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  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 10,863 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Mortgage-free Glee!
    Glad the new WM is in and you are happy with it  :)
    If 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

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  • jwil
    jwil Posts: 23,124 Forumite
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    Glad the new WM is in and you are happy with it  :)
    Thank you :)
    "Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee
  • beanielou
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    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    Great start on the PAD's.
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  • jwil
    jwil Posts: 23,124 Forumite
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    beanielou said:
    Great start on the PAD's.
    Thank you :)
    "Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee
  • jwil
    jwil Posts: 23,124 Forumite
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    Today's PAD - £2

    Jan - £141
    Feb - £139
    March - £89
    April £149
    May - £79
    June - £270
    July - £253
    August - £173
    September - £22
    "Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee
  • jwil
    jwil Posts: 23,124 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Today's PAD - £3

    Jan - £141
    Feb - £139
    March - £89
    April £149
    May - £79
    June - £270
    July - £253
    August - £173
    September - £25
    "Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee
  • jwil
    jwil Posts: 23,124 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Today's PAD - £3

    Jan - £141
    Feb - £139
    March - £89
    April £149
    May - £79
    June - £270
    July - £253
    August - £173
    September - £28
    "Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee
  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 10,863 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Mortgage-free Glee!
    The weekend sounds nice.
    Frugal September for me too  :)
    If 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 1400/1000
    Buffer fund 100/100
    Debt Free (again) 25/07/2025
  • jwil
    jwil Posts: 23,124 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    The weekend sounds nice.
    Frugal September for me too  :)
    Thank you :)  

    Good luck with frugal September.
    "Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee
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