Get yourself a 'Mortgage Pig'

tattycath

Hi everyone. Hope you all had a good christmas. I'm pleasantly surprised that I have managed to save £50 so far in my mortgage pig for december!!. The reason for my surprise is that I have also started saving in a sealed money tin!!! and I'm not sure hopw much I have in there. Hoping to make another payment off the mortgage in January. As the interest rate for our mortgage is dropping beginning of january we have told them to keep the payments the same as they are as it will mean we are paying off a little extra every month with no effort as well as the extra payments we are hoping to make!!!
Continued good luck for everyone else in this challenge!!!

Batgirl

Had a look in my goose today and was shocked to find £34.90 in it which is really really great for me as usually its about £5 a month so it has inspired me to try and match it next month !!!!

Move_To_Portugal

We had £16.23 in our pig from December so £16 is going onto the overpayment and the 23p back into the pig for January.

Happy New Year
mtp

Kaz64_2

Fab idea! And as I am on the verge of buying my first house, this will be just the thing! Thanks! :-)

catshark88

We're going to empty the mortgage chicken and non spending pony on New year's day.

I found an old hippo money box today that I had totally forgotten about. It's quite heavy but I expect that it will be mainly copper. Still, every penny helps!

Hope you all had a good Christmas and that you have a fab new year!

djbd1973

catshark88 wrote: »

We're going to empty the mortgage chicken and non spending pony on New year's day.

I found an old hippo money box today that I had totally forgotten about. It's quite heavy but I expect that it will be mainly copper. Still, every penny helps!

Hope you all had a good Christmas and that you have a fab new year!

Sounds like a zoo with all your saving animals. I bet it will be a shock when you see how much is in that hippo when you count it.

In our Christmas 'playing card' money pot I had an old 5p, a two shilling piece (King George 10p) and a halfpenny.

ecoelle

Everyone's doing so well can't believe we're nearly into the new year. Been out tonight telling everyone about my budgeting antics and making everyone promise to check out the website! Helping my mate sort out her finances for the new year and keeping up the mortgage pig saving, managed to spend only £34 of the £40 budget this week so there's definately £6 going into the pig. I'm not doing mine each month, but waiting til my teramundi pot is full and then smashing it open...secretly looking forward to the destruction! Good luck to all you MFW Happy New Year!
Keep up the good work x x

lynseydee

Pigsback don't seem to have the piggys at the moment so for the time being I am going to use a tube from some nibbles we have had over Christmas.

ecoelle

Well done lynseydee that's the ultimate money saving!
recycle..recyle..recycle

lynseydee

I'd rather have a piggy though :-(