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sarahevie's single quest to mortgage freedom
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Well done on the weight loss :T
Good luck tomorrow both with car being all fixed and work.
And with DD and glasses, at least they're accepted these days...know a few kids who wanted glasses (but didn't need them) because their friends had them!
She sounds a tough cookie with the other health issue, if it's any comfort my Mum was born with only one lung that grew and her chances of survival were minimal from birth with best ongoing outcome she wouldn't see the teenager years...yet she's still hanging in there aged 76and she's had major surgery more than once for unrelated problems (one was a 10 hr op). Defying the medics ongoing has been her life times goals
Back on the DFW Wagon:
CC - £3,300 on 0% til 04/2020
CC - £4,500 on 0% til 02/2019
Loan - £12,063.84 as at 4/1/181 -
half a stone well done :]
Hope the car is sorted as wellMortgage--- [STRIKE]£67700 March 15[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]£65221 April 15[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]£64983 July 15[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]£64780 sept 15[/STRIKE] Remortgage [STRIKE]£67295 oct 15[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]£66599 Nov 15[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]£65878.73 Dec 15[/STRIKE][STRIKE] £64834 1st Jan 16[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]Feb 16 £64,511.89[/STRIKE][STRIKE] March 16 £64,056.40[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]April 16 £62550[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]May 16 £62,396.20[/STRIKE] Feb 17 £60.800
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Well done on the half a stone! Need to lose one and a half myself so this is inspiringMortgage Oct '20: £615k
Mortgage Feb '24: 590k
Debt Feb'24: £35,501.541 -
Well done on losing half a stone! Glad the car is fixed... good luck with the lesson obs today!DFW (08/08) £64,346.53 Gone (02/19)
MFW (08/08) £118k Gone (09/23)1 -
We did well in our Local Authority review. It'll be three years in Jan since the school I teach at were put into special measures. I joined them when they had just been upgraded to requires improvement i June 2014.
Ofsted is now imminent, supposedly before christmas, but with a shortage of inspectors we could still be waiting in the summer.
Anyhow to help us prepare we have undergone a local authority review, or 'mockstead' as many are calling it.
Overall we got 'good' which is wonderful. However, personally I did quite well. My lesson was graded 'good' with 'outstanding features.' My Head challenged why it wasn't outstanding - and all the inspector could come up with was that a child had taken a toy off another child and it wasn't noticed. (The children in question were free flowing whilst I was doing a small group intervention maths session with my lower ability.)
My head said personally she thought it was outstanding, and that there was no way I could have noticed the child taking the toy, because it didn't lead to crying or telling tales etc - they just got on with it. As this is going towards my observations/appraisal this year I'm very pleased.HOME
Original mortgage free date Nov 2037
Mortgage free August 2018
Additional properties
Mortgage 1 £108,000
Mortgage 2 £45,000
Teacher pension - DB scheme
LGPS pension - DB scheme1 -
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One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.1 -
Well done, sounds all good for the School esp if you are now at RI.. and well done you for your OS lesson!DFW (08/08) £64,346.53 Gone (02/19)
MFW (08/08) £118k Gone (09/23)1 -
Well done on your lesson and to the school :jBack on the DFW Wagon:
CC - £3,300 on 0% til 04/2020
CC - £4,500 on 0% til 02/2019
Loan - £12,063.84 as at 4/1/181 -
Well done on your lesson and to the school :j
Thank you - its been a really tough three years for everyone, I've felt the pressure and I wasn't even there when they went into special measures.HOME
Original mortgage free date Nov 2037
Mortgage free August 2018
Additional properties
Mortgage 1 £108,000
Mortgage 2 £45,000
Teacher pension - DB scheme
LGPS pension - DB scheme1 -
debtfreeoneday wrote: »Well done, sounds all good for the School esp if you are now at RI.. and well done you for your OS lesson!
Thank you, well officially it was good, but the deputy head actually came to say she was really pleased for me, that I'd worked really hard etc, so was pretty chuffed.HOME
Original mortgage free date Nov 2037
Mortgage free August 2018
Additional properties
Mortgage 1 £108,000
Mortgage 2 £45,000
Teacher pension - DB scheme
LGPS pension - DB scheme1
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