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Making chicken feed of my mortgage

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  • misscousinitt
    misscousinitt Posts: 3,655 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee!
    Just checked the first MFiT-T3 chart and I'm at 11.12% of target :j

    And my headache has gone :j:j

    Yay :beer:

    MCI
    Mortgage 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)
  • th_firsteggs_zps7674beb2.jpg

    Not a very good photo but Miss LRH's first proper egg was in the nesting box this morning - 45g brown with speckles :T
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • :staradmin:starmod::staradmin:starmod:

    Clever girl

    Aunt Tilly x
    2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
    2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
    Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j
  • misscousinitt
    misscousinitt Posts: 3,655 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee!
    th_firsteggs_zps7674beb2.jpg

    Not a very good photo but Miss LRH's first proper egg was in the nesting box this morning - 45g brown with speckles :T

    Well done Miss LRH!:j

    MCI
    Mortgage 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)
  • I thought that Mr MWC was good at sums but something went awry with his calculations on how much we would receive for the shares he sold!

    £13,194.71 :j:j:j
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    th_firsteggs_zps7674beb2.jpg

    Not a very good photo but Miss LRH's first proper egg was in the nesting box this morning - 45g brown with speckles :T

    Well done sweetie :T

    Love Auntie GG :)
    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"
  • catshark88
    catshark88 Posts: 1,099 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    What a clever chicken. :-)
    "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful." William Morris
  • nattypants
    nattypants Posts: 2,577 Forumite
    eggs_zps4a7543f5.jpg

    Clockwise from top left:

    White egg - Miss B
    Pinky-brown egg - Miss D
    Light brown egg - Miss H
    Cream egg - Miss Beryl or Miss Gladys :j
    Olive green egg - Miss M

    The little cream egg weighs 40g. Not sure whose first egg it is but when I do I'll need to teach them to use the nesting box rather than behind a flowerpot :rotfl:

    (I'm ever-so slightly disappointed it isn't pale blue)
    Another little cream egg today... this one was laid in the nesting box :T:T:T + 3 eggs from the big girls

    B and G you are amazing:T what a perfect egg from your bottom (and I think it's rather nice that you opted for behind the flowerpot, there's something very hippy retro about that and momma likes that you are ever so slightly unconventional :D

    Well done to LRH also - clever minitillygg:T
    February13 - £74990 (or thereabouts)
    MND - Let's go for 2020 'cos it's got a nice ring to it:D
    C'mon nattypants:cool:
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    nattypants wrote: »
    B and G you are amazing:T what a perfect egg from your bottom (and I think it's rather nice that you opted for behind the flowerpot, there's something very hippy retro about that and momma likes that you are ever so slightly unconventional :D

    Seeing as how you missed it Nats, we took a piccy for you.

    Easter_Craft_-_Felt_Craft_-_Felt_Hen_Flower_Pot_Sitter.jpg
    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"
  • nattypants
    nattypants Posts: 2,577 Forumite
    It's just exactly as I imagined. Thank you for taking the trouble to capture the moment for me GG:T
    February13 - £74990 (or thereabouts)
    MND - Let's go for 2020 'cos it's got a nice ring to it:D
    C'mon nattypants:cool:
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