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Finally I have a mortgage I can start to pay off!
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Busy morning this morning - Olio collection; sold an item on FB marketplace, so that's gone; and 2 separate trips for Freegle items - enough crackers to go with the ones from last year for Boxing Day (don't ask - I wouldn't have bought them for environmental reasons 🙄) and a bared used board game that Niece will love.
You can buy reuseable ones these days and I even saw them in M&S when I was in there earlier this week. See this post: https://moralfibres.co.uk/10-reusable-eco-friendly-christmas-crackers-for-a-cracking-time/2026 decluttering: 388 🤑🥉 ⭐️🥈🥇 ⭐️ ⭐️💎 ⭐️
2026 use up challenge: 129🥉 ⭐️🥈🥇 ⭐️ ⭐️
2026 decluttering goals I Use up Challenge: 🥉52 🥈100 🥇250 💎365 🏆1,000 I 🥉25 🥈50 🥇100 💎150 🏆3004 -
You can and I would probably do this if I just didn’t see the point! But I had some single use ones and now I have enough for Boxing Day. I love moral fibres though - my go to for so many things! 😁Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway4 -
I don’t see the point either, but I have a small child that strongly disagrees…2026 decluttering: 388 🤑🥉 ⭐️🥈🥇 ⭐️ ⭐️💎 ⭐️
2026 use up challenge: 129🥉 ⭐️🥈🥇 ⭐️ ⭐️
2026 decluttering goals I Use up Challenge: 🥉52 🥈100 🥇250 💎365 🏆1,000 I 🥉25 🥈50 🥇100 💎150 🏆3004 -
I have a mother in law who disagrees! 🤣Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway4 -
Same difference?!
2026 decluttering: 388 🤑🥉 ⭐️🥈🥇 ⭐️ ⭐️💎 ⭐️
2026 use up challenge: 129🥉 ⭐️🥈🥇 ⭐️ ⭐️
2026 decluttering goals I Use up Challenge: 🥉52 🥈100 🥇250 💎365 🏆1,000 I 🥉25 🥈50 🥇100 💎150 🏆3003 -
What tip?... I've missed that. Off to rummage...themadvix said:Thanks Fortune, but I’ve only just seen this - I’ve written one now, bit of a mosh mash of things I thought of and stuff found by googling. I do however have 11 mince pies in the freezer thanks to you (annoyingly ran out of mincemeat to do the last one!), so thanks for that tip. 😊Save £12k in 2025 #2 I saved £14,660.97 of £6000 or 244.35% of my target. The 2026 Save £12k in 2026 thread is here
OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I finished the year at £2880.99/£3000 or 96.03% of my annual spend so I am sticking with a £3000 annual budget for 2026
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the grow your own in 2026 discussion thread
My keep within our budget diary is here4 -
SL, I’m sure you’re on it already with your many freezers and great organisation - Fortune makes mince pies and freezes unbaked. Have adopted this approach!Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway4 -
Aha, I do. I also top some with a bit of crumble when I haven't got enough pastry made for the third tray (being a total sad-o, I keep a bag of ready mixed crumble in the freezer for quick puds and emergency comfort situations...themadvix said:SL, I’m sure you’re on it already with your many freezers and great organisation - Fortune makes mince pies and freezes unbaked. Have adopted this approach!
) Save £12k in 2025 #2 I saved £14,660.97 of £6000 or 244.35% of my target. The 2026 Save £12k in 2026 thread is here
OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I finished the year at £2880.99/£3000 or 96.03% of my annual spend so I am sticking with a £3000 annual budget for 2026
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the grow your own in 2026 discussion thread
My keep within our budget diary is here4 -
I might be being unimaginative... but how do you freeze an unbaked mince pie?? I've not made one forever, but I feel like the pastry would just go all floppy and collapse when youtook it out of the tin to put it in the freezer?3
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