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Baby steps to mortgage freedom for beanielou.
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what about sticking to unblended soups for a while - veg broth or french onion soup? re your son, i know exactly what you mean. however, i know see that the best thing i ever did for my son was basically stopping financial support. i lost sleep and many tears over this but he's more savvy and organised now than if i'd kept myself in debt bailing him out. it isn't easy thoughMortgage 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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Unfortunatly not a lover of unblended soups
However have dug out old hand blender meantime & used to blend.
But it is on the way out too & making a funny smell :eek: :rotfl: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.***
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Anyway have been out today & met DS for a quick coffee while he was on his lunch.
We sat in the sun & boy was it bracing!!
Got a fab new jumper from his place of work with 75% off & one for my mum.
Hope they both fit.
Paid for with love to shop vouchers from doing surveys so NSD there.
Jeans in M & S reduced to a fiver. Not what have been my first choice but ok.
Also paid for with vouchers. Go me :rotfl:
Meant to get wrapping paper for my maw's birthday present but had no cash.
Will have a rake around & see what I can find.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.***
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That's some very MSE shopping beanie
Sounds like a nice day
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Oh and I don't have a soup maker but I stick blend all our soup. I can't stand soup with 'lumps'
My stick blender is just a £5 one from Argos Does the job and about 6 7 year old!
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WannabeFree wrote: »That's some very MSE shopping beanie
Sounds like a nice day
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Thanks
MSE is my middle name!
& I have found some wrapping paper :j :jI 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.***
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It's going well, beanie!
I'm not a soup fan - sauce over something, yes, but I'm just not attracted to the *idea* of soup that looks so silly now I've written it down! 2023: the year I get to buy a car0 -
Now the telly is on the blink.
I give up.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.***
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Before I got my soup maker I used to cook the ingredients in a pan then zap in a liquidiser. I wouldn't be without my soup maker now though. I find blended soup much more filling than chunky to be honest. I got into living on soup for lunch when I first joined WW 16 years ago and got to goal - it's helped me stay there (sometimes slightly over) ever since. If you can't stretch to a soup maker right now maybe a cheap liquidiser would suffice.I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)0
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I'm the awkward so-and-so who goes for the halfway option on soup through choice - so bIend it a bit but also leave some lumps. I love a nice pan of soup for lunches on days I'm at home in the winter - so easy and so much flavour! Need to make some more at some stage - the last of the carrot and red lentil got eaten on Friday.
Annoying about the TV. Did you turn it off and turn it back on again or give it a good bash as a first effort in sorting it out?
🎉 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
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