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            Good luck 2025 decluttering: 5,283 🌟🥉🌟💐🏅🏅🌟🥈🏅🌟🏅💐💎🌟🏅🏆🌟🏅🌟🌟2025 use up challenge: 416🥉🥈🥇💎🏆Big kitchen declutter challenge 137/1502025 decluttering goals I Use up Challenge: 🥉365 🥈750 🥇1,000 💎2,000 🏆 3,000 👑 8,000 I 🥉12 🥈26 🥇52 💎 100 🏆 250 👑 5003 2025 decluttering: 5,283 🌟🥉🌟💐🏅🏅🌟🥈🏅🌟🏅💐💎🌟🏅🏆🌟🏅🌟🌟2025 use up challenge: 416🥉🥈🥇💎🏆Big kitchen declutter challenge 137/1502025 decluttering goals I Use up Challenge: 🥉365 🥈750 🥇1,000 💎2,000 🏆 3,000 👑 8,000 I 🥉12 🥈26 🥇52 💎 100 🏆 250 👑 5003
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            Good luck 🤞Fashion on a ration 2025 0/66 coupons spent
 79.5 coupons rolled over 4/75.5 coupons spent - using for secondhand purchases
 One income, home educating family5
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            Good luck Ed!! All fingers and toes crossed for you! I'm sure you have prepared and practiced just the right amount 😊😊
 Do report back, we are all waiting to hear how it went!5
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            Good luck🙏Mortgage OP 2025 £7500/7000Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000
 Mortgage balance: £34,465
 Money making challenge £78/400
 ”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)5
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            Bon Chance ed! 🤞
 Greying XPounds for Panes £7,705/£10,000 - start date Dec 2023
 
 Grocery Spend October 2025 £216.43/£200
 Non-food spend October 2025 £46.41/£50
 Bulk Fund October (month 10 of 12) £0/£35.204
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            Good luck Ed 🤞🤞4
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            Good luck!5
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            Good luck!4
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            Wishing you all the luck for today. We are standing with you, quietly and resolutely, that you may present your best self. You know you’ve done the prep and whatever happens you know you will have given it your best shot.KKAs at 15.10.25:
 - When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £229,702
 - OPs to mortgage = £12,345 Estd. interest saved = £5,863 to date
 Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
 Read 60 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 30th October
 Produce tracker: £426 of £300 in 2025
 Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
 Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.5
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