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Enjoyed Rod too.Enjoy meeting your Scottish team mate. We are a good bunch.I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.
Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.3 -
Lovely to meet up with your colleague at long last!"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 McGee1
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Good for you telling Mr SA he broke it so he needs to fix it. Do check he's done it properly before using though!
Wasn't Rod's set good. No excuse for the rest of us if Rod is 80 and Lulu is 76!https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase
Books read 2025: 56
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& Ronnie Woods is 78 I think!I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.
Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.2 -
Finished work at 2 then came home. The air con made me so cold I had goose bumps and it started to get unbearable, it was like working inside a fridge. When I stepped outside it felt like walking into an oven by contrast.Sat outside reading for an hour then did a bit of garden tidying. I hate being indoors when it’s hot.Changed and washed the bedding and put it on the line to save a job in the morning.Did the energy saving hour as did the cooking and washing before it started.The garden waste bin is being collected tomorrow according to the text. It’s the normal collection date. Hopefully they won’t miss our road off this time!As expected the dog’s insurance has gone up but only by £2 a month so will stay with them. I can’t imagine I’d get a better price elsewhere. Not that you can claim for anything though!Spent £2.73 in Lid! so I’ve hit the target for the free cleaning item on the final day 🥳
Although I didn’t particularly feel like doing the weights class I did it and really enjoyed it. Also listened in to 2 food inspiration/recipe ideas workshops while I was cooking/cleaning and jotted down a few new recipe ideas.I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)6 -
Forgot to add - in gardening news I have my first two blueberries. I won’t eat them all at once 😆I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)8
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I enjoyed Rod Stewart and guests too. I'd much rather watch it at home than try to find my tent in the dark and queue for the loos.1
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How old is your blueberry bush? I bought one last autumn & it says 2-3 years before it fruits. I wonder if it needs a bigger pot already though.Sun_Addict said:Forgot to add - in gardening news I have my first two blueberries. I won’t eat them all at once 😆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
EF #68 £650/£3000
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Studies/surveys October £21.15
Decluttering items 1202/2025
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Caught up with your diary just three hundred others to catch up on 😀How nice to be able to meet your Scottish colleague, I hope you had fun. Dont you go eating all those blue berries at once 😀I had a blue berry bush when I got my first lot of chickens and I forgot to cover it up one day while they were out in the garden and they stripped it bare in about ten minutes 😩they even ate the leaves and it died shortly afterOriginal Debt Owed Jan 18 = £17,630 Paid To Date = £6,736 Owed = £10,8943
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I bought it last year, it's in a really big pot. I've had one before and it produced a lot of fruit eventually.Makingabobor2 said:
How old is your blueberry bush? I bought one last autumn & it says 2-3 years before it fruits. I wonder if it needs a bigger pot already though.Sun_Addict said:Forgot to add - in gardening news I have my first two blueberries. I won’t eat them all at once 😆I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)3
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