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Cheery's path to fulfilment - finishing the DIY, looking after myself, appreciating the garden 🌻
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4.30am and somehow I'm the last to bed 🙄 mate it now though! Worn out, but am i worn out enough to sleep through an uncomfortable bed, a sleeping bag that could be slightly more fresh, and someone snoring in a tent just outside my (closed) window?? I guess we'll find out! 🙄😂9
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Gulp. Really hoping that you do /did sleep5
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Cheery_Daff said:4.30am and somehow I'm the last to bed 🙄 mate it now though! Worn out, but am i worn out enough to sleep through an uncomfortable bed, a sleeping bag that could be slightly more fresh, and someone snoring in a tent just outside my (closed) window?? I guess we'll find out! 🙄😂6
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Tescodealqueen said: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 Hemingway8 -
Sound like it was all jolly good fun, Cheery ☺️. Hope you are not feeling too faded and run down today after your late night. I am another who much prefers an early morning to a late night these days, but the occasional late night still happens!Live the good life where you have been planted.
Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2022 - 15 carried over. Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2023 - 6 carried over. Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2024 - oops! My Frugal, Thrifty Moneysaving Diary6 -
4.30 am - far closer to getting up than going to bed in my world. Glad it was such good fun though.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 !!6 -
4.30 is usually closer to getting up time for me too! 😂😂
I did sleep... bit will need to sleep more later 😂 Mr Cheery woke me up, poking around the kitchen in search of snacks at 7.30 🙄 Obviously he went straight back to sleep (it didn't take me long, to be fair, although I've woken up when other people have gone to the loo too).
Sun is shining, sky is blue, and I might try to sneakily get up very quietly so I can have half an hour to myself on the swing before other people start appearing... some folk did go to bed about half 1 though so they might not be long...
Definitely an early night tonight 😂11 -
Wow - I'm amazed you lasted that long - I'd have made my excuse and retired by 11!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 8 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 16 mths)Psst...I may have started a diary!8
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rtandon27 said:Wow - I'm amazed you lasted that long - I'd have made my excuse and retired by 11!
Most people have gone now, but a couple of people went for a bike ride and are going to stay over again tonight which is lovely 🥰11 -
Omg cheery, sounds like a great night! I had a friend over a few weeks ago, we went out for a meal and then fell asleep on the sofa bed together at 10:30pm, she's mid 40s and I'm 39, so I admire you being able to stay up until 4:30am! 🤣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!6
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