A long slow journey to mortgage freedom

Firegirl

QB Wolf - are you in the process of buying? Good luck if you are:0)

Just noticed my over payment has brought min monthly payment down to £851.81. It was previously £852.07. I've put it in my signature because I think seeing that drop will motivate me and I intend to keep my term the same.

Alchemilla

Ours was 260k when we started.

QB_Wolf

Hi Sque, yes we're in the process of selling and buying, it's such a stressful time, cant wait for it to be sorted.

Firegirl

It is soooooooo exciting when you're in. Focus on end goal. You'll get there and it will be worth every bit of stress!

Goldiegirl

If it's any consolation, when I worked at the Halifax, it wasn't unknown for us to do mortgages of over a million pounds, and this was six years ago

If you take that as a benchmark, your mortgage isn't so large after all!

Firegirl

:rotfl:
Love the new benchmark!!! I work in finance and sometimes the figures are just numbers but then suddenly I realise it's actually real money!!!

Firegirl

So I bought some plants for the garden, decided they were too expensive and brought them back......does that count as a saving!:rotfl:

Luckyinlife

haha thats funny did you just look at the recipt and think mmmmm lets take these back lol

how you been getting on sque ebay still selling or anythin ?

Firegirl

Well I had got all smart and ordered these bay trees from a trade garden centre.... So got them half price so thought this was great! Squeezed them into my car like a comedy sketch and drove them home with my knees round my chin cause the seats were so far forward. Put them on the corners of the decking and then thought they look nice...........

.......... 2 hours later I looked in my garden and thought.... I don't give a sh@te about the garden and £130 is too much for trees that I'll probably manage to kill in a month

............ So comedy sketch continued with me driving the bay trees back to the garden centre. Knees round my chin again!!!:rotfl:

Firegirl

Oh yeh sold a few things on eBay but nothing like the first week when I posted and sold loads. I need to do another wee gather of things and a batch of posting items. Sold some nail varnishes that I got free so even though only £3 it's better than nothin.