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  • Blackcats
    Blackcats Posts: 3,939 Forumite
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    That's tough @Blackcats, well done for your support. Thank goodness they're happy there, what a relief for all
    Care home took my elderly relative to a Tom Jones concert last week which they loved and even remembered 2 days later.  Made me very happy to know they had such a fun time.  Meanwhile we continue to try to wade our way through the quagmire of forms and poorly explained roles, responsibilities and abbreviations of anything technical.  Judging by your experience with your build "it's not unusual" 🤦‍♀️

  • KajiKita
    KajiKita Posts: 8,020 Forumite
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    I have checked my blood test results. All where they should be, so all good :)

    I have also got myself organised and put p0st-its in my diary for when certain things need to be remembered (ordering bark and sterile compost, booking gardener to sort out my compost bins, renewing passports etc.) over the next few months. I have used P0st-its so if they slip for any reason I can move them on in my diary until they are done.

    KK
    As at 15.08.25:
    - When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £232,244
    - OPs to mortgage = £12,148  Interest saved £5,738 to date
    Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030

    Read 48 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 31st August
    Produce tracker: £353 of £300 in 2025

    Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
    Watch your words, they become your actions. 
    Watch your actions, they become your reality. 
  • badmemory
    badmemory Posts: 9,819 Forumite
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    I went one better & threw the plughole protector in the bin a few months ago.
  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 4,569 Forumite
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    Ha yep that's been done a few times @badmemory, fortunately have so far realised and fished it back out, just to make a manky job that bit mankier!
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase

    Books read 2025: 48

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  • rachmac3
    rachmac3 Posts: 477 Forumite
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    Well done on the vinted listing!! 
    I too am very proud of you (because I too have been putting it off for months and you've beaten me). 

    Debts                 04/01/25        01/09/25   

    Tesco CC          £6,509.97       £5,930 (now NatWest2)
    NatWest CC      £7,612.74      £6,905
    Lloyds CC          £6,112.60      £4,943.12
    1st Direct CC     £176.03         £6.68
    CC total             £20,411.34   £17,784.80
    TSB OD             £500             £0
    1st Direct OD     £600             £250 (0%)
    Car loan             £4,000          £4,000
    1st Direct Loan  £10,684.44   £9,005
    Total                  £36,195.78   £30,789.80
    EF £500
  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 4,569 Forumite
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    Thanks @rachmac3. We need to sort our listings lives out. It is so daft having things we don't want instead of possibly getting money we do want.
    Fancy doing an hour together this week where we just bloody list things whether we're in the mood or not? One hour at an agreed time, see how much we can get done? 
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase

    Books read 2025: 48

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  • rachmac3
    rachmac3 Posts: 477 Forumite
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    Eek! My stomach flipped reading that!
    Errrrrmmmm ....ok, go on then!
    It's easy right? Everybody does it. Just need to get on with it, then I'll be laughing at myself for putting it off for so long.

    Debts                 04/01/25        01/09/25   

    Tesco CC          £6,509.97       £5,930 (now NatWest2)
    NatWest CC      £7,612.74      £6,905
    Lloyds CC          £6,112.60      £4,943.12
    1st Direct CC     £176.03         £6.68
    CC total             £20,411.34   £17,784.80
    TSB OD             £500             £0
    1st Direct OD     £600             £250 (0%)
    Car loan             £4,000          £4,000
    1st Direct Loan  £10,684.44   £9,005
    Total                  £36,195.78   £30,789.80
    EF £500
  • greent
    greent Posts: 10,801 Forumite
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    I do my listings just in school hols (as I'm not at work), as I just don't have the mental capacity to do it during term time. Even then, I procrastinate massively! I have 2 items Still to list that I've been promising myself I'll list for over 18 months..... 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ I've also got a bunch of old tablets/ phones that need checking through and seeing if they are worth selling online/ selling to a recycling place, or just recycling through the LA.... However, with the sales I made last school hols and the ones this time, I can see a difference in the stuff hanging around. (I've also recycled/ binned/ donated heaps (3 bags to go to CS today if I go out) - I'm determined to make my life easier and able to have more fun by having less!!
    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
    Net sales 2024: £20
  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 4,569 Forumite
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    It's just one hour @rachmac3, we'll be fine! When you can you do an hour? Is 11am-12midday tomorrow (Fri) do-able for you?

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase

    Books read 2025: 48

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