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Once you've look at a thread, the next time you go back it'll take you to the first new post since you last looked. You need to remember that this forum doesn't know what you looked at on the previous one - but once you've spent a bit of time here it'll know all about you
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Sending Hugs KC - I get exactly where you are coming from! 💋 (because someone threw out the dodgy hugs - lol) 😭Karmacat said:...This is my home on the interwebulator, and it feels like somebody changed the locks and gave me a key that doesn't really fit, and now I've found they took most of the furniture and put itching powder in my bed. Hey ho...
Liking the sound of new bed sheets! Nothing like a cosy nest at the end of the day!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 Date - Sept 2041 New projection - Dec 2039 (reduced by 21 months)4 -
Thank you both 💋💋 Greenbee, that makes sense of why pressing the same button on different threads had different results - it'll smooth out eventually, which is good. RT, the bedding is brilliant - the sheet is plain, which is what I wanted, but the pillowcases are these cats in spacesuits
which I adore 
Off to beddie byes now - not with the cats just yet2023: the year I get to buy a car6 -
🤷 (shrugs) I can't find any hugs emojis I like, and my notifications only shows (all) my badges which take up the whole screen if I click on all notifications. The FOMO thing is going on in my head as I had 66 this morning (although one or two threads have 6 or 7 posts)
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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I'm leaving the emojis for now as well, SL - I went to the link greenbee showed, and it was a diy site - useful in its own right I like emojis, so thats a bit sad.So, Ciara is quite loud sometimes! Nothing's come off the roof this time, which is good. Kind of stuck in the house by the wind, It's not as if there's nothing to do inside though I think its a question of a ta-da list, since I'll just do what I fancy, its a Sunday after all Hope everyone has a pleasant day today! 2023: the year I get to buy a car6
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The wind really was/is something on the volume scale isn't it Karma? It's picking up again here now.
As you say, couldn't the forum people have sorted out some sort of idiot's guide to the new forum? Even if it just told us what it can/can't do compared to the old one it would be helpful to know!
Hope you've had a good day today and not been blown away!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 Hemingway4 -
An idiot's guide would be good it has to be said!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.5 -
Good evening! Didn't get blown away - but quite tired, it has to be said. Still haven't done all sorts of things that I've listed on here, but hey ho - I've done lots of things that I *didn't* list, but still needed to do Most are focussed on cleaning that hasn't been done in months (years?) and on getting photos and papers sorted. Worthy but uninteresting I'm enjoying the odd binge on my DVD recorder - at the moment, it's Inspector Montalbano, he's like a Sicilian version of Morse, but with even more alcohol
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My JL vacuum cleaner was delivered today! Less than half the price of the Dyson. Delivery was *supposed* to be the typically appalling 11 hours out of any one day, for the next two weeks, but they wouldn't just leave it in the front garden, they'd try 3 times to deliver it, the emails are quite clear on that. So then this afternoon, I found a guy at the front fiddling about with my rubbish bin
and yes, he was trying to hide my new vacuum cleaner. In the rain. The minute I get any "how was your service" I'll tell them. If I can bear to take the time, I'll get active with the complaints department. Anyway, at least the delivery made me clear the area immediately inside the front door, which had become seriously disgusting 
I don't think thats the emoji I really want, as it was **appalling**, but there we are!And ... you guys remember I have an apartment in France, right? Guess where it is (I've mentioned it earlier on in this thread, I swear its true). Yes, Les Contamines-Montjoie. Sigh ...And .... I used to live right on the south coast, right? And guess which GP Practice I went to? Yep, County Oak. More sighs ...2023: the year I get to buy a car5 -
Have heard similar about JL delivery... not what you expect!
Aah, but the key thing is that you never go to your apartment and you’re no longer at the surgery... so you’re safe! 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 Hemingway5
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