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  • slowlyfading
    slowlyfading Posts: 13,429 Forumite
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    Very very pleased for you :) :beer:
    Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
    Personal Finance Blogger + YouTuber / In pursuit of FIRE
  • Happy happy news. If anything turbo charges the financial journey, it will be this.
    Mortgage at 01.01.14 £119,481.83:eek: today £0 Emergency fund £5.5/5.5k & £200/200 cash.:jWeight 24/02/19 14st 7lb now 11st 12lb determined to stop defining myself by my mistakes. Progress not perfection.:T100%through my 1% mortgage challenge. 100% through my pb challenge. I’m not perfect but I’m good enough for now.
  • greent
    greent Posts: 10,836 Forumite
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    Fab news, Ed - lovely to read it xx
    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
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    Congratulations Ed, so pleased for you both xxxx
    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"
  • Congrats! Great news
    Start Feb 2013 £148,900
    Initial MFD Feb 2043 --- Target Feb 2035
    Current balance [STRIKE]Jan 2014 £146,652[/STRIKE], Nov 2014 £143,509

    :beer:Current MFD Oct 2042 (5 Months Early) :beer:
    2013 OP: £255 / 2014 OP: £815
  • LauraJo
    LauraJo Posts: 1,041 Forumite
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    Yea!!! congrats :T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T
    Mortgage starting balance 2011 ... £170k today £1.5k
    Savings: £3k
    Aim: 100k by Dec 2021
  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 14,101 Forumite
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    What a 'mare of a day, I could punch some of my work colleagues some of time :o

    Hogmany sorted!

    £10 to Emergency Fund
    £3 to S&S ISA Pot
    £3 to Freedom Fund (another S&S ISA pot).
    £9.75 profit from a couple of matched bets

    Off to open my advent calendar :A
  • Does that mean you plan to thump your colleagues at new year?
    Mortgage at 01.01.14 £119,481.83:eek: today £0 Emergency fund £5.5/5.5k & £200/200 cash.:jWeight 24/02/19 14st 7lb now 11st 12lb determined to stop defining myself by my mistakes. Progress not perfection.:T100%through my 1% mortgage challenge. 100% through my pb challenge. I’m not perfect but I’m good enough for now.
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    Does that mean you plan to thump your colleagues at new year?
    :rotfl: That's quite a resolution :rotfl:.
    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"
  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 14,101 Forumite
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    I think I'd need to leave work like the chap out of Fight Club to ensure financial independence :rotfl:

    Up early so I can go to work/come home early :coffee:
    • £10 to Emergency Fund
    • £6 to S&S ISA pots
    • Opened a Paypal dispute after T0pps Tiles failed to refund an order I cancelled a fortnight ago :eek:

    Nearly the weekend folks, be strong :)
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