GAP and LMG, can we become mortgage free?

girlatplay

It was a lovely weekend. Spent some time with my family, saw bf for a bit and generally pottered around. I emptied 6 (yes SIX) moving boxes (yes, we have lived here 19.75 months). I have 7 left to empty (mainly paperwork, books, study materials and hopefully the watch bf gave me and the bracelet LMG gave me, that I put somewhere safe for moving).  LMG also has about the same amount left to empty.

Spendy-wise, it was just grocery budget spends, no treaty spends.

Declaring a PAD from the weekend and today of £3.

savingholmes

Well done on emptying the boxes... I need to tackle more of mine... 

girlatplay

You've not been there a week yet. You have nothing to worry about!

Merlin's_Beard

girlatplay said:

It was a lovely weekend. Spent some time with my family, saw bf for a bit and generally pottered around. I emptied 6 (yes SIX) moving boxes (yes, we have lived here 19.75 months). I have 7 left to empty (mainly paperwork, books, study materials and hopefully the watch bf gave me and the bracelet LMG gave me, that I put somewhere safe for moving).  LMG also has about the same amount left to empty.

Spendy-wise, it was just grocery budget spends, no treaty spends.

Declaring a PAD from the weekend and today of £3.

I've been in for a similar amount of time and I've still got one room that is mainly boxes!

girlatplay

Merlin's_Beard said:

girlatplay said:

It was a lovely weekend. Spent some time with my family, saw bf for a bit and generally pottered around. I emptied 6 (yes SIX) moving boxes (yes, we have lived here 19.75 months). I have 7 left to empty (mainly paperwork, books, study materials and hopefully the watch bf gave me and the bracelet LMG gave me, that I put somewhere safe for moving).  LMG also has about the same amount left to empty.

Spendy-wise, it was just grocery budget spends, no treaty spends.

Declaring a PAD from the weekend and today of £3.

I've been in for a similar amount of time and I've still got one room that is mainly boxes!

Aww thank you for that, it really helps to know it's not just me. The boxes are in a corner of my bedroom as it is a decent sized room and the only space that we can store them without them being in the middle of a room. This house itself is really not that big. I have plans for that corner though so need to get moving with them.

girlatplay

Not much to report today at all. Still mainly grocery spends. I did buy a hairbrush for £6. Not sure how that rates against other hairbrushes as I've not bought one in years. I use an Afro comb, even though my hair is straight. I have a very sensitive head and the Afro comb gets through my hair painlessly. This new hairbrush is supposed to be a good detangler and has good reviews so I thought I'd give it a try.

£1 PAD to buy out fund.

savingholmes

Well done on the PADs.

I always feel like everything needs doing now - so that's encouraging on the boxes.

girlatplay

savingholmes said:

Well done on the PADs.

I always feel like everything needs doing now - so that's encouraging on the boxes.

I haven't done any more boxes since those. I was both busy and lazy at the weekend.

girlatplay

Tonight I had a lovely massage and dinner out with my friend. That was my treat to myself from the backdated salary payment. I'm relaxed and happy. Back to normal spends/non-spends for the rest of the month.

We have taken our eyes off the ball a bit with our meal planning and food intake. My body is complaining bitterly about it. I have lost the half stone it took me about 6 months to put on, in two weeks. This is not good for me. I'm under the dietician at the hospital and I would be in so much trouble but luckily I haven't got my next appointment through yet. Now that I have spotted it I'll try harder and pull it back. I was wondering why my latest set of meds weren't working so well. Then I realised 🙈

The £50 bonus from W3a1thify is now pending in my W account so I'm hoping that will be cleared in the next few days.

I have a S&S isa that I have alluded to on occasion. I have a set of shares in there with one particular company where the share price has dropped substantially. They are currently still paying out dividends so I'm waiting for this quarter to hit my account in the next few days also. I usually make sure my funds get reinvested but for some reason with these I opted to take the income and never bothered changing it. I'll move those to the buy out fund once they hit my account.

Friday's random pick number was 45 so £22.50 went to the RPF account.

I have £6.43 to declare for a PAD today which is £1 per day for the past 6 days and 43p which is interest I got from closing a small account.

That's it for now.

beanielou

Happily passes half a stone to my friend. 

If only it was that easy. 

Take care of yourself 😊