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~FlowerPot~ said:Take away not happening,!
When i came home I went to bed, feeling rather off and bad tummy. Definetly don't want to eat a curry even if it is my birthday!!
Im gong to have a bit of toast and let them have curry!MORTGAGE BALANCE when we moved Aug 2024, £120,000. January 1st £118,267.06. May 1st, £116, 123, June 1st, £115,536, New mortgage added for extension- £165,000 July 1st!Mortgage Overpayments - September-December, £152.46. Jan £103.27, Feb £115, March £91.50, April £100, May £200, June £200. July £200.
Total- £1162.23
Goal to pay off 1% of current mortgage in one year. £1200. (96.83% there)
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Thank you
Birthdays are funny things, I'm usually glad when they are over!
Anyway woken up this morning and it's blowing a wholey!
I'm Still in bed and not sure I want to go anywhere out there!
I met up with a friend yesterday and had a toastie for lunch. Was lovekt to chat so things woo woo with a like minded person!!
Very unusual for me to meet up with a friend 3 times within a week. I think it's been months since the previous time!
🩷Gratefuls🩷
Friends
Warm bed
Food in the house♥️ ♥️ ♥️🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸Decluttering 2025 So far 403 / 2025
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Accountability list.
✅Tidy / clean bedroom / hoover
✅Change sheets
✅2x washes, actually did 3!
✅Clean Upstairs loo
Look In studio and try to work out what to do with a billion paintings!
✅Look at house healing for a friend
✅Work out something tasty for tea!
=Chicken and pea risotto, to use up some left over chicken I froze
So completed the list except for the paintings. I did go into the studio, but started fading with a painting when I should have been making decisions!!
It was also very cold out there si didn't stay very long♥️ ♥️ ♥️🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸Decluttering 2025 So far 403 / 2025
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Morning! I will pm youMORTGAGE BALANCE when we moved Aug 2024, £120,000. January 1st £118,267.06. May 1st, £116, 123, June 1st, £115,536, New mortgage added for extension- £165,000 July 1st!Mortgage Overpayments - September-December, £152.46. Jan £103.27, Feb £115, March £91.50, April £100, May £200, June £200. July £200.
Total- £1162.23
Goal to pay off 1% of current mortgage in one year. £1200. (96.83% there)
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Morning, very nearly made it to a NSD yesterday! . These are very rare over here.
I went on v1nted and found a fab top, new with tags for a tenner from a (not cheap) brand that. DD likes, so that's a Xmas pressie sorted.
Need to try and get a few more sorted this week.
Nothing planned for today, I should maje another list as they definitely make me more productive!
I still have over 2 weeks before I have a tooth out and the tooth has started to niggle again over the last couple of days. I really hope it stays at a low level niggle, i cant cope with the level of pain I had before.
😻😻Gratefuls😻😻
A quiet day with no plans
A good book to read
A good series on Netflix!
= any watch The good place, with Ted Hanson? Well they just realised a new show called The Man on the Inside. It's brilliant and there a few little nods to the good place which were fun to look out for.
I highly recommend, very funny and also very touching and sensitively done around aging and dementia♥️ ♥️ ♥️🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸Decluttering 2025 So far 403 / 2025
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Morning Flowers well done on the vinted top. Hope the tooth stays bearable 🤞0% credit card £1360 & 0% Car Loan £7500 ~ paid in full JAN 2020 = NOW DEBT FREE 🤗
House sale OCT 2022 = NOW MORTGAGE FREE 🤗
House purchase completed FEB 2023 🥳🍾 Left work. 🤗
Retired at 55 & now living off the equity £10k a year (until pensions start at 60 & 67).
Previous Savings diary https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5597938/get-a-grip/p1
Living off savings diary
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So been to toscos and bought a lovely xmas panettone treat. We were given one last year and so wanted another before they sold out! Also bought DS2 an advent calender to post to his uni.And got some xmas bits for DS1 and GF who wont be with us on xmas day, so they'll have a good bag and a bottle of baileys!Also ordered a coeliac cookbook for DS2, that will prb be a birthday gift as he has that coming up before xmas!I am building a wish list too!!!, oracle cards, a crystal grid, a crystal ball .....I have always fancied a crystal ball, but the large one are rather expensive!!! Not sure if I should add it!♥️ ♥️ ♥️🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸Decluttering 2025 So far 403 / 2025
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Monday, lovely monday, no work mondays!! long may they last!!!I took the doggo for a walk down on the sea front and i enjoyed it, he hated it!! He's such a nervous little thing, it was busy with people and dogs and it was windy, so im not really surprised he didnt enjoy it. Still hoping one day he will get used to it and enjoy being outside. Hes certainly interested in it all when hes in the car sniffing out the window!!Came home and had lunch, leftover risotto and then spent an hour and a half clearing up leaves in the back garden, filled the green bin.What even better is i got my next installment from my new clinic person, so have stashed that money with the previous. Its adding up nicely and Im not touching it. It will be used for the next meditation retreat!Gratefuls todayA lovely walk in the bight sunshineHands in the earth, grounding and taking a moment to be presentTime ~ today has be so lovely. No children, just me and the doggo.♥️ ♥️ ♥️🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸Decluttering 2025 So far 403 / 2025
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Loving the gratefuls and the xmas wishlist!MORTGAGE BALANCE when we moved Aug 2024, £120,000. January 1st £118,267.06. May 1st, £116, 123, June 1st, £115,536, New mortgage added for extension- £165,000 July 1st!Mortgage Overpayments - September-December, £152.46. Jan £103.27, Feb £115, March £91.50, April £100, May £200, June £200. July £200.
Total- £1162.23
Goal to pay off 1% of current mortgage in one year. £1200. (96.83% there)
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Thanks dFw
I'm trying to keep up with the gratefuls. I also try and do them every night, but often fall asleep before I manage 10!
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