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Making chicken feed of my mortgage
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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!!!0 -
Amazing progress :j. Happy weekend
. 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"0 -
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!)0 -
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 walkMortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
There is nothing wrong with using vouchers to buy gin.Outstanding mortgage: £23,181 (December 19)
MFW 2020 Challenge Member #10 0/£23180 -
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!!!0 -
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 
Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
WOW. We would not have 8 bottles of gin for long.0
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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 zzzMortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
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Very wise. I think we might have blueberries.0
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