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Paid off the £31,000! BUT - still scrimping!

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  • milann
    milann Posts: 11,411 Forumite
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    Happy birthday to you 🍷🍫🎂💐🍾
    January spends - £587.58
  • Seasidegal58
    Seasidegal58 Posts: 6,027 Forumite
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    Thank you all so very much for your lovely birthday wishes!  😘😘😘
    And @moving_forward - what a wonderful rendition of Happy Birthday!  You were absolutely pitch perfect!🎶🎶🎶🤣🤣🤣

    So to end my special day I went to Waitrose - whilst I was about to go in DSis rang. I said I'd call her back when I got home in around an hour. When I got home there she was outside the flat in the carpark with little nephew, a birthday cake and balloon!  So we had a nice time in the lovely sunshine, me sitting on the steps to the flat and her and LN sitting on the car. She had brought a knife so we all had a slice of cake and a nice chat for an hour as I haven't seen them since before the lockdown. Then when they went to go home her car wouldn't start!😱  In the end we had to wait an hour for the breakdown man with the other residents of the block driving carefully around her so the could get to their car space!  It was a flat battery and the breakdown man got her moving in the end!  So she said she would try and come over next week for another 'car park chat'.  Hopefully with a healthy battery!🤣

    I am now finally getting to grips with my cheese and biscuits and bubbly!🧀🍾. And DD is Skyping me later on. 
    So endeth Seasidegal's lockdown birthday!😀
    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!”
  • Sun_Addict
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    Well that was eventful 🤣. Lovely that you got a nice chat but not so good about the breakdown 😱 Enjoy the rest of your special day xx 🥂
    I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)
  • Seasidegal58
    Seasidegal58 Posts: 6,027 Forumite
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    Thanks SA. I'll have to do what moving_foreard suggested and photograph my beauty box contents when they arrive!😀
    Finally Debt Free! - July 2016 🌟
    Finished Emergency Fund- £10,000 April 2017
    🌟
    RETIRED: MAY 2021!!!!😀🎆
    My diary: “Seasidegal's Scrimpy Retirement Diary!”
  • Happy birthday Seasidegal! Sounds like a good day x
    LBM balance (April 2020): £31852.73
    Current balance: £6500 (79.59%)
    Emergency Fund: £6000

  • Seasidegal58
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    Thank you @EssexOstrich. I've been meaning to mosey over and post on your diary again . Hope all is going well with the debt busting. 😀
    Finally Debt Free! - July 2016 🌟
    Finished Emergency Fund- £10,000 April 2017
    🌟
    RETIRED: MAY 2021!!!!😀🎆
    My diary: “Seasidegal's Scrimpy Retirement Diary!”
  • brizzlegirl
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    Happy Birthday lovely - glad you had an interesting one ;) and some time off work...

    xx
  • PaulieHerts
    PaulieHerts Posts: 570 Forumite
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    Happy birthday 🎂🍾 what a lovely surprise seeing your sister and nephew 😊
  • so glad you enjoyed family time on your birthday 
    Mortgage 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 12st determined to stop defining myself by my mistakes. Progress not perfection.:T100%through my 1% mortgage challenge. 100% through my pb challenge.
  • Seasidegal58
    Seasidegal58 Posts: 6,027 Forumite
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    Thank you @brizzlegirl 👋. The birthday was more, shall we say, interesting than previous years!🤣. Still i enjoyed it!  Yes - back to the grindstone of the laptop tomorrow!
    Finally Debt Free! - July 2016 🌟
    Finished Emergency Fund- £10,000 April 2017
    🌟
    RETIRED: MAY 2021!!!!😀🎆
    My diary: “Seasidegal's Scrimpy Retirement Diary!”
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