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  • Uniscots97
    Uniscots97 Posts: 6,687 Forumite
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    Good news on your extra payment to your cc Lilith. Its amazing how all the little purchases add up but youre right you do need the odd treat
    CC2 = £8687.86 ([STRIKE]£10000[/STRIKE] )CC1 = £0 ([STRIKE]£9983[/STRIKE] ); Reusing shopping bags savings =£5.80 vs spent £1.05.Wine is like opera. You can enjoy it even if you don't understand it and too much can give you a headache the next day J
  • beanielou
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    Cottage pie with beans sounds lush.
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    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
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  • Lilith1980
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    Uniscots97 wrote: »
    Good news on your extra payment to your cc Lilith. Its amazing how all the little purchases add up but youre right you do need the odd treat

    Thanks Uniscots. Yeah I think we run the risk of almost punishing ourselves if we never have the odd treat :)
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  • Lilith1980
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    beanielou wrote: »
    Cottage pie with beans sounds lush.

    It was pretty yum :p
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  • Lilith1980
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    Well, tonight for the first time in 12 years I went to a supermarket to do my monthly shop! :eek:

    I was going to go to Aldi on Saturday but thought s*d it, let's get it done tonight with hubby helping me. I was armed with my list, which I'd written in the order that the items were in the shop. I felt like I was in Supermarket Sweep, putting things in my trolley as quick as possible :rotfl:

    We got home and the whole trip, including travel time, took us 30 minutes :T

    We have some items we can't get from Aldi coming from Tesco early next week and then that'll be the monthly shop finished. Very pleased with myself. I didn't have a meltdown!

    Homemade carrot soup tonight for dinner. I didn't manage to get a YS loaf from co-op last night as we obviously didn't go late enough (even though we went at 8.30pm) so we just got a normal priced loaf as a treat. We don't normally buy fresh loaves.

    Had some points come back from Swagbucks for items I'd bought through their site so I can redeem another £5 to pay off the MBNA card. I think I'll give it until June and then do a review of the numbers to see how I'm getting on.

    Hope everyone is having a good Thursday...weekend is almost here again :D
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  • beanielou
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    Great news on the shopping :j :j
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    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.
  • Lilith1980
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    beanielou wrote: »
    Great news on the shopping :j :j

    Thanks Beanie! I feel very money saving right now! :j
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  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 95,037 Ambassador
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    Lilith1980 wrote: »
    Thanks Beanie! I feel very money saving right now! :j

    So you should :)
    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.
  • Lilith1980
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    edited 23 February 2018 at 7:34PM
    Ugh, so my car did its sluggish thing again this morning. That's the third time in as many months. Again, it was very cold. It's weird because when I first pulled away from my house it was fine. It was when I stopped at the first junction and then tried pulling away that the power just went out of it. It happened at this same junction the previous time too.

    I rang my local garage who suggested putting super-unleaded petrol into it as it might be a fuel problem, and he said it would be hard for them to know unless I came in when the problem occurred. I'll try that and see what happens. I now wish I'd kept my 2004 car which never missed a beat. I just thought it was getting old and was best to buy a newer one before things started going wrong. The irony!

    Hubby's going to look under the bonnet tomorrow to see if he can see anything. Perhaps I just need to let it sit there with the engine running for a bit longer to warm the engine up. The last thing I want right now is a huge car bill when I've only just paid off a few hundred pounds on the credit card :(

    In more positive news, got some shampoo and conditioner through the post which I'm product testing so that'll save me some ££ in having to pay for more myself :)

    Thank crunchie it's Friday!
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  • beanielou
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    Boo to car.
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    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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