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  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 10,151 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Mortgage-free Glee!
    A boot sale on a Sunday morning is a nice thing to do.
    Don't worry about the grocery bill. As you say, you are practicing a new way of eating. Health is wealth too!
    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 800/1000
    Buffer fund 0/100
    Debt Free (again) 25/072025
  • dawnybabes
    dawnybabes Posts: 3,436 Forumite
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    Love a good boot sale / charity shop ! 
    Sealed pot challenge 822

    Jan - £176.66 :j
  • jwil
    jwil Posts: 22,204 Forumite
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    A boot sale on a Sunday morning is a nice thing to do.
    Don't worry about the grocery bill. As you say, you are practicing a new way of eating. Health is wealth too!
    Thank you :)  I like that - health is wealth!  I will remember that one.

    Love a good boot sale / charity shop ! 
    Yes, it's always nice to have a mooch :)
    "Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee
  • jwil
    jwil Posts: 22,204 Forumite
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    PAD (Payment a Day)

    Today's PAD - £2

    Jan - £129
    Feb - £63
    Mar - £103
    Apr - £149
    May - £28
    "Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee
  • jwil
    jwil Posts: 22,204 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    PAD (Payment a Day)

    Today's PAD - £2

    Jan - £129
    Feb - £63
    Mar - £103
    Apr - £149
    May - £30
    "Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee
  • savingholmes
    savingholmes Posts: 29,034 Forumite
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    So pleased for you and your DH that he got a new, better paid, better hours job and so quickly. That's amazing. Will that mean the redundancy money when he gets it can replenish your EF?

    I'm with you on hating unnecessary meetings.
    Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
    1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £172.5K Equity 36.11%
    2) £1.6K Net savings after CCs 14/8/25
    3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £25.6K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.2K) = 31.4/£127.5K target 24.6% 1/9/25
    (If took bigger lump sum = 53.3K or 41.8%)
    4) FI Age 60 income target £17.1/30K 57% (if mortgage and debts repaid - need more otherwise)
    (If bigger lump sum £15.8/30K 52.67%)
    5) SIPP £4.8K updated 29/7/25
  • jwil
    jwil Posts: 22,204 Forumite
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    So pleased for you and your DH that he got a new, better paid, better hours job and so quickly. That's amazing. Will that mean the redundancy money when he gets it can replenish your EF?

    I'm with you on hating unnecessary meetings.
    Thank you.  Yes, that's the plan.  However, we don't really trust that he will get the redundancy without a fight. Hopefully it won't come to that. 
    "Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee
  • jwil
    jwil Posts: 22,204 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    PAD (Payment a Day)

    Today's PAD - £2

    Jan - £129
    Feb - £63
    Mar - £103
    Apr - £149
    May - £34
    "Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee
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