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Mrs McB's countdown to adventures with chooks (and Rock Gods)

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  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 95,725 Ambassador
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    Great payments to the cards :grin:
    You will still be in the 4's at this rate.
    I daren't ask who penguin face is :eek:
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  • Can't believe you are managing to get so much done in spite of being under the weather and in your PJs, you make me feel like a real failure! Hope you shake off the lingering effects soon, and well done on the payments!
  • Hey Pippi - here's hoping the PJ/Duvet combo paid dividends and you are feeling better today. I'd like say a 'whole heap better', but I recognise that these things take time.

    Well done on the debt busting!

    Hope the RG is on hand to spoil you rotten today :love:

    Greying
    Pounds for Panes £7,305/£10,000 - start date Dec 2023
     
    Grocery Spend August 2025 £268.51/£300 
    Non-food spend August 2025 £15.55/£50
    Bulk Fund August 2025 £13.50/£10 
  • rtandon27
    rtandon27 Posts: 5,759 Forumite
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    ...Just paid a wadge off the cards...£500 to each...

    :T:TWow Pippi! - well wadged!:T:T
    4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)
    (With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)
    ...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)
    New projection - 14 YEARS 8 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 16 mths)
    Psst...I may have started a diary!
  • :j :j to vegetable loot :j :j What fun!

    Poorly sickness does NOT sound fun though, pah! Hope you're feeling on top of things soon lass. JPJs and fires and snoozing hounds sound perfect for this evening xx

    :D I do need a bit of vegetable loot :)

    The snoozing helps - today we went out on bikes for a meagre 3 mile cycle but it was refreshing and the wind wasn't too bad and the sun came out. :o not a LONG cycle but I'm really feeling lethargic so I need to push myself slowly.

    On the sofa now though -- and out later for a bit of a lovely dinner with himself.
    mum2one wrote: »
    Lie down, ;) no me thinks that deserves a nice glass of wine:o xx

    Oh dear the thought of wine :o yeuch, I must be proper sick.:rotfl: but yay to payments - I've got my second pay in today so I might throw that at speed to a card too.

    The flowery work at the learning factory is my second job so its extra and deserves to hit the debt.........:T
    beanielou wrote: »
    Great payments to the cards :grin:
    You will still be in the 4's at this rate.
    I daren't ask who penguin face is :eek:

    Under 4 - you might be right - soon eh - that's something to smile about :D thank you for pointing that out.:A

    Penguin face is the evil (ish) ecological ex. Not the daddy of the babies - he lent us some money way back so we're paying him back slowly as we can. He did alot for us, but equally we did tonnes for him too.

    But then again if he hadn't been evil (ish) we'd never have found our rock god eh?
    Total debt 26/4/18 <£1925 we were getting there. :beer:
    Total debt as of 28/4/19 £7867.38:eek:
    minus 112.06 = £7755.32:money:
    :money:Sleeves up folks.:money:
  • Pippilongstocking
    Pippilongstocking Posts: 16,336 Forumite
    edited 14 February 2014 at 5:55PM
    rtandon27 wrote: »
    :T:TWow Pippi! - well wadged!:T:T

    Merci me dear, merci - the focus of MSE is hugely helpful. So we're short of cash now, no biggie we don't need stuff.:D
    Hey Pippi - here's hoping the PJ/Duvet combo paid dividends and you are feeling better today. I'd like say a 'whole heap better', but I recognise that these things take time.

    Well done on the debt busting!

    Hope the RG is on hand to spoil you rotten today :love:

    Greying

    I'm not a fan of taking my time on things but realise that if you're wiped out, you're wiped out.

    He's spoilt me rotten with a 3 mile bike ride so far. :rotfl:

    But, and this is a big but, it was 'flat' cycling which I love and he loathes so it must be love after all.

    I hope the Dear Sir Greying has swept you off your feet.

    No cards, here, or lavishness (aside the bike ride) but we are off oot to a wee restaurant tonight at himselfs treat. A new place so we'll see if that encourages my appetite!
    troglodyte wrote: »
    Can't believe you are managing to get so much done in spite of being under the weather and in your PJs, you make me feel like a real failure! Hope you shake off the lingering effects soon, and well done on the payments!

    Pressing a few buttons isn't really much effort - the garage action is sorely needed. Wood chopping via electric saw and workbench isn't hard, just old, dusty and noisy. Don't feel like a failure I'm spending most of my time of the sofa between bursts of activity

    Bit like me eh old, noisy and dusty?:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
    Total debt 26/4/18 <£1925 we were getting there. :beer:
    Total debt as of 28/4/19 £7867.38:eek:
    minus 112.06 = £7755.32:money:
    :money:Sleeves up folks.:money:
  • So todays' been a nice one.

    Bit of a lie in, bit of work emails and a chance encounter with a client who didn't need me to finish something I was going to do today but wants it in April so that was a nice wee bonus.

    All in all under an hours work done, petrol expensed to a site and a nice bike ride.

    Wages slip plooped through the door again for the second guru garden type learned job.

    Much more than expected at a little over 250 so I'm thinking it might all be flung at the cards........

    In fact I'll just do that now............

    Spent 6.11 in the shops on milk, bananas, french fancies (RG loves some of this counterfiet sugary stuff and a bag of maltesers for DD) AND bonios - so whilst its not all 'grub' - it came out of the grub account.

    Must update that..........

    scampers off to the bank before I get ideas of 'keeping' my extra wages for things like flowers rather than debt busting.

    They were £257 so I think that I'll keep the seven for decadence and donate the 250 flower filled extra wages to the cards. Who says flowers don't earn their keep.

    Who's with me?
    Total debt 26/4/18 <£1925 we were getting there. :beer:
    Total debt as of 28/4/19 £7867.38:eek:
    minus 112.06 = £7755.32:money:
    :money:Sleeves up folks.:money:
  • Karmacat
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    Pippi, thats great! Definitely keep the £7 :)

    Have a lovely meal with the RG - I bet locally sourced food up where you are can be fabulous :)
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • rtandon27
    rtandon27 Posts: 5,759 Forumite
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    Who's with me?

    Of course we are with you!

    Did you ever doubt it?

    :D:D:D
    4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)
    (With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)
    ...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)
    New projection - 14 YEARS 8 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 16 mths)
    Psst...I may have started a diary!
  • It was indeed a lovely meal - its all so local up here and very fabby!

    I've still to escape the house and spend my loot :)
    Karmacat wrote: »
    Pippi, thats great! Definitely keep the £7 :)

    Have a lovely meal with the RG - I bet locally sourced food up where you are can be fabulous :)
    rtandon27 wrote: »
    Of course we are with you!

    Did you ever doubt it?

    :D:D:D

    NEVER EVER DOUBTED IT!!

    :A

    Just checking sending all my loot to the cards is okeydokey.

    :T
    Total debt 26/4/18 <£1925 we were getting there. :beer:
    Total debt as of 28/4/19 £7867.38:eek:
    minus 112.06 = £7755.32:money:
    :money:Sleeves up folks.:money:
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