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2012-A year if change so jumping aboard with all you MFWs!!

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  • Are you booking your own flights to and from India? I hope you're using cashback sites to book!
    MFW: Nov 2008 £156k, Jun 2015 £129k, Jun 2017 £114k.
  • buttyb
    buttyb Posts: 14 Forumite
    Work do all the booking I'm afraid but I do get to cash in on all the air miles which Im hoping to collect to do some travelling within India towards the end of the year!

    As for my SOA some of the entries were a bit of guess, trying to average out over India quiet months and London busy time, (entertaining friends who come to visit from Wales!) so was thinking I'll overestimate rather than under!

    Random may be obvious question Elantan but how do I find out the daily interest on my mortgage-guessing I could just divide the monthly interest by the days??
    :beer:Goals for 2012;:beer:
    Savings = £12,000 (for 2012!) Mar = £6,027
    Reduce House mortgage to £94,000/£105,000 Mar = £96,571
    Reduce BTL mortgage to £57,000/£58000 Mar = £57,625
    Pay off Credit card (BLT costs) Mar = £5,491/£7,200
  • elantan
    elantan Posts: 21,022 Forumite
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    Are you booking your own flights to and from India? I hope you're using cashback sites to book!


    we actually have free flights ... which due to the prices of things we are going to have to give away ... these free flights have been a pain in the neck to be honest with you ... more hassel then they are worth :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
  • elantan
    elantan Posts: 21,022 Forumite
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    buttyb wrote: »
    Work do all the booking I'm afraid but I do get to cash in on all the air miles which Im hoping to collect to do some travelling within India towards the end of the year!

    As for my SOA some of the entries were a bit of guess, trying to average out over India quiet months and London busy time, (entertaining friends who come to visit from Wales!) so was thinking I'll overestimate rather than under!

    Random may be obvious question Elantan but how do I find out the daily interest on my mortgage-guessing I could just divide the monthly interest by the days??


    what i do ( and it is more observational than scientific) is i check my online balance one day ... then check it the next and take one sum from the other ... simples really ;) i need to update my daily interest as it has went down since i last put my figures in my status when i first took out my mortgage i was nearly £12 a day ... now i am down to £4.72 i like that .. it's a good boost for me to see it go down
  • buttyb
    buttyb Posts: 14 Forumite
    Hi-can only get on here when I have decent internet reception-not that often! But I am keeping a track of my spending and attending to all my spreadsheets with my time!

    Elantan-I think my daily interest is around £6.25 at the moment, it only seems to be monthly but just dividing that by the number of days in that respective month.

    Only small but have paid £25 off each of my pots Mort1/Mort2/c card/sav, more to come when its payday and my tenant pays the rent!!

    India is hotting up people! (Elantan just stayed at a fab hotel in my own private bungalow, four poster bed, all meals and private pool for just £35 a night-it can be done-but hey work payed for it!!):rotfl:
    :beer:Goals for 2012;:beer:
    Savings = £12,000 (for 2012!) Mar = £6,027
    Reduce House mortgage to £94,000/£105,000 Mar = £96,571
    Reduce BTL mortgage to £57,000/£58000 Mar = £57,625
    Pay off Credit card (BLT costs) Mar = £5,491/£7,200
  • elantan
    elantan Posts: 21,022 Forumite
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    please please tell me where i could afford that ... and i would so love to go ...
  • elantan
    elantan Posts: 21,022 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    could you possibly pm me with some specifics?


    £6.25 a day is not too bad really
  • buttyb
    buttyb Posts: 14 Forumite
    Finally back on-line and I need to update for March. This month I have managed to pay:
    £400 into my savings
    £560 off my house mortgage
    £130 off my BTL mortgage
    £230 off my credit card
    So I will have to update my signature accordingly.

    The only problem is that my tenant is moving out and I don't have a new one yet so I will be propping up the mortgage payments for a few months by the looks of it!
    :beer:Goals for 2012;:beer:
    Savings = £12,000 (for 2012!) Mar = £6,027
    Reduce House mortgage to £94,000/£105,000 Mar = £96,571
    Reduce BTL mortgage to £57,000/£58000 Mar = £57,625
    Pay off Credit card (BLT costs) Mar = £5,491/£7,200
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