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An in-between phase

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  • LadyWithAPlan
    LadyWithAPlan Posts: 3,744 Forumite
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    Haven't checked @dawnybabes, I don't like to pressure Ernie 😂 I'm sure your big win is coming, remember your mse pals when you're rich!

    The mask is terrifying @LadyWithAPlan, I look like an online hacker with a side hustle in sloppy serial killing who would ruin a thriller by being so inept I got found out a few pages in and no-one would have got their money's worth 😁
    That sounds like a fab pub experience 😊
    When I first wore mine my mum laughed straight for 5 mins.. however if we do ever get burglars my mask is going straight on - they will think they have wandered into some dark and twisted nightmare ;) 

    I checked and  no Ernie
    DON'T BUY STUFF (from Frugalwoods)
    No seriously, just don’t buy things. 99% of our success with our savings rate is attributed to the fact that we don’t buy things... You can and should take advantage of discounts.... But at the end of the day, the only way to truly save money is to not buy stuff.    Money doesn’t walk out of your wallet on its own accord.
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6289577/future-proofing-my-life-deposit-saving-then-mfw-journey-in-under-13-years#latest
  • That is a superb idea @LadyWithAPlan
    A little gleeful hand rub and "welcome to my.. home" should complete seeing them off 
  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 4,306 Forumite
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    Absolutely knackered today, don't know why. Hibernation time I guess! Nice getting some more wear out of my jumpers this summer 😁

    Tidying
    Got 70p for a ziffit book
    Admin

    Entered a few comps by post
    Couple of receipt surveys
    Comping

    Spec work
    30 minute walk dropping off fabrics recycling
    Found 1p

    Bits from mums
    Ziffit book accepted for 8p taking me to £4.99🤦‍♀️

    Going to try to get a few more bits done but think I may have reached my limit. Exhausting day coming up tomorrow with all the election spec work to do. I do enjoy an election though

    Dinner is food co-op fresh pasta from the freezer and lazy cupboard sauce. Big shout out to whoever invented sauce in a jar


  • stymied
    stymied Posts: 655 Forumite
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    Can you combine your & Mr Pip’s Ziffit piles to get to enough? Do you get a bonus 5% for a higher amount?

  • Blackcats
    Blackcats Posts: 3,872 Forumite
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    It takes a lot of books to get to £5 at the prices the online sites pay.  Well done for persevering.  I've got a big bagful off my mum's books - I'm still at the "getting a round 2 it" stage of listing them.
  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 4,306 Forumite
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    Nice thought @stymied but you can't combine baskets, we could try putting some into one but they're less likely to accept it as they already have one 'on hold' in the other persons basket, and you don't want to clear your basket as they may not re-accept them. There's no bonus for a higher amount afaik, but they do occasionally send out bonus codes so we're waiting to see if that occurs before the boxes get on our nerves!
    I still have quite a few books to read that will probably get ziffited, things I've picked up on Olio or the street that'll be interesting to read once but aren't so much my thing I'd read them again. 
    Though I have kept some of the ones I've read that are rather beyond my intellectual capabilities, to show off, even just to myself, that I have read them 😂
  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 4,306 Forumite
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    Good morning voters! Don't forget your photo I.D!

    Thought I'd make the most of the sun and start the day with a 15 minute walk so rolled outta bed early and went and voted

    Tidying
    Survey
    Admin
    Ebay listing
    Comping

    Now for the intense day of election watching work... already eyeing up pizza for dinner 😁

    Have a terrific Thursday everyone 
  • foxgloves
    foxgloves Posts: 12,553 Forumite
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    Hello PiP,
    We have also lined up pizza (& apparently Mr F HAS to have onion rings this time......) to help us get through the coming all-nighter. Haven't been to vote yet. Village polling station is within easy walking distance but we thought we'd go together when Mr F gets in from work. From the ping I've just had on my phone, it seems he has already got to Waitbl00m to pick up the shopping, no doubt motivated by that free coffee!
    F x
    2025's challenges: 1) To fill our 10 Savings Pots to their healthiest level ever
    2) To read 100 books (36/100) 3) The Shrinking of Foxgloves 5.9kg/30kg

    "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards" (Soren Kirkegaard 1813-55)
  • badmemory
    badmemory Posts: 9,576 Forumite
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    I don't think I will be doing an all nighter this time.  I'll just stay up long enough to check that things are running to plan.  Mine isn't due to be declared until 3.15-30, so if I sit up I will probably nod off just before they do.  Now I'm wishing I'd had my bedroom TV fixed.
  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 4,306 Forumite
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    Enjoy exercising your democratic right and pizza with essential onion rings @foxgloves!
    We have some leftover mozzarella sticks from the last pizza deal so may have to get involved in those...

    I might try tactical naps @badmemory, one of the advantages of middle age and having a hypermobile bladder is I know I'll be getting up in the night anyway 😁
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