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  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,616 Forumite
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    It’s done now, just give yourself time and you will be fine. Glad so many people showed how much you meant to them and that you were valued 🌸
    Mortgage OP 2026 £0/2000
    Mortgage OP 2025 £7700/7000
    Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000

    Mortgage balance: £33,821

    Make £50 a month Jan £0
    Boiler fund £925/3000

    ”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)
  • f0xh0les
    f0xh0les Posts: 7,769 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! Photogenic
    Oh @beanielou 😱 Your Summer is magnificent 😍😍😍😍
    4/10/25Three Years Mortgage Free Yay!
    NSTurtle # 55 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢🐢🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢
    No Turtle gets left behind.[/b]
    ******PROUD MEMBER OF THE TOFU EATING COALITION OF CHAOS !!!******
  • How you bring yourself back up is with sleep, sleep, sleep. Let your mind and body, process and recover.
    It is proper autumn tomorrow so embrace the hygge and read under a blanket with ample biscuits (in between sleeps).
    Bloody well done you gal, you made it through and you made it out! 
  • Cheery_Daff
    Cheery_Daff Posts: 17,988 Forumite
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    Big hugs to you, well done for making it through with your head held high xxx
  • maggiem
    maggiem Posts: 1,987 Forumite
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    Sending more hugs too. What an emotional day. Lovely to read how much your team appreciated you. 

    Now rest and be very kind to yourself. It’s been a traumatic few weeks which in itself is exhausting. This too will pass. 
  • SandyShores
    SandyShores Posts: 2,021 Forumite
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    beanielou said:
    Summer sends lots of love & snuggles. Time to chill & decompress. 
    Summer looks very snuggly, a very thick coat like my boy's only different colour :)

    Time for healing @KajiKita, the next part of your life begins and we will be here to support you (even if it is virtually) :smiley:
    "Think of many things, do one"
    Mortgage 30Jan'26 est. £204,330 £309,749 2020 (ends 2038 - aiming for 2031)
    Seven Goals; target lose 4lbs by Feb'26; walk/run/exercising/weights/yoga 

  • redofromstart
    redofromstart Posts: 6,030 Forumite
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    Hope you have had a nice long sleep?

    it took me a few weeks to stop feeling vaguely guilty about the things I hadn't done, and what was happening to my team. 
  • Watty1
    Watty1 Posts: 7,657 Forumite
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    Hope you slept well.  Now is the time for rest, that is all.  Rest.  Recuperation.    The start of Autumn and the start of a new chapter for you.    
    Made it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became

    In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!
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