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South_coast

Your OP's are so impressive. I can't wait to see you starting to save for your next home 🩷

Jessy103

Thanks SC ❤️

I'm lucky in that I'm on a good wage and the bills for our little house aren't very much, so I am able to use half of my wage for an overpayment. DH is saving a similar amount for the deposit towards our next house. Once the mortgage is paid off, I'm planning on saving for stamp duty of around £13k 😱 and solicitors fees, surveys etc of probably about £5k. That's nearly £20k I've got to save, which makes me think we will never move, but I am very determined! 

Jessy103

Another week done and a nice long weekend to look forward to 🙂

A normal week at work and two cleaning jobs done Tuesday and Wednesday. I have a cleaning job for two hours on Sunday and another for one hour on Bank Holiday Monday, so some nice extra money earned there. The mortgage DD came out yesterday and so I made a small overpayment to round it down to £18,300. 

We're planning on a little trip to Skegness tomorrow which is only about 45mins away from us and the dogs can have a nice run on the beach. Doughnuts will be bought too but I'm 99.9% certain that buying fresh hot doughnuts at the seaside is the law, so who am I to argue! 🤣

I'll be ordering the shopping for early next week and it should be a little cheaper as DH is going away next weekend for a Karate course thing from Friday to Sunday, so that will be a few meals for just me, as his meals are all included in the course price (might even get myself a nice bottle of wine to enjoy, but shush don't tell DH 😆) 

Have a good weekend all! x

Jessy103

We had our little trip to Skeg and the doughnuts were delicious! Although the car park wasn't very busy, the promenade and pier were full of people, so we didn't stay as long as usual. I've found that since covid, I get quite anxious when there's lots of people around and just really want to get to somewhere less populated. Seems silly, I know, but it was still a nice trip out.

When we got home, a parcel had arrived that I was very excited about! Last week at the whippet meet up a new couple were there with their 7month old whippet and two golden retrievers. After chatting for a bit, the lady told us that she has her own business making dog collars, leads, bandanas, bows etc and I took her business card. Well, I ended up ordering the dogs all new collars (they were due for some) and she gave me a 10% discount code, so £50 spent altogether, but well worth it because they are beautiful! 

beanielou

Love the collars especially the ‘rescued & loved’ one. Wonder if she does cat ones. 

ladyholly

I love the collars. Dont forget the dogs need tags with your address etc on them.

Jessy103

beanielou said:

Love the collars especially the ‘rescued & loved’ one. Wonder if she does cat ones. 

Thanks Beanie, I couldn't see any but here's her website, if you contact her, she might be able to for you 🙂 https://www.bellabowsboutique.com/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR7I3d6GHA4tSd3r4m9eeGASX91IUfV433lRvtRHpn-1sukQnB9L4H7yI2qgzQ_aem_TRe7QmFMiTxfCzwmrQ6klA 

ladyholly said:

I love the collars. Dont forget the dogs need tags with your address etc on them.

Thanks and they sure do. Already had some on their other collars, which I have put onto these ones 😀

Jessy103

Cleaning job done for two hours this morning and I've just had a phone call for a new potential customer, who I'm going to see on Thursday 😀 

I have done my self assessment today though and owe money to the tax man (Boo!!), but not a lot I can do about that. My appraisal at work will be coming up this month and I'm tempted to ask to go down to a 4 day week, so I can do my cleaning on this day and get my evenings and weekends back, what do you think? Part of me doesn't want to though because I'm thinking of the new house, but the other part of me is thinking i should so that I don't wear myself out and get ill from working constantly. 

The rest of today will consist of cross stitch. A friend at work is retiring this month and as we share a love for the film Jaws, I thought I'd make him one based on that. I will post a pic when I've finished it 🙂

CrazyBee787

Jessy103 said:

Cleaning job done for two hours this morning and I've just had a phone call for a new potential customer, who I'm going to see on Thursday 😀 

I have done my self assessment today though and owe money to the tax man (Boo!!), but not a lot I can do about that. My appraisal at work will be coming up this month and I'm tempted to ask to go down to a 4 day week, so I can do my cleaning on this day and get my evenings and weekends back, what do you think? Part of me doesn't want to though because I'm thinking of the new house, but the other part of me is thinking i should so that I don't wear myself out and get ill from working constantly. 

The rest of today will consist of cross stitch. A friend at work is retiring this month and as we share a love for the film Jaws, I thought I'd make him one based on that. I will post a pic when I've finished it 🙂

Working a full time job plus is tiring, but I imagine you would make more in your full time job. But if you see a positive to cutting back on your full time job then go for it. You need to listen to yourselfXX

ladyholly

Sorry Jessie I wasnt nagging but a lot of people dont realise that leagally your dog neds a tag as well as micro chip and I couldnt see one on their lovely new collars.