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  • Vanlady
    Vanlady Posts: 208 Forumite
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    Hello, another one here also eeking  :D  it out today, so  19/21 please cathybird.

  • tiddles
    tiddles Posts: 477 Forumite
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    19/25 today please, Cathybird.

    I had some drinks at a family gathering yesterday, and am regretting it today, as I feel absolutely exhausted - that’ll teach me! 
  • cathybird
    cathybird Posts: 16,032 Forumite
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    edited Today at 10:58AM
    December AFD challenge 2025

    7 days = image 

    14 days = image  

    21 days = image 

    28 days = image 

    Target reached = image 

    Target beaten = image 

    Entire month = image 


    December targets


    BlueJ94 14/18  image  image  

    cathybird 23/21  image  image   image  image  image 

    Dark Sunday 9/14  image 

    doingitanyway 20/25  image  image  

    Dryjan 18  

    dustydigger 21 

    Jellybaby 13/TF  image 

    leftatthetrafficlights 22/20   image  image   image  image  image 

    maggiem 4/10 

    maman 14/10   image  image   image  image 

    oceandreamer 22/24  image  image   image 

    PriceySOS 23  

    redofromstart 22/20  image  image   image  image  image 

    RobM99 21/30   image  image   image 

    satchmo1 23/25   image  image   image 

    Season of Mist 21/25   image  image   image 

    sukeyboo 10/10   image  image 

    tiddles 19/25   image  image  

    Vanlady 19/21   image  image  

    Watty1 11/20   image 

    Wishus 20   

    WBF 6/14   


    To see December's results on phone or tablet, click here. See 2025 results here :)


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  • oceandreamer
    oceandreamer Posts: 672 Forumite
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    Must have forgotten to post yesterday so 20/24  please Cathybird.  Not sure about today yet as visiting friends.
  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 10,531 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Mortgage-free Glee!
    20/25 please @cathybird
    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 350/1000
    Buffer fund 100/100
    Debt Free (again) 25/07/2025
  • maman
    maman Posts: 30,174 Forumite
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    14/10 AFDs please@cathybird 

    Definitely wavered tonight but the reindeer helped. 👍
  • satchmo1
    satchmo1 Posts: 3,372 Forumite
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    22/25 for me today please.
    What would you get if all you got was what you were thankful for?
  • oceandreamer
    oceandreamer Posts: 672 Forumite
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    Happy to report that I stayed AF at friends house so 21/24 for yesterday please.  
  • satchmo1
    satchmo1 Posts: 3,372 Forumite
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    23/25 for me today please.
    What would you get if all you got was what you were thankful for?
  • oceandreamer
    oceandreamer Posts: 672 Forumite
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    And 22/24 for me today please.
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