The Mortgage Free in Three - Take 2 challenge (MFiT-T2)

Trying_to_be_good

financialbliss wrote: »

IMHO, the best part of the charts - the percentage colouring is actually the worst to do - you have to go into google docs and apply ranges to each cell you want to colour - there needs to be four conditions to get the red, yellow and green ranges, then this needs to be copied across the whole chart.

This then needs to be repeated for the summary chart too.

FB - are you using conditional formatting, then the format painter (roller, like Office's paintbrush) to copy the formatting to the other cells? If you need a hand with this, send me a PM, happy to lend a hand!

diadeb

Missed the update sadly (first time for me ) but I have a good excuse . Very very busy planning an MSE trip to Florida for 3 weeks time.....:j

I have used air miles to buy flights, used cashback from our credit cards to pay part of the flight costs, opened a currency account to get the best exchange rate when paying for the villa, used Avios to get a free hire car, exchanged clubcard vouchers into more Avios and got two very cheap tickets to Walt Disney World, so I'm very proud of myself! All that and it still costs a fortune!

Anyway, I have just caught up with my mortgage finances and have moved some money around to make this update. I thought I would stay in the green as I'm sure I've hit the target I had set, but according to my stats I'm 0.13% off staying in the green. Hey ho, that's the least of my worries, as I doubt I'll be able to pay this much off for the next update so may well slip even further back. Hope FB can pop me in as a late update......pretty please......:A

diadeb

Just caught up with the thread and wanted to say how sorry I was to hear your troubles Captain Pie. Been there, done it and got the T shirt as they say. Best of luck and hope things improve as you've pretty well hit rock bottom it seems.

Jock_Tight

Another £190 off the mortgage via an OP which consisted of £30 from BoS rewards, £102 from Ebay/parts sales and £58 spare, bringing us down to £8,970

235 days to go.

brizzledfw

Jock Tight..that's amazing. All done mate

RosieTiger

It just seems incredible to think there will be only 2 more updates before we end this challenge.
I keep thinking that time is dragging on hetting ours down, but the years of this challenge seems to have disappeared mighty quick !

mortgagenomore_2

I will still have approx 19k left to pay by 12/12/12 so would be looking for another extension to this date ie. 12/12/15 so wondering if any others would like a MFI3-T4 after this one

Spiggle

Hi mortgagenomore,

I'm delurking from this inspirational thread to say the a MFI3-4 would be perfect for me as I will be MF in August 2015 (come hell or high water)!

I'll keep watching from my lurk post and will certainly join up if it comes to pass.

Thanks and all the best,
Spigs

TheBees

Apologies for not updating - usual excuse - working full time, laptop died, totally forgot!

Anyway, the current balance should now read £41549 please. I think we are just about on target!

Well done everyone.

financialbliss

Hi all,

Just started a poll here:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3857463

Curious as to how many people would be interested in a new 3 year challenge.

Poll doesn't close until 12th June - 6 months before the 12/12/12 end date.

Don't need names or pledges just yet - just looking to gauge interest.

I'd potentially run the challenge, or at least make the chart templates available for a new challenge.

Thanks,
Financial Bliss.