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They're crazy, aren't they! Those are horrendous examples, Hazelnutty! In the end, I couldn't face doing it yesterday, I just did the 2nd scan I needed, so its all ready to do now. I also delayed putting the dishwasher on till just now
and like that, today is about tidying up loose ends - fetch and pay for the sprouter, bag the garden rubbish (neighbour's green bin has disappeared from my front yard, I may have to put it in the ordinary stuff
though I *did* do a good job of cutting back the other neighbour's overhanging ivy outside my back door. That felt good. And if I can, I'll do the re-registering thing this afternoon. I'd like to - and I think it may be too hot to be outside anyway. Clearing the kitchen table of flowerpots would be good too - I could use it for craft stuff then. Yeah, finishing things off, thats me!
2023: the year I get to buy a car4 -
Check on magnet knife rack, no show.Fetch money from my dormant cahoot account.These are both done, hurray. Going to renumber again, I got it wrong last time, plus I've found another one:
1. Put mastercard onto automatic, go paperless.
2. Update my security document. In process.
3. Check what savings accounts are active.
4. Standardise the details I have on them.
5. Some savings accounts have expired, shuffle money.
6. Pinecone - find the cashed out £45 of JL vouchers.
7. Use some cash to up my premium bonds amount.
8. Transfer reward money for my current account and download statements.
9. Withdraw some money from ratesetter while I'm at it?
10. Check no further charges for my old website.
11. And this is the extra - I found a letter from earlier this year, and I'm still named on the probate bank account from over 3 years ago, and I thought it was repurposed, as part of the family emergencies that were going on at that time. Shouldn't take long though.Hurray, re-registered, and honestly it couldn't have been easier. Very chuffed, and it got me online straight away. So I've done item 8 and most of item 10 above - I'll have to check the credit card statements too for item 10."Rewards" amount was £29 or so, and in even more astonishing news, the amount that Amazon paid me (presumably for my book?) was £24, added to the payments made when it was coming in monthly. Very pleased with thatand shutting down now for a celebratory cup of tea.
2023: the year I get to buy a car6 -
I collected the 3 tier, £5 sprouter from one of my regular charity shops today, all beautifully distanced, and it also gave me a proper walk. Leapt into the shower and washed my hair immediately I got back, as visiting teh shop meant I ventured inside another building for the first time since 19th March. Weird. It was empty, all but, so not exactly dangerous. What was more dangerous to me was that I didn't check I'd switched the boiler on, so I washed my hair and had (half a) shower in cold water
2023: the year I get to buy a car3 -
Karmacat said:...What was more dangerous to me was that I didn't check I'd switched the boiler on, so I washed my hair and had (half a) shower in cold water
The other day, someone down the line turned the hose on to water plants (serves me right for sleeping in late) - I had no pressure & cold water to rinse the conditioner out!!!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!4 -
I have no idea what a sprouter is. Oops.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 -
I was wondering the same thing
CRx3 -
For sprouting seeds, I presume!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 Hemingway3 -
That's what I assumed. I had no idea it involved kit! I thought a bit of paper towel on a plate was the way to go!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 -
Come on, karma - enlighten us! Pleeeeeease!
NST March lion #8; NSD ; MFW9/3/23 Whoop Whoop!!!3
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