Getting FIREd up 😀

South_coast

Hair and make-up done and lots of natural light and I'm in ✅️ Thought I might have to resort to putting the same top on at one point (yes, I do still have it, nearly 10 years later 🤣!)

Baileys_Babe

Glad you managed in, as you thought it was just the poor lighting causing problems yesterday. 

edinburgher

I am finding ZipZero very twitchy, my account gets locked about once a week. Easy enough to fix but a nuisance and I'm not sure why.

South_coast

Yeah, I get that too. Again, no idea why, but I look past it for the free money 😀😀😀

South_coast

I realised earlier that last weekend marked the two-year point of me paying the mortgage off. It feels VERY weird that, just as most mortgage holders are becoming more acutely aware of theirs, I appear to have forgotten I ever had one 🤔

South_coast

Of course, stoozing only works if you transfer the money you've spent into savings and not immediately pay it off a different card to the one you've spent it on 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Fortunately it was only £1.50 this time!

South_coast

So we're almost halfway through the year (yes, I know 😱), how are we getting on with our two lists?

South_coast said:

So, I know I said "no goals", but I was very taken with this idea:

https://www.raptitude.com/2023/01/every-january-make-two-lists/

I'm a bit of a mixture! I can confidently say 3/5 on List A, and I reckon I'm 2.25/5 on List B 🤔 Less "Blowing my nose repeatedly" is definitely made easier by more "Wearing make-up on days off" and "Making more effort with skincare" (you don't want to wipe it all off), but perhaps less "Ruminating about money" was too lofty an ambition 🤣! And do I really want to? After all, it's how I paid off my mortgage after 5 years, and is (hopefully) how I'll retire early 🤔 I think the aim was to just think less about it - which a new focus on stoozing and trying to reach "the next £50" is not really compatible with!

South_coast

EPIPHANY!!!

When I worked out my figures the other week, I completely forgot that I/work make pension contributions each month, and only included what I save from my post-tax income - what a clown 🤦‍♀️! 

11.88 years to go....

ruby_eskimo

That's a more palatable figure!

South_coast

Yep, now if I can just find a few more ways that tweaking my bad maths can gain me two years....🤣