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  • Hi benben, Happy New Diary, and soon to be Happy New House!
    Good thinking to stay with your Mum in the interim.

    Looking forward to following your endeavours in 2017.
  • amber03
    amber03 Posts: 1,238
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    Hi benben, subscribing and continuing to follow your journey. As someone who is mortgage free I can definitely recommend it. We have only ever moved once and live in a decent size bungalow with the loft converted. A few times we thought of moving to a bigger property but as this would have meant a bigger longer mortgage we decided against it. The best decision we have made. Paid it off when I was 48 with a lot of hard work. It's a lovely feeling knowing that our home is our own and we don't have to worry about having a roof over our heads. Xx
    :j Debtfree and and staying that way.:j3-6 month emergency fund, No.61 £140.00
  • oh wow, i go away for 7 days and find you have sold and bought! Congratulations, that's fabby news...your figures look excellent too, don't know too many people who have £889 a month left over after bills and food. glad your life is good right now and things all going in the right direction. look forward to hearing how it all works out and may be some pics when you finally move in!
  • juliejim
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    Congratulations on the new house. Hope the move goes smoothly.

    Happy New diary!

    Jue
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  • Hi, another list maker here, I couldn't cope without keeping a list!

    Fingers crossed for a smooth house move, we are planning to move next year too but are still decorating ready to go up for sale at the moment.
  • benbenandme
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    Morning all, a few surveys cleared from my inbox this morning, I have some more to get through a bit later on. I am going to do the freezer / food cupboard inventory in a bit then I can see what bits I need to buy at the shops.

    I will also go through all my banking stuff and make sure everything's where it should be ready for the start of the new year.

    Maybe later on we will take Mums dog for a walk along the beach too.
    Mortgage Total: £55,900 / £75,000
    2024 Savings: £1621
  • benbenandme
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    So the inventories are done, once I'd thrown away all the out of date stuff from the cupboard there isn't too much left to use up :o

    Food Cupboard:
    Honey & mustard sauce x 2
    Butter chicken sauce
    Tomato pasta sauce
    Passata
    Raspberry Jam
    Marmite
    Honey
    Chutney x 3
    Gravy granules
    2 packs of rice
    1 pack of noodles
    1 bag of pasta
    Custard
    Rice Pudding
    Soup x 3
    Pineapple rings
    Hot dogs
    Large jar of coffee
    Peppermint tea
    SR Flour
    Plain flour
    Cornflour
    Lifetime supply of herbs / stock cubes
    White wine vinegar
    Sunflower oil
    2 x icing sugar
    Various baking stuff (vanilla pods / food colouring etc)
    Chestnuts

    Freezer:
    Viennetta (won't last long, forgot it was there ;))
    2 x frozen cocktails (ditto)
    1/2 box fish fingers
    Bag of prawns
    1 portion spaghetti bolagnese
    2 x salmon fillets
    Beef joint
    Beef mince x 2
    Sausages
    Chicken fillets
    Chicken thighs
    Chicken goujons x 3 packs :o
    Stuffing balls
    Garlic baguette
    Hash browns
    Roast potatoes

    This isn't too bad, there is also tonnes of cereals / crisps / biscuits etc but that cupboard has a very high turnover rate so I'm not too worried about that one ;) So let's see how much of this stuff can be used up asap :)
    Mortgage Total: £55,900 / £75,000
    2024 Savings: £1621
  • benbenandme
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    I have 4 pull out baskets under my bed, I have sorted two of them so far - the first one is now empty ready for ebay stuff to be put in it. The second one is my birthday / occasions one, I have enough giftbags to lasst the year in there I reckon, and I also did a Phoenix cards order before Christmas and have stocked up on birthday cards for the year too, so I shouldn't need to spend on those either.

    I also found several bits I had put away for Christmas :o including a box of gingerbread biscuits, a gingerbread house, pastry tartlets, creme patisserie, a bottle of passion fruit coulis, a big tube of smarties, a box of 5 costa coffee syrups :D, 2 weekly planner pads from Tiger (starts this week :j) - I will probably use one at home and one at work as ds already has one.
    Mortgage Total: £55,900 / £75,000
    2024 Savings: £1621
  • [strike]Stalking[/strike] Following you over to the MFW board.

    Looking forward to the next stage of your journey - good luck!!

    Wonder how long the lost xmas bits will last:rotfl:
  • benbenandme
    benbenandme Posts: 12,160
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    So we've been shopping as ds has been saving up for his xbox one, the shops were mad busy so am glad to get home again. I did get some food bits while we were out, spent about £45 which should now keep us going until new year.

    The rest of the day will be spent pottering and sorting indoors :)
    Mortgage Total: £55,900 / £75,000
    2024 Savings: £1621
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