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Making chicken feed of my mortgage

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  • apple_muncher
    apple_muncher Posts: 15,308 Forumite
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    What's your interest rate on the mortgage?

    Do you think you might clear it by the end of 2018...?
    NST March lion #8; NSD ; MFW9/3/23 Whoop Whoop!!!
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    Amazing progress :j. Happy weekend :D.
    A 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"
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    2.25% apple (N/wide's BMR)

    If we hadn't spent any money on home improvements this year... but now it'll be a push to clear it by the end of next year without selling shares or foregoing holidays (neither of which we want to do!)
    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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    It's a beautiful sunny morning here :)
    I've already picked the remaining tomatoes and composted the plants - I love a bit of early morning gardening in my dressing gown :rotfl:

    I'm letting Mr MWC have a lie-in as he didn't get home until 00:30 (it took him over an hour to get his suitcase :mad:). He returned bearing a gift - a bottle of yellow gin for the gin cupboard :T

    Plans for today:

    - Menu plan
    - Shop wisely (I want to use our last £8 off a £40 spend coupon on meals for the week ahead and store cupboard items rather than on gin and sushi as in previous weeks...)
    - Laundry
    - Gardening
    - A walk
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • wishingthemortgaheaway
    wishingthemortgaheaway Posts: 2,536 Forumite
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    There is nothing wrong with using vouchers to buy gin.
    Outstanding mortgage: £23,181 (December 19)
    MFW 2020 Challenge Member #10 0/£2318
  • apple_muncher
    apple_muncher Posts: 15,308 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! Name Dropper
    But I bet you might just try...

    And I have visions of you having a rainbow-coloured gin cupboard!
    NST March lion #8; NSD ; MFW9/3/23 Whoop Whoop!!!
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    Tonic perhaps but no gin (not this week ;)) No real hardship as we do already have 8 bottles to choose from! It won't be so easy to walk past the new sushi counter and we can quite easily spend £30 on sushi/sashimi for lunch :o
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • smallholdingsister
    smallholdingsister Posts: 4,018 Forumite
    WOW. We would not have 8 bottles of gin for long.
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    I try not to drink when I'm home alone and Mr MWC has been away a lot this summer!

    Last of yellow courgettes, golden beetroot & victoria plums picked along with some orange habaneros, radicchio, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries & pears :)

    I let Mr MWC sleep until 10 but he looks like he'll need a nap this afternoon zzz
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • smallholdingsister
    smallholdingsister Posts: 4,018 Forumite
    Very wise. I think we might have blueberries.
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