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  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    Thanks both! FS, yes, she's a few years younger than me, but she retired a few months ahead of me (paid more attention to her finances!) and she only lives 10 miles away, so its perfect really. We're very different people, but we share a lot of interests.

    I've been glued to my armchair this morning :rotfl: catching up on things. Just had my ratesetter listing delivered to my inbox too, and thats going well. But I think this week I'll now be concentrating on getting recycling and rubbish out of the house (erm, including painting that spot in the living room where the builders had to knock a hole :p).


    FS, thanks for posting, hope you're doing well on mse - any questions, just ask, though you sound a bit like you know your way around it :)
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
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    edited 5 November 2019 at 3:08PM
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    FS, thanks for posting, hope you're doing well on mse - any questions, just ask, though you sound a bit like you know your way around it :)

    Thank you:)

    I don't know about knowing my way around, I find MSE, like much of the internet, a magical mystery tour:rotfl:. I've been a lurker for yonks and dipped into your diary (and lots of other people's) from time to time. Now debt free I've actually started saving. About time too, I'm already fairly recently retired myself but have plenty of life in me yet to hopefully increase the coffers.

    I've been thinking of starting a diary of my own but am not sure where to put it. Debt Free Wannabe might be the best location as, although I'm debt free now, I feel it's a very small step to falling into bad ways:o. I imagine it's a bit like former addicts who know they absolutely can't ever have another drink, another fix or whatever their specific addiction was. That's how I feel about spending and am not sure how far I can trust myself when I have my own and not just other people's (credit card companies:mad:) money burning a hole in my pocket. Maybe a diary might make me more accountable and keep me on the straight and narrow. Sadly, I lead a very humdrum life compared to yours (no cruises and exciting jaunts to London for me:() and I can't imagine anyone dropping in and posting on it if I start one.
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    Hiya :) Congratulations about your debt-freeness!

    I'm not sure about your living situation, but you might feel a bit of a fish out of water on dfw, because of the no-debt thing. There are plenty of people here on mfw, including me, who spent years on dfw, so there are plenty of people who'd understand. But you need to go where you're comfiest! You can still visit the other place :):):) And if you change your mind, and journey to the other board, that doesn't matter either :) all of this really is here for our benefit.

    As for other people not posting - I don't just post financials, I post about decision making, and changes, and people have been really helpful, always. But look at my join date, I joined a million years ago :rotfl: give yourself a break.

    It's odd about the stuff I do in my retirement - I live on less than the state pension in day to day life, including not having a tv licence for the moment (though I'll get one again when I come back from catsitting). But I *will* spend on big one-offs such as holidays (this year that has worked out at £450 per week of holiday, including all spends and transport and food. We sold my mum's house this time last year, and since I never counted on any money from her estate (because we might have had to spend it all in nursing home fees for her, after all) that was all "extra".

    Anyway, keep posting, keep making yourself part of the community, you'll do fine. Speaking of which - I'm finally going to shut down the laptop and go out for that walk.
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • I went to the Egyptian exhibition when it was on at the dome. Must be around 15years ago now. Loved it!

    Pleased you had a good day.

    Wish.
    Outstanding mortgage: £23,181 (December 19)
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  • Karmacat
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    Nice one, Wish, I never got to that one, and such a great space then, as well.


    It was a *really* lovely day yesterday :) today has been a backup day: dishwasher, shower, downloading pix, tidying, emails, texts, even the odd Whatsapp! And my photos are in a complete mess - my camera has decided to start up a subfolder for some reason. I'm definitely upgrading my camera next year. Still got to email my Norfolk rellies, I'll do that tomorrow. Bonfire Night now :) (and I *don't* have anything planned :) ).
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • themadvix
    themadvix Posts: 8,786 Forumite
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    Glad you had a good day yesterday Karma... you've sorted my Dad's Christmas present :D He's off to Eygpt in a week or so, but a bit gutted that he won't see King Tut. So I'll sort that out as his present. Thank you!
    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
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    That's great! I'm not quite sure that tickets are still available, but even if they aren't, the catalogue could be part of it, it's very well produced, and still half the price of a ticket.
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Cheery_Daff
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    Thank you:)

    I don't know about knowing my way around, I find MSE, like much of the internet, a magical mystery tour:rotfl:. I've been a lurker for yonks and dipped into your diary (and lots of other people's) from time to time. Now debt free I've actually started saving. About time too, I'm already fairly recently retired myself but have plenty of life in me yet to hopefully increase the coffers.

    I've been thinking of starting a diary of my own but am not sure where to put it. Debt Free Wannabe might be the best location as, although I'm debt free now, I feel it's a very small step to falling into bad ways:o. I imagine it's a bit like former addicts who know they absolutely can't ever have another drink, another fix or whatever their specific addiction was. That's how I feel about spending and am not sure how far I can trust myself when I have my own and not just other people's (credit card companies:mad:) money burning a hole in my pocket. Maybe a diary might make me more accountable and keep me on the straight and narrow. Sadly, I lead a very humdrum life compared to yours (no cruises and exciting jaunts to London for me:() and I can't imagine anyone dropping in and posting on it if I start one.

    FS just stick your diary *somewhere* and be done with it :D I put mine on DFW when I returned to MSE a few years back - wasn't in debt but like you knew it was a slippery slope :o I mostly tend to navigate by the threads I've subscribed to these days anyway so it doesn't really matter where things are :o

    Also as KC says, doesn't matter whether your life is humdrum or exciting! Much as I love to read about other people's jaunts, I also love to read really detailed shopping lists, or an analysis of how people have saved £25 on their house insurance :rotfl: A few months ago I myself wrote out precise details of all SEVENTEEN mortgage fix offers from our building society on my own diary, plus about 12 posts trying to choose between them :rotfl: No idea whether anyone else got anything from reading that, but nobody said anything horrid about it :o :rotfl:

    So get yourself a diary, post whatever you like to keep you on the straight and narrow. Some people just pop in with monthly totals, others waffle on with daily lists and ponderings (like me). All good, it all adds to the community here, and you just don't know who's reading and will see something that will help them, even if it's just a small thing that you've done :)

    KC, that exhibition sounded fascinating! Glad you had a lovely day yesterday. What's on the cards for today?
  • Karmacat
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    edited 6 November 2019 at 1:17PM
    Tried to go to the Environment group of U3A - they moved the meeting to *last* week, sigh ... I think they told existing members, but didn't think to put the news on the groups website, so that prospective members could know. Someone else got caught out too ...

    Okay, so SB is tootling away in the background, or rather it isn't, a survey froze and the final square of a bonus thingy won't play ball. Pah!

    Emailed Norfolk rellies, thats good, just got to copy their email to my sister as requested.

    Opened post and dealt with all of it except for paying cc.

    So, after lunch:
    - collect email addresses and photos to send out the email about selling the records.
    - email colleague.
    - bit of gardening, yikes, some of the brambles are now *very* long, but still not rooted cos of all the rain.

    My to-do list is getting done!


    ETA - Cheery, great advice there to FS, thanks for that, we crossposted, - my list today is above :) .
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • themadvix
    themadvix Posts: 8,786 Forumite
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    Agree with Cheery and Karma, FS - go for it with your diary (and I too navigate by daily subscription emails). (Cheery - I can't say I took in your mortgage comparisons, but you got full points for analysis and effort! :D )

    Karma - it looks like tickets are still available... now I'm wondering if I should buy them ahead of time... and just tell him to book the day off!
    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


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