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Jessy103 · 24 August 2023 at 8:40PM

Time still seems to be flying by at the moment.

I received a payment for my streaming, so I made an op of £100, new mortgage amount is £41,100.

The boiler had a service this month, so that was £85 but all good with it still which is the main thing.

Wedding is now just over 3 weeks away. We are going to the venue on Tuesday to finalise numbers and pay for the food. Then the only things left to pay are my hair and make-up on the day and the dogs in kennels overnight.

Soon-to-be-step-son got his GCSE results today and all 11 were the equivalent of As, A*s or A**s so I sent him £50 as a reward for him to go treat himself and then told him to use his big brain to make lots of money as his evil step-mother would like a house by the seaside 😂

QueenJess · 24 August 2023 at 9:42PM

Ooh so exciting about the wedding. Very close now!

Congrats to soon to be step son - absolutely brilliant results for a tough year.

Cheery_Daff · 24 August 2023 at 9:47PM

Ooh, congratulations on the exam results, and that mortgage is disappearing rapidly, hooray! All fingers crossed for wedding plans 😊

Jessy103 · 25 August 2023 at 8:57PM

Thanks Jess and cheery, much appreciated 😃❤

Payday today, so £300 straight to savings to take me up to £2000 and £300 overpayment made to the mortgage to get down to £40,800. Another box ticked off the chart, woohoo! I will get under £40k by the end of this year, I am super determined now! 😃

We now have a 4 day weekend to look forward to. Tomorrow, we are going to meet a photographer at a local dog park who is going to do a photo shoot of the dogs (we got a voucher for a free photo shoot for Christmas from my parents) and he is also going to do our wedding photos, so we're going to have a chat about that as well. Two birds with one stone, as they say.
Then we have nothing planned until Tuesday when we go to the venue to sort out the final details.
This means plenty of time for streaming and hopefully making a bit of extra cash from that to put towards the mortgage. There's also a couple of new games that have just come out that I would like to buy. I can't stream gameplay if I have no games to play! 🙂

Jessy103 · 3 September 2023 at 8:54AM

Happy Sunday!

The doggy photoshoot went well and we got some lovely photos which I will post a few of. We're going to get three small canvases printed, one for each dog. We also discussed wedding photos and I have given him a list of one's we would like with family and friends on the day.

We went to the wedding venue and paid for the food, which came in under budget, so I'm pleased with that. We also went through all the final details and now only 13 days to go!

I cashed out £25 on swagbucks and put that towards an overpayment of £61.21 towards the mortgage, which now stands at £40,600 🙂 I'm so close to under £40k and this will hopefully bode well for the remortgage in June next year.

Will be popping round to see my grandad shortly. He's said I can see if there is any jewellery of my nan's, who passed away earlier this year, that I would like to wear on the wedding day which will be nice. I'm also going to do a bit of weeding for him while I'm there and maybe cut the grass as well, as the gardener he has doesn't seem to come consistently.

Have a lovely Sunday all x