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Making chicken feed of my mortgage

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  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    Vienna?
    Mmmmmmm chocolate :EasterBun mmmmmmm cake eating-cake.gif mmmmm waltzes smiley-dance012.gif maybe not ;)
    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
    :) Mortgage Balance = £0 :)
    "Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"
  • Greying_Pilgrim
    Greying_Pilgrim Posts: 6,948 Forumite
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    Vienna? Would 'the girls' need passports? Can you imagine the kerfuffle in the photobooth whilst they did their make-up and picked their 'best sides' :rotfl:

    Greying ;)
    Pounds for Panes £7,705/£10,000 - start date Dec 2023
     
    Grocery Spend October 2025 £173.75/£200 
    Non-food spend October 2025 £35.96/£50
    Bulk Fund October (month 10 of 12) £0/£35.20 
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    Eggs IN 6
    Eggs OUT 6 (1 box sold for £1.30)

    Plants IN 0 :T I decided to avoid the temptation of the Morrision's garden centre whilst in town by avoiding Morrisons altogether!

    It's a pleasant evening here - sun's out and the wind has dropped slightly - I'm off to potter in the garden before Mr MWC gets home :)
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    I'm really enjoying my garden this year :j

    Dwarf bean, corn salad, rocket, lettuce, pak choi, beetroot, carrot, coriander and chervil seeds sown and sweetcorn x6 and courgette x1 planted out :D I forgot to sow some more mixed salad leaves so that is a job for tomorrow along with earthing up the bag of potatoes and I also need to pot up my padron chilli seedlings :)

    SFG spreadsheet updated :T

    Mr MWC is making a green vegetable (pea, asparagus, flat bean, mangetout, wet garlic) risotto for dinner and I've opened a bottle of chablis :drool:
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • Eggs IN 5
    Eggs OUT 5 (to be used in a baked cheesecake)

    Plants IN 3 :naughty:
    I couldn't resist the larkspur kingsize scarlet in Waitrose - my name is MWC and I am a plantaholic...

    Today has been a spendy day:
    A 70-mile round-trip to have my haircut - unfortunately it appears that she cut out all the brown hairs and left the grey ones :( :rotfl:
    I also popped into the lingerie shop and bought 2 bras (£41 each :eek:). According to their database, I last bought new bras in 2010... oh the shame :o:o:o

    And I popped in and had a cup of tea with my dad :)
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • Eggs IN 6
    Eggs OUT 12 (2 boxes given to friends)

    Plants IN 0
    Plants OUT 26 :)

    A lovely day spent visiting friends :D
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • There's obviously been a dearth of nominations for our inaugural department excellence awards as a reminder has been sent out and the VP has even said that self nominations are acceptable.

    It just feels wrong diddly wrong wrong to nominate myself but there is a cash prize up for grabs...
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • apple_muncher
    apple_muncher Posts: 15,284 Forumite
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    Go for it!
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  • There's obviously been a dearth of nominations for our inaugural department excellence awards as a reminder has been sent out and the VP has even said that self nominations are acceptable.

    It just feels wrong diddly wrong wrong to nominate myself but there is a cash prize up for grabs...

    Get your name in :)
    2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
    2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
    Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j
  • Eggs IN 4
    Eggs OUT 0

    Plants OUT 3 :mad::mad::mad: I spent £24 on 6 canna rhizomes a couple of weeks ago and the squirrel has stolen 3 of them :mad::mad::mad:

    I will nominate myself in the category of Exceptional Delivery; however, I'll do it as a joint nomination with a couple of US-based colleagues who contributed to the project :)
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
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