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

financialbliss

Quick post of new recruits as of today:

131 dexter fan.
132 Scad
133 Superfast_Gran
134 deefadog.

I've PM'd all four of you. Was going to post that we have broke into the £10 million for mortgages with a pledge to reduce by over £5 million, but we have just broke into the £11 million. :eek:

October now holds the record for being the most popular month for new entrants - probably due to the MSE newsletter :rolleyes:

I'd imagine we will now easily collect in excess of 150 people for this challenge - thanks everyone for showing an interest.

Financial Bliss / Maz123.

TheBees

Please could someone tell me how to find google docs and how I find the chart?
Thanks

financialbliss

Ok. With 130+ people in this challenge and a message box only allowing 50 messages, there's potentially going to be a problem...

So, I've just done a sample Google docs form. This is linking into an online Google docs spreadsheet for this challenge.

The form can be found here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGtzMTdvS1VnNXUwakpPc3NjZzRHMVE6MA

Not yet sure a) how long I will leave it up there and b) if we will use this - just playing with the Google docs technology...:D

Do try it out. What do you think of this approach instead of PMing a balance?

FB.

TheBees

Thanks for the link. I've filled in my forum name/number and starting balance but can't see how to actually look at the spreadsheet! Sorry for being thick!

financialbliss

TheBees wrote: »

Please could someone tell me how to find google docs and how I find the chart?
Thanks

OK. Post no. 5 which holds the current chart has a few links in there.

The photobucket (online photo storage) initially worked well, but as new people joined, the size of the chart got smaller and smaller as it was scaled to fit on the page.

It's now looking very likely that this photobucket approach is replaced with Google docs. I'm using an online version of a spreadsheet. This has the advantage that I don't need to back it up as Google are kindly doing that for me, plus now that I have published a sheet from the document as Chart 01, when it gets updated the published data automatically gets refreshed.

My testing of the Google docs version of chart 01 can be found here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tks17oKUg5u0jJOsscg4G1Q&single=true&gid=2&output=html

If you click on that, you should get a new tab / page with the chart in there.

FB.

TheBees

Thanks - we found it!! The google version is much easier to read than the original chart.
It's easy to fill out the update form and will probably make life a lot easier for you with so many people to deal with!

Thanks for organising this.
TheBees

twinklie

Loving the google doc...very easy to read.

TheBees - looks like we have a very similar aim for this challenge. Good luck!

financialbliss

Just waiting for gallygirl to post she did an update...

Data comes through in real time. Interesting stuff.

FB.

gallygirl

financialbliss wrote: »

Just waiting for gallygirl to post she did an update...

Data comes through in real time. Interesting stuff.

FB.

OMG a stalker :rotfl:

So, I have been shamed into doing a provisional target (should be accurate to within a few £).

Target is 68432.06. We have 3 mortgages - this is the highest amount, so target is to reduce total mortgage balance by this amount. This will be by:
Capital reductions on this mortgage
Capital reductions on other 2 mortgages
Savings in a variety of dedicated accounts (will transfer back into offset if/when mortgage rate rises :rolleyes:)

OK FB, satisfied now?

taxi73

just off to have a go at this google thing..mm