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It sounds like a dream, but then you get 4 or 5 from the end and you feel a bit sick and your mouth feels dry from all the digestive-ness, but you plough on anyway Because. You. Must. Finish 🙄
Then the next day all you can taste is digestive 🤣
Much better to just not buy them in the first place 🤣🤣🤣Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
Cleared 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed
Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!5 -
mmm biscuits4
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🤣Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
Cleared 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed
Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!2 -
I love biscuits and would cheerfully live on them, so I only buy Rich Tea as they are a lot less addictive than the rest. They do make a cup of tea less wet though

Mr Mee loves a Jaffa cake and we sometimes split a pack in an evening . I have three and he has six ( only nine in a pack these days !) I consider it a measure of his love that he shares with me, because he could easily manage the whole pack
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There have been many occasions where I have forced BF to eat a jaffa cake, so I can then claim I didn't eat the whole pack 🤣Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
Cleared 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed
Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!8 -
South_coast said:There have been many occasions where I have forced BF to eat a jaffa cake, so I can then claim I didn't eat the whole pack 🤣


2014 starting mortgage £165,0002015 second charge £20,000 - Jan 2021 paid off in fullCurrent outstanding balance - £115,8564 -
I want you to know that I'm reading this near lunch time and I had to put on lunch so I wouldn't just eat biscuits. I'm running out of my new favourite gingerbread digestives.
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Argggghhhhh... now I want biscuits! 😆 Grapes are just not cutting it!
Mortgage free as of 12/08/20!
MFiT-5 no 45You can't fly with one foot on the ground!4 -
You lot 🤣! I can't actually remember the last time I had a biscuit 🤔 All part of the joy of avoiding sugar!Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
Cleared 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed
Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!2 -
Just catching up and wow that sounds like a stressful time on pay day but glad you managed to get it sorted.
As for biscuits, I can eat a whole pack of Rich Tea in one go and not feel sorry about it 🤣 DH and I got into a bad habit of sharing a packet of biscuits a day when we were away for the weekend - went through 4 packets of caramel digestives between us 😲Emergency Fund - £8572.39 / £10,000 :: Mortgage OP 2025 - £LISA 24/25 - £3200 / £4000 :: NSD 2025 - 2 / 150 :: Books Read: 1 / 52 :: Decluttering - 4 / 1000Engaged 9th December 2010 :: Married 29th October 2015 :: Bought a House 13th January 20173
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