FIRE Through The Mortgage - MF by 55 - LATEST

Watty1

What a thing to be doing at 4.00 am

Karmacat

Um, yes! Stoppit

Seriously, hope you got some sleep.

Luckyinlife

im the same some nights fire
cant sleep if i start working out ways to sort my mortgage out grrr hard work all it means is it means a lot to us which isnt a bad thing at all

we can do it just takes time you know well be with each other for the ride anyway lets get this done

Firegirl

I know!!!! Its very sad when you start calculations in the middle of the night. Worse when you think 7 years is no time .......and then think what age your kids will be! Then think life's to short and want to book loads of holidays lol. I don't think this will be an easy ride, but if it was everyone would do it.

Also at risk of redundancy so this plan could change drastically!!!!

Payday soon- woooo hooooo

Lucky you've done your house up so fast. End sept is no time. Yes lucky we started this journey at the same time but your much more dedicated and steady. Some weeks I'm all for it and saving coffee money etc and next min I'm saying to myself life's to short and taking kids on expensive trips instead of my carefully planned freebies lol

Firegirl

Found a brilliant place for a £5 lunch today!!!! You get a sandwich or a salad and either chips or soup and a soft drink or tea or coffee!!! Brilliant!!! Now I know if I bring my lunch from home it's much cheaper but this is a great deal for when we do go out!!!

Yum yum!!!

Firegirl

Mortgage now £236947- another 1k barrier broken!!! I'll update sig:0)

Luckyinlife

well done fire :] every 1k is big mark :] cant wait for you to break that 235k mark tho wooo :]

How have you been getting on ? feeling motivated ?

Firegirl

Lucky- I think you know by now I'm off the wagon more than on it! But I've done a big cook off and frozen meals for the kids. Much cheaper and healthier than grabbing stir in pasta sauces etc.

Also did a proper food shop this week and think we have plenty of meals. So much of my cash disappears on food and I've nothing to show for it.

So this week has to be a mfw week!!!

Karmacat

Somewhere on here, I was reading about having "ingredients" for meals, rather than meals, and that it was a lot cheaper that way In spite of being off the wagon, as you say, you're still overpaying the mortgage - good for you!

Firegirl

That sounds interesting. I'll have a search for that.

I usually make spaghetti bol or chilli and fry a big packet of mince and onions and whatever else is hanging about. Roast cheap tomatoes with basil and drizzle in garlic olive oil, throw in oven for 30 mins at 180 and whizz. Then throw that in with mince.
Use half the mince For making dinner that night and make lasagne with the rest. I usually get a family lasagne and 2 single portion dishes for kids for the days I'm working.

The above is a bit of effort. My fav 0 effort pasta sauce dinner is to steam mushrooms and courgettes. You need to peal courgettes if you don't want sauce to be green- then whizz- throw in cheese to thicken and add pepper. Kids love this pasta sauce!!!!! I can't wait to tell them when they are older it's made by their most hated veg!!!! I don't usually even do this but some times do a bit of fish and throw it in. Easy guilt free and cheap!

I've gone on hear and actually realised that the above is actually my kids stable diet. So any other easy kid friendly recipie ideas welcome!!!