My journey to Mortgage-freedom

unhappy_shopper

DS2 has done extremely well in his GCSEs.

1 A^ (A* with distinction)
9 A*
1 A
and a distinction in Level 2 Thinking and Reasoning.


Celebrations :j are in order in our household. Now off to fulfill my promises to buy him a new laptop (the £400 in Am@zon GC collected through TCB and surveys will come in handy).

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

That is amazing - well done and definitely warrants a lap top :T:T:T

misscousinitt

What fabulous grades...you must be very proud.

MCI

unhappy_shopper

Thanks everyone for their good wishes (on behalf of DS2).

I was going through my MOCs and found a free printable voucher for mealsfromscratch available from S@ins**** Local stores in London area. If any MFWs would like that, please message me. I can send it to you. It can be redeemed only until 30th Aug though.

ammonite

congrats to your son US! You must be very proud of him :j:money:

unhappy_shopper

Payday soon - so will be able to OP as soon as the money hits the bank a/c, hopefully tomorrow. On the grocery shopping front, I have been very careful and so have a surplus of over £50 from this month's grocery budget; hoping for 3 NSDs. Ebay pickings are very little nowadays. The ones I listed over the past weekend, have watchers but no bids so far. A friend gave me about a kg of plums, very tasty. I had given him a few apples last week. If only I could grow clementines here in UK, I'll save a fortune as we go through loads of them.

Mortgage_Reduction_Novice

I'm also hoping for payday soon... end of the month clearance into savings!

Good luck for the 3 NSDs.

I bet ebay will pick up towards Christmas.

greent

Belated congratulations form me re DS2's grades - brilliant stuff!

unhappy_shopper

A fruitful day :money:wise.

• Switched gas and electricity to EDF's Blue fixed-rate deal.
• Signed up for free credit report for life here.
• Tidied up all the bank accounts and paid off all the CC bills.

Have a good day, everyone!

unhappy_shopper

A day of freebies :-) 4GB memory stick from St@ples, mountain dew, Ambr0sia rice pudding and some MOCs, Mi11ie's cookies, colourful sharing bowl from McC@ins, 5p off petrol till spit and a receipt with 74 CC points (both wombled)

I don't think we will be OPing in Sept and Oct as both my sons' termly fees are due and there won't be much going spare after paying that. Anyway there is a weeklong free-listing event on fleabay. So I'm hoping to flog some of the unwanted treasures. Looking forward to the weekend :-)