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Pay off mortgage and start having fun!
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You too mfd’s , still waiting for the paying the mortgage off and having fun part 😆 I hope all is not too crazy in your life now and you are getting some rest too.Changes afoot wage wise again, look like I may be on 80% for a while fingers crossed 🤞, still going to be super frugal whatever happens now. When I say super frugal that doesn’t not include :
sky basic package
Netflix
cinema pass when we can return
possibly highlights 😂 I’m thinking of removing food from the essential category and adding highlights, would this be selfish I wonder ....
Yes so frugal except for that long list!MFW 67 - Finally mortgage free! 💙😁6 -
NG, we wouldn't expect anything else from you 😂!
Fingers crossed for the 80%Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
Cleared 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed
Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!6 -
Sky yes, Netflix yes, cinema - are they extending your membership?, highlights - ahem... noooo!
Glad it looks like you might get the 80% though. Take care.Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway5 -
I’m not sure highlights are optional though 😆
c@neworld are not charging while shut I believe, so a little saving there. Hours of ironing today while watching a great series on I player, I’m on 3 out of 4 it’s called “what remains” thought it was recent but seems it was 2013.Bread maker misbehaving and cooking half stirred flour, will google what may be wrong as I already wasted two lots today and had to have different dinner as I didn’t want to start from scratch again with pizza dough.MFW 67 - Finally mortgage free! 💙😁5 -
Hope you get the bread maker sorted!Mortgage Balance as of July 2025 £14,900.
Starting Mortgage Balance (June 2019) £72,000.
Aiming to be mortgage free by my 40th birthday, June 2026!4 -
Lots of changes and adjustments for you Newgirly. I did smile at the pointless plans commentJune 2025 - part 1 - £19,145 part 2 - £21,973 Total - £41,118 29 months to go!4
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Wondered if the cinema pass would be suspended. That makes sense. Glad you had a good laugh at FND - I can imagine you're really needing it at the moment.
Hope the pizza works out okay for tonight.Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway4 -
Hi jessy, yes it’s fixed now thanks 😊 too much flour caught underneath it.Busy day cooking and cleaning today. I’ve made a veggie balti for 2 meals for me, a tea loaf, an apple crumble, a loaf and leek and potato soup. As well as cooking dinner (roadkill 😆) all to use odds and ends up. The house is clean, ironing up to date, parcels of cat food/home brew/ bulk buy biscuits disinfected. Goodness knows what I’ll do tomorrow, more cooking I guess, I feel like a 1950’s housewife, not in the good way with stylish dresses and kitten heels, more like the chained to the sink with no outside life kind of way 😩
Best friend sent me a message tonight with a joke about the clocks going forwards tomorrow, what does it matter now? I only know it’s the weekend as there was no emmerdale tonight 😁MFW 67 - Finally mortgage free! 💙😁5 -
We had same conversation with friends about clocks - and calendars... only useful for reminding me of birthdays (and the holiday we’re not going on 😔).
Some impressive cooking there!Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway4 -
My Mum thought I was some super-posho yesterday when I told her mine all change themselves - but I only have my phone and the smart meter (think the car is also set up to change itself, but not planning on getting back in that until Saturday)!
What's being home-brewed? I'm guessing that's a project for other members of the family?Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
Cleared 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed
Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!5
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