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I'm guessing I live further south than most people 🤣!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!!!3 -
Mostly I am amused/horrified that some poor person on the forum team is having to read all my drivel 🤣!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!!!4 -
Imagine they just review images for rules/decency reasons! There’s not enough time in the world for people to read all the ‘drivel’ we all put on here!! 😂South_coast said:Mostly I am amused/horrified that some poor person on the forum team is having to read all my drivel 🤣!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 Hemingway3 -
That's a fair point, Vix 🤣!
Have been screened out of a product test for a "feminine hygiene" product - very grateful 🤣!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!!!3 -
I really like the level of drivel on many of my favourite mfw threads. The minutiae of life from Lidl receipts, gardening, rude bosses to mice, cashback and recipes (& weird survey questions)
So please ‘drivel ‘ awayDON'T BUY STUFF (from Frugalwoods)
No seriously, just don’t buy things. 99% of our success with our savings rate is attributed to the fact that we don’t buy things... You can and should take advantage of discounts.... But at the end of the day, the only way to truly save money is to not buy stuff. Money doesn’t walk out of your wallet on its own accord.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6289577/future-proofing-my-life-deposit-saving-then-mfw-journey-in-under-13-years#latest5 -
Oh, don’t get me wrong, LaPlan, I love the drivel and post plenty myself - but that’s what it is! I can’t imagine having to read it all for a job! 😂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 -
I dunno, there are some pretty terrible jobs out there.
(I also like the drivel, I remember once reading about a woman wanting to buy a £37 ish washing up bowl years ago. This is how much I love reading people's lives, I remember them lol)7 -
Coming out of lurkdom to comment on that... I remember her - it was treadingonplaymobile. At the time she was completely unwilling to compromise on any of her perceived higher quality premium cost things. She may have done now (I hope so, and I wish her well) but she got very cross with anyone suggesting other ways to address her debt and then stopped posting. If she is here now, it is under a different identitykillerpeaty said:I dunno, there are some pretty terrible jobs out there.
(I also like the drivel, I remember once reading about a woman wanting to buy a £37 ish washing up bowl years ago. This is how much I love reading people's lives, I remember them lol)Save £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
My new diary is here5 -
So glad someone else remembers her! I remember actually really enjoying her diary, her life was so different to mine that I just.. loved it. In fact, now you've told me her user name, I'm probably going to re-read it to see if it's as interesting as I remember.Suffolk_lass said:
Coming out of lurkdom to comment on that... I remember her - it was treadingonplaymobile. At the time she was completely unwilling to compromise on any of her perceived higher quality premium cost things. She may have done now (I hope so, and I wish her well) but she got very cross with anyone suggesting other ways to address her debt and then stopped posting. If she is here now, it is under a different identitykillerpeaty said:I dunno, there are some pretty terrible jobs out there.
(I also like the drivel, I remember once reading about a woman wanting to buy a £37 ish washing up bowl years ago. This is how much I love reading people's lives, I remember them lol)
I was so gutted when she stopped posting. I don't know why you would post on a public forum if you weren't open to feedback. But I guess everyone has their limits and she hit hers.5 -
£37 for a washing up bowl 😳! I had no idea such things existed! I think the last one I bought was from Poundland (in the days when everything was £1), but I find them too annoying so always wash up direct in the sinkMortgage 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!!!3
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