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Benbens moneymaking adventure

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  • mariagti
    mariagti Posts: 3,207 Forumite
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    Well done on your win BB!!! Thats fab! Knocking a year off in 3 weeks! wow! Congrats!!!!!

    :T :T :T
    Make £5 a day JAN £121/175 FEB £283/175:j
    Weekly Grocery budget of £35! Jan £95.05/175 Feb £37.53/175
  • tigzem
    tigzem Posts: 2,361 Forumite
    Wooohooooo go you!!! You'll be mortgage free in no time at all!!
    xx
    "Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." Edmund Burke
  • twinklie
    twinklie Posts: 5,183 Forumite
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    I'm soooo jealous. We are thinking of uping our mortgage (so we can move) rather than knocking bits off. Doh!
    Reduction in daily mortgage interest since October 23 (new mortgage) - £2.36 July 25
    % of house owned/% of mortgage paid off. July 25 - 38.82%/31.66%
    MFiT-T7 #21
    MFW 2025 #2
    MF Date: Oct 37 Feb 37
  • benbenandme
    benbenandme Posts: 12,365 Forumite
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    That will probably feature in my plan somewhere along the way too Twinklie, but as a single parent who only works part-time and therefore has a very small monthly salary I am limited to who will give me a mortgage, so the smaller I can make it the more chance I have of upgrading to somewhere with a garden one day ;):D
    Mortgage Total: £51,549 / £75,000
    Mortgage Overpayments Pot £1263
  • hypno06
    hypno06 Posts: 32,296 Forumite
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    Good for you - that is such a big difference you are perfectly justified in being excited.

    Go on about it all you like! We don't mind :D
    Successful women can still have their feet on the ground. They just wear better shoes. (Maud Van de Venne)
    Life begins at the end of your comfort zone (Neale Donald Walsch)
  • Go on about it as much as you like, no one begrudges you a bit of excitement!
    Cos I don't shine if you don't shine.
  • benbenandme
    benbenandme Posts: 12,365 Forumite
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    Morning :D I've checked my quidco this morning and I was due 160.00 to be paid out this month, but it now says only 21.00 of it will be and the rest will roll over to next month :mad: This includes my contents insurance, car insurance and that Abel and Cole offer :rolleyes: Hoping it comes next month instead ;)

    This morning I have a mystery shop to do and I am going to return those Primark pj's / dressing gown. Then back home to sort out some matched bets, tidy up a bit, meal plan before doing 2 mystery shops tonight. I did the food shopping yesterday and spent 44.00 :eek: (budget 37.00 :o ), this dieting lark is expensive :rolleyes: :D
    Mortgage Total: £51,549 / £75,000
    Mortgage Overpayments Pot £1263
  • twinklie
    twinklie Posts: 5,183 Forumite
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    OMG....benben your far too organised. See this is why you are doing so well on your mortgage challenge. Keep going and keep being sooooo motivated. I'm hoping if I keep reading your blog long enough (ignoring that ours might increase) it will rub off on me! Ha ha ha
    Reduction in daily mortgage interest since October 23 (new mortgage) - £2.36 July 25
    % of house owned/% of mortgage paid off. July 25 - 38.82%/31.66%
    MFiT-T7 #21
    MFW 2025 #2
    MF Date: Oct 37 Feb 37
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    Wowzer, all of it into the mortgage pot - you *are* going to do the £50k by the end of the year thing, aren't you! I want to do a matched bet today, but I'm really tired, and frankly I'm scared of making a big mistake on it all. We'll see. Didn't think about checking up on quidco, off there now!
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • benbenandme
    benbenandme Posts: 12,365 Forumite
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    Right, first matched bet is done, been to Primark and swapped it for pj's ;) , also popped into a book shop and picked up a couple for ds xmas stocking. Time now for some brunch and then crack on with a bit of housework :D I have done a couple of qualifying bets on todays football and once they finish (4:45) I need to put one more on the later matches today which should then complete that matched bet :D Oh, and I realised I will be able to watch strictly before I have to go and do the other mystery shops tonight, happy days :D
    Mortgage Total: £51,549 / £75,000
    Mortgage Overpayments Pot £1263
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