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Onwards to freedom!
Hello and welcome to my MFW diary. Not sure how often I'll update as I'm going down the boring 'increase monthly mortgage direct debit' route, not the more interesting to read 'random repayment as and when a bit of extra money is made' route. Still, no harm in starting a diary here, even if it's just for me to look back on…
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The "Mortgage-free in 2025-30" club!
Welcome to the thread for all those MFW's aiming to get MF during 2025-30. Come and chat to people working over the same timeframe as you, and then join the party in 2030 when we're all mortgage-free! :D If you'd like to be added to the members' list below, just post your details and I'll add you. Prod me if I don't - it's…
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julicorn's journey 3 - The House on the Hill
Hi all! Long time, no see, at least when it comes to the diaries (I still run the mortgage free challenges, of course). Where do I start? This is my third diary on here, the first talking about our initial mortgage pay off journey for Mr julicorn and my first flat (bought in 2017). If you have too much time on your hands,…
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Learning to walk before I run
Hello all! :) I am returning to the forum in an attempt to gain your collective wisdom in sorting out our dire finances. I've been experiencing a series of mini lightbulb moments of late and have realised that it's time for a change. Despite being vaguely savvy as regards areas of personal finance such as pensions, I have…
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My mortgage clobbering post
Putting this here because I'm an enthusiastic mortgage over payer and I have no one in real life to tell! Single parent for 15 years, left in £35,000 of debt by ex husband. (Paid off over 6 years). No maintenance paid in 15 years. Unable to pay capital for many years as I had to use the old endowment policy to pay off my…
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It won't happen overnight. But if I do nothing it won't happen at all. (MFW diary 5761)
Hello, I've been registered on the forum a while and posted a bit, but have struggled to keep up with it. However, I've joined the MFW 25 challenge and maybe starting a diary will help keep me accountable so here goes: Situation My mortgage is currently £114, 762 and I pay £531.50 a month. I am a solo homeowner working 40…
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Powers’s mortgage free thread
Hi everyone, I’ve been reading lots of MFW diaries and wanted to start my own, sorry it’s going to be long! background: met a nice man with a not so nice house that he still owned with his ex wife and was in negative equity. Eventually remortgaged it together in May 2017 with a mortgage of £68k. We’ve made some…
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The Mortgage Free in Three - Take 7 challenge (MFiT-T7)
A three-year challenge for all of those who are want to pay down their mortgage (or save for house-related expenses) over a longer time period than MFW. First of all, a huge thank you to trix-a-belle who ran the 4 and 5 iterations of this challenge, inspiring many of us to stay on track (and becoming mortgage-free…
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Cutting ties with abusive ex, joint mortgage, negative equity, potential prison
Long story short, when I was 20 years old I purchased an apartment with a boyfriend. We tried to sell the property a few years ago upon a nasty, long time coming separation, but ended up messed around by a sale that took over 12 months, by which point the property fell into negative equity and has continued to drastically…
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Mortgage gone by 2030
Hi This is my first post where I have decided to try and reach my goal of being mortgage free, a lot sooner than I originally thought. In spring this year I started to make some regular monthly overpayments to the mortgage. I think this will be a good place to track my progress. Total mortgage borrowed: £110,475 Current…
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There and back again...reducing the mortgage to manifest our forever home
Have been a long time lurker on MSE, and DP and I bought our first house together in March 2025 with a mortgage of £190,000. Had many plans for overpaying, what we wanted to get done however life has had other ideas so starting a diary for the first time to try and help me keep on track. We did manage to OP £3500 in 2025,…
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Mortgage Free Plod
Hello MFWs I'm de-lurking after living vicariously through you all for a very long time. I've exchanged on my first house today! So now I'm a MFW too. My context: I'm a divorced, single mum (1DS). We'll be moving into a little 2-bed house with our moggy. I've taken out a 95% repayment mortgage over 27 years, which takes me…
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Apple muncher's number crunching
Time for me to start a diary :j. I work 2 days a week, dd is at school and dh was made redundant in the summer. We are living carefully, although the redundancy money is being nibbled away at of course. We are fortunate to have no debts other than the mortgage, so I would like to get rid of it! We'd also like to have a…
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The Long and Winding Road
This seems like an appropriate thread title given the very long path we have to walk to get even close to mortgage free, but we're certainly thinking about it and have been taking note of small milestones already. Hopefully this thread will see our walk turn into a canter. Except with one significant and self inflicted…
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SLLM (Single Lady Large Mortgage)
Hello all SLLM - single ladies with large mortgages or single ladies who have previously had large mortgages or single laddies in the process of getting a large mortgage! So if you are a lady and own your own house then yes this is for you. Yes I could not resist it any longer. Ladies large mortgage is a loose term so if…
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I'm paying how much interest a year??!!
Starting this to keep myself honest and on track. This is the year, well the first one of a few. I've always had the annual mortgage statement come in and put it away, little to no attention paid to it but not this time. If this was a credit card with this much interest per month I would be putting every spare penny…
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One way, or another... Minimum or maximum payments?
I'm making a ten year plan to retirement which will need to include getting the mortgage paid off. I'd really appreciate views on the options I see ahead, and other suggestions/pros and cons thereof which I may be missing. The ultimate plan is in ten years we will move house to release equity, pay off whatever is left on…
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2025 Mortgage-Free Wannabes
MFW 2025 - The annual challenge for everyone who would like to track their mortgage overpayments, mortgage payments, or even house-related savings. Feel free to join any time throughout the year. A very warm welcome to the Mortgage Free Wannabe 2025 thread! <3 Over the last few years, this challenge has been providing…
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The turtle moves.... slowly
Hello all! Must admit, I spiritually feel like a DFW who doesn’t belong on the grown-ups board, but I’ve been debt free for over a year now so I'm shyly venturing into MFW territory 😂 For some background - after spending several years living beyond my means and thinking a ‘good’ salary meant I didn’t need to budget (while…
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Climbing the Mortgage Mountain step by step
Hi All I've returned to MSE after several years away, I was previously here under a different user name. I have previously been mortgage free twice in my life and both times, just as things should have gotten easier, life threw me a curve ball! This most recent time my marriage suddenly imploded and so, at the grand old…
