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  • debtfreeoneday
    debtfreeoneday Posts: 4,814 Forumite
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    You have lovely pics on your blog..
    DFW (08/08) £64,346.53 Gone (02/19)
    MFW (08/08) £118k Gone (09/23)
  • smallholdingsister
    smallholdingsister Posts: 4,018 Forumite
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    Aww thank you.

    Money news.
    No money spent on other than food and petrol except...

    two lots of a term's music lessons (£275)
    Mot (£80)
    DD1 new school shoes (old ones exploded, £45)
    DD1 birthday ice skating tickets (£22.50)
    Mats for DH car (£10).
  • newgirly
    newgirly Posts: 8,948 Forumite
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    How frustrating shs :( have you decided whether to apply or not yet?
    2022 MFW 67 - 33 month challenge to clear mortgage, currently month 19 🙂MFI3 No.12
  • smallholdingsister
    smallholdingsister Posts: 4,018 Forumite
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    Not yet.

    I know what the morally correct thing is, but it's not the practically right for the family choice.
  • newgirly
    newgirly Posts: 8,948 Forumite
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    If it was your dd /ds what would you advise them to do?

    Ps have sent you a friend request on mfp :D
    2022 MFW 67 - 33 month challenge to clear mortgage, currently month 19 🙂MFI3 No.12
  • smallholdingsister
    smallholdingsister Posts: 4,018 Forumite
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    I love your MFP username!

    If it was my child I would *probably* say go for it.

    If it was my trainee I would say it's verboten.
  • CathT
    CathT Posts: 7,115 Forumite
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    Sorry to hear you have been unwell. Good luck with job application decision making. Timing doesn't sound great but job does.
    Apr 2024 - part 1 - £30,337 part 2 - £24,811 Total - £55,148 43 months to go!
  • smallholdingsister
    smallholdingsister Posts: 4,018 Forumite
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    We eeel. The job I am in has a nice HOD.
    The other job has a HOD who is known as not...so nice.
  • Secret_Saving_Squirrel
    Secret_Saving_Squirrel Posts: 4,138 Forumite
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    Mmmmm so tricky. I think you just have to go with the gut feeling. Good luck,

    Squirrel:j
    Paid off mortgage nine years early in 2013. Now picking and choosing our work to fit in with the rest of our lives!
    Still thrifty though, after all these years:D
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    Oh! That's important, about the HODs. And as for the thing about the right moral choice ... honestly, SHS, I don't think its about morals, I think its often about being a nice person - not the same thing at all. Making the wrong moral choice would be lying by commission, for instance, to either school.

    In the end, though, its you thats got to do it, and then to live with it - and your answer to newgirly's question is really interesting! What makes the difference? You're entitled to "be" your child in this scenario, you know!

    :)
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
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