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My Interest rate gamble pays off again!

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  • Percy1983
    Percy1983 Posts: 5,244 Forumite
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    MFW_ASAP wrote: »
    You could always walk up to the hills and breathe the heady, fresh air of success?

    Smells a lot like horse poo to me :rotfl:(literally).

    Just to be clear are you saying the successful all moved up to Saddleworth? I can genuinely say now amount of success would make me want to live up there, bad transport links is enough for me never mind the fact I would have to pretend to be called Geoff and eat many scones.

    I do agree its part of Lancashire to which it was once part of Yorkshire (was it 1974 when it changed?) but I suppose with the average age up there ever climbing I suppose I can see where to confusion is coming from.

    I do class it as the home of the nimby, many complain there children can't afford houses so have to join the likes of me in the ghetto but as soon as the say no worries we will build some houses they try to block every proposal.

    Anyway I am glad all is going well for you up in the hills, you will be glad to hear life is great at the bottom of the hills to. :)
    Have my first business premises (+4th business) 01/11/2017
    Quit day job to run 3 businesses 08/02/2017
    Started third business 25/06/2016
    Son born 13/09/2015
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  • MFW_ASAP
    MFW_ASAP Posts: 1,458 Forumite
    Just checking back into the thread after another absence from the board. Interest rates are still at 0.5% and everything is right in the world!

    Life is good. :)
  • lisyloo
    lisyloo Posts: 30,077 Forumite
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    Still making a profit on my mortgage too :-)
  • Percy1983
    Percy1983 Posts: 5,244 Forumite
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    MFW_ASAP wrote: »
    Just checking back into the thread after another absence from the board. Interest rates are still at 0.5% and everything is right in the world!

    Life is good. :)

    You are right, my beautiful baby boy has just gone off to sleep.

    Some things low interest rates can't buy... ;)
    Have my first business premises (+4th business) 01/11/2017
    Quit day job to run 3 businesses 08/02/2017
    Started third business 25/06/2016
    Son born 13/09/2015
    Started a second business 03/08/2013
    Officially the owner of my own business since 13/01/2012
  • wotsthat
    wotsthat Posts: 11,325 Forumite
    Percy1983 wrote: »
    You are right, my beautiful baby boy has just gone off to sleep.

    Some things low interest rates can't buy... ;)

    Nice one Percy.

    Do you look back and laugh about how you tried to make out 1983 was the worst year to be born since the Black Death? As I knew, being born iin the UK in 1983 was equivalent to winning life's lottery.
  • MFW_ASAP
    MFW_ASAP Posts: 1,458 Forumite
    Percy1983 wrote: »
    You are right, my beautiful baby boy has just gone off to sleep.

    Some things low interest rates can't buy... ;)

    True, but they do help you spend more of your money where it matters - on your family rather than into the pockets of the banks :)
  • chucknorris
    chucknorris Posts: 10,793 Forumite
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    edited 10 November 2015 at 9:52AM
    Percy1983 wrote: »
    You are right, my beautiful baby boy has just gone off to sleep.

    Some things low interest rates can't buy... ;)

    Correct, but that isn't a reason not to make good investment decisions. Money is only something used to buy things with, but we all have to buy things, he wasn't suggesting that making money should be the focal point of one's life.
    Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop
  • mystic_trev
    mystic_trev Posts: 5,434 Forumite
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    MFW_ASAP wrote: »
    Just checking back into the thread after another absence from the board. Interest rates are still at 0.5% and everything is right in the world!

    Life is good. :)

    Have you still got your Pension sitting in cash, or have you reinvested?
  • chucknorris
    chucknorris Posts: 10,793 Forumite
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    mystic_trev wrote: »
    Have you still got your Pension sitting in cash, or have you reinvested?

    I invested another £18k in equities this morning, it might dip further, but in the long run I am happy with the price that I paid, it is all for dividend income for my retirement years.
    Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop
  • MFW_ASAP
    MFW_ASAP Posts: 1,458 Forumite
    mystic_trev wrote: »
    Have you still got your Pension sitting in cash, or have you reinvested?

    I bought into a few shares after I cashed in my funds. I made quite a bit with BP, Tesco and easyjet but that was just day/week trading. I invested back into funds on 02/09/2015 (I think the FTSE hit something like 5800/5900) and to date I'm £8,462.07 up.

    I am thinking of cashing back out. I can see another mini correction on the horizon when the US finally put up their interest rates.
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