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Making chicken feed of my mortgage
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Welcome back, happy wanderers xNST March lion #8; NSD ; MFW9/3/23 Whoop Whoop!!!0
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Welcome back, looks like you have been missed!June 2025 - part 1 - £19,145 part 2 - £21,973 Total - £41,118 29 months to go!0
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From my first post:muddywhitechicken wrote: »A little about the mortgage…
July 2002
Original mortgage (interest only)
4.49% fixed rate
Redemption date = July 2027
£90,250
April 2008
Further advance (repayment)
5.62% fixed rate
Redemption date = April 2028
£106,190
October 2012
Original mortgage (interest only)
2.50% BMR
Redemption date = April 2028
£88,660
Further advance (repayment)
2.50% BMR
Redemption date = August 2026
£79,832
April 2015
Original mortgage (interest only)
2.50% BMR
Redemption date = June 2016
£79,134.98
Further advance (repayment)
2.50% BMR
Redemption date = June 2016
£7,689.30
If we had continued to OP the further advance (OPs now go to the original mortgage), today's OP would have cleared it :j £106,190 in 7 years :T
In other news...
Eggs IN 6
Eggs OUT 2Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
Wow, that is amazing and inspirational0
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Fantastic achievement!:j:TI am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soulRepaid mtge early (orig 11/25) 01/09 £124616 01/11 £89873 01/13 £52546 01/15 £12133 07/15 £NILNet sales 2024: £200
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Fantastic achievement with the OP's MWC
Just popped in to say that we had Lentil Curry with eggs (scroll down for curry recipe), from the recipe that you posted a couple of weeks agoDelish, quick and easy and a keeper at Greying Towers
Thanks!
GreyingPounds for Panes £7,305/£10,000 - start date Dec 2023
Grocery Spend August 2025 £182.09/£300
Non-food spend August 2025 £14.73/£50
Bulk Fund August 2025 £0/£100 -
Thats so powerful, MWC! Congratulations! I love that you've kept a tight enough eye on things that you *know* that2023: the year I get to buy a car0
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Well done MWC.XXX0
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Well done both of you. Did you manage it by selling eggs...??NST March lion #8; NSD ; MFW9/3/23 Whoop Whoop!!!0
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Thank you!apple_muncher wrote: »Did you manage it by selling eggs...??
If only... I doubt The Girls will ever show a profit...!
Mr MWC cooked Vietnamese beef noodle soup for lunch :T
9 loads of laundry done this weekend :eek: but not much else...
Tomorrow evening I need to start tackling the sycamore seedlings that sprouted like crazy in our absence :mad:
Eggs IN 7
Eggs OUT 0Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0
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