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Janey's Journey to Becoming a MFW

ljaneyr · 2014-04-10 18:36:28

After reading so many great and inspirational diaries on here, I have finally decided to start my own! I have dithered over whether to start a MFW diary since I got the mortgage 16 months ago, because we won't actually be able to overpay anything for a few more years yet. But after receiving a gentle push in the right…

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Jessy103 Posts: 2,388 Forumite

4 June 2017 at 7:38PM

Great news on your first OP Janey!

Mortgage Balance as of September 2025 £11,700
Starting Mortgage Balance (June 2019) £72,000.
Aiming to be mortgage free by my 40th birthday, June 2026!
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Pearla*Merle Posts: 1,611 Forumite

25 June 2017 at 6:19PM

Brill! :T First of many! :T

a penny picker upper. MFW approx 78% to go | FIRE 3 years worth (30% savings rate: now aiming for 40%!) | Normality is a paved road; it's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it | Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible | The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library
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