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  • Makingabobor2
    Makingabobor2 Posts: 4,180 Forumite
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    My last Oat of the month is to make up some more natural weedkiller & spray. 
    Making the debt go down and savings go up

    LBM 2015 - debt £57K / Now £28,744....its going down

     Mortgage Free December 9th 2024!      18mths ahead of schedule.  Since 2022 we paid over £15K in OPs.

    Challenges

    EF #68  £410/£3000
    .
    Fiver Friday '25 #10 £15

    Studies/surveys  July £58.64

    Decluttering items 729
    Books read    12
    Jigsaws done  8

    My debt free diary...https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6396218/we-will-get-this-debt-d£own-the-savings-up


  • Cheery_Daff
    Cheery_Daff Posts: 17,091 Forumite
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    My big OAT for today is submitting my promotions form - lots of work still to do but getting there!
  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 4,239 Forumite
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    Great work gang.

    I have dun the financials and feel much relieved to have got it off the to-do list 
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase

    Books read 2025: 32
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 95,349 Ambassador
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    PennysIntoPounds said:
    Great work gang.

    I have dun the financials and feel much relieved to have got it off the to-do list 
    well done. 
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  • greent
    greent Posts: 10,748 Forumite
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    Am loving this thread 😊 Are there plans for Munching May Oats (or whatever name works!)? X
    I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul
    Repaid mtge early (orig 11/25) 01/09 £124616 01/11 £89873 01/13 £52546 01/15 £12133 07/15 £NIL
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  • weenancyinAmerica
    weenancyinAmerica Posts: 1,990 Forumite
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    I have three cats to de-flea today. Expensive stuff too. May take most of the day. Trying to sneak up on them.
  • Makingabobor2
    Makingabobor2 Posts: 4,180 Forumite
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    Well I didn't get the weeds done, so will be carried over to May, but I did take a load of stuff to charity shop and also finally sorted out the final payment for a holiday we have in November. 
    Making the debt go down and savings go up

    LBM 2015 - debt £57K / Now £28,744....its going down

     Mortgage Free December 9th 2024!      18mths ahead of schedule.  Since 2022 we paid over £15K in OPs.

    Challenges

    EF #68  £410/£3000
    .
    Fiver Friday '25 #10 £15

    Studies/surveys  July £58.64

    Decluttering items 729
    Books read    12
    Jigsaws done  8

    My debt free diary...https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6396218/we-will-get-this-debt-d£own-the-savings-up


  • greenbee
    greenbee Posts: 17,723 Forumite
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    @weenancyinAmerica - second cat is finally in, and is definitely suspicious :) either the first one told her, or she can smell the flea stuff on me despite multiple rounds of hand-washing.

    I've taken down some thermal curtains/blinds and started putting up light filtering blinds and fly screens. It's boring and takes ages, as I try to add a few more fly screens each year. 
  • Makingabobor2
    Makingabobor2 Posts: 4,180 Forumite
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    greent said:
    Am loving this thread 😊 Are there plans for Munching May Oats (or whatever name works!)? X
    That's a good title
    Making the debt go down and savings go up

    LBM 2015 - debt £57K / Now £28,744....its going down

     Mortgage Free December 9th 2024!      18mths ahead of schedule.  Since 2022 we paid over £15K in OPs.

    Challenges

    EF #68  £410/£3000
    .
    Fiver Friday '25 #10 £15

    Studies/surveys  July £58.64

    Decluttering items 729
    Books read    12
    Jigsaws done  8

    My debt free diary...https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6396218/we-will-get-this-debt-d£own-the-savings-up


  • redofromstart
    redofromstart Posts: 5,797 Forumite
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    I tidied the outside workshop, re-located some drawers and shelving units into the space I made and removed all of the rest of the tools and consumables from my bedroom en-suite to be.  Expensive power tools to the house workshop (insurance) and the rest of it up into the outside workshop on the relocated shelving.  It is far too hot to be covered in cobwebs and sawdust, and I had a pile of wood collapse on me so we celebrated the hard work with Pizza.  

    So much achieved this month by so many posters.  Thank you to PIP for organising it and I hope we go again for May as I have found it very helpful.
    My mortgage free diary: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6498069/whoops-here-comes-the-cheese

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