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  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    edited 22 July 2018 at 10:04AM
    Hi both :) yes, much less grumpy today, and still very happy with the new arrivals. Scanning like mad yesterday, and I was out in the heat, I'm afraid, to collect my rail tickets, so I had a bit of a nap, and already felt better.

    Today - hmmm, more or same, SB/ scanning/ packing/ weeding/defrosting the f/f. When its an admin day, I work as hard as I can to make sure I make the most of it, and free up other days for having fun.


    :j:j:j the fun is what its really about :)
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • greent
    greent Posts: 10,751 Forumite
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    Oooh - congrats on the latest addition to the Kc clan! :) x
    I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul
    Repaid mtge early (orig 11/25) 01/09 £124616 01/11 £89873 01/13 £52546 01/15 £12133 07/15 £NIL
    Net sales 2024: £20
  • pinkypig
    pinkypig Posts: 1,814 Forumite
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    Congratulations Great Auntie Karma - what lovely news :)
    Original mortgage £112,000 . Final payment due August 2027.
    Mortgage neutral achieved August 2020 - 7 years early!!!
  • themadvix
    themadvix Posts: 8,715 Forumite
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    Congrats on the new great niece/nephew!!

    I hope you took it gently with all of that admin - although at least the f/f defrosting should have kept you cool :)
    Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days

    'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway


  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    Thanks all! It did keep me a bit cool, madvix, my scanner/laptop set up was right there :) I've now done about a third of this last box. Then I can move on to scanning documents :o I just found my grandad's ID card for a "shadow factory" in Liverpool :j


    I did quite a lot of bits of cleaning, stuff you can't see but that needs doing now and again :o


    Terrible sleep, though, it was *so* hot! I suspect a hot train journey today too, hey ho. Hope everyone has a good week :)
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 95,468 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    Have a good week :)
    I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.

    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.     ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.
  • Goldiegirl
    Goldiegirl Posts: 8,806 Forumite
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    Glad everything seems to be going well

    Congrats on the new family arrival:)
    Early retired - 18th December 2014
    If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    Thanks all, thanks both :):):)

    Back again - lots of work done on the Merseyside house and garden (I'm the garden guru, as well as the paperwork guru :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: though I had a bad set of nettle stings - I pulled out a rooted strand, but I didn't have *every* strand, and it got me good and proper, all the way up both arms. I wasn't an awful happy bunny that morning :eek: Various applications of gloss and bathroom paint and turpentine didn't really help either :eek: but the house really has gone up a notch, its kind of inspiring.


    My own house is in need of inspiration :rotfl: though not quite so much. My house plants lived, even the new salvia, which is good :)

    Washing is done, shower was had *straight* away, and I even managed to try to see the Blood Moon (though there wasn't a smidgeon, of course) and I bumped into a score of astronomy fans, that was good.
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • rtandon27
    rtandon27 Posts: 5,624 Forumite
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    Welcome back! Happy homecoming!:j:j:j
    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 - 14 YEARS 10 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 15 mths)
    Psst...I may have started a diary!
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 95,468 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    Good to see you back :)
    I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.

    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.     ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.
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