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Thanks sunshineli 😀
Well, went to new customer yesterday after work and cleaned the insides of her windows. Went to leave and she said 'are the 2hrs over already?' Err....you want 2hrs Monday and Friday?! (Her house does not look unclean enough for 4hrs a week!) Anyway, I'd told DH I'd only be an hour so he was putting tea on, so when I go back Friday it will be for 2hrs 😅 Lovely people anyway, which helps me feel less anxious when I'm getting used to going to a new customer and turns out the husband drinks with my brother in the local pub, so I think that helped too 🤣
Today I started work at 5am. Its been super hot in the factory with this heatwave, so we've been told we can come in and go early. Last time I wasn't included because although I work in the factory, I'm in the office which has air con, but boss said I could do this time if I wanted to. Tbh it makes sense because if the boys aren't there I can't do a lot of my work (I say boys because although they are grown men, they act like kids, for example, I had to do noise testing in different areas of the factory this morning and they nicked my noise reading device to see who could do the loudest scream 🙄 (I came second just in case you wanted to know 🤣)) Anyway, I ended up finishing at 1:30pm which was lovely. I contacted cleaning customer and was able to go to his at 2:30pm and then I got home, put some washing away and got tea on. I'm now waiting for the shopping delivery to arrive and then I can go do the watering job, before settling down for the night and another 5am start tomorrow. I've already arranged with tomorrow's cleaning customer to go round to hers early, so it means I'll finish at 3:30pm and have the rest of the afternoon/evening to chill out. I might ask boss if I could change my hours to an early start and finish permentately (maybe not 5am), but it would be very nice.
Apple muffins turned out lovely but needed more apple! Not sure why I was so stingey with them considering how many I have in the cupboard still 😷
Mortgage Balance as of July 2025 £14,900.
Starting Mortgage Balance (June 2019) £72,000.
Aiming to be mortgage free by my 40th birthday, June 2026!6 -
Just caught up and everything is sounding great
Your brother’s cat looks adorable
and you’re doing great with all the cleaning jobs
I keep trying to think what I could do to earn extra money but not coming up with any ideasnot just yet anyway but I’ll keep thinking.
Good your client is back home from the hospital too1st May 2025
Mortgage Balance 1: £21,601.50 4.98% Now: £18,044.31
Mortgage Balance 2: £84,420.24 Now: £83,562.45
Credit Card Balance 3: £10,911.76 Now: £7,237
Student Loan £TBC4
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