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Natty's Kicking her Mortgage in the Pants Diary
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Oh my goodness me LydiaJ, that's a life story and a half. I thought mine was full of ups and downs!!!
You stick with us, chuck!!!
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T:pMortgage at end 05/2007: £90200
Mortgage at end 08/2018: £71646 paid £18354 (20.5%)
MFD: :eek:Original:05/2042:eek:
Car Finance: £8225 : £6392 (22.2% paid off)
CC Debt (0% until 06/2020): £5640 : £4400 (21.7% paid off)
Age of Money at 31/08/2018 = 23 days
YNAB is changing the way I live my life....and spend my money!!0 -
Wow Lydia what a post! Can't imagine the journey you have been on.
Just to be clear Natty I signed up for Chocowine thinking it was wine with a side order of chocolate are we saying there is such a thing as Chocolate wine?????Mortgage Jan 13 99260.00 87253 April 2017
Emergency fund 700.000 -
Thistlewhistle wrote: »Oh my goodness me LydiaJ, that's a life story and a half. I thought mine was full of ups and downs!!!
You stick with us, chuck!!!
:grouphug:
T:pWow Lydia what a post! Can't imagine the journey you have been on.
It has that sort of effect on people who hear it IRL too. I just hope natty doesn't feel I've hijacked her thread.
Anyway, it's all in the past now apart from the legal aspect - 4 years since he died - so I'm not in crisis and won't be inflicting endless emotional outpourings on the forum.
Thistlewhistle, are your own ups and downs on your diary? Maybe I should go and read that one. Actually, what I ought to do is go to work, or I won't get everything done before I'm meant to be somewhere else. I'll read your diary later.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
Lydia, you have a loan to buy a house so it is a mortgage of sorts (and borrowing from Bank of Mum seems to very normal to my kids
). And you are unofficially 'offsetting' by saving instead, which is what a lot of us are doing. So, entirely normal. Though I find it interesting you chose Natty's diary to confess to abnormality :rotfl:.
Crikey, quite a tale you've told though. Hope it gets resolved soon.
Muser, yes, there appears to be such as thing as chocolate wine :eek:.A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort Mortgage Balance = £0
"Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"0 -
:heartpulsMortgage Jan 13 99260.00 87253 April 2017
Emergency fund 700.000 -
Have just googled chocowine and it seems it is a real thing???0
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Lydia, you have a loan to buy a house so it is a mortgage of sorts (and borrowing from Bank of Mum seems to very normal to my kids). And you are unofficially 'offsetting' by saving instead, which is what a lot of us are doing. So, entirely normal. Though I find it interesting you chose Natty's diary to confess to abnormality :rotfl:.
Thanks for the welcome, gallygirl. :hello:
I've posted on a few diaries - yours, Tilly's, natty's and Froggy's so far, I think. It's just that after natty asked me not to go back to lurking, I explained why I had been lurking so long without posting, so it was on this diary that Calfuray asked me about my abnormal mortgage.
Have to admit that while lurking I assumed chocowine meant wine with side order of chocolate - or chocolate with side order of wine.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
Hi Lydia, no more lurking, open a diary and join the mad family
Tilly x2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j0 -
Well, OK, I won't lurk any more. Not sure about having my own diary, though. Will continue posting on other people's for a bit and see how things go. It's lovely that everyone is so welcoming here, though. :hello:Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
I've posted on a few diaries - yours, Tilly's, natty's and Froggy's so far, I think. It's just that after natty asked me not to go back to lurking, I explained why I had been lurking so long without posting, so it was on this diary that Calfuray asked me about my abnormal mortgage.
Don't try to explain it Lydia, your abnormal mortgage simply felt at home here :rotfl:.Have to admit that while lurking I assumed chocowine meant wine with side order of chocolate - or chocolate with side order of wine.
As I was saying - this diary's a bit like Willie Wonka and the Chocowine Factory :T.A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort Mortgage Balance = £0
"Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"0
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