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  • if_at_first...
    if_at_first... Posts: 157 Forumite
    Well done on the extra 5 days - a nice tidy sum!
    Mortgage March 2013: [STRIKE]£55,956 [/STRIKE]£38,500 (aim to pay off by 2020)
    Overpay aim 2013: £9,974/ £5,000 :T:T:T
    Overpay aim 2014: £3,800/£12,000
    Kitchen and curtain fund: €1,000 / €4,000
    Emergency fund: €1,000 / €2,000
  • LauraJo
    LauraJo Posts: 1,041 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    What another lovely day and working at home so might actually be able to get on my horse this evening!
    Found the hole in the hedges where the little dog keeps escaping so will block that up later - think my neighbours are bored of bringing him back! He'll probably just create another one tho!!
    Mortgage starting balance 2011 ... £170k today £1.5k
    Savings: £3k
    Aim: 100k by Dec 2021
  • LauraJo
    LauraJo Posts: 1,041 Forumite
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    Alchemilla wrote: »
    Woop woop! Awesome overtime.

    Thanks Alchemilla and if at first :)

    I really really don't want to do it and vowed that I wouldn't work it again (its festival work so think muddy fields, weird shifts, no sleep and being sober at a festival!!) but most people would cut their arm off to go let alone get paid! I just need to suck it up, enjoy, pray for nice weather and remember my wellies!
    Mortgage starting balance 2011 ... £170k today £1.5k
    Savings: £3k
    Aim: 100k by Dec 2021
  • MM10
    MM10 Posts: 57 Forumite
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    Hi LauraJ, I have officially read all 47 pages! Well done on your mortgage free status and your attitude, your dairy, your humor:j. What an interesting read. I hope to start a diary soon. I have a 230k mortgage.
    Total mortgage when started £256,809 in May of 2011; 2018 MFW #5
    Main mortgage was £214,309; now [STRIKE] £110,716 at Feb 2016 [/STRIKE]; [STRIKE] £63,645 at Feb 2017 [/STRIKE]; [STRIKE]£10,600 at May 2018[/STRIKE]
    Original repayment date 2036; Main mortgage free date [STRIKE]July 2021[/STRIKE]; [STRIKE]Dec 2020[/STRIKE]; [STRIKE]January 2019[/STRIKE] June 2018:)
  • Alchemilla
    Alchemilla Posts: 6,276 Forumite
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    You think the dog will create another hole...or another dog??!!
  • LauraJo
    LauraJo Posts: 1,041 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    MM10 wrote: »
    Hi LauraJ, I have officially read all 47 pages! Well done on your mortgage free status and your attitude, your dairy, your humor:j. What an interesting read. I hope to start a diary soon. I have a 230k mortgage.

    Wow I hope I didn't bore you too much! Thanks for reading :) get cracking with a diary it really does help!
    Mortgage starting balance 2011 ... £170k today £1.5k
    Savings: £3k
    Aim: 100k by Dec 2021
  • LauraJo
    LauraJo Posts: 1,041 Forumite
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    Alchemilla wrote: »
    You think the dog will create another hole...or another dog??!!

    They have since both escaped so guess that didn't work!!

    In other news... Bought a horse lorry ... Oooops :D:D
    Mortgage starting balance 2011 ... £170k today £1.5k
    Savings: £3k
    Aim: 100k by Dec 2021
  • Alchemilla
    Alchemilla Posts: 6,276 Forumite
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    Pictures? Please?
  • toastking
    toastking Posts: 187 Forumite
    I'll be the latest in a long line of people to say this story is incredible! You've managed to do so well and pay off so much so quickly. You've managed to save more than we earn pre-tax even with me doing extra things! So very well done to you two...

    I'd love to do a mfw challenge but to do that you need a deposit and a mortgage haha! So I'll read yours and you are doing very very well.

    We're getting there on a deposit but I want to save and my wife wants to spend, so we compromise and spend... joking aside - she's buying in slowly so its been interesting to see you get the OH involved and then see him at times go over the top. Brilliant inspiration for myself!

    Good luck - I myself am working on a challenge to do and then a way to convince my wife to take it seriously.
  • Arkers
    Arkers Posts: 1,587 Forumite
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    New lorry......New horse???!!!
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