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Making chicken feed of my mortgage
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@muddywhitechicken - a thousand congratulations 🥂
We have also been very lucky with investments of late 🙂4 -
Congratulations so lovely to hear from you xx2025 Decluttering 9127⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2024 Decluttering 11728⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️4 -
Yay! Congratulations!4
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Congratulations 👏👏👏- lovely to 'see' you again.4
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Hello muddywhitechicken!
How wonderful to **see** you - and thank you sooooo much for sharing such good news. Well done to you and MrMWC for all the hard work, choices and sacrifice that goes into paying off a mortgage early.
Still got the chucks? Done anymore DIY/decorating at MWC Towers?
Love and best wishes Greying XXPounds for Panes £7,005/£10,000 - start date Dec 2023
Grocery Spend July 2025 £265.78/£300
Non-food spend July 2025 £96.71/£50
Bulk Fund July 2025 £9.10/£103 -
Go you guys!!!Are you ready for FIRE?Will you have another diary to keep us up to date?NST March lion #8; NSD ; MFW9/3/23 Whoop Whoop!!!3
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muddywhitechicken said:...And today we paid off the mortgage - 7 years and 3 month early
Now I'm looking forward to early retirement!4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)(With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)New projection - 14 YEARS 10 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 15 mths)Psst...I may have started a diary!3 -
How lovely to see you back MWC, and congratulations on being mortgage free!"You won't bloom until you're planted" - Graffiti spotted in Newcastle.
Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind - Doctor Who
Total mortgage overpayments 2017 - 2024 - £8945.62!4 -
Congratulations MWC. Have missed your diary but lovely to hear things have gone so well for you.June 2025 - part 1 - £19,145 part 2 - £21,973 Total - £41,118 29 months to go!3
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muddywhitechicken said:
Now I'm looking forward to early retirement!
Yay!!!! Well done!!!!! Here's to lots of little trips together........ oh......... at some stage in the future!!!!! I've found another scary walk!!!!!
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effortMortgage Balance = £0
"Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"3
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