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Living Large, on a Small Income, by the Sea.

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  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 4,390 Forumite
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    Hurrah for unexpected credit and walk and melon and brain work. Have a lovely evening 🥂
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 95,620 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    Enjoy your evening.
    I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.

    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.

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  • Sun_Addict
    Sun_Addict Posts: 24,081 Forumite
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    Fingers crossed for the job application 🤞
    I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)
  • Skint_yet_Again
    Skint_yet_Again Posts: 8,446 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Hung up my suit! Mortgage-free Glee!
    lol dia I haven’t cleaned most of my windows since I moved in 🤣 

    Good luck with the job application 🤞
    0% credit card £1360 & 0% Car Loan £7500 ~ paid in full JAN 2020 = NOW DEBT FREE 🤗
    House sale OCT 2022 = NOW MORTGAGE FREE 🤗
    House purchase completed FEB 2023 🥳🍾 Left work. 🤗

    Retired at 55 & now living off the equity £10k a year (until pensions start at 60 & 67).

    Previous Savings diary https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5597938/get-a-grip/p1

    Living off savings diary
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6429003/escape-to-the-country-living-off-savings/p1
  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 4,390 Forumite
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    Enjoy your saunter, it is chucking it down here

    I use a microfibre cloth for dusting, cheap and washable and I find it holds the dust better
  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 9,980 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Mortgage-free Glee!
    A quick walk as it started raining AGAIN...oh well good for the gardens.
    Thanks for the tip @PennysIntoPounds I have a dry microfibres cloth so I will do that  :)
    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 100/1000
    Buffer fund 0/100
    Debt Free (again) 25/072025
  • jwil
    jwil Posts: 21,992 Forumite
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    Good luck with the job application.
    "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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