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An in-between phase
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Think you need a large grey artwork…….
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and now I am alternating between Barbie and Saturday night for my internal hold music, thanks EH!
Much sympathy on the pink PIP
My mortgage free diary: +++ Divide by Cucumber Error. Please reinstall universe and reboot+++
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Love your suspicious mind @EssexHebridean but we can see from the tin of where one of the paints has come from how much of a difference there is between the label and the colour. It's fine, we'll live with it until we've got money and energy to do something about it. Everything else we will style out. As I said, the hallway green is lovely and what we actually envisaged *faints *
Cheers @beanielou 🙄😂
We have a lot of pictures @liselle so more of them may be going in the bedroom than initially thought 😁
Thanks @redofromstart. I have Dreaming of You by The Coral in my head if that helps
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 Carmichael4 -
As someone else who finally has an exact shade of green she has dreamed about for YEARS in place in her actual house after having been done out of it previously, I feel you on the green.
🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25
Balance as at 31/08/25 = £ 95,450.00. Balance as at 31/12/25 = £ 91,100.00
SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculatorshe/her4 -
I do like the generosity of folk on here who so kindly provide ear worms to each other.
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I think the worst ear-worm EVER for me was a song (& I use the word loosely) called 'Fish heads' introduced to me by Mr F.
2026's challenges: 1) To rebuild our Emergency Fund to at least £5k.
2) To read 50 books (5/50) 3) The Re-Shrinking of Foxgloves 8.1kg/30kg3 -
I am reminded why I painted everywhere white - not a fancy white - but trade white - and I love it
(the house previously to me having it painted to make it mine was green and pink and red and creams of various sludges, a not that nice yellow and a depressing grey most of which looked very different in pots than they did when they finally made it to the wall!).
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 !!4 -
We too have all white walls and ceilings with clotted cream coloured woodwork
Fashion on a ration 2025 0/66 coupons spent
79.5 coupons rolled over 4/75.5 coupons spent - using for secondhand purchases
One income, home educating family3 -
Bit of a feeling out of sorts day as quite sore, but endeavoured to buck my ideas up throughout
£225 on the PB, thank you Ernie x
Usuals
Four surveys
Receipt survey
Survey cashout, shares to usual pots
Aim £1112.45
Got £58.60 (Not that I'm complaining about earning interest but they've b*ggered up my nice neat 45 digits)
Half wussy situps (didn't want to but @doingitanyway made me 😁)
Carpet walk
Pub visit with Mr PIP (with camra discount)
Freeing up some freezer space with random pasta-y leftovers for dinner this evening 🥂
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 Carmichael6 -
My house too is all white apart from the odd wooden internal door. Once you are a non smoking household you can touch anything up & I did & do. Not even any pictures etc on the walls, a hang over from an ex-h who was inclined to run his finger across the top of them for dust.
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