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Making chicken feed of my mortgage

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  • Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS
    Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS Posts: 7,854 Forumite
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    muddywhitechicken wrote: »
    Since getting home at 13:30 (I love finishing at lunchtime on a Friday!) I have:

    Mowed the lawn (back garden)
    Painted the fence (front garden)
    Chopped back all the tatty looking perennials (front garden)
    Walked into town (paid in cheque, posted RMS item at PO, requested repeat prescription at GP surgery)

    Go me :T

    Now I'm relaxing with a glass of good red wine and listening to John Grant on Radio 6 Music :cool:
    Have a lovely weekend. Say hello to the chooks for me.

    Best wishes Tilly x
    2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
    2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
    Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j
  • muddywhitechicken
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    Karmacat wrote: »
    That sounds like a *day's* work, not an afternoon's :rotfl: go you indeed :j

    I'm not feeling as industrious this morning KC!

    Plans for today:

    Housework
    More housework
    Even more housework
    Accompany Mr MWC on a clothes shopping trip - he's lost so much weight :T his trousers keep falling down ;)
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • muddywhitechicken
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    Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS wrote: »
    Have a lovely weekend. Say hello to the chooks for me.

    Best wishes Tilly x

    The chooks say hello back :)

    Hope you have a lovely weekend too!

    MWCx
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • Habibiboo
    Habibiboo Posts: 1,582 Forumite
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    muddywhitechicken wrote: »
    Thanks Hbbb - the spreadsheet tells me that we'll be in the 80s by April :D

    And spreadsheets never lie, so it's bound to happen! *cues up best of the 80s CD as the soundtrack for MWC's summer 2015* :T
    muddywhitechicken wrote: »
    Accompany Mr MWC on a clothes shopping trip - he's lost so much weight :T his trousers keep falling down ;)

    Oooo-er missus!

    Have a great weekend (apart from the housework)! x
    Stash 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 early
  • muddywhitechicken
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    Eggs IN 5
    Eggs OUT 17 (scrambled eggs for lunch and Mr MWC has just made the batter for tomorrow's Yorkshire puddings)

    Mr MWC bought a pair of jeans and a top (£54.50)
    I bought 2 dresses, a jumper, a blouse, a scarf, a pair of tights, 5 pairs of socks and a handbag (£239.50 :o)
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • Karmacat
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    Now thats a shopping trip :) do you really like what you've bought?
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    Yes!!!

    And they were 1-2 sizes smaller than the last time I went clothes shopping :D

    I've got my shopping head on now though...
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    :j:j:j Hurray
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • ahem_47
    ahem_47 Posts: 97 Forumite
    :j:j belated congrats on breaking through the £100k barrier :j:j

    Now for the 90s ;)
  • Habibiboo
    Habibiboo Posts: 1,582 Forumite
    :wave:

    Well done on the shopping and exceptional success of being 1 - 2 dress sizes smaller, MWC. Is it all the walking, do you think?
    Stash 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 early
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