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Saving lots in pots!

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  • ~FlowerPot~
    ~FlowerPot~ Posts: 1,593 Forumite
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    edited 1 January at 10:20PM
    Sya, I will post pics when I make a nice dinner. Tonight was use up a and not very healthy at all. Not the best start to the year. But also better than throwing bits away! 
    SM order coming tomorrow to replenish v low stocks and lots of healthy bits and fresh stuff. 

    Gone through some books that I don't need so I'm now on 29 / 2025 on my deck uttering mission. Another one of the challenges,!
    I hope this motivation lasts!

    I need to book a tip trip for Saturday and load up the car as the lean too has a lot of bits to go including an unfixable garden shredder and wood from a wooden bench which colasped in the summer! 
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  • ~FlowerPot~
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    Decluttering is up to 87 / 2025. So far its been easy. I suspect it will get much harder. But prob not yet for a while.

    Been to work, was nice to see my lot, todays ones are lovely, although the wife of the last couple does nothing but moan!! ANd mostly its directed at her long suffering husband. I really dont know How he puts up with it!!

    Toscos have been and We hare having an easy tea of jacket pots and mine will be topped with humous and green leaves. Yum!

    Its been a NSD today yippee

    Last night i got out and had a look at my phonecard collection!!!!!, ~ from the 90s, when i actually used phonecards to ring home from uni!! I need to let these go, will try and sell some, the unused ones. But they are hardly worth anything these days. I am also hoping to sell an inherited stamp collection. Neither take up very much room, but they need to go.

    Gratefuls:
    Lovely patients who are good to talk to!
    SM delivery service, its so nice to have food delivered to the door ~ I love not having to go to the SM!!!
    HAving DS2 at home to help me unload and put away said delivery!!!!!! Hes going back next week and will be much missed!!
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  • Skint_yet_Again
    Skint_yet_Again Posts: 8,157 Forumite
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    Well done on the decluttering flowers. 

    Wow I had forgotten about phone cards! Have just been down a rabbit hole looking at them online 😆  It’s hard to get rid of things that hold sentimental memories. I take a pic on my phone before getting rid of such items these days so I can still take a trip down memory lane but I still keep loads that will mean nothing to others once I’m gone 😂

    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).

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  • ~FlowerPot~
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    I might hold on to 1 or 2,but otherwise they are going. I don't need them and want to simplify things! 
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  • ~FlowerPot~
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    Gorgeous morning out there today, I just had a lovely walk around the frosty garden and took some pics of the ice!




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  • Pretty pictures 😍 I can see it out the window but haven't ventured out into it yet. I've got a bit of a chill and am finding it cold enough in the house with the heating on 😆
    MORTGAGE BALANCE January 1st £118,267.06

    Savings:-
    EF:- £1300/3000
    MOP:- £452.23/ 1200
    Ski trip:- £200/1200
    Driving lessons:- £200/1200

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  • Doris17
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    Lovely photos flower, very cold and icy here as well this morning.

    "Make Everyday Count"



  • MovingForwards
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    Happy New Year and what a start you've made already.
    Mortgage started 2020, aiming to clear 31/12/2029.
  • ~FlowerPot~
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    edited 4 January at 12:28PM

    Thanks DFW and Doris ~ I love a good frosty photo and my phone camera seems to be up for the job!

    THanks MF, ~ Hope your doing well and not too snowed in!
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  • ~FlowerPot~
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    edited 4 January at 12:35PM
    First weekend in the new year and we have nothing planned, lovely!!
    I have been pottering, tidying bits up and cleaning the kitchen (a bit!)
    Wash number 2 is on. Outside the bird feeders are refilled and I must check the water trough. The ground is frosty, but not as much as Friday, but it feels colder as the sun is firmly behind the thick band of cloud.

    I had some annoying post yesterday, A penalty notice!!! I was driving in Cardiff one day before xmas, was rather stressed and not a clue where I was going, looking for a specific car park which I missed the turning for so driving around and seemed to have ended up in a bus lane!!! oops!!! First time thats ever happened, so at least its not a common occurence!! I was thinking Cardiff was quite a nice place, but i've gone off it a bit now!!!

    Next job is to get my decluttering numbers up to 150, looking for easy wins!!! Plus I end up tidying up which is a double win!!


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