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Finally I have a mortgage I can start to pay off!
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Thanks CR, it’s worked - 2nd viewing tomorrow morning and another two booked on Saturday and next week.Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway5 -
Ooh, exciting Vix, fingers crossed!6
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I’ll cross my fingers for tomorrow then. Good luck
CRx4 -
@themadvix yes it was me
I have to admit we never did attempt to sudocrem his rear end - he seemed to recover quickly with the digestive paste so we were spared that little delight!
Choose kind5 -
Fingers crossed for you vix xMortgage Balance as of July 2025 £14,900.
Starting Mortgage Balance (June 2019) £72,000.
Aiming to be mortgage free by my 40th birthday, June 2026!4 -
Hahaha, I love the @Hazelnutty post in the middle of all the house chatter. Made me laugh (though not funny really!)Save £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
My new diary is here2 -
Morning all,
Hazelnutty - fortunately the paste seems to be working here tooAnd our vet isn't mad enough to suggest sudocrem! (Ginger cat has a reputation for needing the gauntlets at the vets!).
So our keen lady returned this morning with (at a guess) her dad, daughter and sister. She is still very keen and cancelled several other viewings booked after seeing ours for a second time. She's still got another one to view though at 11. So it's a waiting game.
Meanwhile, I had a terrible night's sleep, worrying about the house we're going to see later. I think it was all just middle-of-the-night nonsense, but I definitely need a second viewing. (Also read for a while, dealt with neighbourhood cat bullying ours through the dining room window and had a weird dream that DH had got a temperature (while at a family event) and we had to decide on the house without a viewing and cancel all our viewings... life these days!)
Another project arrived overnight that will take most of today - not great when I have other stuff I need to be cracking on with *and* an interrupted day anyway. Snagged a really lucrative survey from Prolific, but it's going to ask me a mini survey 5 times per day for the next week - a bit annoying! It pays very well though, so I can't complain.
MS things:
* Dinner was chilli using up stuff from fridge and freezer (and with the addition of hg toms from mum's garden)
* Lunch will be leftover chill and leftover over minestrone - I'm beginning to feel a bit more on top of things in the food department
* Clicks etc.
* PA surveys
* 1P surveys
* YG survey
Gratitudes:
* The viewers seemed friendly
* The cats behaved
* The sun is shining - it helps with viewings on both sides!
Have a good day all!Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway6 -
Sorry about the pants sleep 🙁 I can relate to the bonkers dreams - why can't your brain just keep quiet when you're already desperate for sleep??? The second viewing sounds like it was positive, fingers crossed yours on the potential house is as well 🤞Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
Cleared 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed
Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!6 -
@Suffolk_lass I did lower the tone somewhat
(for those interested cat's butt is A-OK now and he back to his usual slightly awkward and affectionate self)
As you were!Choose kind7 -
I sent last night dreaming about bees and worrying that we can't look after them properly so you are not alone. What are we like!?Save £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
My new diary is here3
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