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10k arrived overnight, thank the stars.
Solicitor will be getting the Offer to Purchase sent and signed, hopefully in quick order, with a view to complete on the 5th.‘When you only have two pennies left in the world, spend one on bread and the other on flowers. The bread will sustain life, the flowers will give you a reason to live.’Frugal living in 2024.
Frugal living in 2025.
261 No Spend Days in 2024!
3-month Emergency Fund: £3,500 / £3,500 - DONE!1k Pet Emergency Fund - £1,000 / £1,000 - DONE!
Nationwide 1 year 6.5% Savings - £600 / £2,4004 -
Great news! One step closer to your goal! Keeping my fingers and toes crossed for you 😃2
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Spent yesterday packing, and will be doing the same today.
Grand plans of a great decluttering/downsizing have gone out the window, and instead I’ve moved onto the packing technique of large boxes marked ‘miscellaneous’. It’ll make for some…interesting unpacking, but I’ve reached the point where I just need Things In Boxes ASAP.
I’ll have the bin liners ready at the other end to toss all the crap I’ve inevitably brought with me.
I’ve made a long, highly detailed itinerary of what I need to do on each day; from yesterday through to the 14th May. Today is packing, and shopping for some essentials that I’ll need as soon as I get the keys - cleaning supplies, and a blow up mattress for the first few nights before my furniture gets moved.
I’ll be booking the 5th - 12th off work, hopefully that should be a long enough stretch to get things in some semblance of order, and to move my pets in and settle them.
It does feel like a MUCH bigger undertaking this time, as a single person with a full time job to juggle, but I’m reminding myself that this isn’t a race, and it’s certainly not a sprint. I do not have to have the entire house decorated and insta-worthy within 1 week.
It will be messy and chaotic and muddled, for probably much longer than I’d like, but I can take my TIME over it. I can take all the time in the world.‘When you only have two pennies left in the world, spend one on bread and the other on flowers. The bread will sustain life, the flowers will give you a reason to live.’Frugal living in 2024.
Frugal living in 2025.
261 No Spend Days in 2024!
3-month Emergency Fund: £3,500 / £3,500 - DONE!1k Pet Emergency Fund - £1,000 / £1,000 - DONE!
Nationwide 1 year 6.5% Savings - £600 / £2,4003 -
I’m loving that you now have the confidence to start making these lists and plans 😊❤️ and yes, “Miscellaneous” does make for interesting unpacking! 😉 But as you say, you can take your time and every single thing you in this space will be for *you* and *your* home - it is the best feeling! 😊
There are some good moving checklists online or I can dig out the one I created when we moved here if it would help?
KK
As at 15.08.25:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £232,244
- OPs to mortgage = £12,148 Interest saved £5,738 to date
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 44 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 21st August
Produce tracker: £353 of £300 in 2025
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.1 -
Thank you! Yes that would be great - I love a checklist haha.KajiKita said:I’m loving that you now have the confidence to start making these lists and plans 😊❤️ and yes, “Miscellaneous” does make for interesting unpacking! 😉 But as you say, you can take your time and every single thing you in this space will be for *you* and *your* home - it is the best feeling! 😊
There are some good moving checklists online or I can dig out the one I created when we moved here if it would help?
KK‘When you only have two pennies left in the world, spend one on bread and the other on flowers. The bread will sustain life, the flowers will give you a reason to live.’Frugal living in 2024.
Frugal living in 2025.
261 No Spend Days in 2024!
3-month Emergency Fund: £3,500 / £3,500 - DONE!1k Pet Emergency Fund - £1,000 / £1,000 - DONE!
Nationwide 1 year 6.5% Savings - £600 / £2,4001 -
I have PM'd you
KKAs at 15.08.25:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £232,244
- OPs to mortgage = £12,148 Interest saved £5,738 to date
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 44 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 21st August
Produce tracker: £353 of £300 in 2025
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.1 -
I completed at 2pm yesterday, and got my keys at 2:45pm!
I did exactly what I expected to do, and started bawling when I opened the front door. The seller had left me a box of celebrations, and a congratulations on your new home card from her and the neighbours, which set me off too.
As I was leaving my friend’s house after my last night staying there, I had a revelation.
‘You know, there won’t be another time when I come knocking at your door, sobbing my heart out, because I don’t want to go home and I have nowhere else to go.’, I said to her, ‘No one will be able to kick me out of this one.’
That idea just completely floored me. The thought that I’ll never need to feel unsafe or ill at ease in my home again. The knowledge that I won’t need to pack a bag and run away in the night again. That I won’t need to try and carve safety out of an environment that’s not my own.
We hugged tightly, and she told Alexa to play ‘Independent Woman’ by Destiny’s Child, and we danced in her living room to celebrate my achievement and my freedom.
It has been the longest 5 months, but I’ve had so many people behind me, carrying me forwards when I just wanted to sit in the mud and give up.
It’s been so overwhelming, it doesn’t feel real. But I have so much love in my life.‘When you only have two pennies left in the world, spend one on bread and the other on flowers. The bread will sustain life, the flowers will give you a reason to live.’Frugal living in 2024.
Frugal living in 2025.
261 No Spend Days in 2024!
3-month Emergency Fund: £3,500 / £3,500 - DONE!1k Pet Emergency Fund - £1,000 / £1,000 - DONE!
Nationwide 1 year 6.5% Savings - £600 / £2,4008 -
Oh congratulations!!! So, so pleased for you!! 🎊🎉⭐️✨👏 I got goosebumps reading your post.Enjoy your nesting ❤️
KKAs at 15.08.25:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £232,244
- OPs to mortgage = £12,148 Interest saved £5,738 to date
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 44 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 21st August
Produce tracker: £353 of £300 in 2025
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.1 -
I am so pleased for you! I’ve been quietly cheering you on in the background 😃
Congratulations on the move and enjoy settling into your new home 🥂3 -
Congratulations to you 🎉 Your friend sounds like an absolute star too 😊3
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