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  • Watty1
    Watty1 Posts: 7,691 Forumite
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    I did get as far as registering for Vinted and then an accidentally bought a dress. Whoops.
    Oh dear redo. This did make me laugh 
    Made it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became

    In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!
  • greenbee
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    I did get as far as registering for Vinted and then an accidentally bought a dress. Whoops.
    Well at least you know how it works.
  • Blackcats
    Blackcats Posts: 4,209 Forumite
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    I agree with Greenbee it's important to do an end to end Vinted learning process @redofromstart.

    today me and MrBC (should that be MrBC and I?) drafted, finalised and sent an email that I hope will help prevent a horrific kerfuffle with a "difficult" part of the family about a controversial financial issue.  It was quite draining discussing the issue and would have been easy to avoid doing anything but we did it!  Afterwards we swopped a cup of tea and GBBO for a glass of wine and GBBO.  
  • Good to have the account in readiness @redofromstart 😁 I steer well away from the buying section but good bargains are to be had there

    The wine sounds very well deserved @Blackcats
    Hope the email significantly lessens any nastiness with those people, of whom you know I take an extremely unimpressed view. I have my haughty face on just thinking about them!
  • Needed to clean my computer keyboard and could feel it becoming an OAT so tackled that. Actually hugely satisfying using the air duster!
  • Faced up to a longstanding OAT. There was dark fluff in the folds at the bottom of the laundrybasket so with OH's help I finally bit the bullet and hoovered it all out. Less than 5 minutes work. I've been putting that off for months.

    Also listed something on ebay, and posted a Vinted sale. An ebayer turned up to collect something that sold last Friday. Better late than never!

    I found out about a site called bookloop where you sell them your old books and get credit with booksh0p.org so decided to see if I had enough for the £5 minimum which I did. Only 50p for the paperbacks but still it all helps.
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6621582/ynab-robber-needs-help-to-execute-the-plan/p1
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  • Mee
    Mee Posts: 1,528 Forumite
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    Please let me have as an OAT -  saving tomato seeds - I hate doing it and can't put it off for long. I saved three different varieties last night - all spread on different pieces of kitchen roll.
    Free thinker.:cool:
  • Mee said:
    Please let me have as an OAT -  saving tomato seeds - I hate doing it and can't put it off for long. I saved three different varieties last night - all spread on different pieces of kitchen roll.
    Oooo that's a good one! I always think about saving seeds but never really do. 
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    NatWest CC      £7,612.74       £6,605
    Lloyds CC          £6,112.60      £4,450
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    CC total             £20,411.34    £16,594.26
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