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BookWorm's MFW Chapter

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  • Get well soon BW

    I prescribe chocolate eggs to make you feel better!

    MWCx
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • BookWorm
    BookWorm Posts: 2,510 Forumite
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    Thanks MWC - that's the kind of medicine I am willing to take :p
  • Kittenkirst
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    Feel better Bookworm! All the rest, chocolate and tv you can muster is required :D
    First home- Oct’16 until June’21: £170.995- Overpayments made £13,784 (25% extra!).
    New forever home- Sep’21 £309,449 @ 2.05%. Plan to clear it before 30 years!!!!!!
  • edinburgher
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    Sorry you're feeling unwell BW, all three of us had an unpleasant stomach/nausea thing for a few days and I was even off work, which is pretty unusual.

    Can't believe you've been so busy - shiny new mortgage rate, car, laptop and an LED switcher in the last couple of months alone :)

    We're now 100% LED, although we do have a fancy light fitting on the landing where I think we might need to switch back to low energy halogens as it's a very small bulb and the LED retrofits don't seem to be quite up to speed yet... Definitely saves money from your utility bills - in the olden days, lighting was assumed as something like 30% of total usage! :eek:
  • BookWorm
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    Thanks Kittenkirst and Ed

    Still feeling grotty today and my throat now feels like I've swallowed razorblades :( I'm not a good patient and it just feels like a waste of previous days off......but I know that the best thing is to rest

    Ed - reading your post has reminded me that there has been quite a lot going on even if it doesn't always feel like it when 'living it'. Sorry to hear you and the family have been poorly. Hope you are all good now
  • Goldiegirl
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    HI, BW, sorry to hear you've got the lurgy, it's a vicious one. I don't think the weather is going to be up to much, so at least you can stay tucked up inside
    Early retired - 18th December 2014
    If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough
  • edinburgher
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    It is easy to lose sight of life happening because we're so busy living it, eh BW? Even on months when you do 'nothing', the mortgage still gets paid, OPs trickle through and pension payments add up in the background :)
  • Sending you (dodgy) hugs BW :grouphug: :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Hope you feel better soon. A nice hot toddy with honey, lemon and whisky might just go down a treat with all those Easter eggs. ;)

    Take care hun.

    MGx
    :jMortgage free 08.08.19 :j
    2018: £19410.25 / £9,300 2017: £7646.64 / £11,000 2016: 4557.98 / £11,000 2015: £10,230.37 / £11,000 2014 =£6703.26 / £11,000 2013 = £4288.51 / £8000 2012 = £1600/£5000 2011 = £2579/£3000
    MF date was Nov 2041 - mortgage neutral 23.07.18

  • BookWorm
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    Morning.

    Thanks for the well wishes to those who have popped in

    Sadly I'm not feeling any better :( Barely been out of bed the last couple of days and nothing much eaten (certainly no chocolate eggs!). This really has knocked me about. I've just let work know that I'm not going in.I don't think they can complain much though as not had a day off sick for more than 7 years!

    BW x
  • Poor you. Rest up and get well soon. Seven years without a sick day is quite a record!
    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
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