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🙄 Guess who drove 11 miles to the big Sainsbury without picking the vouchers up off the table?
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So blinking annoyed with myself!! One runs out on Monday, but the others are valid for another week so we may be coming next weekend too 😂4 -
Oh Cheery - what a nuisance! 😱😱😱Cheery_Daff said:🙄 Guess who drove 11 miles to the big Sainsbury without picking the vouchers up off the table?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 Date - Sept 2041 New projection - Dec 2039 (reduced by 21 months)1 -
That’s what I normally do 😂😂😂Sealed pot challenge 822
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Well, we are home, and I am marginally less annoyed 😂
The voucher that runs out on Monday is 3x points- today we acquired 6 points, which would have given us 18points, which is what, 9p? 😂
The two that have over a week left are 100 points when you spend anything in the cafe, and 220 when you buy dental stuff - between them they're £1.65. We may take another trip there next weekend - I hadn't finished all my library books so will need to take them back within the next 3 weeks as I've renewed the max number of times online. Also I didn't renew quickly enough and got a £3.50 fine! Pah!
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One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.3 -
Me three …. 🤷♀️😉
KKAs at 15.12.25:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £227,385
- 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 80 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 25th December
Produce tracker: £457 of £300 in 2025
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I had to stop getting books out for that exact reason! I'd rather spend the fine money buying the odd kindle bookMy mortgage free diary: +++ Divide by Cucumber Error. Please reinstall universe and reboot+++
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Oh how I wish it was the odd kindle book. I have in desperation resorted to buying the likes of books 1-12 for 99p. I read in bed & the last 2 nights I read a whole book each night. The big problem of course is that I mostly read murders & always want to know if I have worked out the right murderers. At least I don't need the light on so when it falls on my chest the bedside light doesn't waken me up. What an exciting life I lead.
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😂😂 I'm glad it's not just me! Less annoyed about the vouchers now, and more annoyed about the fine! We did physically go in today to drop some of the books off though, and it was toasty warm in there, and they were selling cups of tea for 30p, and there were quite a few folk sitting reading the paper, doing a jigsaw etc, so I'm happy to contribute a tiny bit to them running as a warm space.
The pair of us have been completely wiped out this evening, I hope we're not coming down with something. I did half an hour of scything, then spent the rest of the evening watching crap TV and plaiting my rag rug. Temperature has definitely dropped out there, my hands were freezing by the time I came inside.5 -
Your library sounds lovely Cheery 😊
Temperature has dropped here this evening - proper chilly cycling back from the pub - was glad I had an extra layer (and also that we timed our journeys to avoid the rain).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 Hemingway2
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