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What time is dinner Ed? G00gle maps says it's 6.5 hours from ours to Glasgow! I lurve a beef roast! 🤣🤣🤣
4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)(With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)Original End Date - Sept 2041 New projection - Dec 2039 (reduced by 21 months)3 -
@rtandon27 - about 6 - will stick on some extra spuds
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Boo! I haven't had a very motivated day with real work but have used a longer than average lunch to work through a fair few AI studies. I was a little shocked when I received a message on Prolific telling me that there were "quality issues" with some of my submissions. I don't really see how you can have "quality issues" with "which video of two parrots is the most pleasing to watch?" type questions, but I suppose I'm not the boss. I hope it isn't a sign of things to come, I wouldn't bother with Prolific if I lost the AI studies :'(9
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£2 bonus cashback on *£20* spend at TCB today. Less generous than usual and hidden on the 5th? Page of the banner. Remember to activate the offer before spending
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Thanks, Ed - even further down than that for me!

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!!!7 -
Thanks for the heads up, struggled to find it!5
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I have been paid, a more respectable month as they actually approved some of my overtime! No movement on notice period and I know that discussions have been taking place in the background. My senior manager hasn't felt the need to tell me about this, which is making me feel like a mushroom and tanking what little motivation I have left... It will sound really negative, but my only ambitions at the moment are keeping my head down and getting paid for as much overtime as I can before I go

- £11.39 OPed.
- Made and withdrew £42.36 from Prolific. Have somewhat sickened myself on AI surveys recently, glad I'm physically unable to do them as in the office tomorrow!
- A few £ thrown at my personal cash savings, now at c. 96.5%/3.5% equities to cash.
- Ordered Mounjaro for the first time in months (I had a stash of 3 pens before the prices went up), not sure if this is my last month or if I'll squeeze another month out of the budget. I am at c. 93kg, which is my lowest weight in almost a decade

- Spent a little bit of money on some nice stocking fillers for Mrs E and DD1 (socks, but really nice socks with great patterns and their favourite colours/themes).
- Purchased a couple of vouchers between us to make use of the bonus TCB cashback.
- Dinner was a roast beef sandwich, that's the third meal we've got out of the joint from the weekend, with trimmings left to throw in fried rice.
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Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.5 -
I love socks too, but you can keep the beef 😅!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!!!6 -
😋 roast beef sandwiches, delicious.
Thanks for the heads up about TCB, I would have missed it if you hadn't said.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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