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Tales from The Shire
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Ooh Fortune that is another lovely list! Love your categories, as always. And excellent to have a pj day!1
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Fortune_Smiles said:
Is cheese ever a mistake?!
...we have rather a lot of cheese left as I ordered some by mistake 🤭...
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)Original End Date - Sept 2041 New projection - Dec 2039 (reduced by 21 months)2 -
Open prosecco? a magnum? Have you tried prosecco jellies? just saying...Save £12k in 2025 #2 I saved £14,660.97 of £6000 or 244.35% of my target. The 2026 Save £12k in 2026 thread is here
OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I finished the year at £2880.99/£3000 or 96.03% of my annual spend so I am sticking with a £3000 annual budget for 2026
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 in 2026 discussion thread
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Fortune - in the past we've successfully frozen slightly flat prosecco in individual servings and used it in place of white wine when cooking up a sauce or stew!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)Original End Date - Sept 2041 New projection - Dec 2039 (reduced by 21 months)2
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Suffolk_lass said:Open prosecco? a magnum? Have you tried prosecco jellies? just saying...rtandon27 said:Fortune - in the past we've successfully frozen slightly flat prosecco in individual servings and used it in place of white wine when cooking up a sauce or stew!
Excellent ideas guys - don't want to waste any 😉
Fortune x
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Cheery_Daff said:Ooh Fortune that is another lovely list! Love your categories, as always. And excellent to have a pj day!rtandon27 said:
Fortune_Smiles said:
Is cheese ever a mistake?!
...we have rather a lot of cheese left as I ordered some by mistake 🤭...
Thank you Cheery - I rarely have a pj day these days so it was a nice treat. You're right RT - cheese is never a mistake. What was I thinking 😆
Fortune x
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The Pros & Cons of Keeping a Husband
Mr F repaired our en-suite toilet today. We've been able to hear water getting into the cistern when it shouldn't be and suspect the inlet valve. After the new macerater was fitted it seemed to get worse. A quick trip to town to get the right part and Mr F had it fixed in about an hour 😇 And all for the princely sum of £12.33.
However, before Christmas, Mr F took FDawg for a walk around the paddock and lost his keys. Turned out he had a huge hole in the pocket of his fleece. It took him about two hours of traipsing around in the grass before he found them. FDawg loved it - thought he was getting a bonus walk. "Best not to wear that fleece again until I repair it", I said. Today, Mr F and FDawg went for a little trip out in the truck. When they returned, Mr F moved my car to get the truck back in the barn and put my key in the pocket of his fleece... the one with the hole in it 😲 He then wandered around outside putting the emptied bins back in their homes, washing the mud off FDawg, etc. Then he wandered around the barn for a bit, tidying the truck and generally pottering before he realised he'd lost my key 😲 We've just spent the last hour, outside in the rain, with torches, searching for it 😡 And... I've had another PJ day today so I was in my PJs 😡 The keys were eventually found in FDawg's bed in the barn.
So - does the toilet repair make up for the lost keys? 😆 Or does Mr F need to win some Brownie points now?
Other than the key search, I've done very little today. The focus has definitely been on rest and recuperation... oh and decluttering:- used up some smoked cheddar in croissants for breakfast
- had a ricotta stack left over from my Christmas dinner for lunch followed by some Christmas pudding and clotted cream
- decluttered two boxes of chocolates (there were only a few left in each)
- watched A Chri$tma$ Carol. I usually read, listen to or watch one version or another in the lead up to Christmas but, this year, I didn't get the time. So I watched my favourite version today - the animated Di$n£y film with Jim C@rr£y voicing Scrooge
- also watched the C@ll the Midwif£ Christmas special. I can only really watch it when FDawg is out of the house - he gets very upset when he hears crying babies and runs around the house trying to find them 🐶
- supper was the Broccoli & Stilton Soup leftover from yesterday.
Hope everyone is having a good Twixmas.
Fortune x
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OH & I are having an animated discussion - it's the best one we've had in weeks!!! I'll come back to you with our votes once the fun has died down!Fortune_Smiles said:...So - does the toilet repair make up for the lost keys? 😆 Or does Mr F need to win some Brownie points now?...
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)Original End Date - Sept 2041 New projection - Dec 2039 (reduced by 21 months)3 -
Love it!!rtandon27 said:
OH & I are having an animated discussion - it's the best one we've had in weeks!!! I'll come back to you with our votes once the fun has died down!Fortune_Smiles said:...So - does the toilet repair make up for the lost keys? 😆 Or does Mr F need to win some Brownie points now?...Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £171.3K Equity 36.55%
2) £2.6K Net savings after CCs 10/10/25
3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £30.9K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.25K) = 35.5/£127.5K target 27.8% 14/11/25
(If took bigger lump sum = 62K or 48.6%)
4) FI Age 60 income target £17.1/30K 57% (if mortgage and debts repaid - need more otherwise) (If bigger lump sum £15.8/30K 52.67%)
5) SIPP £5.1K updated 14/11/252 -
Mr F is insisting that the keys were not lost - they were temporarily mislaid 😂
Fortune x
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