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Big hugs Redo, lots on your plate and it sounds like you don't have time for a job right now! All fingers and toes crossed that the right thing comes along xx
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The fact that you are in the midst of this is absolute proof that you are smashing it because things that need to happen are happening 🥂
If anything needs to take a pause for reasons of financial or mental health, then that is completely fine and normal and okay. You are a capable and intelligent woman and will resume any outstanding things when you judge you are best able to do so.
🎵 Two whole years on the rewrite. Tell my friends I'm gonna be right there 🎵
(Granted not same album but the lyric applies and its a great being determined tune)
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase/p1
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I love OH having the badge @rtandon27 😂
And I definitely know what it's like to have that one tab of music playing in your head and you can't figure out which one it is redo.
Start mortgage date: August 2022; Start mortgage amount: £240,999; Original mortgage free date: August 2056
Current mortgage amount: £224,460.73
Start student loan 2012: £29,750; current student loan: CLEARED July 2025
Unread owned books Jan 2026: 256
Undone crafts 2026: +14 -
Our lovely Pippi refers to it as "washing machine head" - when everything is whirling round incoherently and you can't make sense of any of it! Keep on keeping on, and everything will turn out OK in the end!
🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25
Balance as at 31/08/25 = £ 95,450.00 at 31/12/25 = £ 91,100.00
Balance as at 31/08/26 = £ 84,500.00
SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculatorshe/her5 -
Oh this mmade me laugh - I do miss her quips on here!
4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)(With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)Original End Date - Sept 2041 *** New projection - Jun 2040 (reduced by 1 years & 3 month)4 -
thank you everyone, I'm honestly ok - still smiling which is the key thing.
two more gigs committed to but they are not for months. Many things to look forward to next year.PIP, I am working my way through the back catalogue, really liked House in LA so thanks for that suggestion. I tend to obsessively play one album for a few days so it'll take me a few weeks to get through them all. I'd love to see them live but I can't make the current dates work.
Today is quite an important day so I need to get up and get on with things. Exciting in the 'future is bright' sense and good stress but a very spendy day indeed.My mortgage free diary: +++ Divide by Cucumber Error. Please reinstall universe and reboot+++
GNU Mr Redo10 -
Good luck :)
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Thank you @greenbee
Things went as planned so I am now even busier. This is a good thing and will help me get where I want to be.
Today has mostly been spent scrubbing, painting over some very patterned wallpaper (would need to re-plaster if it is stripped) and prepping a couple of rooms for painting. Second coat of undercoat and the pattern is still shining through. It might have to be a darker coloured feature wall to block this problem.
Does anyone else remember Adrian Mole painting his bedroom wall and the 'Noddy' pattern shining through? Vague memories that he had to use a black marker to individually block them out.
My mortgage free diary: +++ Divide by Cucumber Error. Please reinstall universe and reboot+++
GNU Mr Redo8 -
Could you paper over the patterned wallpaper with lining paper?
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Just thinking this. I also believe you could use? insolation/thermal/noise reduction paper and then paint a higher buget. It will have a special name but my heads also in washing machine mode with the cold bugs taking over. keep plodding big girls knickers, smile and fake it. xx
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