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Baby steps to mortgage freedom for beanielou.

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  • Chrystal
    Chrystal Posts: 2,022 Forumite
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    Sending gentle (((hugs))) and hoping you aren't too shaken up.  XXX
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  • Cheery_Daff
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    Oh big hugs Beanie, that sounds most distressing. Glad you've got someone to go with you to the job centre xx
  • lucielle
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    Sorry to read about the falls. Hope today goes ok
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  • Sun_Addict
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    Glad it went well and is hopefully sorted. Sorry about the fall though 🙁
    I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)
  • KajiKita
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    Oh that’s a bit more positive than I think you feared? At least that’s one thing sorted 😊

    KK
    As at 15.12.25:
    - When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £227,385
    - OPs to mortgage = £12,881 Estd. interest saved = £6,203 to date
    c. 16 months reduction in term
    Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030

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  • doingitanyway
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    edited 3 November 2025 at 5:32PM
    Boo to the falls
    I hope new benefit regime works out
    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

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  • jwil
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    Sorry about the falls, and hope you are ok.  Glad the job centre went well, and that your friend could take you.
    "Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 97,691 Ambassador
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    KajiKita said:
    Oh that’s a bit more positive than I think you feared? At least that’s one thing sorted 😊

    KK
    The proof will be in the pudding. 
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  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 97,691 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    Glad it went well and is hopefully sorted. Sorry about the fall though 🙁
    Thanks. Have just realised that there are soup splatters all over the indoor walker 😅
    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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