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Making chicken feed of my mortgage

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  • greent
    greent Posts: 10,833 Forumite
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    gallygirl wrote: »
    Yes :D. Amongst other purchases he got a £25 'cricket hat' reduced to 99p in M&S :j. It made him very happy :). Well, it made him less unhappy :rotfl:.[/Q
    I often have to stop Mr gt from doing things like that (usually checked flat caps or hats with peaks and bog fluffy pull down flaps) - I tell him there's normally a reason WHY no one else wanted the item - normally with his choice of items it's because they're fairly hideous!:p
    I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul
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  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    greent wrote: »
    I often have to stop Mr gt from doing things like that (usually checked flat caps or hats with peaks and bog fluffy pull down flaps) - I tell him there's normally a reason WHY no one else wanted the item - normally with his choice of items it's because they're fairly hideous!:p
    This is actually quite nice.And any voluntary clothes shopping has to be nurtured and encouraged :D.
    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"
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    We've had a lovely weekend visiting friends in the US :)
    Heading back to Canada via Thousand Islands tomorrow

    MWCx
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  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    Monday was a whiteout so we had to abandon our sightseeing trip to Thousand Islands :(

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    Today was cold (-8C felt like -19C with the windchill :eek:) and sunny so we decided to go to the beach! I got to walk along the boardwalk :)

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    Yes, that is ice on the rocks!
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
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  • Goldiegirl
    Goldiegirl Posts: 8,806 Forumite
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    Great pics!

    Sounds like you are enjoying yourselves, even though it is on the chilly side
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  • Secret_Saving_Squirrel
    Secret_Saving_Squirrel Posts: 4,138 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    It looks beautiful!
    Paid off mortgage nine years early in 2013. Now picking and choosing our work to fit in with the rest of our lives!
    Still thrifty though, after all these years:D
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    Eek :eek:, that's cold!!!! Looks lovely :)
    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"
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    Good grief! It does look beautiful ... a rellie of a rellie on facebook is writing about the record lows in Florida ... weather seems screwy everywhere!

    Boogie along that boardwalk :)
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Watty1
    Watty1 Posts: 7,200 Forumite
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    hope you've thermals! Looks lovely if cold.
    Made it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became

    In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!
  • Greying_Pilgrim
    Greying_Pilgrim Posts: 6,938 Forumite
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    Goodness MWC - that is cold! And all that snow down in the US states too.

    I'm sure the folks you are with are used to it all - I recall going out grocery shopping in the US with a couple I was staying with - the same weather in the UK would have caused everything to grind to a halt and a national emergency to be declared :rotfl:

    Keep safe - but thank you for sharing such lovely pics :D

    Greying
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