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Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
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Just popping out of lurkerdom to say hello! have been an avid reader of your musings from the start and they always make me smile. You seem to have a wonderful life and its great to see your balanced approach to everything. I for one will subscribe to the blog if you start one.I'm not a failure if I don't make it, I'm a success because I :tried!0
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Me too Beanie. Everything seems so much more positive with a little sunshine upon it.
Fortune xMortgage: 100% paid Emergency Fund: 100%
A Better View 🌄 'Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better' - Ricky Gervais0 -
AlwaysHappy wrote: »Just popping out of lurkerdom to say hello! have been an avid reader of your musings from the start and they always make me smile. You seem to have a wonderful life and its great to see your balanced approach to everything. I for one will subscribe to the blog if you start one.
Hello AlwaysHappy - lovely to see (read) you. Things haven't always been good for me so I really, really appreciate everything I have in life now. Thanks for your kind comments - so pleased to have a subscriber already :j It's just an idea at the moment so may or may not happen.
Do pop up again soon
Fortune xMortgage: 100% paid Emergency Fund: 100%
A Better View 🌄 'Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better' - Ricky Gervais0 -
Yes, yes, yes!!!! to blog....I love your diary and a blog with photographs (please include photographs!) would make an excellent read.
Also, since becoming a good girl and no longer purchasing gazillions of magazines, I need reading material (with photographs!!!)
As to the suggested title...mmmm.....will have to get my thinking cap on, however I do think your username should be included. I have no idea how to start a blog (El knows, hopefully she'll be along soon....)
Two blogs I like to read (as I love the photographs) are; Attic24 and Little Cotton Rabbits.
Did I mention you should also include photographs
February13 - £74990 (or thereabouts)
MND - Let's go for 2020 'cos it's got a nice ring to it:D
C'mon nattypants:cool:0 -
Room temperature!
This is the one thing that Mr F and I regularly disagree on. He's always too hot and I'm always too cold.
We have an agreement that he can have any window in the house open during the night except the ones in our bedroom. We leave the bedroom door open though so the air can circulate. Mr F always wants to change the terms of this agreement when the weather gets hot.
This morning I was woken by the dawn chorus at 5.00 because, contrary to the agreement, Mr F had opened the bedroom window in the night. So I got up and closed it. Mr F then proceeded to huff and puff - in more ways than one :eek: and generally make a noise so that I couldn't get back to sleep. I eventually resorted to throwing a pillow at him at which point he dragged his mattress and pillow off the bed and stomped off to the spare room muttering that he would be staying there indefinitely.
Each side of our bed is adjustable and has its own t£mpur mattress. The bed in the guest room has a spring mattress which Mr F doesn't find as comfortable.
He was still muttering when I sent him off to work this morning.
I've just been into the guest room and it looks like a scene from The Princess and the Pea in there :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
I'll be off up to the attic later to retrieve the fan to see if that restores harmony.
Fortune xMortgage: 100% paid Emergency Fund: 100%
A Better View 🌄 'Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better' - Ricky Gervais0 -
nattypants wrote: »Yes, yes, yes!!!! to blog....I love your diary and a blog with photographs (please include photographs!) would make an excellent read.
Also, since becoming a good girl and no longer purchasing gazillions of magazines, I need reading material (with photographs!!!)
As to the suggested title...mmmm.....will have to get my thinking cap on, however I do think your username should be included. I have no idea how to start a blog (El knows, hopefully she'll be along soon....)
Two blogs I like to read (as I love the photographs) are; Attic24 and Little Cotton Rabbits.
Did I mention you should also include photographs
What a lovely, encouraging response Natty. Thank you so much I would love to post some photographs on here actually but don't know how to do it. Just had a look at Attic24 and Little Cotton Rabbits - you're right, beautiful photographs. I have started doing some blog research so it may happen.
Fortune xMortgage: 100% paid Emergency Fund: 100%
A Better View 🌄 'Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better' - Ricky Gervais0 -
nattypants wrote: »Two blogs I like to read (as I love the photographs) are; Attic24 and Little Cotton Rabbits.
I love the Attic24 blog too - I've bought wool and a crochet hook... I just need to find someone to teach me to crochet now :rotfl:
I'd read your blog Fortune
MWCxMortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
Fortune_Smiles wrote: »I have just realised that it is a year today since I started this diary. So I've had a recap on everything we've achieved in the Fortunate household over that time:
- £3786 paid off the mortgage including £424.91 in overpayments
- about £2200 paid off Mr F's credit cards and we have a 0 balance on all our credit cards now
- £12562.50 investment discovered
- £687.80 added to the emergency savings fund
- saved and paid for a holiday abroad - £2,000
- maintained and improved our home: garage build finished, hall and landing decorated, log store built, bathroom repaired, dining room curtains finished, boundary fences replaced, portrait framed.
Very pleased and inspired to continue.
Thank you to all my 'friends in the box' for your support and encouragement.
Fortune x
What a great list!! Excellent work:T
Thanks for the W@itrose info..may well look into it.
Good news re the productive garden!
BrizzleMFiT-T4 Member No. 96 - 2022 is my MF goal
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::T0 -
Oooo yes fortune!! Start a blog! with piccies!
Love new things to read to help get me in the MSE-ing mood - or just to chill out generally shall check out the other blogs too! not that I can knit or anything though....0
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