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Baby steps to mortgage freedom for beanielou.
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I hope you find the vouchers, they will probably turn up.
if you want to do balloons you can buy the arches as kits. I am not a massive cupcake fan but if you go down that route you could get toppers with age or something else printed?
Happy New Year!Mortgage OP 2025 £6250/7000Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000
Mortgage balance: £36,210
Money making challenge £58/400
”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)5 -
Hope the vouchers turn up 🤞
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Another here hoping the vouchers turn up beanie. I'm sure they will.Going back to @milann's comment on the M&S birthday cake - the other supermarkets sell lovely birthday cakes too, which are reasonably priced.Finally Debt Free! - July 2016 🌟
Finished Emergency Fund- £10,000 April 2017
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RETIRED: MAY 2021!!!!😀🎆
My diary: “Seasidegal's Scrimpy Retirement Diary!”5 -
Also keeping my fingers and other body parts crossed for the safe return of the vouchers.
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Thanks everyone.
So the fantastic news is that the vouchers have surfaced which is such a relief.
Hardly slept last night for worrying!
Bitterly colde here.
Had to defrost car this morning.
Have booked an appointment with a chirophidist or however you spell it as I can hardly hobble today.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.7 -
🎉🎉🎉🎉 vouchers found
I am hoping to see the chiropodist soon with a problematic big toe 🤣 glad you are goingAs a dear MSE friend says “keep plodding” or
What does the saying say.... When life hands you lemons, make lemonade
Or as my Mum would say, brush yourself down, tomorrow is another day or
Fake it, to you Make It
Please say hello my new diary: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6578460/still-dancing-to-blow-the-debt-clouds-away3 -
Phew - so pleased the vouchers turned up.
Hope you get your feet sorted……there’s nothing worse. You’ve reminded me I’ve been threatening to make a podiatrist appointment for the last year…..my insets are on their last legsJanuary spends - £587.583 -
Very pleased to hear vouchers have turned up. It's so annoying when you think you've lost something important - I've spent nights awake too!Onwards and upwards Beanielou.4
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So pleased the vouchers turned up"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 McGee5
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Great news the vouchers have been found 🥳I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)6
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