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Baby steps to mortgage freedom for beanielou.
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Hi Beanie
I use a heated throw, they are a bit it like an electric blanket but are designed to use directly over you as a fleecy throw with the added benefit that you can turn them on. I have a cosy home one from qcv(but they are available else where), mine is a full length throw but you can also get ones that are designed to wrap around your shoulders like a shawl.
They generally have a 90 minute and 9hour setting with difference heat levels and you can unplug then and the blanket part which can be washed in the washing machine. I find it invaluable.
As I am out of the house most of the day plus live on my own so it seem pointless to put on heating to heat up rooms plus my house has not been updated it is still single glazing and all the radiators under under the window sills so I am just pay to heat up this wood the only one that is of benefit to me is the one in my bathroom. And I would need to take time of work to get if fixed when my landlord got round to getting it sorted. I still have an old gas fire and baksi boiler, the gas engineer came out a couple of months ago to do a service. I told him my hot water worked but the heating didn't he took one look found a small leak and said he wasn't event going to bother servicing it and was going to condemn it and speak to landlord about fitting a new combi boiler, I am still waiting to hear back!!
This is similar to the one I have
https://cosihome.com/products/electric-heated-throw/products-electric-heated-throw-brown
but the one below is on qvc just now it is a blanket but can be converted into a cape and is portable so you can walk around with it on using rechargeable batteries
https://www.qvcuk.com/Homedics-Comfort-Pro-Heated-Transform-Throw.product.402870.html?sc=PSCH&
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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.***
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your welcome Beanielou, hope it helps. I hadn't heard of Oodies either till i looked them up
I generally check these boards when I have a spare minute at work as have my login saved on here but not had much time recently at work due to Christmas schedule planning
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Those oodies sound great!"Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee3
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They are!jwil said:Those oodies sound great!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.3 -
Loving the heated throws and Oodies. I’ve got a fleecy blanket I use to cuddle under….it’ll do the job for now 👍January spends - £587.584
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I have an oodie that came as a gift from ds. I find it to be too warm a lot of the time but my four legged fiend enjoys burying her nose in it.Mortgage at 01.01.14 £119,481.83:eek: today £0 Emergency fund £5.5/5.5k & £200/200 cash.:jWeight 24/02/19 14st 7lb now 12st determined to stop defining myself by my mistakes. Progress not perfection.:T100%through my 1% mortgage challenge. 100% through my pb challenge.4
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Meant to say, I finished reading Shuggie Bain, it was really good. Thanks for the recommendation!"Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee3
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It stayed with me for a long time.jwil said:Meant to say, I finished reading Shuggie Bain, it was really good. Thanks for the recommendation!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.3 -
Definitelybeanielou said:
It stayed with me for a long time.jwil said:Meant to say, I finished reading Shuggie Bain, it was really good. Thanks for the recommendation!"Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee3
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