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  • Secret_Saving_Squirrel
    Secret_Saving_Squirrel Posts: 4,138 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    Well done on the weight loss. Brilliant result!
    Paid off mortgage nine years early in 2013. Now picking and choosing our work to fit in with the rest of our lives!
    Still thrifty though, after all these years:D
  • Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS
    Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS Posts: 7,854 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    OMG Mr T is test driving a Bentley tomorrow. Sexy sporty one but what a mid life crisis. How do I tell him he can only have a Golf:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
    2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
    2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
    Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j
  • brizzledfw
    brizzledfw Posts: 7,302 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    :rotfl:

    Tell him a Bentley is an old mans car???! ;)

    Glad you’re having a good Autumn..much love Mrs T xx
    MFiT-T4 Member No. 96 - 2022 is my MF goal :D
    Winter 17/18 Savings Rate Goal: 25% [October 30%] :T
    Declutter 60 items before 31.03.18 9/60 ** LSDs Target 10 for March 03/10 **AFDs 10/15 ** Sales/TCB Target 2018 £25/£500 NSDs Target 10 for March 02/10 Trying to be a Frugalista:rotfl::T
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    Tell him he'll have to carry on working to pay for it, that should work :rotfl:.

    By coincidence we are probably getting wheels for Mr GG tomorrow, but the opposite end of the spectrum :D.
    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
    :) Mortgage Balance = £0 :)
    "Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"
  • Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS
    Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS Posts: 7,854 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    gallygirl wrote: »
    Tell him he'll have to carry on working to pay for it, that should work :rotfl:.

    By coincidence we are probably getting wheels for Mr GG tomorrow, but the opposite end of the spectrum :D.

    That will make life easier 😉

    Mr T has made me laugh. He's got no chance :rotfl:
    2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
    2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
    Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    gallygirl wrote: »

    By coincidence we are probably getting wheels for Mr GG tomorrow, but the opposite end of the spectrum :D.

    Has he still got his eye on the white van?!
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • apple_muncher
    apple_muncher Posts: 15,241 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! Name Dropper
    I thought it meant that Mr GG is getting a bicycle...
    NST March lion #8; NSD ; MFW9/3/23 Whoop Whoop!!!
  • greent
    greent Posts: 10,784 Forumite
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    We drove past (in my Golf ;):D) a white sporty Bentley today - OH informed me it costs c £240K. DS2 (11) was most unimpressed when I told him that you could buy a small 4 bed house outright for that - or that it would pay fully for 4 x university educations - he can't believe someone would pay such money for a car (not saying Mr T is looking at that one :D)

    Hopefully Mr T will settle for a suitable (and sensible) set of wheels instead! :)
    xx
    I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul
    Repaid mtge early (orig 11/25) 01/09 £124616 01/11 £89873 01/13 £52546 01/15 £12133 07/15 £NIL
    Net sales 2024: £20
  • Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS
    Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS Posts: 7,854 Forumite
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    greent wrote: »
    We drove past (in my Golf ;):D) a white sporty Bentley today - OH informed me it costs c £240K. DS2 (11) was most unimpressed when I told him that you could buy a small 4 bed house outright for that - or that it would pay fully for 4 x university educations - he can't believe someone would pay such money for a car (not saying Mr T is looking at that one :D)

    Hopefully Mr T will settle for a suitable (and sensible) set of wheels instead! :)
    xx

    He'll have to GreenT ❤

    In all seriousness I'd like a Golf for us to share as we are buying a car in Portugal next year :T. Our son had my old one.

    Cost of all cars seems ridiculous. PCP is not for us ❤

    Hope all is well with you and your family.

    Tilly xxx
    2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
    2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
    Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j
  • Watty1
    Watty1 Posts: 6,871 Forumite
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    Maybe buy him the matchbox version for his Christmas stocking :)
    Made it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became

    In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!
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