Mortgage Free in Three Yrs

FrugalNotTight_2

£700 for loose change and £1200 pound for a new door. I'm not sure which one surprises me the most!

Seen as how there is a credit crunch on, surely there will be loads of room for haggling. LOADS of room. Just be brave I reckon. What do I know though!

Hope it's worth it!!

FNT

StuartGMC

TallGirl wrote: »

Not doing great myself in terms of MFi3 just about to commit to having a new front door. The ones we like are ofcourse the most expensive ones but I have just looked on Ebay and there is a company 1 hour from us who makes similar ones at much less. Don't really want to spend £1200 for a new front door.

TG, do be certain that you're getting like-for-like in the doors (shooting latches, locking quality (ask which BS apply to the model) etc. You can usually get prices heavily reduced when part of another job (e.g. two doors may cost 1.5x one door) just because it makes a "viable" job for the fitting team. Check also on the UPVC grade material being used and again which standards it complies with (no recycled content for example).

Hope it all comes good for you at a nice price

ailuro2

:bdaycake:

Happy 39th birthday to me - it's only one year from today until my it's my 40th birthday - never thought I'd be well on my road to being mortgage free before my 40th - even taking it from when I got my first 25 year mortgage at 19 years old!:eek:

:beer: Cheers guys - I doubt many of us would even still be thinking so hard about how to get rid of the mortgage in the middle (start?) of a recession - but this challenge keeps us going on what is REAL right here and now, and we're all in a better place to deal with anything the recession cares to throw at us.

StuartGMC

Ailuro
Happy Birthday and well done on getting so close to the end game!

hughmungas1986

Happy Birthday ailuro2,

I hope you achieve your goal before your 40th

hugh :beer:

Desperate_Housewife_2-2

Happy birthday ailuro2!

setmefree2

Happy Birthday:D

Move_To_Portugal

Thanks for doing the chart Tall Girl and well done to everyone:D

We're saving instead of overpaying at the moment as we're better off this way, however I'd much rather see the mortgage coming down.

Is anyone else saving instead of overpaying at the moment?

setmefree2

Move_To_Portugal wrote: »

Thanks for doing the chart Tall Girl and well done to everyone:D

We're saving instead of overpaying at the moment as we're better off this way, however I'd much rather see the mortgage coming down.

Is anyone else saving instead of overpaying at the moment?

Hi MTP,

These days I tend to think in terms of our "net debts" - mortgage less savings - keeps me motivated:D. Our mortgage less savings have just fallen below £30k another milestone...

cupid_s

Hope you had a great birthday ailuro.
We're saving as well instead of overpaying the mortgage but I find that our savings are now going up a lot more slowly than what our mortgage was coming down by if that makes sense.