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Matt's mission to be MF!
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They're great for when the boys decide to be noisy slamming the doors. Quite funny watching them trying as hard as they can to slam but can't!!!Mortgage at Highest- £126.995 Aug 2006
Mortgage- (Lightbulb moment, Sep 12) £95,571. (Jul13) £92,616 (Oct14) £88,224
OP Since Sep 12- £11,401.13, currently £8,416
Original Finish Date- Aug 2032
Target Date Aug 2020
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Matt_The_Chippy wrote: »Wow, my 'thanked' count has gone through the roof recently. A couple of weeks ago, I was in the 400's.
I'm really thankful for all the thanks, so thanks!!!
Hi Matt, I'll happily take some credit for that
I've seen you posing on Tilly's thread so I had a mooch over and read all your diary and duly thanked each post 
Keep up the good work, I thoroughly enjoyed your thread and can see how you've really embraced this challenge. Go Matt, go Matt :rotfl:
Regards
ATTMFW Start Date 1.4.08. Updated 23.1.18. MFW date 1.8.18
Original Mortgage o/s £187,643 / £71,904 (-115,739)
Repay o/s £92,661 / now £55,900 (-36,761)
Int Only o/s £94,982, now £16,004 (-78,978)
Total daily interest £1 [a) £0.77 b)£0.23
Total OP's:2018 target £TBC YTD £1,9950 -
Wow, thanks ATT!
Very kind of you to spend the time needed to wade through my thread. You're right about my embracing the challenge. My partner calls it 'obssessing'! I think she's starting to get bored of me talking about it, I do get a bit excited I must admit! I told her that if I pushed myself enough, I'm sure I could get the offset account to balance the outstanding balance in 4 to 4 1/2 years! What a dream target that would be!
Had another ebay lot sell today (£7.50), so will post both off tomorrow.Mortgage at Highest- £126.995 Aug 2006
Mortgage- (Lightbulb moment, Sep 12) £95,571. (Jul13) £92,616 (Oct14) £88,224
OP Since Sep 12- £11,401.13, currently £8,416
Original Finish Date- Aug 2032
Target Date Aug 2020
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I'm back in love with using Ebay!
The empire is up to £36.50, less the fees etc.Mortgage at Highest- £126.995 Aug 2006
Mortgage- (Lightbulb moment, Sep 12) £95,571. (Jul13) £92,616 (Oct14) £88,224
OP Since Sep 12- £11,401.13, currently £8,416
Original Finish Date- Aug 2032
Target Date Aug 2020
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Had a couple more ebay sales, now on £51.50 :j
I spoke to the nice lady at Santander mortgage phone department today and found out about being able to setup an easy payment facility from my accounts to the Offset account :T.
This means I can start to do all the little Tilly Tidies now!!!! :rotfl:. I've never been all that interested in spending time to sort out the small amounts but I'll see how it goes to improve the savings.Mortgage at Highest- £126.995 Aug 2006
Mortgage- (Lightbulb moment, Sep 12) £95,571. (Jul13) £92,616 (Oct14) £88,224
OP Since Sep 12- £11,401.13, currently £8,416
Original Finish Date- Aug 2032
Target Date Aug 2020
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Woo Hoo!!!
Just saved £76 on the insurance renewel of my T5 van. Spent about 20 mins getting a quote from a rival company that mine said it would match them. No hassles with changing company now as well.Mortgage at Highest- £126.995 Aug 2006
Mortgage- (Lightbulb moment, Sep 12) £95,571. (Jul13) £92,616 (Oct14) £88,224
OP Since Sep 12- £11,401.13, currently £8,416
Original Finish Date- Aug 2032
Target Date Aug 2020
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Congratulations on the eBay sales and Van Insurance renewal :T.0
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Well done on the insurance- it is such a great feeling to be able to make instant savings isn't it?:TJan 2013-£140,231.65
Jan 2014-£120,081.940 -
Thanks both!
Well what a crazy day I've had today!
I've been waiting for some car switches to arrive that I've advertised on the car forum I use. Yesterday they came, so this morning I asked everyone that wanted one for payment. About a third of the people paid today (with one person wanting 13 of them!).
I listed them on ebay and 2 sold already today!!!
Basically my Paypal increased by £529.50 today!!! :eek::j
I guess I best do an OP now!Mortgage at Highest- £126.995 Aug 2006
Mortgage- (Lightbulb moment, Sep 12) £95,571. (Jul13) £92,616 (Oct14) £88,224
OP Since Sep 12- £11,401.13, currently £8,416
Original Finish Date- Aug 2032
Target Date Aug 2020
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That's fantastic news re car switches (whatever they are) Matt:TFebruary13 - £74990 (or thereabouts)
MND - Let's go for 2020 'cos it's got a nice ring to it:D
C'mon nattypants:cool:0
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