Mortgage Free in Three Yrs

ailuro2

Trying_to_be_good wrote: »

I'M MORTGAGE-FREE FOR 18 DAYS!



Perhaps I should sign off this challenge with a balance of £11,100?

Hmm, I'd have gone for zero since you will techincally be mortgage free within the three year limit!! ....:rotfl:

financialbliss

Hi all,

Dropped a leading digit again - we've a mere 6 months and 17 days remaining, or in pure numbers, just 199 days remaining.

FB.

RosieTiger

LookAfterThePennies wrote: »

Hi everyone,
Just a quick update from number 92,final payment went into the mortgage on 28/08/09 so am now mortgage -free just days before my 34th birthday.Thanks to all the encouragement from members of MFi3.Iwill post a bit more on the mortgage free roll of honour a bit later today.

Congratulations to you - another one makes it !

Kaz2904

I've been a busy bee today and over the last week. We've been out picking the hedgerows and I'm busy making jams and syrups. I need to collect more jars and bottles so I can make some cordials and finish off the jams.
DH and I have also made some sloe gin. We've a bottle of vodka ready to turn into something delicious too.
Over the next year we will collect up enough jam jars etc to see us through a whole year and then next year we will be able to make our entire years worth of stuff for the cost of the sugar and the energy.
Sloe jam has gone down very well. We found a plum tree today on our way home from foraging and although we only got 1lb of plums that has been converted to 2 jars of jam.
DH's boss has lots of trees etc in his garden and no time to trim them or pick their offerings. We spent an hour there tonight and were able to collect lots of kindling. DH may suggest that we will start tidying up his woodlands and cutting back his trees in exchange for being able to use some of the land for growing our stuff (onions etc!). We can also start building up his winter wood store while we are collecting ours too. The kids think it's fab picking stuff and have been quite helpful. They are really enjoying halping make the jams and eating them but it's a bit scary with the boiling sugar bit!
I reckon that we'll save a couple of ££££s doing this each year and being very MSE I borrowed my Aunties pressure cooker as I didn't have a pan big enough. I used the pressure bit and it does it far quicker!

dawnylou

Me and my husband were planning a weekend to London using Tesco Clubcard vouchers so I entered quite a lot of competitions for tickets around that specific time so we had things to do whilst there without spending a fortune......then at the last minute we decided to go to Edinburgh as I had never been there - but I actually won a few pairs of tickets for things like Prom In The Park etc!! So I sold them on Ebay...and made £70 which I paid off the mortgage yesterday!

Also ordered a redemption statement just out of curiousity as we are wondering if we can get a better deal elsewhere....

DD4

My mortgage was paid yesterday and I have updated my signature accordingly. I'm now just under the £98k mark at £98,998.32 - a long way to go yet, but progress all the same.

I also converted my Mortgage Pig savings from silver and coppers into notes. I've been using a mortgage pig since we started the Mortgage Free challenge, and everytime it gets full-ish I sort it into those plastic bags supplied by the bank and put them into a shoebox (and put the remaining bits and bobs of coins back into the piggy). To my surprise I netted £80 from all the bags in the shoebox. I'm hopeful to clear £100 by the end of the challenge, which I'm going to use to treat us all* to a celebrationary meal to mark the end of MFi3.

*By "all", I mean my family, not everyone in the Mortgage Free in Three challenge! :eek:

Trying_to_be_good

Well, we finally exchanged contracts today on the purchase of our beautiful forever house, so I'm off to the Mortgage Free in Three Part 2 challenge with a very chunky £300k+ mortgage. Good luck to everyone for the 'final push' of this - my move wouldn't have been possible without the huge reduction I managed in the mortgage on this challenge.

gallygirl

DD4 wrote: »

I'm going to use to treat us all* to a celebrationary meal to mark the end of MFi3.

Cheers DD

DD4 wrote: »

*By "all", I mean my family, not everyone in the Mortgage Free in Three challenge! :eek:

oh

ailuro2

We'd be lucky to get a packet of crisps and a can of juice form Lidl if you had to buy the original 134 members something to eat!

I do like the idea of celebrating as a family when the challenge comes to an end, though.....:D

setmefree2

Trying_to_be_good wrote: »

Well, we finally exchanged contracts today on the purchase of our beautiful forever house, so I'm off to the Mortgage Free in Three Part 2 challenge with a very chunky £300k+ mortgage. Good luck to everyone for the 'final push' of this - my move wouldn't have been possible without the huge reduction I managed in the mortgage on this challenge.

in your new home and Good Luck clearing your new mortgage:D