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& 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
- Student Loan gone
Swagbucks, Mingle, GiffGaff, Prolific, Qmee & Quidco; thank you MSE every little bit helps
MFiT-T5 knocking down the mortgage to be freeee
Start Nov 2012 £310,000
June 2021 £178,541.93
Reduction £131,458.07
End Sept 2034 (but I have a cunning plan...)
We are doing a couple of hours volunteer labouring this afternoon but otherwise, hoping to get stuff done in our own garden.
I managed to cut straight through the cable on my new hedge trimmer on the second swipe at the beech hedge. It was like one of those 1950s farces watching me add a plug, get the extension cable, try, fail, check fuse in wall, in device and finally in the fuse box (doh!) - at least half an hour's faffing before I finally got it going. 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!
Hedge looks better although I would not call the top flat and even, it is about a foot narrower on both sides and I managed to pull out a lot of ivy that was invading too
Save £12k in 2021 - #26 aiming for £7,500 - £5,092.61 67.9% after June
OS Grocery Challenge 2021 target £1410.07/£3k 47% annual after Jun (not incl £500 contingency)
My Debt Free Diary Get a grip Woman
Adding to the parts thing. My friend has a plumbing business and is stuck in a perfect storm. He has stacks of jobs that he can't do. Half of them he can access the sites freely and do the work but he can't access the materials he needs. The other jobs he has all the materials but can only access the sites at ridiculous times due to Covid (mainly schools and we're currently experiencing a spike). He spends most of his day pacifying both sets of irate clients on the phone.
Mortgage Neutral Deficit: £54,331.22... Mortgage Neutral Savings: £13,871.45
MFiT-T5 #8 - £17,522 of £23,100 (75.85%)
1% Mortgage Challenge - £411.69 of £705
To be honest the number of bites I got while pruning my beech hedge, I should have worn it then. All down my throat, arms, neck, face - all the bits that were exposed and a few that were not!
@shangaiijimmy Happy to brighten your morning!
Gas is a bit of a problem round here (the bottled kind) as Calor are not keeping up with demand. So many more camper vans on the road that there is a shortage of bottles and no new contracts are being let this Spring and Summer. So the price on FB Marketplace has gone up threefold. I put our unused 6kg on our Moho forum and someone snapped it up at £5 (what we paid), two years ago.
Save £12k in 2021 - #26 aiming for £7,500 - £5,092.61 67.9% after June
OS Grocery Challenge 2021 target £1410.07/£3k 47% annual after Jun (not incl £500 contingency)
My Debt Free Diary Get a grip Woman
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 2021 - #26 aiming for £7,500 - £5,092.61 67.9% after June
OS Grocery Challenge 2021 target £1410.07/£3k 47% annual after Jun (not incl £500 contingency)
My Debt Free Diary Get a grip Woman
Start Nov 2012 £310,000
June 2021 £178,541.93
Reduction £131,458.07
End Sept 2034 (but I have a cunning plan...)