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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- Mortgage: 1st one down, 2nd also busted
- Student Loan gone
Swagbucks, Mingle, GiffGaff, Prolific, Qmee & Quidco; thank you MSE every little bit helps3 -
Glad to hear the news about your mum.4
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Good news about your mum3
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Great news about your mumMortgageStart 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 /£750003 -
@trix-a-belle I feel for you - at least ours is hobby related - yours is much more important being your livelihood!
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 tooSave £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 here6 -
Suffolk_lass said:...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!...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!4
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Suffolk_lass said:It was the spring loaded dispensing button on the bottom, and being spring loaded, it is somewhere in the field of onions.
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.MFW: Was: £136,000.......Now: £47,736.58......6 -
rtandon27 said:Suffolk_lass said:...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!...
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!shangaijimmy said:Suffolk_lass said:It was the spring loaded dispensing button on the bottom, and being spring loaded, it is somewhere in the field of onions.
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.
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 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 here5 -
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 here4 -
It's frustrating when all these expenses creep up. None of them are unmanageable but cumulatively across a year it gets a bit more painfulMortgageStart 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 /£750004
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