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Double checked - it's 12 now.Mortgage OP 2025 £7050/7000Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000
Mortgage balance: £34,965
Money making challenge £78/400
”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)0 -
In DS's defence he is working FT over summer in a job not dissimilar to salt mines but a hot version!!!I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.
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***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
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Have seen July hours and they are much better:D hopefully will survive summer without killing anyone:DMortgage OP 2025 £7050/7000Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000
Mortgage balance: £34,965
Money making challenge £78/400
”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)0 -
In DS's defence he is working FT over summer in a job not dissimilar to salt mines but a hot version!!!
Where I come from that is a salt mine! We've all done it....mine were cleaning jobs and working a cider bar on a site infested with wasps.Debt LBM (08/09) £11,641. DEBT FREE APRIL 2021.
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QUOTE=Butti;65895070]Where I come from that is a salt mine! We've all done it....mine were cleaning jobs and working a cider bar on a site infested with wasps.[/QUOTE]
Ahhhh, & :eek: to wasps.I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.
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.
***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.0 -
Speaking to younger colleague today she reckons I seem to get yelled at a lot more than others but apparently the boss really likes me? Weird eh?
Any how looking forward to a bit more life/work balance in JulyMight not hit my financial targets but not giving a jot!
Shopping with DS in the big city tomorrow - running shoes for me and clothes for him no doubt and maybe a spot of lunchand I have wine chilling for later...
Mortgage OP 2025 £7050/7000Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000
Mortgage balance: £34,965
Money making challenge £78/400
”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)0 -
skint_spice wrote: »Speaking to younger colleague today she reckons I seem to get yelled at a lot more than others but apparently the boss really likes me? Weird eh?
Maybe he thinks its like school. Where you show somebody you really like them by ignoring them... :rotfl:skint_spice wrote: »Any how looking forward to a bit more life/work balance in Julyskint_spice wrote: »Might not hit my financial targets but not giving a jot!
They're only numbers.skint_spice wrote: »Shopping with DS in the big city tomorrow - running shoes for me and clothes for him no doubt and maybe a spot of lunchand I have wine chilling for later...
...and you will be chilling later..."Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
"We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
"Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky." OMD 'Julia's Song'0 -
Maybe he thinks its like school. Where you show somebody you really like them by ignoring them... :rotfl:
If only he'd ignore me:DThey're only numbers.
True but a nice house would make up for a rubbish summer:D...and you will be chilling later...
Already chilling, radio on for drive home helped:cool:.Mortgage OP 2025 £7050/7000Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000
Mortgage balance: £34,965
Money making challenge £78/400
”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)0 -
Had lovely day out with DS, not very MSE but fab all the same. Our purchases were made in the sales and we went some where with a cheap lunch menu so not all bad...Mortgage OP 2025 £7050/7000Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000
Mortgage balance: £34,965
Money making challenge £78/400
”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)0 -
skint_spice wrote: »Had lovely day out with DS, not very MSE but fab all the same.
Of course it's MSE - MSE is about value for money. If it had been crap, then it wouldn't have been MSE.skint_spice wrote: »Our purchases were made in the sales and we went some where with a cheap lunch menu so not all bad...
Fab day - but not all bad?
And people wonder why I get confused easily..."Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
"We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
"Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky." OMD 'Julia's Song'0
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