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An in-between phase

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  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 4,271 Forumite
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    edited 2 December 2024 at 10:19PM
    Me and @South_coast need answers goshdammit!
    *shakes fist in general direction of wine drinking based 'scientific research'*

  • 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
    Admin
    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

  • dawnybabes
    dawnybabes Posts: 3,330 Forumite
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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 :j
  • 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 🤭
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  • Watty1
    Watty1 Posts: 6,706 Forumite
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    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 !!
  • Congrats @dawnybabes and your mum, what a win!

    Well done @Watty1, fingers crossed for us...

    Bound to @WinterWarrior 😁
  • Tidying
    Admin
    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
  • KajiKita
    KajiKita Posts: 7,476 Forumite
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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? 

    KK
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  • 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



  • South_coast
    South_coast Posts: 5,832 Forumite
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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 😀😀😀
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    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!!!
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