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Ooh - emojis are back 🕺
I've been out in the storm to pick up a new work mobile. It's an 🍎, which is all new to me. I have been getting a little wound up as my second substantive piece of work looked like it was going to go late looking for head of service approval. Luckily they have reviewed and it will be good to go with just a few minor changes and additions 🎉We now have two bathroom fitters supposed to be coming out today, oh the joy…
- No fun finance, did a little virement, now £35 off nominal £8,000 surplus
- Withdrew £7.52 from Prolific, £3.16 to tax, rest to personal spends
- Made £5 from Y Live
- 70p to personal cash savings 🤑
That's enough emojis for now, stay dry all.
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Good news on the piece of work. I love my apple phones. My mums is Samsung I think and she gets annoyed when I can’t work it for her 🤷♀️🤣
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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.
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I was very clear to my mum that if she wants my help with tech, she gets the stuff I pick as that's what I know how to work. (It's all Apple, as I used to work in IT doing Apple support… a very long time ago).
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I'm completely illogical …
Have to have an 🍎 tablet and can't work Mr KK's android one but absolutely can NOT cope with 🍎 mobiles!
No idea why! 🤷♀️🤣
KK
As at 15.02.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £220,873
- OPs to mortgage = £12,881 Estd. interest saved = £6,203 to date
c. 16 months reduction in term
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 18 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 21st February.
Produce tracker: £44 of £400 in 2026
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Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.5 -
By contrast I love my 🍎 phone but hell would have to freeze over before I got a laptop! 😆 (Mr MV has one and I cannot do anything on it.)
Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway4 -
Are quotes looking quite different or is it just on a PC?
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I have been very clear with my mum to and even offered my mum my last old phone to no avail. Bah.
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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.
One debt remaining. Home improvement loan. 21 months left.3 -
I can’t use an iPad either 🤷♀️🤣
I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.
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.
One debt remaining. Home improvement loan. 21 months left.3 -
Looking different on my mobile as well. Also the box you write a post in has changed.
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 family4 -
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