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Awww … that’s fabulous news 🤩❤️
Christmas SORTED! 👏😊🎉🎊🎄
KKAs 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
Read 80 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 25th December
Produce tracker: £457 of £300 in 2025
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Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.3 -
Fantastic news seeing DS at Christmas.Life is an adventure, never stop exploring.2
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How lovely to have your DS with you at Christmas time x
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How wonderful for Christmas. Love this.Made it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became
In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!2 -
Excellent news on both fronts about DS!Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway2 -
Great news for your DSDFW (08/08) £64,346.53 Gone (02/19)
MFW (08/08) £118k Gone (09/23)2 -
So pleased to read your DS will be spending Christmas with you 🥳I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)2
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Having DS home for Christmas I bet is the best present.
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It absolutely is. So chuffed. Can’t wait to see him. 🤗🤩ladybird1106 said:Having DS home for Christmas I bet is the best present.
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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.3 -
So pleased that DS will be home for Christmas
Glad you had a nice time out, and love the dress!"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 McGee2
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