Keep calm and carry on....

Grogged

£30k is an amazing achievement, so jealous 😁

South_coast

Thanks Grogged 😀 It wasn't massive to start with (still alarming to me though), but very pleased with the progress I've made

newgirly

Morning sc, was just about to post to see if you were ok as you hadn’t posted for a week , made a coffee and came back and noticed another two pages on this new forum 😆 

ouch to the car insurance, 😝 to the grumpy neighbour and glad you had a nice Valentine’s Day in your new top! 

Ps brushes in primark are mostly 90p 

South_coast

Hi newgirly, thanks for the tip - I would never have thought of Primark! There is a big one in town, so will go and hunt round when I can gee myself up to go down (about a 7-minute walk into town, but 15 minutes back as I live on top of a hill and can't bring myself to go back up the "down" as it's lots of steep steps - must be good for me though 😐)

shangaijimmy

Thats a great psychological reward for the insurance "win". I may pinch that idea myself in April.

South_coast

Thanks SJ. There's £15.50 in the mortgage holding account at the moment, so hoping to save at least £9.50 so I can send another £25 off today! 

South_coast

Whoop, whoop! I smashed the hoped-for £9.50! Final price came in at £495.32, so have just celebrated with a £150 OP 😀😀😀 (was even more excited at one point when I had a £449 quote, but closer examination revealed I'd missed a "0" off my annual mileage 😂!) Not sure I can top that in terms of money-saving activity for the day, so had better go annoy BF instead ☺

greent

Fab stuff! 

South_coast

Thanks greent, now if could only make some headway on the jobs I DIDN'T get done at the weekend.....

South_coast

Money-saving activity for today:
1) Finally got round to getting a blurry receipt re-printed so I can claim £10 of expenses 😀
2) Gorged on pizza during a meeting and didn't need dinner 😀😀😀