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Progress not Perfection
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Agreed.Cherryfudge said:I hope Mr SA wakes up feeling better. Christmas can be quite a pressurised time so perhaps he's reacting to that.
Hope he wakes up feeling better.2 -
Thanks for the Masked Singer heads up!
Might as well nab bargains if you can if you know you'll need to buy them anyway
Hope Mr SA is feeling a bit better
Enjoy your prosecco and veggie burgers 🥂https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase/p1
'self-blame can be as egotistical as self-praise... any work worth doing is greater than we are... we must not overrate our importance to it, either for good or ill' Margaret Kennedy Lucy Carmichael2 -
Another one wishing Mr SA well...
I've got to get TV sorted...I am missing out!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
Emergency fund 350/1000
Buffer fund 100/100
Debt Free (again) 25/07/20252 -
Mr SA thinks he has concussion! He says he banged his head over a week ago goodness knows how. Also his back hurts. To say he was seriously ill 12 years ago, had several ops on his brain, gruelling chemo and a stem cell transplant, he can’t bear the slightest discomfort or ache and if he could take a pill for a broken fingernail he would.Apart from the walk to/from the big Mr T which was just over 10,000 steps, I feel like I’ve been quite lazy today and I don’t like the feeling. I’ve done a few surveys which I’ve been a bit lapse with of late. Plus some ironing and tidying up. The weather was awful from lunchtime onwards so not fit to go out again. I need to give myself a kick up the a$$ tomorrow as it’s my last day off work. Dreading going out into the dark and cold on Monday morning and pounding the pavements into the office 😭I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)6
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Hope he gets over his hangover concussion soon.
(And my sincere apologies if he genuinely does somehow have concussion)
Gosh you sound terribly lazy with your 10,000 steps, surveys, ironing, and tidying, buck your ideas up 👀😂
Is there any annual leave left you can book to look forward to?https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase/p1
'self-blame can be as egotistical as self-praise... any work worth doing is greater than we are... we must not overrate our importance to it, either for good or ill' Margaret Kennedy Lucy Carmichael4 -
That made me laugh! Not that I'm not sympathetic with him because obviously to him it's not nice, but a broken fingernail...Sun_Addict said:if he could take a pill for a broken fingernail he would.
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
2024: Trainers 5, dress 7, slippers 5, 2 prs socks (gift) 2, 3 prs white socks 3, t-shirts x 2 10, 6 prs socks: mostly gifts 6, duvet set 7.5 = 45.5/68 coupons
20.5 coupons used in 2020. 62.5 used in 2021. 94.5 remaining as of 21/3/223 -
I’ve got 15 days leave to last me until the end of August. This is after taking 2 weeks off at the end of April to go to Lanzarote for a week. I like to use my leave to meet up with friends or when the weather is good. It won’t be busy at work next week, so once I’ve ticked the box of having logged on in a physical office for a couple of hours I’ll be heading back to my home office. I’m just covering in case anything kicks off really.PennysIntoPounds said:
Is there any annual leave left you can book to look forward to?I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)6 -
Sounds good, you'll be grand. Get yer steps in, very little urgent work to do, probably no-one there so you can stick some tunes on, happy days.
I was getting worried that I hadn't heard Mariah on the radio but it came on the other day so the high notes in All I Want For Christmas were traditionally massacred 😂https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase/p1
'self-blame can be as egotistical as self-praise... any work worth doing is greater than we are... we must not overrate our importance to it, either for good or ill' Margaret Kennedy Lucy Carmichael3 -
Hope Mr SA is feeling better. He may be starting this weird virus that seems to be going round. It seems to have all sorts of odd symptomsMaking the debt go down and savings go up
LBM 2015 - debt £57K / Now £27,424....its going down
Mortgage Free December 9th 2024! 18mths ahead of schedule.Challenges
EF £1200/£3000
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Studies/surveys January £86.85
Decluttering items 1402/2025. 80/2026
Books read 23 in 2025. 2026- 3 (target is 52)
Jigsaws done 20 in 2025. 2 this year.
My debt free diary...https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6396218/we-will-get-this-debt-d£own-the-savings-up2 -
I will be with you next week SA holding the fort but WFH as the office is closed and no one really understands why our team has to work 🤷🏻♀️.Life is an adventure, never stop exploring.2
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