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  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS wrote: »
    I'm feeling like a bottle of pop - all fizzy with eb@y excitement.
    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    Well done on the admin :T.
    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"
  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,610 Forumite
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    Well done on ebay!

    I took a picture of snowdrops today, they were everywhere!snowdrops_zpse211b95c.jpg
    Mortgage OP 2025 £7700/7000
    Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000

    Mortgage balance: £33,821

    Boiler fund £925/3000

    ”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)
  • Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS
    Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS Posts: 7,854 Forumite
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    Hi Skint, that's beautiful, thanks for posting x x x
    2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
    2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
    Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j
  • Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS
    Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS Posts: 7,854 Forumite
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    Morning, drum roll please........... 3p TT OP made. This mortgage will be gone in no time :)

    Definitely NSD ahead.
    Exercise is on the cards for tonight. I am doing circuit training with Mr T, weights, trampette, stepper thingy. 30 mins. :eek:

    I have not weighed myself for a few weeks now. Weigh day is end of February.

    Lunch is leftover risotto from last night. This evening it's butternut squash with pine nuts, creme fraiche with pasta - made up recipe so hopefully it will be ok.

    I've updated our ad for the lodger and it will be live in early March.

    Have to run, Tilly x
    2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
    2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
    Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j
  • TallGirl
    TallGirl Posts: 6,356 Forumite
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    3p that is low but every little helps. Well done on the exercise I love circuits hard but so satisfying. One good thing about being at risk of redundancy I have lost 2 lb not a route I would recommend though.

    Good luck with e weigh in.
    Save £12k in 25 No 49
    PB Win 21 £225, 22 £275, 23 £900, 24 £750 Balance Dec 25 £32.7K  
    Plan to move to Denmark for FIRE by Autumn 2025 “May your decisions reflect your hopes not your fears”
    New diary aiming for fire https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6414795/mortgage-free-now-aiming-for-fire#latest

  • tattycath
    tattycath Posts: 7,175 Forumite
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    Hi Tilly.
    I'm seriously contemplating making a £3 overpayment on the mortgage today-but it seems such a nominal amount in the grand scheme of things...
    Shrove Tuesday today-so it pancakes all the way for us tonight-despite the unhealthiness. :)
    Lots to do today.
    Just realised you put an overpayment of 3 pence Tilly so maybe £3 isn't so nominal after all. :rotfl:
    GE 36 *MFD may 2043
    MFIT-T5 #60 £136,850.30
    Mortgage overpayments 2019 - £285.96
    2020 Jan-£40-feb-£18.28.march-£25
    Christmas savings card 2020 £20/£100
    Emergency savings £100/£500
    12/3/17 175lb - 06/11/2019 152lb
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    tattycath wrote: »
    Hi Tilly.
    I'm seriously contemplating making a £3 overpayment on the mortgage today-but it seems such a nominal amount in the grand scheme of things...
    Shrove Tuesday today-so it pancakes all the way for us tonight-despite the unhealthiness. :)
    Lots to do today.
    Just realised you put an overpayment of 3 pence Tilly so maybe £3 isn't so nominal after all. :rotfl:

    If you dropped £3 would you bother picking it up? Yes? Then it's worth OPing. No? Give me your address, I'm on my way :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"
  • tattycath
    tattycath Posts: 7,175 Forumite
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    gallygirl wrote: »
    If you dropped £3 would you bother picking it up? Yes? Then it's worth OPing. No? Give me your address, I'm on my way :D.

    Yes-totally agree, I pick up pennies-much to my children's disdain :rotfl: I have duly paid the £3 off.
    Only yesterday I found 2 pennies-picked them up and they are in my money tin. :)
    GE 36 *MFD may 2043
    MFIT-T5 #60 £136,850.30
    Mortgage overpayments 2019 - £285.96
    2020 Jan-£40-feb-£18.28.march-£25
    Christmas savings card 2020 £20/£100
    Emergency savings £100/£500
    12/3/17 175lb - 06/11/2019 152lb
  • Alchemilla
    Alchemilla Posts: 6,276 Forumite
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    If you live in studentsville how about a student lodger? I had a first year nursing student as a lodger she was lovely.
  • Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS
    Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS Posts: 7,854 Forumite
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    edited 12 February 2013 at 8:28PM
    Crikey, I'll have to read all your messages properly later. I've just come in from work and am in eb@y mania. I had no idea the things we were selling were this attractive, I would have flogged them sooner :). Currently everything will sell, and we have bidding wars on 3 items.

    My iPad trills every time there's a bid and it's trilling every few minutes - never ever experienced this before so had better enjoy the moment.

    I'm off to run my hands together and dream of OPs :T:T

    Tilly x x
    2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
    2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
    Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j
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