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  • Just catching up Tilly - and I see that I need to read back a few more pages to understand what's going on!

    Sounds exciting though - good luck with all your plans.

    MCI
    Mortgage Free x 1 03.11.2012 - House rented out Feb 2016
    Mortgage No 2: £82, 595.61 (31.08.2019)
    OP's to Date £8500

    Renovation Fund:£511.39;
    Nectar Points Balance: approx £30 (31.08.2019)
  • Oh gosh... I make a sporadic appearance and there's talk of a Tilly Family Small Holding!
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  • Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS
    Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS Posts: 7,854 Forumite
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    edited 9 December 2014 at 4:05PM
    If I do a Judy Garland style click of my red shoes, can I be transported away? We are having a lovely few weeks but I'm missing my diary, time to catch up with everyone's activities and relax. I'm actually hoping a week on Friday will come sooner as then I've stopped.

    Apologies for moaning - all first world problems and nothing that a couple of days of early nights can't fix.

    99p Tilly Tidy.
    I've scheduled in my diary when to contact estate agents in March 2015 to get pricings and details of fees. We will be truly MF not just offset once we sell - if it sells :o. Then back into the fray. There's a possibility we will have to rent whilst looking to buy as the location of choice, tends to sell properties within a week. We need to be flexible and ready to bite.

    Mr T has said he'll consider pigs providing it's not all year round. I'm going to the council when we are there to understand the legal situation. I'm not emotional about this - we all love animals and if we raise them and give them a good life, it seems fitting that we can then eat good meat. Plus the land will be well and truly turned over.

    We won't be able to do this until we live there but as DS could be leaving home next year, we don't need this mahoosive house and our downsizing plans can start.

    I'd better get cracking, I'm in the office again today - two days in a row :eek::eek::eek:

    Best wishes Tilly x

    Advent: a time of hope and similar to easter a time to go without. I've cut down my internet usage.
    2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
    2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
    Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j
  • Karmacat
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    Tilly, this sounds a lifechanging time for you, how wonderful. And yes, rushing about at this time of year is a first world problem, but we *live* in the first world. You're living consciously, more and more, and thats what matters.
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Watty1
    Watty1 Posts: 7,233 Forumite
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    Really looking forward to hearing how plans develop.
    Your diary could become an e-book :)
    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 !!
  • greent
    greent Posts: 10,836 Forumite
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    Karmacat wrote: »
    living consciously,(snip) and thats what matters.



    Love that sentiment, KC x
    I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul
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  • Karmacat
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    Thank you! Its a phrase I first heard from Cheery Daffs, who chips in on my thread - she writes on her blog about it quite a bit.
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • JHH1982
    JHH1982 Posts: 58 Forumite
    Exciting times ahead Tilly! I shall *watch* with enthusiasm over the coming months :D...

    Have you considered using an online estate agents instead of the 'traditional' - if you get it 'right', which being as savvy as you and Mr T are, i'm sure you will - it will save you a small fortune!
    Not something i'd ever given a great deal of thought too, until Sarah Beeny's series a little while back...

    Best Wishes
    JHH
    2014 - £264k - 25 Years - MF March 2039 :eek:
    MF Goal: Dec 2021 :A

    Remember: "Live a good life. In the end it's not the years in the life, it's life in the years" - Abe Lincoln
  • Yes, I would like to know how it works too. Go on Tilly, be our guinea pig please!
    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
  • JHH1982 wrote: »
    Exciting times ahead Tilly! I shall *watch* with enthusiasm over the coming months :D...

    Have you considered using an online estate agents instead of the 'traditional' - if you get it 'right', which being as savvy as you and Mr T are, i'm sure you will - it will save you a small fortune!
    Not something i'd ever given a great deal of thought too, until Sarah Beeny's series a little while back...

    Best Wishes
    JHH
    Hiya, how funny is that. I was researching this last week. I'm having to take some time out from posting as there's so much going I and that is very much on my list :T

    Best wishes, Tillyxx
    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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