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Baby steps to mortgage freedom for beanielou.

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  • maggiem
    maggiem Posts: 1,951 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Hope you are continuing to improve Beanie 🤞🤞🤞
  • Sun_Addict
    Sun_Addict Posts: 24,110 Forumite
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    The best dressing gown I ever bought was from Primark and about £13 if I remember rightly. It’s outlasted my M&S one by a mile. I still haven’t looked at Vinted. 
    I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 95,692 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    The one I have was from M & S when per una was first launched!
    Hate to 5think how old it is!
    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.
  • i have one bought in primark that moved to this house with me - in 1990!  it still washes really well.  that said, i did buy a different style half price at £7 in the m@t@l@n sale this summer
    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.
  • Mine is a Guardians of the Galaxy dressing gown and so lovely and warm. Mostly too warm in this house! 
    Nevertheless she persisted.
  • i have one bought in primark that moved to this house with me - in 1990!  it still washes really well.  that said, i did buy a different style half price at £7 in the m@t@l@n sale this summer
    I thought I was doing well, I think mine is only from about 2003 though!
    Start mortgage date: August 2022; Start mortgage amount: £240,999; Original mortgage free date: August 2056
    Current mortgage amount: £226,957.97
    Start student loan 2012: £29,750; current student loan: CLEARED July 2025
  • earthgirl2
    earthgirl2 Posts: 525 Forumite
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    i have one bought in primark that moved to this house with me - in 1990!  it still washes really well.  that said, i did buy a different style half price at £7 in the m@t@l@n sale this summer
    Wow! Not just fast fashion then!
    Save £20,000 in 2025. April 2k, May 3.5k
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 95,692 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    2001 when the per una brand came into being! 
    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.
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