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An in-between phase
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Me and @South_coast need answers goshdammit!
*shakes fist in general direction of wine drinking based 'scientific research'*
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Today's advent jewellery is a vintage necklace I inherited many years ago. It wasn't really my style then but I'm quite enjoying it today
Survey
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Tidying
Comping
Found out theres a new creme egg competition which I will thoroughly enjoy speculating to accumulate for 😁
No PB win for me this month. I expect the universe didn't want me to become overwhelmed what with all the hampers that must be arriving soon
Popped over to mums to print labels for my vinted sale and Mr PIP's ebay sale
Found a pile of books on the street
Went to drop off vinted sale but their machine wasn't working- however I did find another pile of books on the street!
Bedroom clean
Ten minute stroll for a few extra steps
A third wussy situps
20 minute walk with Mr PIP to WFP, he's out gallivanting with various work related Christmas do's for the rest of the week so I'm taking advantage of having some chill but productive beer time with him now
Made myself do a tedious listing
Dinner is remnants of our takeaway pizza with salad
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Ernie was smiling at me this month, 1 x £25 and 1x £50. My mum was delighted to win £500 🥰🥰🥰Sealed pot challenge 822
Jan - £176.66 :j2 -
No win for me this month either, but extra well done to @dawnybabes mum! That’s amazing!
I do hope I’ll be getting some hampers as compensation too 🤭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/p10 -
Yay! Was reminded to check PB and found I had won £25. Automatically reinvested. I also entered a competition to win a years wine and found it was limited to £765 - which at say £14 a bottle would be 1 a week - but - might be as much as 2 bottles a week. Which would be a lovely prize! Hopefully we both win ours!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 !!2 -
Congrats @dawnybabes and your mum, what a win!
Well done @Watty1, fingers crossed for us...
Bound to @WinterWarrior 😁1 -
Tidying
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Spec work
Survey
Shower and hairwash
30 minute walk, dropped off vinted sale, got two bottles of the fancy bargain wine, found 1p
Comping
20 minute walk picking up an olio book
Spec work
Three receipt surveys
Entered some competitions, today I'm mostly looking forward to winning a bundle of luxury bits and bobs but I also promise not to spend the £250 supermarket voucher entirely on creme eggs
Have seriously hit a wall but hoping to revive and do some spec work, carpet walks, a listing, and other small things on the to-do list this evening
Dinner is mums cauliflower cheese from the freezer
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Are crème eggs already out??! 😳😂
Hoping your enjoying the fancy bargain wine 😊
If you’ve seriously hit a wall, maybe give yourself a break this evening?
KKAs at 15.07.25:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £233,521
- OPs to mortgage = £11,338 Interest saved £5225 to date
Fixed rate 3.85% ends January 2030
Read 36 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 19th July
Produce tracker: £205 of £300 in 2025
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.0 -
Couldn't find any in any shops today @KajiKita so no apparently 😂
Had a baileys and rallied, did:
25 minute carpet walk
Most blatant Christmas present wrapped
Free listing listed which doesn't help flat pot but will free up some space
Tiny bit of spec work
Sorted out a pile of bits most likely to be bought for Christmas to list
P.S. Advent piece today is costume jewellery earrings, bit too unsubtle for daily, bit too subtle for dressing up. They're pretty and classy looking and I'm enjoying giving them an outing
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I made the mistake of spotting the calorie content on a bottle of Baileys the other day. Then x10 to work out the total content of the 1l bottle I was holding (as opposed to the per 100ml they tried to make it more palatable with)....
Suffice to say I drank it in double-quick time to put it behind me and out of the house 😀😀😀Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
Cleared 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed
Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!0
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