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  • @Naomim almost close enough to touch 😬
    @Deni_debt-free_dreamer I hate that back to school feeling after being off ☹️ …and half a brownie? Half? Cruel! Like leaving you the smell of some coffee 🤣
    @teafor2 excellent timing there. The donut thing is like not chewing a fruit pastel.

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    🌊 A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor 🌊

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  • Sun_Addict
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    @Naomim I have a friend that would kill to be in a 50 mile radius of GB 🤣
    I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)
  • Naomim
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    @WinterWarrior and @Sun_Addict I do love a bit of Mr Barlow. Although some people slept out overnight and I wouldn't go that far. Love my home comforts too much!
    Credit Cards NOV 2019 £33,220.42 Sept 2025 £16,515.00 Here's my diary: A Ditherer's Diary Again
  • WinterWarrior
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    edited 27 September 2021 at 7:03AM
    Good morning and happy Monday ☕️🍫🧁
    Monday again (sobs quietly)…well at least it’s pay week…just to get to Thursday.
    So, as usual, I do need to run down my September good, bad and the ugly and sadly it’s seeming rather samey! 🙄 WW, you need to get a grip!
    The good - the credit card is still ending at zero, I paid for lots of things like the vets, a handbag, some much needed clothing bits for us both and some essential garden safety stuff for MrWW…and the much celebrated purple planner! I will hit my NSD 15 day target, I will be on 13 today.
    The bad - I bought more stuff than I should (see above).
    The ugly - I broke into a pot and did an unnecessary savings shuffle, meaning this month will have less wiggle room as I pay it back 😖
    So this month I need to pay back the pot, and try to increase the savings…although it won’t be by much. I need to stick to my weekly spend challenge and stop being tempted by the big stuff. I hope to keep up to my planner, stop over eating and clean/tidy at least two things every weekend. This weekend the hall got its deep clean and the new cat post looks much tidier, then I cleaned the bathroom cabinet (a quite big, built in one) and found 2 hardly used old Christmas sets of kneipp and Molton brown bath oils! I had been thinking about buying some so that was a big win. I don’t often have baths (just showers, not that I don’t wash 🤣) so when I do, I like them to be lovely and smelly 😁
    Anyway, enough waffling, I need to get up!
    I hope you have a marvellous Monday, may your work be light and easy and your free time be full of good things ☕️🍫🍰📚
    Not all who wander are lost - J.R.R.Tolkien
    🌊 A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor 🌊

    My WW and friends diary is here 😁 … 
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6259606/must-try-harder/p1

  • Morning WW
    Not only is it Monday it is pouring with rain here :( I am just about to log onto work and face all the emails that have come in since i last was in work (16 Sept).  I also have to go into the office this week as i have eve meetings but i don't currently have enough petrol!  Not long till you can start writing and stickering in your purple planner  <3

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  • @Deni_debt-free_dreamer that sounds like a really good reason not to go into the office, can you join by zoom? I love zoom meetings, so much better than being in the same room for us introverts 😁
    It’s pouring down here too, although I do enjoy rain 🌧 
    Not all who wander are lost - J.R.R.Tolkien
    🌊 A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor 🌊

    My WW and friends diary is here 😁 … 
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6259606/must-try-harder/p1

  • WW yes i could do the role perfectly well from home via zoom but unfortunately my boss says we have to be in person!  we are the go to person for any problems - even though we can't always resolve them :(  Someone has to be there to take the flack and the moans etc                                                                                                                
    LBM - October 2018; finally debt free on 16 March 2021
    2023 Mortgage Free Wannabee #92023 Mortgage free in March 23 !
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  • carolbee
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    Morning from a rainy Kent. Got a bit wet walking back from local garage .

    rainy day jobs, including making fancy pants gift labels 

    have a good day
    Carolbee
  • Just as an afternoon interlude, I popped my food into MFP. I had to estimate my tiger bread toast, but it seems I have just 282 calories left for the rest of the day 😭
    I may add my food into my purple planner too, keep myself on track…or just make myself squirm! 
    Not all who wander are lost - J.R.R.Tolkien
    🌊 A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor 🌊

    My WW and friends diary is here 😁 … 
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6259606/must-try-harder/p1

  • Sun_Addict
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    You’ll have to eat dust for the rest of the day 😆
    I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)
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