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Baby steps to mortgage freedom for beanielou.

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  • I find heat minus sunshine leaves me feeling totally depleted. There have been a lot of days like that this year. As for tomorrow being august, I'm already looking forward to getting this year over and done with. Still, it'll maybe get better for all of us pre 2017.
    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 12st determined to stop defining myself by my mistakes. Progress not perfection.:T100%through my 1% mortgage challenge. 100% through my pb challenge.
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    "Heat minus sunshine" - thats a really good way of putting it! It's awful, yes!

    This year hasn't been as bad for me personally as previous years, but I'm sure thats only because my retirement date has become completely fixed, come hell or high water. For my family, some great times, and some terrible, worst-ever times :( But whichever happens, it *does* seem like its going by really fast, yes!
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 10,086 Forumite
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    Sorry you are struggling Beanielou. Maybe, just take the rest where you can...
    If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them

    Emergency fund 800/1000
    Buffer fund 0/100
    Debt Free (again) 25/072025
  • elantan
    elantan Posts: 21,022 Forumite
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    Hey Mrs two more weeks of placement then I'm off if your still available for a meet up ?
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 95,851 Ambassador
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    That would be good El :)
    I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.

    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.

    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.
    ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.
  • Butti
    Butti Posts: 5,014 Forumite
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    I'm in Edinburgh 18 -22nd August ;)
    Debt LBM (08/09) £11,641. DEBT FREE APRIL 2021.
    Diary 'Butti's journey : A matter of loaf or death'.
    Diary 2 'The whimsical tale of the Waterbed of Debt'
    48% off mortgage

    'one day I will be rich and famous…for now I'll just have to settle for being poor and incredibly sexy'. Vimrod Member of MIKE'S :cool: MOB
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 95,851 Ambassador
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    Might we manage a wee meet? Butti? El?
    I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.

    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.

    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.
    ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.
  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 10,086 Forumite
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    You are sounding a bit more upbeat Beanielou, as you always say, baby steps...have a good day :)
    If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them

    Emergency fund 800/1000
    Buffer fund 0/100
    Debt Free (again) 25/072025
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 95,851 Ambassador
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    My Pandora bracelet broke last night.
    Sad about that but had it five years which for me is great.
    All the falling does it no favours.
    Cant afford a new one :(
    I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.

    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.

    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.
    ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.
  • Pooky
    Pooky Posts: 7,023 Forumite
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    I got a similar style bracelet on the bay of E a few years back when the girls wanted them - I wasn't paying out for the real thing for teenagers....they were something silly like £4 but all the charms fit (they've collected them for special occasions).
    "Start every day off with a smile and get it over with" - W. C. Field.
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