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Alchemausterity

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  • Just as long as marking doesn't make you grumpy too or there could be an ugly scene....
    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
  • earthgirl
    earthgirl Posts: 3,762 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    Hope you don't mind me asking about the washing line ?? I didn't realise they were so fancy nowadays I am a bit stuck in the 80's. They probably do make ironing easier as they will be hung well!! : )

    Please don't score yourself low, surely you get bonus points for posting on here and keeping us entertained?!
    15/5/12 Paid off Mortgage 1 (£220k) Bought Dream House:www: Dec 13 - Mortage 2 -£116,508. 15/7/18 Mortgage Free Again :j

    Progress not Perfection
  • Alchemilla
    Alchemilla Posts: 6,276 Forumite
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    I dont mind at all Earthie! Xxx
  • FloppyDisk
    FloppyDisk Posts: 864 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 500 Posts
    A NSD and ebay should be 10/10 surely!
    Mortgage Apr 18 £417,894 BTL Mar 18 £162,857
    Mortgage now -- £350,085 BTL now --- £162,668
  • misscousinitt
    misscousinitt Posts: 3,655 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee!
    OMG! I am so behind with your thread...

    Hope to catch up soon.

    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
    Alchemilla Posts: 6,276 Forumite
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    edited 23 June 2014 at 5:19PM
    Hello Peeps!
    Disgracefully spendy. £68.
    Did include socks for homeless people, dye to re vamp sofas, clothes pegs, stamps, drinks bottle for DS, razors for DH and kilner jars for the school fete worse than death. Oh and toothpaste.
    £10 DH train ticket.

    £3 OP from survey money.
  • Sometimes we just have to grit our teeth and buy all these bits and bobs. I hate spending money on bin bags and kitchen foil.

    Squirrel.
    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
    Alchemilla Posts: 6,276 Forumite
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    Money uh oh! 2/10 Did OP though so 3/10.
    Diet and exercise stuck to calorie limit just and walked for an hour so 7/10
    Work not bad. 6/10
    Family did get QT with DD1. Played aeroplanes with DS. 4/10.

    Got eaten alive by horseflies. It is humid here and I marked til midnight so v.v. grumpy. Just about to do the last of the moderation form filling...I hope.
  • Alchemilla
    Alchemilla Posts: 6,276 Forumite
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    edited 25 June 2014 at 7:25AM
    Work til 8. Then had to go check on ponyplops. Half the village is gathered in the square.
    Has war broken out? The monarch died?
    Nope. Someone has a new-to-them Massey Ferguson.

    Money NSD. Did a survey. DH took more marking. 7/10
    Health and fitness did twenty minutes walking. 5/10 1/26 lb lost. 6/10.
    Work. Like a dog! 8/10
    Family. Barely saw them. 2/10.

  • earthgirl
    earthgirl Posts: 3,762 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    Well done on finishing the marking!! Great weight off your shoulders.
    Think I might try to apply for marking up here next year.

    How is the marking yourself going? It's hard to get a balance when you are at work, but not long now.
    15/5/12 Paid off Mortgage 1 (£220k) Bought Dream House:www: Dec 13 - Mortage 2 -£116,508. 15/7/18 Mortgage Free Again :j

    Progress not Perfection
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