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Making chicken feed of my mortgage
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Pay day :j
September's budget reviewed, bills paid, mortgage OP'd (including £29.83 of August TTs :T) and money ready to be transferred to regular savers tomorrow morning
Mr MWC has picked lots of raspberries :T
Eggs IN 5
Eggs OUT 6 (1 box sold for £1.50)Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
A flying visit as I've got a stonking headache this evening
£1,500 transferred to savings (aka new kitchen/woodburner/living room furniture/curtains etc and professional parquet flooring restoration & quarry tile cleaning fund)
Accounts tidied... £7.49 TT
Purple beans & mangetout picked
WFH again tomorrow - I've used 100 miles of petrol this week rather than my normal 250 miles :T
Eggs IN 4
Eggs OUT 12 (2 boxes sold for £3)Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
Hope your headache goes away soon x0
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Hope your headache goes away soon x
Thanks BW - still a bit headachy this morning but not too bad.
Plan for today:
WFH this morning
Facial this afternoon
Tidy shed/potter in garden
Buy greeting cards (3 x birthday, 1 x new home, 1 x first day at school)Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
The shed tidying/garden pottering didn't happen as I treated myself to a manicure as well
Today we ate potatoes, rocket & endive from the garden (in a salad with smoked mackerel, hard-boiled egg, spring onions and a dressing made from mayo, sour cream & horseradish)
Eggs IN 5
Eggs OUT 1Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
It still feels luxurious to me to have two distinct forms of protein in one meal - I love it2023: the year I get to buy a car0
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muddywhitechicken wrote: »
WFH again tomorrow - I've used 100 miles of petrol this week rather than my normal 250 miles :T
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I get satisfaction from this too! Mileage, money and time saved.:jJune 2025 - part 1 - £19,145 part 2 - £21,973 Total - £41,118 29 months to go!0 -
£150 current a/c opening bonus received and transferred to new kitchen/woodburner/living room furniture/curtains etc and professional parquet flooring restoration & quarry tile cleaning fund - currently £8,400 :T
£1.48 TT
We saw The Dads yesterday at a family BBQ so our plans for today include:
A lazyish morning catching up on life admin whilst drinking copious mugs of tea - ongoing
Tidy the house - it looks like we've been burgled
Tidy the shed
Pressure wash the chicken coop
Pick raspberries, cherry tomatoes and purple beans
Go for a walk and pick elderberriesMortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
Lazy morning interrupted by a mercy mission to rescue Mr MWC who felt his hip pop whilst out on a run - just had enough money in the car to buy him a bag of frozen peas + a packet of ibuprofen :A
Very blustery here - may need to postpone the pressure washingMortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
Yikes! Hope the ice + tablets do the trick.NST March lion #8; NSD ; MFW9/3/23 Whoop Whoop!!!0
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