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Cheery's path to fulfilment - finishing the DIY, looking after myself, appreciating the garden 🌻
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Happy birthday weekend Cheery! Hope you have a lovely time! 🎂🥂Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway2 -
Happy birthday weekend, cheery! 🎂🎉🥳Mortgage Balance as of July 2025 £14,900.
Starting Mortgage Balance (June 2019) £72,000.
Aiming to be mortgage free by my 40th birthday, June 2026!2 -
Chiming in with more happy returns and many more to come !Tilly Tidying andPADing in 2024 £250.62
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RIP Mum & Dad - thanks for helping me on my journey to be
Debt and Mortgage free from 20182 -
Thank you all very much! 🥳
Lovely day so far 😊 11 for lunch 😮, then once there were only 2 left, another 2 arrived. Only those 2 left now, and Mr C has had to go out for a few hours so we're having a gentle few hours of clearing up and some wholesome tea 😊
Borrowed 2 gazebos from the Library of Things for £4 each. First one is up (no instructions or pegs 😂) and it's so huge I didn't even bother with the second (which describes itself as a 'plug in gazebo' 🤔) Might have to put that up tomorrow just to see how it works! 😂8 -
Happy birthday, sounds a lovely civilised day for you 🎂🎂🎂Sealed pot challenge 822
Jan - £176.66 :j2 -
Happy birthday Cheery! Hope you have a lovely weekend (sounds like it's started well!)"You won't bloom until you're planted" - Graffiti spotted in Newcastle.
Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind - Doctor Who
Total mortgage overpayments 2017 - 2024 - £8945.62!2 -
Happy birthday weekend, it all sounds lovely x2
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Happy birthday 🎂 🎂 🥳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 family2 -
Thank you for all your kind birthday wishes 😊🥳 I had a lovely weekend. There were 23 people here over the course of the weekend (not all at the same time!) and for the most part it was relaxed and cheerful and everyone got along 😊
Food worked pretty well too, mostly we just had a selection of bread, salad, cheese, hummus etc, plus there was a bit of soup and pasta. I made a meal for the 2 friends who stayed on Saturday night, and we concocted a platter for the two who turned up at 6pm on Sunday.
Gosh. Tired now though. From about 12pm on Saturday til 9pm yesterday there were people here, and I was talking pretty much constantly 😬😂 Feel like I need a week off to recover!
Very pleased I kept on top of washing up and tidying as we were going along though, so I've got up this morning, the kitchen is clean, my study is ready to work in, the gazebos are down and ready to go back to the library. All good.
Just need to get my act together to stop avoiding starting work 😬12 -
🤣 - work is over-rated - especially when recovering from a birthday weekend!4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)(With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)New projection - 14 YEARS 10 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 15 mths)Psst...I may have started a diary!5
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