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  • trix-a-belle
    trix-a-belle Posts: 1,530 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Mortgage-free Glee!
    Great news on your mum SL.
    & i'm glad all your hard work on the van has been acknowledged

    I hope you get the bits you've ordered eventually, i'm really not sure what is happening with deliveries at the moment, i've had a new staple gun awol for a week now but supposedly being delivered today. I had a UPS delivery delivered elsewhere last week as the driver couldn't be bothered to read the label & just offloaded it to someone else who also gets fabric deliveries. I heard from someone else yesterday who has had several hundred pounds of custom curtain poles stolen by a courier driver who has jacked in his job and done a runner with the van & contents
    & supplies yep i'm struggling for foam, wood, steel, anything plastic, also struggling for time :cry:
    - Mortgage: 1st one down, 2nd also busted
    - Student Loan gone
    Swagbucks, Mingle, GiffGaff, Prolific, Qmee & Quidco; thank you MSE every little bit helps
  • CRANKY40
    CRANKY40 Posts: 5,898 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Debt-free and Proud! Name Dropper
    Glad to hear the news about your mum. 
  • 24ta
    24ta Posts: 266 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts
    Good news about your mum
  • LadyGnome
    LadyGnome Posts: 801 Forumite
    Ninth Anniversary 500 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Great news about your mum
    MortgageStart Nov 2012 £310,000
    Oct 2022 £143,277.74
    Reduction £166,722.26
    OriginalEnd Sept 2034 / Current official end Apr 2032 (but I have a cunning plan...)
    2022 MFW #78 £10200/£12000
    MFiT-6 #28 £21,772 /£75000
  • rtandon27
    rtandon27 Posts: 5,545 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    ...The remaining cable is about a metre shorter than it needs to be - plugged in to the long 13a wind out cable which is too heavy to carry. I might need to wear a rucksack next time with the cable in it!...
    This brings forth visions of the original Ghostbusters movie - just add goggles & a hazmat suit!
    4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)
    (With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)
    ...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)
    New projection - 15 YEARS 2 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 13 mths)
    Psst...I may have started a diary!
  • Suffolk_lass
    Suffolk_lass Posts: 10,233 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    In money news I have only had the DD for the milk delivery of £6.65 this week. I rounded it up to £10 to tidy the account. There is one more DD this month (newspaper subscription), and a shop for which I will be reimbursed (lunch cooking) and the other account has a RS £250 SO to go.

    My energy deal with Scottish Power ends next week (it is the "exclusive" one they offered for Yorkshire Energy inherited people) - I did check MSE Energy Club first but the cheapest by increase was a two year fix offered by - Scottish Power again - so sticking with them - moving within 24 hours to the less favourable deal I need to do a reading. So that has increased by just under a tenner, as has our council tax monthly DD, while my occupational pension was also a £9+ increase per month. So, I cancelled the Guardian online subscription that was due and for the timebeing we have kept The Times online (4 devices). 

    Off to read the meter...
    Save £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
    OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
    I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
    My new diary is here
  • LadyGnome
    LadyGnome Posts: 801 Forumite
    Ninth Anniversary 500 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    It's frustrating when all these expenses creep up.  None of them are unmanageable but cumulatively across a year it gets a bit more painful
    MortgageStart Nov 2012 £310,000
    Oct 2022 £143,277.74
    Reduction £166,722.26
    OriginalEnd Sept 2034 / Current official end Apr 2032 (but I have a cunning plan...)
    2022 MFW #78 £10200/£12000
    MFiT-6 #28 £21,772 /£75000
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