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The Big Adventure

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  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    Bon voyage :)
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS
    Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS Posts: 7,854 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    Have a good time. Weather forecast here is dreadful so I hope you get some sun somewhere on your travels :)

    Tilly x x
    2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
    2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
    Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j
  • greent
    greent Posts: 10,808 Forumite
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    Have a lovely break :)


    x
    I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul
    Repaid mtge early (orig 11/25) 01/09 £124616 01/11 £89873 01/13 £52546 01/15 £12133 07/15 £NIL
    Net sales 2024: £20
  • wildesavings
    wildesavings Posts: 180 Forumite
    Ninth Anniversary Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Have a wonderful time Goldie :)
    Started my MFW journey in August 14 : £103,650
    2019 : £77,900
  • Watty1
    Watty1 Posts: 7,087 Forumite
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    Have a wonderful time. Both are lovely cities and I know you like the cruising :)
    Made 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 !!
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    Yep, from me too - have a brilliant time. Hope you see this before you leave, and that you get to see as much as you can :):):)
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • misscousinitt
    misscousinitt Posts: 3,655 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee!
    Have a great time - whatever the weather...

    MCI
    Mortgage 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)
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    Hope the weather picks up, have a great time :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"
  • BookWorm
    BookWorm Posts: 2,510 Forumite
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    Just popped by to say I have seen your posts in the thread about frugality on the OS board...and I have seen some of the types of comments you mention. There doesn't seem to be much acknowledgement over there but rather than 'wade in', I thought I'd say here. It definitely goes on!

    Anyways - just seen you are now off on your holibobs :j - so enjoy!

    BW
  • Goldiegirl
    Goldiegirl Posts: 8,806 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Rampant Recycler Hung up my suit!
    Hello, here I am, back again.

    It was a lovely little cruise, and nice to sail from Tilbury. I left home at 10.30am on Thursday and was on board by 11.45am, which is excellent. It was an older ship, but well maintained, and our cabin was larger than average.

    The weather was dire in Amersterdam, but nicer in Antwerp.

    We achieved our objective for the cruise - to go to the Anne Frank House, which I've waited to see since I was about 12. It was an amazing and humbling experience. If you get a chance, do visit.

    Anyway, I'm catching up with the washing, writing a review for a cruise forum I belong to, and I've been posting on the thread that Bookworm mentions. It's a very interesting discussion - is frugal the new normal.

    I'll be catching up with everyone over here as well:)

    BookWorm wrote: »
    Just popped by to say I have seen your posts in the thread about frugality on the OS board...and I have seen some of the types of comments you mention. There doesn't seem to be much acknowledgement over there but rather than 'wade in', I thought I'd say here. It definitely goes on!

    Anyways - just seen you are now off on your holibobs :j - so enjoy!

    BW

    Thank you:). I was starting to wonder if I had imagined the sorts of comments that I mentioned, but I didn't think I had.

    I do enjoy the old style section of the board, and have picked up lots of ideas, but my true spiritual home is MFW, where we're all mostly mindful and moderate in our ideas.

    Although the discussion has moved on quite a lot today, and lots of people are coming out of the closet with their splurging secrets:rotfl:
    Early retired - 18th December 2014
    If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough
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