Sometime in the distant future ! :eek:
    Total debts Nov 2011 [STRIKE]£96796.75[/STRIKE]:eek:
    Total Debts JUL 2020 £00.00
    Cleared Jul 2020 £96796.75
    :T
    Emergency Fund / Rainy Day - £5500 . DMP Mutual Support Thread 428
  • brizzledfw
    brizzledfw Posts: 7,302 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    edited 13 February 2013 at 9:48PM
    brizzledfw wrote: »
    Hi folks

    Plan for today:

    - enjoy looking after girls and their mates. Enjoy it rather than trying to juggle it with work duties...in fact I may put an out of office on...:eek:
    DONE
    - find 4 more items to EBay and list. Another home collection this eve so need to clean up before person arrives. It's fine ( I hasten to add) but I have my pride!! 9 currently on sell list.. 6 new listed today so 50%improvement on my goal!!

    - strip and change beds. Put out another load of washing on and then dry all around the house :eek: DONE

    - make HM pizza dough for tea and see what we have for toppings. May do HM syrup pudding for afters so could make some HM ice cream. So a few bits maybe needed from shops. DONE plus on way to making onion tart as drowning in onions!

    - make HM bread in BM. Done

    - meal plan for rest of week. Has slipped as have been away and OH has been eating left overs! So very MSE but... Not yet.

    - check bank accounts. Do expenses. Do mileage for last month. Nope

    - go for a run....it's been so long but I need to start some exercise. :eek: You must be joking....had syrup pudding and a glass of wine instead:eek:

    Laters

    Brizzle

    Plus

    22p on the panels....almost a record :rotfl:

    Off to relax now...been on feet all day...a life of domestic drudgery is certainly not for me! :rotfl:
    MFiT-T4 Member No. 96 - 2022 is my MF goal :D
    Winter 17/18 Savings Rate Goal: 25% [October 30%] :T
    Declutter 60 items before 31.03.18 9/60 ** LSDs Target 10 for March 03/10 **AFDs 10/15 ** Sales/TCB Target 2018 £25/£500 NSDs Target 10 for March 02/10 Trying to be a Frugalista:rotfl::T
  • grannyx2
    grannyx2 Posts: 3,455 Forumite
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    I love this bit

    go for a run....it's been so long but I need to start some exercise. You must be joking....had syrup pudding and a glass of wine instead



    I thought about exercise today, it lasted all of 10 seconds, the thought that is not the actual doing and tonight I ate cheesecake - yummy.

    I even told OH I thought it was off but needed another piece to check. I didn't actually stretch that far but thought it was rather amusing.

    Granny x
    Targets
    Trip to Australia (On hold until 2022 now) to meet new grandson born jan 21!

    Lose 84lbs. Update (minus 65lbs mostly during lockdown as of 18.05.21)

    LBM : July 11 - £56,962
    DEBT FREE 21-05-21
    MORTGAGE FREE 13-06-18

    Loving my kitty cat

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3958715/return-to-solvency/p1
  • brizzledfw
    brizzledfw Posts: 7,302 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    That's me Granny..food usually comes first! Fortunately I am usually Ok weight wise..must be all that racing after kids, work, etc I do...:eek:

    But will try again. Need to feel the endorphins really. That blast you get when you have just made your muscles and lungs really work:D

    Not sure what today holds... Back later when I skimmed the paper ( online ipad version so £8.66 a month for weekday and weekend papers so bit of a bargain really) and finished the cup of tea OH has bought me ( and he wished me a Happy Valentines Day...:T) Kids are in bed...wonderful:D
    MFiT-T4 Member No. 96 - 2022 is my MF goal :D
    Winter 17/18 Savings Rate Goal: 25% [October 30%] :T
    Declutter 60 items before 31.03.18 9/60 ** LSDs Target 10 for March 03/10 **AFDs 10/15 ** Sales/TCB Target 2018 £25/£500 NSDs Target 10 for March 02/10 Trying to be a Frugalista:rotfl::T
  • Piquant_2
    Piquant_2 Posts: 5,769 Forumite
    PPI Party Pooper Mortgage-free Glee! Debt-free and Proud!
    I remember working in the City too, only taking a lunch break if it was to have a working lunch and working through until eight or nine. It's come to be expected somehow. I also remember feeling guilty if I left on time, 5:30pm as if I was skiving. Needless to say, unpaid. Companies have a clever way of getting the work out of you with little extra in return.

    You have been busy as usual, it took me a while to catch up properly.

    Paying off 98p the card is admirable, my bank won't transfer less than £1, but they will take off less than a pound in interest, see how fair they are?
    Total debt at October 2008: £67,213.30
    Total debt today: £0
    - debt and mortgage free 29th November 2013 :T
    Sealed Pot Challenge member 14
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