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  • badmemory
    badmemory Posts: 10,431 Forumite
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    How odd. My NHS dentist will hardly let me out until my next appt is booked.

  • Baileys_Babe
    Baileys_Babe Posts: 6,631 Forumite
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    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81910946#Comment_81910946

    Same here

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  • Sun_Addict
    Sun_Addict Posts: 25,179 Forumite
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    I agree @badmemory and @Baileys_Babe it's a strange way to carry on. I go to a private dentist and you can't leave without booking your next appointment. I'm there 5 times a year too!

    I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)
  • Sun_Addict
    Sun_Addict Posts: 25,179 Forumite
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    Happy Friday 😁

    Worked in the office this morning, WFH this afternoon. I usually do a short day on Fridays but am doing a full day today as I have a few niggly bits I want to get rid of.

    Picked up the free paper from W@itrose and free magazine from Mr T then dropped off some empty pill packs at B00ts for recycling on the way home.

    Then stopped off at Lid! where Mr SA met me to take the shopping.

    Quick finance check done. DD paid her board so that's been shuffled to the holiday pot. An oddment of £2 has gone to the Christmas pot.

    Today's exercise has been walking to/from work and I'm planning a short yoga session before I jump in the bath later.

    Tonight's dinner is Thai red lentil curry with rice mainly to use up the remnants of a Thai red curry paste in the fridge.

    Looking forward to sitting with my feet up tonight and not having to set my alarm for 4.30am.

    I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 98,537 Ambassador
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    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81911991#Comment_81911991

    Love this.

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  • jwil
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    Lovely photo!

    "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
  • milann
    milann Posts: 11,696 Forumite
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    The daffodils are a real spirit lifter. We’re heading to a NT garden in Wales on Monday - their daffs are usually spectacular if you time it right…..in previous years we’ve either been too early when they’re in bud or just as they’ve gone over. I’m hoping we’ll have timed it right this year then Dh is taking me out for dinner for Mother’s Day……we never do anything on the actual day as it’s busy and I’m sure many places hike the prices plus the place we’re going to is a chain that does good mid week offers 👍

    January spends - £587.58
  • foxgloves
    foxgloves Posts: 13,176 Forumite
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    We also popped into that little Waitbl00m this afternoon, @Sun_Addict, & I was given a free bunch of flowers! There was an assistant randomly handing out all the yellow stickered bunches to customers for free, as she said "we won't sell these now". So I now have a vase full of lovely sunny-coloured gerberas & interesting frondy things on top of my piano.

    2026's challenges: 1) To rebuild our Emergency Fund to at least £5k.
    2) To read 50 books (5/50) 3) The Re-Shrinking of Foxgloves 8.1kg/30kg
  • Sun_Addict
    Sun_Addict Posts: 25,179 Forumite
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    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81912801#Comment_81912801

    I missed you and the free flowers by a few hours. I was there late morning.

    I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)
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