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Happy birthday for yesterday 🥳🥳Save £12k in 2025 #32Make £2025 in 2025 #28
JAN- £695.23 FEB- £599.43 MAR- £709.42 APR- £1102.89 MAY- £776.76 JUNE - £966 JULY - £1104.84 AUGUST - £1183.03Total 2025 -£7137.06
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So I've cleaned the glass doors between the lounge and conservatory, and my bedroom curtains are doing their thing in the washing machine ... then realised neither of these jobs made it on to the to do list
I have cleaned the kitchen window, inside and out, at least that can be ticked off the list
Mortgage Total: £51,549 / £75,000
Mortgage Overpayments Pot £12630 -
Lounge windows have been cleaned, front door and outside light have been cleaned, lounge carpets have been vaxed and a chicken and bacon pasta bake has been made and eaten
Off now for a walk around the block as I haven't done many steps at all today, then it is an afternoon of football, no Premier League yet but at least some of it is back.Mortgage Total: £51,549 / £75,000
Mortgage Overpayments Pot £12630 -
Happy birthday for yesterday. I am so glad the football season is back, my weekends feel lost without it.*Dad loan - £5300 - £7200
*Virgin Credit Card - £3552.50 - £0
*Natwest - £1828.35 -£0.00
Barclaycard - £2315.25 - £0.00
Creation Finance - £960.32 £840
*Total debt - £8040/£11641.17*
Savings
*Savings Buffer - £100/£1500
*Emergency Fund - £1500/£1500
New diary- https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6474943/the-three-cs-coffee-clothes-credit-cards/1 -
A productive day yesterday - bedroom window cleaned, bedroom curtains washed, bannisters cleaned (lots of fiddly glass bits), wooden unit in the lounge decluttered, attempted to reset the warning light on the car but doesn't appear to have fully worked.
This morning I have done the food shop and all put away, taken my vitamins and now waiting for ds and friend to surface - they both worked long shifts over the weekend so are having a lie-in today. The weather really isn't looking great, I may go out for a walk in a bit and get my steps in for today before the rain comes in later. I think I might have an admin kinda day today, lots of cups of tea and getting straight on some paperwork stuff that's been lingering around.Mortgage Total: £51,549 / £75,000
Mortgage Overpayments Pot £12631 -
Happy belated birthdayIf you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them
Emergency fund 800/1000
Buffer fund 0/100
Debt Free (again) 25/0720251 -
Happy belated birthday 😊I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)1
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Happy belated birthday, BenBen! XxMortgage @ 03/2019: £125,000, Now: £50,378.61
Mortgage OP’s: £22,109.28
SHTF pot: 209.42/10001 -
So another weekend is here - this week has been fairly busy again - the funeral went well, the car passed its MOT, just needed a new front light. Other than that it has been quite chilled but productive, some more bits crossed off the list, I'll post an updated version of the list below.
Today has been a bedding washing day - mine, ds and ds friend has all been done and is drying nicely in the garden, Football is finally back so today will mainly be spent in front of the tellyI did do some gardening this morning, tidied up a bit out there and watered the front garden. I do need to get my steps up a bit today. I have managed to complete my daily tasks every day of the holidays so far (2 litres water, 10k steps, take my vitamins, 5 x 1 minute planks and 100 x squats).
Mortgage Total: £51,549 / £75,000
Mortgage Overpayments Pot £12631 -
- Clean garage door
- Fix garage door
- Weed by the back gate
- Take stuff round the side of the house to the tip DONE BUT MORE TO TAKE NOW
- Remove broken doorbell
- Trim hedges
- Clean lounge windows
- Clean front door
- Clean outside light
- Paint decking
- Clean outside cushions
- Remove air con unit
- Jetwash paving
- Tumble dryer to tip
- Freezer to tip
- Paint missed bit of fence
- Clean food bin
- Clean recycling bin
- Clean rubbish bin
- MOT & service for the car
- Sort car insurance
- Book & do eye test
- Book & do mammogram BOOKED
- Book & do smear test
- Sort car warning light
- Organise my will
- When I die book
- Boiler service
- Clean light in conservatory
- Remove air con unit in conservatory
- Declutter conservatory cupboard
- Replace beading in conservatory
- Clean conservatory windows
- Clean conservatory roof
- Clean cushion covers in conservatory
- Move vinted items to airing cupboard box
- Clean patio door tracks
- Clean door tracks between lounge / conservatory
- Clean conservatory gutters
- Fix cereal cupboard
- Clean baseboards
- Clean kitchen light
- Clean kitchen window
- Inventory freezer
- Clean cooker hood
- Clean oven
- Deep clean dishwasher
- Deep clean washing machine
- Replace beading in kitchen
- Fix kitchen taps
- Wash lounge carpets
- Wash lounge curtains
- Clean lounge blinds
- Clean behind lounge radiator
- Clean cushion covers
- Clean lounge lights
- Declutter wicker drawers
- Bin landline phone
- Programme the heating for the winter
- Sand & wax coffee table
- Sand & wax dining table
- Paint dining chairs
- Scrub hall floor
- Clean hall light
- Wash front door curtain
- Patch up paint in the hall
- Gut my clothes in wardrobe / drawers
- Gut my bedside drawers
- Sort the hanging rack inside wardrobe door (toiletries)
- Deep clean bannisters
- Wash stairs carpet
- Clean landing light
- Clean all internal doors
- Tidy airing cupboard
- Clean bathroom light
- Clean wall tiles in bathroom
- Clean tiles on bathroom floor
- Reseal the bath
- Replace grouting in bathroom
- Clean bathroom window
- Wash shower curtain
- Declutter / clean bathroom cupboards
- Derust towel rail
- Wash duvet
- Wash pillows
- Clean hoover & filters
- Put air in car tyres
- Return Shein parcel
- Return drill
- Pay in cheque
- Buy ds birthday present
Mortgage Total: £51,549 / £75,000
Mortgage Overpayments Pot £12630
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