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  • Alchemilla
    Alchemilla Posts: 6,276 Forumite
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    No one sick so far today. *touches wood*
    May have to do pancakes today instead!
  • misscousinitt
    misscousinitt Posts: 3,655 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee!
    Hope everyone is better...nothing worse...

    MCI
    Mortgage Free x 1 03.11.2012 - House rented out Feb 2016
    Mortgage No 2: £82, 595.61 (31.08.2019)
    OP's to Date £8500

    Renovation Fund:£511.39;
    Nectar Points Balance: approx £30 (31.08.2019)
  • Alchemilla
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    Thanks MCI
    All ok at the mo.
  • All sounds very hectic. Hope everyone is feeling better. I find the teenagers smoking electronic cigarettes hilarious. It is hardly rebellion.

    Squirrel x
    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
  • Alchemilla
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    Ha ha squirrel it was cherry flavour too!

    Spent £1.50 on some aromatherapy oil. Tried to do an AF order but lost interest.

    No sign of CM so will have to enter the twilight zone of the CSA.

    Today I am grateful for
    * not getting rained on
    * not having bird poo in my hair
    *only being called an effing biatch once today
    *Enchiladas for dinner
    * DH has borrowed season 3 of game of thrones.
  • edinburgher
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    That's a very dramatic series of GOT Al :)

    I am sorry you were called an effing biatch. In fact, it would probably be quite funny if someone went to the trouble of saying 'effing biatch', but I suspect they said the real one, which is far less funny :rotfl:
  • Habibiboo
    Habibiboo Posts: 1,582 Forumite
    Alchemilla wrote: »
    Semi wondering about pooling resources withe the olds and buying a farmhouse...

    :wave:

    This is definitely one of those things that sounds good in theory but the day-to-day reality could be very different! Are they your olds or Mr. A's? I know Mr. Hbbb couldn't live with my mum but I know if we asked her she'd move in like a shot - it's something of a standing joke in our house that she's always talking about how we could convert the garage into a little annexe! OH told her he'd build one for her ... on my sister's house :p

    Truth is we'd love a farmhouse too but if we suggested that she'd then make jokes about us putting her out to pasture! For my part I just couldn't share a kitchen with her, so own space is definitely a criteria to think about, however great your olds are! Want to hear more about this plan, please!
    Stash busting 2014 45 / 60 (balls of yarn)!
    2014 Sealed Pot #2136 ?/£500
    House: Decluttering 322 / 365
    Original mortgage [STRIKE]£149,000[/STRIKE][STRIKE]£117,750[/STRIKE];[STRIKE]£112,500[/STRIKE] MFW 2014#69 GOAL 1: [STRIKE]£109 K April[/STRIKE] ;) GOAL 2: [STRIKE]£103 K by Sept[/STRIKE] ;) GOAL 3: < £100k by end of 2014 MF goal: Nov 2020 - 4 years early
  • DedicatedDFW
    DedicatedDFW Posts: 4,234 Forumite
    **hands bowl of delicious homemade leek & potato soup to Alchemilla** and anyone else who wants one :D

    ((hugs)) Al x

    And :mad: re. CM - hope it gets sorted out soon

    No spoilers on GOT ed ;) - we fell a bit behind so are still working through series 3 - we were actually in dubrovnik when they were filming - i think it was for the 4th series :D
    CC1:T £[STRIKE]2531[/STRIKE] £1460
    MORTGAGE OVERPAYMENTS: £10575.20 Target £12,100
    MF Date: [STRIKE]August 2042[/STRIKE] May 2035
    Declutter 1000 things by Xmas 2015! 53/1000
  • Alchemilla
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    edited 6 March 2014 at 2:59PM
    Sorry all. In mid reply when my phone conked out.

    Yummy soup. Thankyou. What a triumph!


    There is a blue version of GOT called GAME OF BONES. LOL.

    my fav timetable day today.

    I was ripped untimely from my day because DS and the olds now have the bug.

    Nasty.
  • Alchemilla
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    edited 7 March 2014 at 9:42AM
    Trying really hard not to snap up any more lovely "bargains".
    Reallly hard!

    £45 DH petrol. £5 cheddar.
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