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Alchemilla - the Aga Whisperer....
- Mortgage @ March 2008: £194,965 ; Lightbulb Moment: July 2011: £164,926; End Date: March 2033
- MORTGAGE FREE: September 2015
- MSE 1p Savings Challenge 2024 #50: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec = £223.84/£671.61
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Goodness, what a busy time A!
Three cheers for ...
* Aga success
* Fleabay success ... am trying to be faffed to get back to it myself but I've just run out of steam in the face of the rising costs of (a) fees (b) postage (c) time spent in queue of doom at local PO (which always seems scarily like a cross between the bar in Star Wars where O-B Wan engages the services of Han Solo and the 'local shop for local people' in Royston Vaysey) ... seriously! Of course, I realise that I'm a contributory part of that queue and general local ambiance too :doh:
Fingers crossed for:
* Suitable weather for potential boot sales
* Parents back on the straight and narrow
* Outdoor potty training ~ outdoors really is the way to go (as it were).
Lovely to catch up with you, try and get some you time! xStash 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 early0 -
Best desription EVER of a PO queue!
- Mortgage @ March 2008: £194,965 ; Lightbulb Moment: July 2011: £164,926; End Date: March 2033
- MORTGAGE FREE: September 2015
- MSE 1p Savings Challenge 2024 #50: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec = £223.84/£671.61
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That was an excellent description. That bar has been copied by many a sci fi show since.
The DDs have friends to play. DD1 has disappeared with hers and DD2s started crying after an hour and wanting to go home though she brightened considerably when the c word was mentioned. (Cupcakes).0 -
I too gave up on eBay. Did absolutely loads early on, had some brilliant sales, including replacing all my doors with 1930s ones and just needing 2 more, bought a job lot of 7 for an almost cringingly embarrassing 99p, sold the ones left over and as well as swapping my doors for in essence free, I made a £70 profit... I also sold sand bags, a old metal grate and a blanket box for what I though was silly money but then it just got too hard for too little.Morgage till Nov 30 GOAL MFW Sept 2016Aug 11 - £100k Aug 2016.... It's GONE!!!!!
2014 GOAL HIT 5 Stone! 2016 GOAL to be a MF marathon runner.
"A goal without a plan is just a wish"0 -
Alchemilla wrote: »Today I have used 63/100 free ebay listings.
Phew!
If they all sell, that's a whole lot of packing to do!Best desription EVER of a PO queue!
I'm not sure what it is about post offices, but they are ALL a bit like Hbbb's description.
I do all I can to avoid the post office queue. Anything I can fit in the post box, I stick stamps on and post it myself. I've only had one item lost in 5 years of eBaying, so I'm not too bothered about the certificate of posting. Some of my other things now go by Collect Plus or My Hermes. Really, it's just jigsaws that I take into the post office.
I like eBaying, in a masochistic sort of way, but the fees are getting steep, and you live in dread of getting a 'defect'. I wouldn't recommend it as an easy way to raise money, it can be hard work!Early retired - 18th December 2014
If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough0 -
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I am going for my swan song.0
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Hoping everyone gets what they want in the AS and A2 results today.
DH's students did well. Nearly 10% had A*.0 -
Alchemilla wrote: »Hoping everyone gets what they want in the AS and A2 results today.
DH's students did well. Nearly 10% had A*.
Well done him and them. :T
Mine were not too bad. For the exam modules I taught, and compared with what I predicted, I've got one student up a grade, two students down one grade each, and the other 11 as predicted.
Coursework module grades don't seem to correspond to what we submitted, though. Will have to wait to see what the HoD is able to find out from the exam board about that.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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