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Would love to do what you're doing! One day I will relocate to Wales too. I've always wanted to since being a small child.
Look forward to following your journey
x“Once you hit rock bottom, that's where you perfectly stand; That's your chance of restarting, but restarting the way.”0 -
Looking forwards to seeing you here too Wannabe, the more the merrier, M2m.Frugal Living Challenge 2025.0
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Just found your diary, what an exciting move for you, good luck with it"Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee0
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mumtoomany wrote: »Morning Aaleigha, Just looked and we will be living on the same road, all be it miles apart. Almost neighbours! Small world, M2m.
wow amazing how far away perhaps we could do a meet in the middle in the future xxEmergency fund £10,000
Several categories with savings in
Cars, house maintenance, birthdays
Etc I have about 10 categories
Really happy to be debt free after being a compulsive spender0 -
thanks everyone
wannabefree feel welcome to contact me and use ours as a base for looking around our part of wales - the annex will have no one living there for just over three years when my son will rent if so if you want to look around for the 'feel of the place' before then even if its two early let me know
today I went to my brothers (he lives round the corner from the home we grew up in)
anyway I havent seen him since my mother funeral - that was in 2002 in february - far to long and far to raw still and this is not the time or the place to put the detail
I coped but JUST anyone with bipolar social anxiety and ocd might understand
so apart from fuel (I had put 40 in the car for fuel last week) which was 30 with enough left over for a couple of weeks local driving I spent NOTHING
no hostess gift I did make a cake and take it down but A I was baking anyway and oven was on B I need to use up some baking stuff - no point packing it
so a free day out and a NSD if I stretch it as I did mean to fill up last week
no money to squirrel away but thats fine
Did get a couple of old things one that my Dad made for his mum and dad on the 25th wedding aniversary he would have been about 17 will look great in the cottage
so please I coped with being there but I did cry all the way home Hubby driving and me sobbing for two hours but its a hurdle over hope I can do it again
I did my spreadsheet last night for the year with all calculations so I just have to put in each and every spend from the 1st to see if I can keep to it - we are over spending by about 1,500 but I dont know so havent added hubbys private pension yet we know we will get more than that in the year - any left overs will go to pay off the mortgage early
Hxx
hope you have all had a lovely dayEmergency fund £10,000
Several categories with savings in
Cars, house maintenance, birthdays
Etc I have about 10 categories
Really happy to be debt free after being a compulsive spender0 -
Hi, we will be about five and a half miles apart. M2m.Frugal Living Challenge 2025.0
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ohhh not far when I am sorted come for a cuppa (but only if you dont mind dogs we have 6)Emergency fund £10,000
Several categories with savings in
Cars, house maintenance, birthdays
Etc I have about 10 categories
Really happy to be debt free after being a compulsive spender0 -
Oh sounds wonderful - a bit scary in the transition but it will all settle down once you're there. Look forward to hearing more
Rosa xxDebt free May 2016... DFW#2 in progress
Campervan paid off summer '21... MFW progress tbc0 -
Rosa was my nans name
A huge welcome
I don't suppose you can use the f word on here
But imagine where you might use expletives
I get the mail and see a brown envelop so panic sets in
I open it and my bipolar snaps
What the f. This has to be you using MY f. Car to visit your Blo... Mother
A parking ticket for visiting his mother in hospital. Who is a nasty spiteful old cow and she has no visitors due to her nasty spiteful ways with even her friends
Now they changed the system from free parking to free parking if you enter your number plate on the monitors inside every entrance I DID tell him
Now this is what he said
If WE pay now it will only be 40 not the 85
But of course we will get one for every visit
And what is this f. We all about
He has not yet sorry just I will go and pay on line
I have done the budget for this month and left 100 buffer in the joint account and only 50 in mine
So where he thinks all this is going to come from befor next month I do not know
So no sorry and I didn't know
I told him not to use the f. Shogun either as that is in my name
And that it will be cheaper for him to walk 40mins each way and by new shoes
My bipolar is so out of control that all my neighbours will know
So I am back in bed trying to find my sanity my littlest dog has come for cuddles and licked some tears away
Rant over
So today is a dog cuddling angry sort of day
And it looks like I am going to have to regig a whole years spread sheet as I will have to claw it all back
Anyone want to take bets on who will want to get the mail from now on
So lunch then back to bed to do budget (I keep everything up here in the bedroom
Dinner tonight is gammon egg mushrooms and chips not healthy but I don't want the salad to go with it
Hope you have all had a better start to the day than I have
At least it's this year not next
Next year will be BRILLIANTEmergency fund £10,000
Several categories with savings in
Cars, house maintenance, birthdays
Etc I have about 10 categories
Really happy to be debt free after being a compulsive spender0 -
this is for all of us I do think its worth remembering
If you take a piece of rotten fruit and place it beside perfectly good fruit...what happens?
The mold from the rotten fruit spreads over to the good fruit and both end up in bad condition.
So what happens when you surround yourself with people who are negative? Well....you become just like them... Make 2019 the year you choose wiselyEmergency fund £10,000
Several categories with savings in
Cars, house maintenance, birthdays
Etc I have about 10 categories
Really happy to be debt free after being a compulsive spender0
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