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Making chicken feed of my mortgage

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  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    Foraging and preserving is very time consuming but a thoroughly enjoyable pastime :)

    I'm trying to get ahead of myself as our next free weekend is 17/18 October :eek: (and I'll be jet-lagged)
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • apple_muncher
    apple_muncher Posts: 15,285 Forumite
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    I may go out in the rain and harvest some more blackcurrants... (just so as to join the foraging gang!)
    NST March lion #8; NSD ; MFW9/3/23 Whoop Whoop!!!
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    muddywhitechicken wrote: »
    ...my plans for a wet BH Monday are:

    - [STRIKE]Go clothes shopping[/STRIKE] Shop online! Done but fairly restrained!
    - Finish apple jelly Done
    - Strain sloe gin made earlier in the year with frozen sloes Done - 1 glass consumed for QC purpose only!
    - Pamper myself Done - bath/deep conditioning hair treatment/body scrub/pedicure
    - Shuffle money and overpay the mortgage Postponed as Mr MWC's money hasn't reached the joint account yet
    - Update CP with recent purchases (£10 already claimed this morning) Website down

    Eggs IN 6 (beautiful clean eggs despite the muddy conditions :))
    Eggs OUT 0
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • smallholdingsister
    smallholdingsister Posts: 4,018 Forumite
    Are the new girls quite happy now?
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    Yes, they've settled in well - all laying (loudly!), no squabbling - and Miss Effie is feathering up nicely after losing a lot of feathers with the shock of the fox attack.
    I can't get close enough to pick any of them up though so no chicken cuddles :(
    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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    And now I'm away on a business trip... back tomorrow though :)

    Accounts reviewed and £1,000 OP'd - just about on target to be at £69,999.99 by New Year's Eve :T
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • CathT
    CathT Posts: 7,133 Forumite
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    Foraging sounds great, looking forward to your hamper pics. Did the cc company find a solution and an apology?
    June 2025 - part 1 - £19,145 part 2 - £21,973 Total - £41,118 29 months to go!
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    I'm in the quiet coach on the train...
    2 lads behind me and 2 women beside me haven't stopped talking since they got on the train 20 minutes ago and man sitting opposite me is having a conversation on his phone after it rang loudly
    Aaaaaaarghhhhhhhhhh
    The death stare isn't working
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS
    Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS Posts: 7,854 Forumite
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    All of the Tilly family would feel the same as you :o

    Don't end up thumping one them :rotfl:

    Tilly x x x
    2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
    2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
    Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    edited 2 September 2015 at 4:50PM
    I'm sitting on my hands :rotfl:
    Fellow passenger had words with phone man! Didn't stop the chatters but they've all just got off :T

    ETA To be replaced with new chatters... Noooooooooooo....
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
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