August NSD challenge
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Awesome August's No-Spend Days Challenge!
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It's one for me today please
Happy Friday everyone!
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declaring day 12.‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.’ David Lynch.
"It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.” David Lynch.0 -
Not today or tomorrow, I fear today could have been one, I snacked again...I wasn't looking forward to dinner...serves me right. Tomorrow I am buying a lamp for the spare room.1
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[Deleted User] said:Not to worry you have an excellent reason, and the whole point in all this is that you can afford to travel right?
@[Deleted User] and @KajiKita thank youKajiKita said:Hot Dog is right and you still have half the month to go ... yes there is half the month xx
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Not a NSD yesterday as went to see daughters new house. Not on a bus route so had to take a taxi. Took her an orchid as she she has always wanted one.
Today was a NSD pottered around .
up to 12 NSD now.
ilovetea xx
Make £2026 in 2026 £212-64
Declutter 160 items in 2026
NSD's in Jan. 24/20. Feb 18/202 -
Not yesterday - treated myself to a new knitting project (this time for me 😊).
Not today - just had to order a new mattress topper.KKAs at 17.03.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £219,071
- OPs to mortgage = £17,793 Estd. interest saved = £9,021 to date
c. 16 months reduction in term
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 26 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 12th April.
Produce tracker: £78 of £400 in 2026
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Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.2 -
The best type of knitting project...Enjoy.KajiKita said:Not yesterday - treated myself to a new knitting project (this time for me 😊).
Not today - just had to order a new mattress topper.KK3
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