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Making chicken feed of my mortgage

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  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    Another beautiful day here :)

    I'm home alone today as Mr MWC has gone up to Glasgow for the Scottish League cup final. My plans are:

    - potter in garden
    - plants seeds
    - potter in garden
    - clean chicken coop
    - potter in garden
    - pop to garden centre
    - potter in garden
    - line dry washing
    - and when it's too dark to potter in the garden, do some housework!
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • Thistlewhistle
    Thistlewhistle Posts: 1,091 Forumite
    Don't forget to potter in the garden, MWC!!! :dance:

    T:D
    Mortgage 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)

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    YNAB is changing the way I live my life....and spend my money!!
  • Alchemilla
    Alchemilla Posts: 6,276 Forumite
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    I am trying to stay out of the garden centre...
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    Alchemilla wrote: »
    I am trying to stay out of the garden centre...

    Very wise Alchemilla!

    I spent £30+ today and £20 yesterday :naughty:
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • edinburgher
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    MWC, do you charge £1.50 or £2.50 for eggs these days? I ask as you had a post fairly recently where you mentioned £2.50, but now you're back to £1.50. Typo?

    I'm not being completely boring (honest). We have a MWC wannabe (new board?) at work and I'm trying to figure out if £1.50/box is ok in the world of 'backyard eggs'?

    TBH, I wouldn't pay £1.50 for 'normal' eggs, but she always has ducks and that's a great deal!
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    I usually charge £1.50 ed - although I left the price at £1.25 for my original customers when I upped the price last year. One chap chooses to pay £2.50/box - the extra is to treat The Girls :rotfl:
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    edited 16 March 2014 at 10:17PM
    Eggs IN 6 (it would have been 7 again but Miss MWC laid a thin-shelled egg and Miss H squished it!)
    Eggs OUT 2 (eggy bread for lunch)

    A glorious day - not a cloud in the sky all day and warm too :cool:

    The garden is looking much better after a day of pottering although I still need another couple of days to make good all the damage the chickens did over the winter...
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • Secret_Saving_Squirrel
    Secret_Saving_Squirrel Posts: 4,138 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    Thanks mwc, think I won't invest in chickens but instead will buy eggs from people like you! Have a good week,

    Squirrel x
    Paid off mortgage nine years early in 2013. Now picking and choosing our work to fit in with the rest of our lives!
    Still thrifty though, after all these years:D
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    Eggs IN 4
    Eggs OUT 0

    The most exciting thing that happened today is that Mr MWC announced he was going to Israel on business at the end of the month... disappointingly he's said I can't go with him :(
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    I've just ruined a perfectly good NSD by buying 1200L of topsoil for delivery on Friday - all because Mr MWC refuses to make numerous trips to the garden centre :mad: ;)

    We will have to carry it through the house to the back garden so I needed to buy the smaller (more expensive) bags :(
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
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