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  • Secret_Saving_Squirrel
    Secret_Saving_Squirrel Posts: 4,138 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    I like to think of you spending your half term brewing enough wine to last until the next school holiday! I would like to make our own but that really will have to wait until retirement as I can't fit any more into our lives!

    Have a good Sunday,

    Squirrel x
    Paid off mortgage nine years early in 2013. Now picking and choosing our work to fit in with the rest of our lives!
    Still thrifty though, after all these years:D
  • Alchemilla
    Alchemilla Posts: 6,276 Forumite
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    Thanks Squirrel. I twice posted on your thread last night but my phone kept carping out.

    I feel like a bag of spanners today and it is entirely self inflicted.
  • abouttimetoo
    abouttimetoo Posts: 1,860 Forumite
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    Oooh, have you been enjoying yourself last night Al, good on yer :D

    I also love the vision of ponyplops licking car mirrors :rotfl:

    Regards
    ATT
    MFW Start Date 1.4.08. Updated 23.1.18. MFW date 1.8.18
    Original Mortgage o/s £187,643 / £71,904 (-115,739)
    Repay o/s £92,661 / now £55,900 (-36,761)
    Int Only o/s £94,982, now £16,004 (-78,978)
    Total daily interest £1 [a) £0.77 b)£0.23
    Total OP's:2018 target £TBC YTD £1,995
  • FloppyDisk
    FloppyDisk Posts: 864 Forumite
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    Sorry to hear of your van experience, it's so hit and miss with drivers isn't it? But then I also see riders out at dusk with no hi viz so there's a few who let us down as well!

    Hope DD coped well and starts to get your confidence in putting plonkers in their place!!
    Mortgage Apr 18 £417,894 BTL Mar 18 £162,857
    Mortgage now -- £350,085 BTL now --- £162,668
  • Alchemilla
    Alchemilla Posts: 6,276 Forumite
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    edited 6 April 2014 at 4:41PM
    Thanks ATT.
    Floppy when I was pg I was crossing the road at a smallish dual carriageway. A woman saw me crossing and actually accelerated. I turned in the road, pointed at her through her windscreen and shouted "what are you gonna do now, run me over?". She stopped...luckily!

    Thought of you yesterday. Saw a farmhouse with 4 acres and stables and permission to convert a barn. DH could bike to work and my drive would be shorter...18th century...if we pooled resources with the olds we could do it...but we cant face the hassle.

    Fighting the urge to buy random stuff. Somebody starp me!
  • Alchemilla
    Alchemilla Posts: 6,276 Forumite
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    Blew £72 in Lidl. Mr T charged me a pound for ghe tyre pressure machine-when did they start charging for that??
  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 14,079 Forumite
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    Do you have an @sda? They only charge 20p.
  • Alchemilla
    Alchemilla Posts: 6,276 Forumite
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    No our nearest is a 45 min drive, but thanks. It was 20p but the machine kept spitting out my coins. Should have complained but three musketeers in the car.

    Cleared out the carp in my car and dyeing DDs duvet set purple at her request. About to do some Maths with her.

    Potty training score 1 wee on the loo and 2 on the furniture.

    DS not me I hasten to add.
  • Lois_E
    Lois_E Posts: 2,227 Forumite
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    Alchemilla wrote: »
    Potty training score 1 wee on the loo and 2 on the furniture.

    DS not me I hasten to add.

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    You'll have to keep us updated about that now - like MWC does with her eggs in and eggs out.
    Starting again 13/4/19
    Home loan 1: £21,102.50 Home loan 2: £7,698.99
    Total owed: £28,801.49
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    edinburgher wrote: »
    Do you have an @sda? They only charge 20p.

    Mr M do it for free if you buy fuel :D
    Lois_E wrote: »
    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    You'll have to keep us updated about that now - like MWC does with her eggs in and eggs out.

    Seconded :T
    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"
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