Get yourself a 'Mortgage Pig'

Suzie_Wing_Wong

..... and a cheque for £20 from mutual points in the post this morning too.... today is a good day!

comping_cat

Suzie_Wing_Wong wrote:

..... and a cheque for £20 from mutual points in the post this morning too.... today is a good day!

I had a £20 cheque from them this morning too!!!! Will be going straight into Pork Chop!!!!!!

Little_Penguin_2

I'm due a cheque, so hopefully will be there when I get home to go with the Santander one I received the other day off the mortgage.

millsmum

I would just like to say that today I over paid for the very first time. I have just paid £1000.00 off our mortgage. shame the interest rates just went up.

I have set a target of £100 per month from now on.

I have been inspired. thank you.

only 90k to go!!!!

halloweenqueen_2

Hi there millsmum, well at least that thousand won't be charged at any interest rate!
I've beaten my record, I have had some cracking ebay sales over the last couple of weeks. I think it will be hard going from here though as i think my loft doesn't hold much more in the way of sellables! I have some outfits i'm thinking of selling but not much more comes to mind unless I start taking the fixtures and fittings out!
Still every little bit counts and I'm going to keep trying. At least with each new month theres a clean slate to work from!

millsmum

wow halloweenqueen, that some pretty impressive overpaying!

I am selling the contents of my mums house as well as my own on ebay. or at least I'm trying to. I've just started doing mystery shopping, and that seems to be giving me £100 a month at the moment.

I am so annoyed with myself. we bought our house 5 years ago and our mortgage was for 76950, today its 90000! I have added an extentision which cost us 10k to build. oh and we now have 2 small children, but i didn't pay anything for them!

halloweenqueen_2

Thanks, its the same thing with us - if we'd known back when we started about overpaying, but hindsights a great thing!!
My ambition is to be paid off in 5 years, I'm so pleased alisajo started this thread - I'm about 4.5K in overpayments since I started, money that otherwise would have been used for nothing much at all and gathering interest on the mortgage at the same time. In fact I would still probably have a lot of stuff I didn't need, but have had a good clear out and raised some money instead!

Deedee73

I've had a pig in my kitchen for years, when he is full I pop his insides into a bag and bank them.

After reading this thread I am going to dig all my "pigs" out of the attic! I used to collect them when I was younger, and make little signs for them all and sell them at the boot sale!! More money for hungry "Jwan Eater" in the kitchen!!

:j

itgirlinuk

I just use a large biscuit tin. It sits in the living room and i constantly chuck coins into it. All loose change from my wallet goes into it.

No overpayments this month though

millsmum

itgirlinuk wrote:

I just use a large biscuit tin. It sits in the living room and i constantly chuck coins into it. All loose change from my wallet goes into it.

No overpayments this month though

it must be noisey watching telly with all those coins been chucked in!