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An in-between phase

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  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 5,064 Forumite
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    Usuals

    Carpet walk

    Flat clean

    Nice Sunday stroll with Mr PIP for Sunday beer 🍻
  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 10,481 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Mortgage-free Glee!
    Where are the half wussy situps?
    Pleased you had a stroll and Sunday pint with Mr PiP
    If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them

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  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 5,064 Forumite
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    Aaand yesterday evening largely spent doing build admin

    Ach you're a hard taskmaster @doingitanyway 😁

    Today's doings:

    Usuals
    Couple of receipt surveys
    Listing

    I am tired. Build admin has worn me down.
    Ah well, got to keep soldiering on.

    Shower and hairwash with free toiletries

    Free exercise of half wussy situps (see DIA, I got round to them 😂)

    Laundry with free conditioner

    Steps dropping off a vinted sale

    Survey money, shares to usual pots
    Aim £1063.66
    Got £18.50

    Build admin

    Dinner is cupboard sauce with olio spaghetti 


  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 5,064 Forumite
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    I have one left to get on a crossword and it is driving me mad

    End of road in Yorkshire?

    A _ M

    An end could be an aim. Or it could be that A1 (AI) is the road. Or even M1 (MI) at a stretch...


  • badmemory
    badmemory Posts: 10,095 Forumite
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    Well it has got to be either aim or arm.  Arm as in Yarm
  • foxgloves
    foxgloves Posts: 12,879 Forumite
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    I would say 'Aim' because that stretch of motorway is actually called the A1(M).
    F
    2025's challenges: 1) To fill our 10 Savings Pots to their healthiest level ever
    2) To read 100 books (46/100) 3) The Shrinking of Foxgloves 8.1kg/30kg

    "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards" (Soren Kirkegaard 1813-55)
  • Debsnewbudget
    Debsnewbudget Posts: 924 Forumite
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    Agree with Foxgloves 
    A1(M)
  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 5,064 Forumite
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    Thank you @badmemory @foxgloves @Debsnewbudget much appreciated 🍻


    Usuals

    Steps getting essentials, found 3p

    Got a free perfume sample in the post

    Build admin

    Actual client job, yay

    Steps walking to local (with camra discount) to WFP with Mr PIP

    Dinner is very mse and very cosy cheesy mash potato with baked beans 😊
  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 5,064 Forumite
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    edited 14 October at 4:39PM
    Extra reward for you @foxgloves is that Mr PIP is kicking himself 😁
  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 10,481 Forumite
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    Lovely comfort food  :)
    If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them

    Emergency fund 350/1000
    Buffer fund 100/100
    Debt Free (again) 25/07/2025
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