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Progress not Perfection
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Glad you put your foot down over Top Gear…..can you watch your programme on catch up. Dh is watching Back to The future……must have seen it hundreds of times over the years. I’ve been out most of the day though and he was already watching when I came in…so I’ve picked my iPad up for a catch up.
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I always end up with Top Gear when its on. At least Mr LH is totally anti sports so I dont get that.1
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Love a bit of Benidorm, we always watch it if we are channel hopping with nothing to watch. Also love the old TG special episodes, could watch them many times...in fact we already have....lol. Seems to be rubbish on TV at the moment, think its the time of year. Just lately we have watched Canal Diaries, which I find very relaxing and love watching anything that involves people travelling, we watch all the travel programs and stuff like that. . Tonight will be football.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 £550/£3000
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Studies/surveys September £18.30
Decluttering items 1198/2025
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Jigsaws done 11
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Makingabobor2I agree about rubbish TV at the moment. We have got Star Trek TNG on at the moment for the umpteenth time. Hence me being on here.1
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ladyholly said:Makingabobor2I agree about rubbish TV at the moment. We have got Star Trek TNG on at the moment for the umpteenth time. Hence me being on here.Star Trek 😞 - I would lose the will to live.I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)2
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But, but, but... Sewing Bee is back! And Repair Shop!
Signed, the great escapistI think a bit of sunshine is good for frugal living. (Cranky40)
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Another weekend gone 😢
Today was going well until Mr SA royally cheesed me off 😡
Enjoyed a coffee with my book in my hanging chair this morning. Then took the dog on the park. After lunch we took the dog to the local fair which wasn’t as good as Mr SA had painted it, but if you’d got young kiddies it was good, plenty of rides for them.I told Mr SA not to water the garden and greenhouse plants as they needed feeding. After we got back from the fair I fed and watered everything and told I’d done so. Despite this he insisted on flooding everything with the hosepipe. I tried to stop him but he was like a person possessed and just carried on regardless. He then headed towards the greenhouse. I eventually managed to stop him but not without a heated argument 🤬 I’m still cross with him, I felt like I couldn’t make him see reason. It annoys me so much that he undermines everything I try to do.Did a 20 minutes yoga session on the FitOn app then had a nice soak in the bath with a face pack and a glass of wine to calm down.Anyway …
Made a batch of butternut squash, apple and ginger soup for work lunches. I had a couple of apples past their best so this got them used. Outside of my comfort zone as I don’t usually mix sweet and savoury. However the soup is lovely and doesn’t taste of apples at all 🤣Tonight’s dinner was air fried Rosemary salmon with air fried new potatoes and steamed veg.And I’m still cheesed off and have told Mr SA his sister can look after him 🤬I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)6 -
My OH decided today to try and mend the broken toaster that we have had for years. After much banging and rattling he gave up. What really annoyed me was that if any equipment he has to use to do a job, breaks, well before you can count to a 100, he is googling and ordering himself a new one. Glass of wine works wonders for me as well, enjoy.xx:j Debtfree and and staying that way.:j3-6 month emergency fund, No.61 £140.002
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Blimey. That’s dire. I don’t know how you do it.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****
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***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
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Oh dear. I do think he has been trying your patience such a lot lately. Maybe the threat of his sister will do the trickMaking 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 £550/£3000
.
Studies/surveys September £18.30
Decluttering items 1198/2025
Books read 17
Jigsaws done 11
My debt free diary...https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6396218/we-will-get-this-debt-d£own-the-savings-up2
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