"Pay Off Your Mortgage in Two Years"

tidyfinance

Nice one Anne-Marie and Sean.
Being an ex-Coventry kid I was very interested in watching the show. Anne-Marie, it wasn't until we saw some older pictures of you that I remembered meeting you years ago at the Jag club!! You were trying to get me to open the bottle of wine I had just won. Had a laugh telling the kids that one.
I thought that you both came over very well. Anne-Marie you have a lovely voice, I wasn't expecting it to be that good for some reason. Sean, you too seem like a great bloke - good luck to you both.

Hang on Nuneaton Borough have just been awarded a penalty in the FA Cup.................YES!!! 1-1, My eldest is running around like a mad thing.

caseya

Hi Sarah

Thanks for your support. The part they missed out was where I argued back that I may be making more money, but I would also have to come up with my own diet, and invest in stock and advertising, therefore if you include extra hours working there really was no difference.

The first thing anyone should do when setting up their own business is look at the market they are in to see if they have a unique selling proposition, and I am convinced that the weightloss market is saturated, as you say.

Yes I still run my Weightcare class every Tuesday.

caseya

tidyfinance wrote:

Nice one Anne-Marie and Sean.
Being an ex-Coventry kid I was very interested in watching the show. Anne-Marie, it wasn't until we saw some older pictures of you that I remembered meeting you years ago at the Jag club!! You were trying to get me to open the bottle of wine I had just won. Had a laugh telling the kids that one.
I thought that you both came over very well. Anne-Marie you have a lovely voice, I wasn't expecting it to be that good for some reason. Sean, you too seem like a great bloke - good luck to you both.

Hang on Nuneaton Borough have just been awarded a penalty in the FA Cup.................YES!!! 1-1, My eldest is running around like a mad thing.

Blimey - small world? Was it a Charity night for Snowball ad Children in Need? You are showing your age now

tidyfinance

I really can't remember what the night was all about, but I know I have a picture somewhere of you frantically trying to prize that bottle of wine out of my hand!
I'd post it if I found it!

Slinky

lapat wrote:

nikki
per month
morgate £775
Childcare just under £900 (3 kids(2 in creche 1 looked after school))
coucil tax £112
fuel £150 for the wifes mines free from work company vehicle
food £400(budgeting)
gas & electric £110
water £42
Insurance car and house £70
loan £270 (cc consolidation)
life insurance £30
we save £150 a month(family allowance).and this is for birthdays,emergencies christmas and every other ughly bill that rears its ugly head
and thats it for our cash for the month we just manage to scrape through and i do everything to save monies swap and change morgates every two years.utilities every 12 month and we still only just survive

and we have just had our family credits reduced from £40 a month to £2 a month as the wife got a £800 pay rise which took us over the max threshold

wine wine wine you may think so but were a bl**dy happy family

£110 for gas and electric per MONTH?!! What on earth is taking that much fuel? I work from home so the gas CH is on most of the day in a 3 bed det house and our monthly combined bill is only £58.

tidyfinance

caseya wrote:

Blimey - small world? Was it a Charity night for Snowball ad Children in Need? You are showing your age now

Yes it was Anne-Marie, and guess what?
I've found the pictures!! Can you believe they were in the bottom of my drawer at work in an old folder. The photo packet is dated Dec 1989!! It was just as I'd remembered, with you trying to 'nick' my bottle of wine. Like I said earlier, if the TV programme hadn't showed one of your earlier photographs then I'd never have linked you as the same girl. We've both changed mate.
Anyway I've scanned them and I'm going to PM them to you.
Small world indeed.

caseys

Just out of interest did anyone watch the second programme in the series with a different couple on it? If so what did you think of it?

Would love to know your views.

Sean Casey-Poole

kinster_2

yeah, seen it. Didn't mention what happened and what they raised at the end of the show.

btw. Her idea with the 'birth' boxes were already done by someone and was mentioned on BBC news website

biblejohn

I saw one of these the other day as i was intrequed as to how anyone could pay a sizeable mortgage off in just 2 years. The one I saw had a bible bashing couple trying to cut back on their outgoing. After drawing the purse strings really tight & carbooting loads of old stuff off they were still no closer to paying off the mortgage. The presenters answer was to start buying/selling houses to gain money. Hardly an original idea. At the end of the day, if anyone takes a 2nd job and works 20hours a day they are going to pay their mortgage off more quickly, but probalby give themselves a heart attack in the process.

All in all, wasnt impressed by the show. Im sure there are people out there who have no common sense and squanter money, but most people in this day & age do watch their cash so this program didnt give me any tips or pointers on how i could possibly pay my mortgage off more quickly at all.

Dan29

caseys wrote:

Just out of interest did anyone watch the second programme in the series with a different couple on it? If so what did you think of it?

I watched the signed repeat on BBC One last night. I thought it was good, maybe not as interesting as the first programme and I think that - as the presenter said - the couple will need to become a lot more ruthless in the 2nd year to achieve their aim. I wondered if they might just be a bit too "nice" to focus in the necessary way. How's it going with you Sean?

kinster wrote:

Didn't mention what happened and what they raised at the end of the show.

They'd pretty much broken even with most of their savings having been wiped out by the abortive Romanian venture.

biblejohn wrote:

The presenters answer was to start buying/selling houses to gain money. Hardly an original idea.

It wasn't really the presenter's idea; the bloke had been planning to do it for ages as he was a builder/decorator.

biblejohn wrote:

most people in this day & age do watch their cash

Most people who use this website, maybe.