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Progress not Perfection
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Enjoy hooping 👍 I used to skip 100 skips a day but haven’t picked the rope up for a long, long time. Don’t think I could do it now although it supposed to be a good form of exercise. My hula hooping has been with Mr Wiifit but again I haven’t been able to manage that for a good while.
The red circle with the cross in is bugging me too. I’m not even sure what it’s for.
Hope having a rant at Mr SA sinks in with him, but I suspect it won’t.January spends - £587.582 -
WinterWarrior said:I got a weighted hula hoop a few years ago…I could not do it..at..all 🤣Sealed pot challenge 822
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SuzeQStan said:dawnybabes said:SuzeQStan said:Thanks Cherry - when I went into MSE account settings for some reason it had all reset to no email notifications.
all sorted now won’t be missing SA’s updates anymore 😊👍🏻
not had any email notifications saying there are new messages here - trying again.Lancashire
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Could the red blob be create a new thread? Although it is rectangular on a desktop.
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badmemory said:Could the red blob be create a new thread? Although it is rectangular on a desktop.
How is your day going, SA?I think a bit of sunshine is good for frugal living. (Cranky40)
The sun's been out and I think I’m solar powered (Onebrokelady)
Fashion on the Ration 2025: Fabric 2, men's socks 3, Duvet 7.5, 2 t-shirts 10, men's socks 3, uniform top 0, hat 0, shoes 5 = 30.5/68
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That's Monday almost done. I've been in the office this morning and left just after lunchtime to finish up at home.
Walking to work this morning I passed an elderly bloke who really didn't look with it. He had on those socks they give you in hospital and what looked to be a hospital gown. A bloke pulled up in his car and asked me if I'd noticed him then said he would phone an ambulance. I carried on walking but started to feel really guilty for not stopping to help. I'm quite wary of this sort of thing at the moment after the incident with the ranting bloke the other week. Anyway I hope he was taken to safety.
Today is NSD 5, 2 in a row again 😁
Exercise is the walking to/from work and the live hooping class at 7, can't imagine I'll be doing much hooping though more likely to spend most of the time picking it up from the floor 🤣 There's a live Pilates class at 8 so might give that a go too. I don't usually do the Monday classes as they're a bit on the late side.
Tonight's dinner is enchiladas made with a portion of veg chilli from the freezer and a wrap also from the freezer.
I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)4 -
Hope the elderly chap was taken to safety. Think you were right to be a bit wary. Makes you wonder how someone had managed to "escape" from hospital undetected though.Making the debt go down and savings go up
LBM 2015 - debt £57K / Now £28,304....its going down
Mortgage Free December 9th 2024! 18mths ahead of schedule. Since 2022 we paid over £15K in OPs.Challenges
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My debt free diary...https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6396218/we-will-get-this-debt-d£own-the-savings-up3 -
Hopefully the chap wil have got the help he needed.January spends - £587.582
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Sorry you had your mindfulness disrupted.
That soup sounds great
That was a good deal with the resistance bands 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
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Morning all, happy Tuesday.
WFH today. The Mr M delivery has been and all packed away before 7am.
OMG the hooping class 🤣🤣🤣 I think I managed 3 before it fell down and that was after several attempts. The instructor had this huge hoop which just kept going round and round despite her barely moving. I've found loads of tutorials on YT so am determined to crack it - it will not defeat me 🤣
Today's exercise is taking the dog on the park later this morning, live bums & tums at lunchtime and live resistance bands tonight.
Tonight's dinner will involve veggie sausages out of the freezer - either Spanish butterbean stew or a traybake, not made my mind up yet.
Cleaning tasks are the bathroom and bedroom. I want to get it all done by Friday so I only have to vacuum/mop/dust at the weekend.I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)6
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