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Making chicken feed of my mortgage
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MWC, you're really on a roll and it is great to read :T
Tilly
Go LRH - don't let the big mean girls upset your rhythm sweetheart
Aunt Tilly x2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j0 -
Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS wrote: »MWC, you're really on a roll and it is great to read :T
Thanks Tilly
If it was up to me, I would pay £10,000 off the mortgage and save £2,000 towards a holiday in September
However, as the home improvements (painting hall/stairs/landing, spare bedroom & exterior woodwork and carpet for stairs, landing & 3 bedrooms) are now being paid for from Mr MWC's share money, it frees up my bonus to OP the mortgage :TMortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
Then all is good MWC :j.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 -
I've submitted our MFiT-T3 update - total mortgage reduced by £4,506 in the first 3 months :T We're ahead of target (reduce mortgage to £125,000) and I'm now quietly confident that we'll be under £100,000 (just) by December 2015:j
Fingers crossed
Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
Just for the record

- toasted wholemeal muffins with home cooked ham, perfectly poached eggs, fried cherry tomatoes and portobello mushrooms for dinner
- 4 eggs today (Miss B, Miss H, Miss M and Miss Q)Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
Congrats on the shares!!!!!xxDec 2011 £141,000 / dec 2013 £135,000/ Jan 2014 £131,000 / July 2014 £129 0000
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:Ton the share sales - thats fabulous.
MCIMortgage Free x 1 03.11.2012 - House rented out Feb 2016
Mortgage No 2: £82, 595.61 (31.08.2019)
OP's to Date £8500
Renovation Fund:£511.39;
Nectar Points Balance: approx £30 (31.08.2019)0 -
moneycurious wrote: »Congrats on the shares!!!!!xxmisscousinitt wrote: »:Ton the share sales - thats fabulous.
MCI
Thanks MC & MCI and thanks to Mr MWC for being fabulous - these shares were a special recognition award from his employer :kisses3:Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
Today's news:
- 2 x £10 JL vouchers received from CC
- received letter from BS confirming March OP - remaining term on FA = 12 years, 2 months - by my reckoning this means we have knocked 2 years, 11 months off so far :T
- Mr MWC has agreed to open FD current account - £100 cashback and we can drip feed some of his share money into the 6% regular saver
- sold 1 box of eggs for £1.25
- 3 eggs laid
- Thai-style fishcake + stir-fry veg for dinnerMortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
Hurrah it's the weekend :j
I was checking my boss's calendar this morning and we are only in the office together 12 days in the next 7 weeks :cool: and 4 of those are 1/2 days
Happy days :rotfl:
5 eggs today - a white one, a green one and 3 brown ones
GG & Tilly, I'm wondering if I've diddled you out of a few eggs and the recent eggs I've been attributing to Miss Q are in fact from Miss LRH ??? They are bigger than I would expect from Miss LRH to start with but I'm not 100% convinced they're Miss Q's - I'll try to catch one of them in the act over the weekend
No money news today. I was excited to see a savings watch e-mail from Nationwide but it turned out to be for a naff fixed rate bond!Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0
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