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Making chicken feed of my mortgage

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  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    Time for a list!

    Post parcel for RMS
    Fill prescription
    Pot up plug plants
    Take 1 bag of clothes to Oxfam and 1 bag for recycling
    Move 20 sacks of chicken run woodchip from where Mr MWC left them on the lawn...
    Phone dad and meet him for a cup of tea
    Hair cut
    Get measured and buy new underwear
    Visit cemetery
    Laundry/ironing
    Housework
    Make things-to-do-before-we-go-on-holiday list
    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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    edited 16 March 2015 at 10:32PM
    Time for an update!

    [STRIKE]Post parcel for RMS
    Fill prescription[/STRIKE]
    Pot up plug plants
    [STRIKE]Take 1 bag of clothes to Oxfam and [/STRIKE][STRIKE]1 bag for recycling[/STRIKE]
    [STRIKE]Move 20 sacks of chicken run woodchip from where Mr MWC left them on the lawn...
    Phone dad and meet him for a cup of tea
    Hair cut [/STRIKE]
    [STRIKE]Get measured and[/STRIKE] buy new underwear - aargh I'm inbetween sizes/shop didn't have much choice in a 30/32 GG/H :(
    [STRIKE]Visit cemetery
    Laundry/[/STRIKE]ironing
    Housework
    Make things-to-do-before-we-go-on-holiday list

    Eggs IN 7
    Eggs OUT 6 (1 box given to my hairdresser)
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    muddywhitechicken wrote: »
    Time for an update!

    [STRIKE]Post parcel for RMS
    Fill prescription[/STRIKE]
    Pot up plug plants
    [STRIKE]Take 1 bag of clothes to Oxfam and [/STRIKE]1 bag for recycling
    [STRIKE]Move 20 sacks of chicken run woodchip from where Mr MWC left them on the lawn...
    Phone dad and meet him for a cup of tea
    Hair cut [/STRIKE]
    [STRIKE]Get measured and[/STRIKE] buy new underwear - aargh I'm inbetween sizes/shop didn't have much choice in a 30/32 GG/H :(
    [STRIKE]Visit cemetery
    Laundry/[/STRIKE]ironing
    Housework
    Make things-to-do-before-we-go-on-holiday list

    Eggs IN 7
    Eggs OUT 6 (1 box given to my hairdresser)

    Come and see me when you're back from hols dear, we have a Freya & Fantasie factory shop 2 miles down the road :T
    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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    gallygirl wrote: »
    Come and see me when you're back from hols dear, we have a Freya & Fantasie factory shop 2 miles down the road :T

    Lucky you - will do!
    MWCx
    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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    No walk this evening but I've potted up my plug plants, tidied the spare bedroom, tried on the next size down jeans (I can do them up :j) and now I'm off to bed with a stonking headache :(

    Eggs IN 6
    Eggs OUT 0
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • gallygirl
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    Hope you're feeling better this morning.

    Serves you right for getting skinny jeans on :rotfl:
    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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    Much better - thank you :)

    It's only this week that I've noticed a difference sizewise - dangerous territory now... this is the point where I normally give up dieting...
    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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    Eggs IN 5
    Eggs OUT 8 (1 box sold for £1.25, 2 used for dinner)

    Tonight's egg-based meal was lentil curry with eggs - the recipe's a keeper :T

    Spent most of the day sat on my backside so my current step count is terrible - off out for a walk soon :)
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    muddywhitechicken wrote: »
    Spent most of the day sat on my backside so my current step count is terrible - off out for a walk soon :)

    But for a few precious hours I was ahead of you :rotfl:
    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: 8,045 Forumite
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    muddywhitechicken wrote: »

    Tonight's egg-based meal was lentil curry with eggs - the recipe's a keeper :T

    Thanks for the linkie MWC - happy to put that on my *to try* pile, with a recommendation from you :D And the choccy & orange cake recipe may/maynot/may have fallen out of my printer too.......... :rotfl:

    Awesome weight loss btw - keep at it - imagine all the nice things that there are going to be to *sample* on hols :D

    Greying x
    Grocery Spend May 2026 £111.65/£200
    Grocery spend April 2026 £199.95/£200 +5pence
    Non-food spend May 2026 £41.72/£80
    Bulk Fund 2026 Month 5/12 - £5.98/£93.54 (reducing balance - start £120 pa)

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