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Baby steps to mortgage freedom for beanielou.
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small amounts of a thin soup - with toast or bread if you can cope - but either way lots of liquid if nothing else!Must use my stash up!0
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Definitely plenty of liquids Beanie. Personally I'm not in favour of forcing food in when the body is saying no as I always tend to find it makes you feel worse. However if I have even a hint of an appetite then buttered toast will generally encourage it along.🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
Balance as at 31/08/25 = £ 95,450.00
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculatorshe/her0 -
Enjoy your Ribena for now and eat when your ready - little and often of whatever you fancy. Get well soon lovely lady xJanuary spends - £587.580
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Toast and coke (no...not that type) preferably a little flat. Ginger biscuits are good if you feel a bit sick.
Basically treat yourself like a pregnant woman!Debt LBM (08/09) £11,641. DEBT FREE APRIL 2021.
Diary 'Butti's journey : A matter of loaf or death'.
Diary 2 'The whimsical tale of the Waterbed of Debt' 48% off mortgage
'one day I will be rich and famous…for now I'll just have to settle for being poor and incredibly sexy'. Vimrod Member of MIKE'S :cool: MOB0 -
I have not felt unwell like this for years.
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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.***
One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.0 -
hope you sleep well and feel better tomorrow Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
Take care Beanie. Rest will do you good - and plenty of fluid is more important than food right now, flush it out xxI get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)0
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I have not felt unwell like this for years.
Back to bed very soon.
There appears to be something going round.
I have threatened murder most foul at work if certain people approach me...
Get well soon."Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
"We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
"Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky." OMD 'Julia's Song'0 -
DD got hit with the bug last week. shares in Boots soared as she tried 10 different solutions at once. you take careMortgage 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 11st 12lb determined to stop defining myself by my mistakes. Progress not perfection.:T100%through my 1% mortgage challenge. 100% through my pb challenge. I’m not perfect but I’m good enough for now.0
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Hoping that you feel better soon, OH and I are just coming to the end of our horrid bugs, he is 75 and says it is the worst virus/cold he has ever had!
xxThe best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. (Abraham Lincoln)0
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