Sat/Sun 1st/2nd August - What Small DFW Things Will You Be Doing This Weekend?

DawnW

Bobarella wrote: »

Thanks Dawn - he knows he's done wrong as I haven't seen him all day.
That was interesting about what you said about buying your house later on. Did they give you a hard time about mortgages?

Bob

Not at all, though we did have a really big deposit by then. We could have bought 5 years previously but didn't because lived in accommodation that went with OH's job. We took out our mortgage over 10 years, and repaid it in 5. Having said that, our house was only £142,000 (3 storey Edwardian terraced cottage with a garden, garage and workshop). I dread to think how much it would cost in London :eek: It is worth a bit more now, maybe £160,000 or slightly more, mainly because we have done a lot of work to it - it was a bit of a wreck. Prices have risen a bit round here, but not that much. Unimproved similar houses in our road regularly go for less than we paid, or about the same. It is quite a nice road, with every type of building from 18th century farmhouses and cottages to new builds and everything in between, but a through road, so can be a bit of a rat run. We could have gone for something a bit pricier, but OH was possibly about to be make redundant and my contract was due to end so we felt then or never :eek: As it was we both kept our jobs, though I did change a year or so later.

It is surprising how prices vary between small market towns just a few miles apart round here. Ours is one of the cheapest, as it is a bit further from the motorway and doesn't have a main line station (lots of commuters to your neck of the woods live round here - used to be one of those myself

DawnW

allydowd wrote: »

Late night entry:

:grinheart Made apple, rhubarb and cherry crumble with leftover apples from the freezer, rhubarb from the neighbour and a few morello cherries.

That sounds gorgeous Ally. Pity about my diet - no crumble for me

Digging_2

Here's my list of DFW things I completed this weekend:

• Checked 'stores'
• Made meal plan
• Completed shopping list
• Spent £23.59 between A1di and Asdo
• Wombled £4.05 total between CoS, Shopitize and snap and save on tcb from the receipts
• Signed up to FPL
• Signed up on supersav-vyme (and printed a coupon for £1 off lenor)
• Topped up emergency fund by 59p
• Paid additional payment of 62p to cc
• Completed my new shiny budget excel spread sheet

:j

allydowd

Dawn W,

'Healthy' crumble recipe? (Link)

Bobarella

Dawn - wowsers! You paid that off incredibly quickly. You should totally have a Debt Free and Mortgage Free badge for all your hard work.