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An in-between phase
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It sounds like you’re subluxing more after the move. Did you plan an after move rest period? <looks at PiP with squinty eyes>0
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Can't be done @beanielou, too much to do! (Including apparently needing 300k more for a half decent modest place where we can both live and work and be nearish mum, but let's focus on the impossible 100k first 😂😭)
A rest day is needed @KajiKita but not until enough flat stuff is sorted that family friends can have some space and I'm not a day behind on the very crammed to-do lists!
I didn't @WelshmansDaughter *hangs head in shame* *head falls off*
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 -
Gives work til you drop a new meaning1
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Forgive me but I’m a bit worried about you and that if you keep going at this pace you might do yourself some serious mischief….. 🤷♀️
Could Mr PiP do a bit more or your mum help at all?KKAs at 15.01.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £222,084
- OPs to mortgage = £12,881 Estd. interest saved = £6,203 to date
c. 16 months reduction in term
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 9 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 27th January
Produce tracker: £36 of £400 in 2026
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.0 -
Well I was being worried about you on your diary so that's fair @KajiKita 😊
I'm fine really, just being knackered and complainy! Mr PIP is doing loads but also needs to do his full time job which I am very much in favour of for rent-paying purposes 😁 Mum is also very helpful but I'm not asking a woman in her 70s with an arthritic back to help shift boxes around!
All the things will be sorted soon enough.
Though several spec clients have raised their heads with election based work so will need to be making a superb effort at getting All The Things done over the next few weeks!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 -
Admin
Tidying
Comping
Shower and hairwash
25 minute walk dropping off LPAs 🤞
Stocked up on another couple of the discounted wines
Found a book which I adored (and was satisfyingly traumatised by) in my childhood, looking forward to reading it again decades later
Few more bits from mums
Bit more admin
Huge flat sortings
Laundry
Prepped the veg for dinner which is rice and kidney beans in a very tomatoey sauce with onion and garlic
20 minute walk for beer which I feel I've thoroughly earnt!
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 -
I've just caught up on your diary from the move and now I'm exhausted and I'm only reading along.... you rock!Made it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became
In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!0 -
Aw cheers @Watty1 That's a big compliment coming from someone who has been doing as excellently as you have!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 Carmichael0 -
oh now I want to know what the childhood book is please? some of the best reads are re-reads many years later.
I live in hope that one day I will find a copy of Erich Kastners 35th May on a charity shelf in a supermarket.My mortgage free diary: +++ Divide by Cucumber Error. Please reinstall universe and reboot+++
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Yes please do tell us which book! I hope it hits the same ⭐️Not all who wander are lost - J.R.R.Tolkien
🌊 A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor 🌊
My WW and friends diary is here 😁 …
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6259606/must-try-harder/p11
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