Progress not Perfection

Cherryfudge

beanielou said:

Your figures are just awesome.

With 20,000 steps a day and that hoop, her figure will also be awesome.  

Makingabobor2

Brilliant savings & mortgage figure. 

beanielou

Cherryfudge said:

beanielou said:

Your figures are just awesome.

With 20,000 steps a day and that hoop, her figure will also be awesome.  

It certainly will 

Sun_Addict

Morning all, happy Tuesday.

WFH today. 

The Mr M delivery has been and all packed away, nothing missing or subbed but somehow I managed to add two packs of Tassimo latte pods to my order by mistake. We have a L'Or machine but fortunately I kept the old Tassimo machine and Mr SA will drink latte so not a complete waste of money. Note to self check the updated order carefully 🙄 The app was a bit over-sensitive last night and kept adding things to my basket randomly but fortunately I noticed all of them apart from the pods. Annoyed with myself as they were an unwanted spend in this week's grocery budget 🙁

Savings wise, I'm very aware I only have about 34 paydays until retirement so trying to save as much as I can without scrimping. I also want to get as many home improvements done as possible before then. This year's aim when one of the regular savers matures is to refurb the dining room. 

Today's exercise is dog walking later this morning, bums & tums at lunchtime and resistance bands tonight. I though my waist would ache today after the hooping but it feels ok. Going to have another practice with it today. 

Tonight's dinner is a portion of squash dhal leftover from Sunday. Food wise I'm on a mission to empty the small freezer this week so I can defrost it. There is a fair bit of space now in the main freezer so I should be able to squeeze everything in temporarily. The main freezer is frost free so don't have to worry about that one. 

7 weeks today we'll be at the airport 😎

PennysIntoPounds

Oh my goodness, 34 paydays til retirement is exciting and scary! Good idea to get big home things done/saved for beforehand if you can. What are you wanting with the dining room refurb?

EssexHebridean

Definitely a good idea to have a balance of getting things done ahead of retirement and also making sure you bolster savings as well. 34 paydays sounds like both quite a lot and not very many depending which way you look at it I think! 

We also earmark regular savers for specific purposes - the Coventry one was theoretically for the solar this time round to reduce the amount needing to be taken from long term savings. As I haven't gone for that one again I am now trying to work on using the money which would have gone across to it monthly to stash as much for it as possible - with luck we may not need to even touch all the Coventry money!

RelievedSheff

Oh how I wish I was only 34 pay days away from retirement   

(I'm not even going to work mine out it will only upset me  )

Sun_Addict

PennysIntoPounds said:

Oh my goodness, 34 paydays til retirement is exciting and scary! Good idea to get big home things done/saved for beforehand if you can. What are you wanting with the dining room refurb?

The ceiling re-plastered, coving removed, new flooring and painting. The walls were re-plastered a few years ago but we didn't bother with the ceiling. 

Sun_Addict

RelievedSheff said:

Oh how I wish I was only 34 pay days away from retirement   

(I'm not even going to work mine out it will only upset me  )

You don't as it would mean you're old 🤣 

Makingabobor2

Sun_Addict said:

RelievedSheff said:

Oh how I wish I was only 34 pay days away from retirement   

(I'm not even going to work mine out it will only upset me  )

You don't as it would mean you're old 🤣 

Age is just a number and has nothing to do with how you feel.  Don't know what age you are planning to retire, but I am 66 now and feel better than I did when I was 56...lol.  I'm pretty sure you are fit and healthy with all the walking and healthy eating you do, so I'm sure you'll be fine.