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Breaking Through, Travelling On

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  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    :D

    Well, I'm used to being ignored by guys like that, at my age, so it gave me a giggle :D

    I also had a smile a bit later - my builder *hasn't* disappeared off the planet, he agreed a starting date of November 13th, just under a fortnight. I'll have to remind him he offered to drop off brochures and whatnot - I don't mind if he just sends pix, I'm easy, but I want something a bit visible before I spend thousands on new fences and gates and whatnot. It's good news tho.

    So now, preparing for being turned upside down, and having them all in and out of my house, can start in earnest _pale_ Really glad I've done what I have over the last few weeks.
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • themadvix
    themadvix Posts: 8,715 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! Photogenic
    Hooray for being checked out and the builders coming soon! Just focus on how lovely it will be once the work is done (it's hard at time, I know, but you'll get there!)
    Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days

    'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway


  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 95,469 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    Good news on the builders start date.
    It will be worth it :)
    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.
  • earthgirl
    earthgirl Posts: 3,762 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    Can’t remember the last time I was “checked out” by a man including my own husband ;)

    Hope no I’ll effect from the vaccination?
    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
  • gilligansyle
    gilligansyle Posts: 4,124 Forumite
    :hello::hello:
    I generally only browse MSE these days, and somehow missed that you still had a diary.

    Hope the builder behaves
    Debts at LBM - Mortgages £128497 - non mortgage £27497 Debt now £[STRIKE]114150[/STRIKE][STRIKE]109032[/STRIKE] 64300 (mortgage) Credit cards left 0



    "The days pass so fast, let's try to make each one better than the last"
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    earthgirl wrote: »
    Can’t remember the last time I was “checked out” by a man including my own husband ;)
    It's a *very* long time for me, thats why it was so surprising :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
    Hope no I’ll effect from the vaccination?
    This is surprising too - no ill effects at all! I'm ecstatic at that :)
    :hello::hello:
    I generally only browse MSE these days, and somehow missed that you still had a diary.

    Hope the builder behaves
    Hiya! :hello:

    Yep, still here - it's my comfort zone, and the format suits me :) plus I still have a fair amount of financial jangling about to do to set up my retirement finances. That isn't going to quiet down for maybe a year, unfortunately, so I still have a way to go.
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  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    Morning! Apart from making my own lunch to take out on my trip today, nothing financial is happening :o but me and my sister are off to an apparently very well known quilting shop, to see if they'll finish off one of my mum's quilts, that's going to my niece. We have a slight disagreement on this, as the shop sounds **extremely** snooty to me - they won't simply finish it off, they'll only do their preferred system, which means unpicking all the layers my mum has built up, finishing off the quilting on the back, and then put it all back together.

    We'll have a look-see at a town that's out of our usual range, and an experience at a shop thats *definitely* out of our range :rotfl:so it can all be chalked up to experience :)

    Maybe I can stretch to opening the post when I get back :rotfl:
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 95,469 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    Will be interested to hear how that goes.
    My post is still lying in the hall:o:o
    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.
  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 13,835 Forumite
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    KC, Mrs E has asked me to get replacement pads for our plug in diffuser thing, but I'm sick of Johnson and Johnson being robbing gits! I'm thinking of using an aromatherapy diffuser - can you suggest oils for congestion? Plug in uses lavender and chamomile, but Amazon has loads of other options. Looking for a reasonably potent home bogey busting combo :D
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    beanielou wrote: »
    Will be interested to hear how that goes.
    My post is still lying in the hall:o:o
    My post is still lying in the hall too, beanie :) though I have to get my act together downstairs today, because of the builder coming round on Monday 13.

    The shop was brilliant :beer: the actual craftworker was very willing to take what our mum had done and run with it to finish it, without unpicking anything. It was a real privilege to be able to see her workplace, the looms (computerised, 11 feet long!) and the different options she could offer. Hundreds, literally! And the town was amazing too, it's a third of the size of my town, but it's got ten times the shops, antiquey, specialised (like the quilter) and all sorts of things. I thought my town was well off, and it is, really - but this was special, it was brill.


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