SF's road to mortgage freedom!

slowlyfading

First day of term survived without any mishaps the first day is always the hardest, including getting up in the morning.

1st NSD of June and I'm hoping that June will end up being less spendy than May ended up being. The only bit of furniture we potentially need to buy for the nursery is a wardrobe, but we can't decide if we even need one to begin with; we've got a chest of drawers, surely that'll be enough to begin with?

I've also updated my Ultimate Dream fund in my sig - I'm going to do an in depth blog post about this on Friday, but I'm off the mark :j :j the number is daunting (although I've changed that slightly too, so it's a bit lower) but I need to keep it in mind at all times if I'm actually going to reach our aim.

Happy June everyone

cydney65

SF what is your blog called? I would love to read it

CydneyX

PS So glad you're feeling better X

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cydney65 wrote: »

SF what is your blog called? I would love to read it

CydneyX

PS So glad you're feeling better X

Hello! My blog is The Frugal Cottage - there's a link on my profile here or if you search it, it should come and thank you x

ljaneyr

Hi SF, just dropping in to say 'hi' :waves:

I've still got 2 more pages to read to catch up but need to get up and about now

I'm very interested in how you got your savings goal and Mr E's formulas looked very interesting, but I'm too tired out to think about that at the moment!

Hope you are feeling well this week

slowlyfading

:hello: Janey, nice to see you!

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It's Friday :j :j

NSD no. 5 for the SF household transferred a tiny £1.67 into savings today; much less than the approx. £39 it has to be per day to meet target but ho hum, plodding along there. Also did an OP of £20.19 which tidies up the mortgage nicely. Getting ever so closer to being under 6 figures - it's currently £102,XXX so we should definitely be there by the end of the year, which is good

Got a lovely weekend planned with family and friends, including a walk tomorrow in the sunshine. I've check there are lots of toilet stops along the way :rotfl: so I'm looking forward to it. Need to make the most of things!

Posted a blog post about the ultimate dream fund today if anyone wants to have a look.

Happy Friday everyone

edinburgher

Will check out your blog post in the morning in between MB offers

Baby costs down to £359/m already!

Happy weekend.

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edinburgher wrote: »

Will check out your blog post in the morning in between MB offers

Baby costs down to £359/m already!

Happy weekend.

Thanks I'm glad the costs are going down so much

slowlyfading

We ended up going for a 6 mile walk yesterday; I generously over-estimated what I would be able to do at 31 weeks preggers, so was hobbling along at the end. I could hardly get up the stairs when we got home but, the weather was lovely and the company even better, so it was a good day out

We're out again in a few minutes to meet a friend for Sunday lunch we're making the most of being able to do this without having a massive plan in place beforehand :rotfl:

Been to Mr Ms and spent £29 on food for the week, which I'm pleased about not scrimping on food at all, but using up things we have in the cupboards/freezer does make a difference on the overall budget. We even managed to get some reduced sea bass fillets for the freezer! We're posh around here

I bought some feeding bottles that have been reduced from £35 to £7 that are suitable for newborns, just in case the breastfeeding isn't as straight forward as I'd like. Need to look at pumps too! It's very glamorous, this growing a new human lark

Karmacat

Growing a new human ... I love that! And blimey, thats a long walk - you don't have armies of people pampering you like Kate etc etc! Hope you enjoyed the lunch today, anyway