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Good morning and happy Tuesday 🍫🍫📚📚☕️☕️Work again today (boo). I kept the heating off until 2pm yesterday by looking like a combination of a bag lady and old mr Steptoe. I took my shawl, blanket, scarf and fingerless gloves off to answer the door to the postman in case she thought I’d lost it 🤣 It did work quite well until my nose turned to ice.
I need to rejig my spreadsheets as I had a spending slip…valentines present for MrWW and a nice soap for the kitchen as the scrap fell in two 😖
I may be debt free, but I’ll never be rich ☹️ At one time things would have gone on the credit card so it’s still an improvement, but not the best.
I hope you all have a wonderful Tuesday filled with clotted cream ice cream and/or rice pudding 🥣🍨🍨🍧🍦Not all who wander are lost - J.R.R.Tolkien
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Happy Tuesday 😁
You're brave leaving the heating off, mine's on all day from 6am until 9pm. With Mr SA being disabled and sitting still all day he feels the cold even more than I do. I often sit with a dressing gown over my work clothes, even with the heating on, then have to hastily ditch it if I have to go to the door. I'm a nightmare when I'm in the office physically as I'm always asking people to close windows if there's the slightest draft 😆I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)2 -
I suppose an advantage of going into the office is saving on heating. I didn't have my heating on at all yesterday and not today so far; i am sat with a hot water bottle against my back which is soothing (i have a bad back) and keeps me warm
Wow Sun_Addict - you work in an office where windows can be opened!! We have fixed-shut windows with air con for heating and cooling - perfect in these virus rich timesLBM - October 2018; finally debt free on 16 March 2021
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Filling the oil tank makes me think about usage far more than when I was on mains. I really need a hot water bottle deni. I used to hate the office circulated air, you could guarantee a cold would just keep going round and round 😖
I had a lovely lemon curd MrT finest yoghurt at lunchtime…it tasted more like a lemon posset and a proper dessert, rather than anything healthy 😋Not all who wander are lost - J.R.R.Tolkien
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your pudding sounds yummy. I had 3 milk choc and sea salt caramel squares that DD2 brought back from NY!LBM - October 2018; finally debt free on 16 March 2021
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Those lemon curd yoghurts are lush!"Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee1
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WinterWarrior - went shopping today and had chocolate, nothing fancy just cads, but really enjoyed it
I have a really thick fleece that's got a teddy bear side to it to snuggle into, I don't have the heating on very much, don't tell my kids or they will tell me off.
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Oh well done @nannygladys, you deserve chocolate every day. I do like fleecy blankets. I have a teddy bear style fleecy bed jumper which is heaven when the pets pin the quilt off my shoulders in the night 😁Not all who wander are lost - J.R.R.Tolkien
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Good morning and happy Wednesday ❄️🌨☃️Snowy today and so cold the heating has gone straight on! I am using yesterdays savings 😬
I have coffee and flapjack at my desk to warm up and threw out some elderly wraps as well as the old cat food as the seagulls were waiting today as well as the garden birds. It’s like a avian cafe out there most mornings. A pheasant came for a look, but wanted seeds, not wraps…and we’re all out of seeds ☹️ I’ll be getting a bad review on Tweet Advisor 🤣
last night I spent money (on stationery, so I’d best not set you all off)…this is what happens when I’m unsupervised 😖
I hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday filled with happy things, lottery wins and chocolate 🍫☕️📚🌈Not all who wander are lost - J.R.R.Tolkien
🌊 A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor 🌊
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Ooh what stationery we got WW?
*Sits on hands waiting to hear all about it without buying**
I ordered another crazy fox planner yesterday as I'm not liking the diary I brought to use as my planner. I'm still loving my deluxe CF budget bill organizer.Dedicated Debt Free Wanabee 🤓
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