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  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 4,670 Forumite
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    Don't send books with age browning or water damage to WoB as they'll reject them and you won't get them back. I don't know how strict the other sites are.
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase

    Books read 2025: 51

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  • badmemory
    badmemory Posts: 9,907 Forumite
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    Knowing me I will start reading all those books again as the bulk are over 50 years old from when I used to commute by train.  They have been in the loft since Feb 1991.  They are well travelled though.  From here to the forest of dean to near london & back here again.
  • redofromstart
    redofromstart Posts: 5,904 Forumite
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    Great books aren't they bad memory, I own them all too and re-read my favourites every few years.  

    I dropped some books and clothes off at the local charity shop yesterday but made the error of just having a quick look at the books.  Someone had been clearing out a great gardening collection and I invested a total of £7.50 on some good (beth chatto, christopher lloyd, roy lancaster and rosemary verey) books.  Under my new rules I will now exit four from my current collection. 
    My mortgage free diary: +++ Divide by Cucumber Error.  Please reinstall universe and reboot+++

    GNU Mr Redo

  • KajiKita
    KajiKita Posts: 8,146 Forumite
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    Ooh, that was a proper lucky find Redo! :)

    KK
    As at 15.09.25:
    - When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £230,969
    - OPs to mortgage = £12,270 Interest saved £5,816 to date
    Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030

    Read 51 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 17th September
    Produce tracker: £389 of £300 in 2025

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    Watch your words, they become your actions. 
    Watch your actions, they become your reality. 
  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 4,670 Forumite
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    Called HMRC. Nuff said!
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase

    Books read 2025: 51

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  • KajiKita
    KajiKita Posts: 8,146 Forumite
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    PennysIntoPounds said:
    Called HMRC. Nuff said!
    Bravo!! 👏 

    KK
    As at 15.09.25:
    - When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £230,969
    - OPs to mortgage = £12,270 Interest saved £5,816 to date
    Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030

    Read 51 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 17th September
    Produce tracker: £389 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. 
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 96,246 Ambassador
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    PennysIntoPounds said:
    Called HMRC. Nuff said!
    Be proud..
    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.

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  • Naturelover22
    Naturelover22 Posts: 90 Forumite
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    @PennysIntoPounds i think I will do the photos this weekend as I have it to myself and know it will take me a while to choose them.
    Getting them printed at the shop and into the frames should be easy as we already have them from the ones we took down.
    Grocery challenge June £241.19/£320. July £303.97/£215 August £318.68/£310
    September /£300
  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 4,670 Forumite
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    Sounds like a lovely job for the weekend @Naturelover22, enjoy doing it and having it done 😊
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase

    Books read 2025: 51

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  • rachmac3
    rachmac3 Posts: 494 Forumite
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    One more vinted item posted, and one more vinted item listed. I'm going very slowly with it but at least I'm going.

    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
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