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crumbs, i get frustrated after making 2 sandwiches!Mortgage Apr 18 £417,894 BTL Mar 18 £162,857
Mortgage now -- £350,085 BTL now --- £162,6680 -
Watty. The question should be "will you be tempted to break the no booze on a schoolnight rule to celebrate the start of July"?
Day#30.
Floppy it is quite a faff.
Money. DH accepted more marking. 10/10 not my doing.
Health and fitness. Stuck to calories for the wrong reason. 6/10
Family. Saw them to make them dinner and have a cuddle. 4/10
Work. 5/10 not pleased with self today.
Saw self in one of *those* photos today. Taken today.
Feeling very meh a failure and sorry for self.0 -
How can you be a failure? Lovely family, good job, pets cared for, and all responsibilities fully faced up to. Pat yourself on the back. Anything else is trivial.
What are those photos?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:D0 -
I know those photos... that and the trousers from a different size that made me decide enough was enough.Morgage till Nov 30 GOAL MFW Sept 2016Aug 11 - £100k Aug 2016.... It's GONE!!!!!
2014 GOAL HIT 5 Stone! 2016 GOAL to be a MF marathon runner.
"A goal without a plan is just a wish"0 -
Secret_Saving_Squirrel wrote: »How can you be a failure? Lovely family, good job, pets cared for, and all responsibilities fully faced up to. Pat yourself on the back. Anything else is trivial.
What are those photos?
Agreed. You work hard, keep on top of everything. I really admire the way you manage it all.
Re losing weight - we all have wake up calls - just look on it as a positive step in the right direction. Think of HDK
Tilly x x x2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j0 -
Echo what Secret Saving Squirrel saidMade it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became
In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!0 -
Alchemilla wrote: »
I've got one of these - its fab - bought mine with our wedding money.
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Don't be so hard on yourself - you are doing a brilliant job. We said so, so it must be true!!
MCIMortgage 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)0 -
Alchemilla wrote: »
..and me ... ours is like this too
Dec 2011 £101,000
March 2013 - £90,000 (ish) April 2013 - in the 80's
June 2014 - in the 70's :j
July 2015 - will be in the 60's :T
Original end date - December 2026 We're getting there
Hoping for - asap :rotfl:0 -
Secret_Saving_Squirrel wrote: »How can you be a failure? Lovely family, good job, pets cared for, and all responsibilities fully faced up to. Pat yourself on the back. Anything else is trivial.
What are those photos?
Delurking to say I agree with Squirrel Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
You are all very kind and I will quit the pity partying now!
Squirrel it was a photo taken that day where I thought "who is that" and then "OMG that cant be me!".
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Money. Nothing to report. 5/10 £3 OP so 6/10.
Health and fitness. Did two hours with pony. 7/10
Work. Maybe a teeny tiny step forward.6/10
Family. Lovely DS cuddles. 6/10.
Just got in from pony yomping.
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