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Making chicken feed of my mortgage
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Hooray to five digits! :T:T:TNST March lion #8; NSD ; MFW9/3/23 Whoop Whoop!!!0
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:j:j:j Yippee :j:j:jA 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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Yay!2023: the year I get to buy a car0 -
:wave: bye bye lovely unvested shares
Mr MWC had an informal chat about a job this afternoon - the job is his if he wants it :T
Waiting for details of the new package...Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
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Super impressed by your progress on all fronts MWC ... all that cooking and preserve making, plus getting out of the shackles of a 6 figure mortgage and into the cheeky 99 thousands (sure you won't be there for long)!
Huge well done all round! :T xStash busting 2014 45 / 60 (balls of yarn)!
2014 Sealed Pot #2136 ?/£500
House: Decluttering 322 / 365
Original mortgage [STRIKE]£149,000[/STRIKE][STRIKE]£117,750[/STRIKE];[STRIKE]£112,500[/STRIKE] MFW 2014#69 GOAL 1: [STRIKE]£109 K April[/STRIKE]
GOAL 2: [STRIKE]£103 K by Sept[/STRIKE] GOAL 3: < £100k by end of 2014 MF goal: Nov 2020 - 4 years early0 -
muddywhitechicken wrote: »:wave: bye bye lovely unvested shares
Mr MWC had an informal chat about a job this afternoon - the job is his if he wants it :T
Waiting for details of the new package...
Sounds like a good reason to celebrate :j:j2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j0 -
Yes it does! Though I had to google what "unvested" meant ... and I thought I'd learned a lot about stocks and shares over the last ten years
2023: the year I get to buy a car0 -
:wave:
Super impressed by your progress on all fronts MWC ... all that cooking and preserve making, plus getting out of the shackles of a 6 figure mortgage and into the cheeky 99 thousands (sure you won't be there for long)!
Huge well done all round! :T x
Thanks Hbbb - the spreadsheet tells me that we'll be in the 80s by April
Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
Mr MWC is excited by the opportunity :cool:
It's not without risks though... only a handful of employees in Europe and not many more customers... yet...
But that's why we've been OPing - to give ourselves options :T
Eggs IN 5
Eggs OUT 0Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
Seems to me his skills are highly sought after MWC so I can't see him struggling to find another post if this doesn't work out - and sounds like a good challenge :TA 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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