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Baby steps to mortgage freedom for beanielou.

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  • 23s is such an achievement. You're doing really well. Take care.
    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.
  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 10,066 Forumite
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    Hi Beanielou,
    Just caught up on your diary. Sorry to hear you've had a few falls...hoping things improve. Kir Royale sounds like a nice treat :)
    Take care, DIA x
    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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  • brizzledfw
    brizzledfw Posts: 7,302 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    Hmm. Kir royals..you're making me want to break my self imposed mid week constraints ;) Naughty beanie..:rotfl:

    That is a great outstanding mortgage amount..very jealous :D
    MFiT-T4 Member No. 96 - 2022 is my MF goal :D
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  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 95,765 Ambassador
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    brizzledfw wrote: »
    Hmm. Kir royals..you're making me want to break my self imposed mid week constraints ;) Naughty beanie..:rotfl:

    That is a great outstanding mortgage amount..very jealous :D

    Getting better!!
    Am terrified of what this goverment may do next:eek:

    Anyway I have a real yearning to revisit my teenage years & I am on the hunt for a snoopy mug:happyhear
    Thinking will use it more than a bag.
    Just need to finf one now!!!!
    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.
  • beanielou wrote: »
    Getting better!!
    Am terrified of what this goverment may do next:eek:

    Anyway I have a real yearning to revisit my teenage years & I am on the hunt for a snoopy mug:happyhear
    Thinking will use it more than a bag.
    Just need to finf one now!!!!
    Snoopy mugs

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  • Butti
    Butti Posts: 5,014 Forumite
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    Yes ....why don't you lot just introduce me to something else to spend my money on. A peanuts mug....what could be better!
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  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 95,765 Ambassador
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    Butti~~ I have always really loved Snoopy.
    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.
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 95,765 Ambassador
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    you are a wee star as always Upsidedown Bear
    The ones I saw were very expensive.
    will keep my eye on them.
    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.
  • beanielou wrote: »
    you are a wee star as always Upsidedown Bear
    The ones I saw were very expensive.
    will keep my eye on them.
    I hope you manage to get one :):)
    As you know the trouble with buying something like a mug from fleabay is the postage. I've often seen something for 99p I wanted but add postage and it's least another £2.80. Good job really - I'm running out of shelf space :cool::rotfl:
  • mrsp1987
    mrsp1987 Posts: 815 Forumite
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    I love snoopy. He's my hero!
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