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  • Rhyddid2026
    Rhyddid2026 Posts: 1,156 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper

    Oh, of course the activation code was delivered this afternoon, the day of the deadline, when I've been out at work and I'm now packing and prepping to go away with work at 6am. Of course it did.

    Debts                04/01/25       01/04/26  
    Natwest2           £6,509.97      £4,200 
    NatWest CC      £7,612.74       £6,325
    Lloyds CC          £6,112.60      £4,115
    1st Direct CC     £176.03         £9.11
    CC total             £20,411.34    £14,649.11
    OD                     £1100            £0
    Car loan             £4,000          £3,600
    1st Direct Loan  £10,684.44    £7,000
    Total                  £36,195.78    £25,249.11
    EF £1,750.33
    HF £150.76
  • Baileys_Babe
    Baileys_Babe Posts: 6,684 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81928628#Comment_81928628

    It was inevitable 🤗

    Fashion on a ration 2025 0/66 coupons spent
    79.5 coupons rolled over 4/75.5 coupons spent - using for secondhand purchases

    One     income, home educating family 
  • Rhyddid2026
    Rhyddid2026 Posts: 1,156 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    edited 18 March at 8:26PM

    I've had a go, I've submitted something, but it really hurt my brain, took hours, and I've just logged out without completing something else because I started losing track of numbers and the site was populating boxes with numbers I hadn't seen before.

    I'll have a proper look when I'm home Friday evening. I don't want to risk doing something wrong at this stage.

    I have bitten most of my nails off.

    ETA - my emails suggested I have submitted two lots of two things. It's probably for the best I stopped 😂

    Debts                04/01/25       01/04/26  
    Natwest2           £6,509.97      £4,200 
    NatWest CC      £7,612.74       £6,325
    Lloyds CC          £6,112.60      £4,115
    1st Direct CC     £176.03         £9.11
    CC total             £20,411.34    £14,649.11
    OD                     £1100            £0
    Car loan             £4,000          £3,600
    1st Direct Loan  £10,684.44    £7,000
    Total                  £36,195.78    £25,249.11
    EF £1,750.33
    HF £150.76
  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 6,289 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Third Anniversary Photogenic Name Dropper

    You have absolutely smashed it finding time and energy to start it off let alone make progress @Rhyddid2026, definitely leave it until Fri so you don't make silly mistakes. Very impressed 👏

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase/p1

    'self-blame can be as egotistical as self-praise... any work worth doing is greater than we are... we must not overrate our importance to it, either for good or ill' Margaret Kennedy Lucy Carmichael
  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 6,289 Forumite
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    Mad busy day with work and build admin, went for pint after work, thought I didn't have time or energy to do (very wussy) situps when I got in but thought s*d that and did them, pleased with myself

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase/p1

    'self-blame can be as egotistical as self-praise... any work worth doing is greater than we are... we must not overrate our importance to it, either for good or ill' Margaret Kennedy Lucy Carmichael
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 99,048 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81928784#Comment_81928784

    Well done.

    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.

    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** in ~~Japanese proverb.     ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger.
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan. 19months left.
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 99,048 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!

    I have done nothing. Did a tad too much yesterday.

    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.

    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** in ~~Japanese proverb.     ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger.
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan. 19months left.
  • WelshmansDaughter
    WelshmansDaughter Posts: 2,050 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Third Anniversary Name Dropper

    Attempted to put together kitchen table island thing. And by that I mean I took it out of the box, realised I was too tired and stopped.

  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 6,289 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Third Anniversary Photogenic Name Dropper

    Finished another perfume sample, and continuing eating down the cupboards tonight by using an ancient packet of rice in stuffed baked peppers

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase/p1

    'self-blame can be as egotistical as self-praise... any work worth doing is greater than we are... we must not overrate our importance to it, either for good or ill' Margaret Kennedy Lucy Carmichael
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