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Retired August 2016
Paid off French mortgage September 2018
New kitchen fully installed June 2019
Not counting this! 2020
Garden fencing completed, woohoo 2021..........
October 2021: aiming for £5,000 new money for premium bonds or a car.
Been to town to get paint - bedroom is going a combination of retro orange and gold 😂😂 Mr Cheery's aesthetic sense for interior design is far more adventurous than mine, but I always love the results so am going with it 😂
Picked up the other car from the garage, passed MOT with just a couple of minor things and advisories, so all good.
Home now,just going to update my spreadsheet, will report back...
£63 paint etc for the bedroom
£84 plasterboard and battens to finish kitchen ceiling, delivered tomorrow
So total cost of project now stands at £30,535, and so far we've paid out £15,314.44.
Getting there!
Your kitchen fund is coming along very nicely.
LOL at your FIL's belated wedding present. We got married in 1984 and my MIl promised us a gift 'later'. It never happened . . .
Some of you guys obviously have very long hair! Mine is a couple of inches above my bra strap and probably as long as I want it at my age. I can't bear it around my neck and back in bed, so it's always tied up at night.
'Wander' - to walk or move in a leisurely manner.
'Wonder' - to feel curious.
**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~**
MFW. Finally mortgage free February 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*** ~~Japanese proverb.
It starts with you, it starts from now. *** It is ok to be me.***
***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
Bedroom was a fetching shade of peacock for a long time, but we painted it extremely boring pale grey to sell the house (I actually preferred the grey 😂 )
...if I had my way, the whole house would painted heritage cream with white trim...
Currently we have a lovely tiled bathroom in various shades of grey, which I love, but for some reason has a hideous sunshine yellow accent wall which has to go! I'd be happy with white instead! The OH has other ideas...
The kitchen cabinets are nice calming cream, but again the former owners love of colour means the walls are a hideous cornflour blue.
The living/dining open plan room has steel grey accent walls and steel grey blinds which the OH loves & I can tolerate. His suggestion to cover the accent walls with wallpaper instead made me cringe - LOL
Having only just moved in recently, I sense we will be having many hours of debate before making any aesthetic changes to the house!
Plus 66 coupons rolled over 2021 using for secondhand purchases 56/66 remaining
One income, home educating family