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Baby steps to mortgage freedom for beanielou.

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  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 96,991 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    milann said:
    Hope you’re ordering the weather for the new look garden…..not too hot and not too cold….rain only at nighttime 👍😂😂

    Sadly this option is not available in Scotland   :D
    milann said:
    Hope you’re ordering the weather for the new look garden…..not too hot and not too cold….rain only at nighttime 👍😂😂

    Sadly this option is not available in Scotland   :D
    Sadly not. 
    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: 10,481 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Mortgage-free Glee!
    Glad you are getting the garden jobs. Also pleased it will cost you less than you expected  :)
    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 350/1000
    Buffer fund 100/100
    Debt Free (again) 25/07/2025
  • redofromstart
    redofromstart Posts: 5,968 Forumite
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    beanielou said:
    milann said:
    Hope you’re ordering the weather for the new look garden…..not too hot and not too cold….rain only at nighttime 👍😂😂

    Sadly this option is not available in Scotland   :D
    milann said:
    Hope you’re ordering the weather for the new look garden…..not too hot and not too cold….rain only at nighttime 👍😂😂

    Sadly this option is not available in Scotland   :D
    Sadly not. 
    Yes but from what KK has said, also not available in Wales!

    investing in sorting the garden and pence per smile makes perfect sense to me. 


  • savingholmes
    savingholmes Posts: 29,109 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    The gold bunny had to go - It's a rule!!
    Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
    1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £171.3K Equity 36.55%
    2) £2.6K Net savings after CCs 10/10/25
    3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £30.9K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.25K) = 35.5/£127.5K target 27.8% 14/11/25
    (If took bigger lump sum = 62K or 48.6%)
    4) FI Age 60 income target £17.1/30K 57% (if mortgage and debts repaid - need more otherwise) (If bigger lump sum £15.8/30K 52.67%)
    5) SIPP £5.1K updated 14/11/25
  • RosaBernicia
    RosaBernicia Posts: 4,909 Forumite
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    Pence per smile is a good measurement. 
    I hope the bunny was delicious.  I am safe from Easter now as all the Caramel eggs have disappeared :( 
    Debt free May 2016... DFW#2 in progress
    Campervan paid off summer '21... MFW progress tbc
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 96,991 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    That’s the wind really ramping up from storm 999.(so it seems)  The weather has been so wet & windy. 
    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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