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  • Finally got BT card. Only waiting since 27th Dec.
  • misscousinitt
    misscousinitt Posts: 3,655 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee!
    :j:j:jAt last:j:j:j

    MCI
    Mortgage Free x 1 03.11.2012 - House rented out Feb 2016
    Mortgage No 2: £82, 595.61 (31.08.2019)
    OP's to Date £8500

    Renovation Fund:£511.39;
    Nectar Points Balance: approx £30 (31.08.2019)
  • But will it work?!
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    I hope it does! SHS, I was going to post another cat blog today, but got diverted after a phone call from my (teacher) sister. Yet another knock upside the head for me about how awful teachers have it these days, and how very fortunate I am to have the time that I have, even though I'm not quite there health-wise. Hope you've got time to breathe.
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Thanks KC.

    I hope your sister is ok?

    There is a reason the government is advertising so hard for trainees.
  • Blog updated. I have seen the MOST perfect house.
  • Karmacat
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    Hi SHS :)
    Thanks KC.

    I hope your sister is ok?

    There is a reason the government is advertising so hard for trainees.
    She is, thank you, didn't mean to concern you. It's her last term before she retires, and they insist on starting a new maths scheme, so she's been spending an hour planning each maths lesson :( as the school won't buy any books relating to the new scheme. She's bought one herself, and will use it as necessary for the rest of the term.
    Blog updated. I have seen the MOST perfect house.
    I like that raptitude one on procrastination: "You finish a thing by starting it until it’s done. " Excellent :T Starting is a problem for me, but so is finishing :rotfl:
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Positive selling vibes (and finger crossing) from me :)

    "...though I wish she wouldn’t eat the Polyanthus." :rotfl:
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    Positive selling vibes (and finger crossing) from me :)
    Ooh, from me too, I forgot that!
    "...though I wish she wouldn’t eat the Polyanthus." :rotfl:
    I particularly admired this phrase :D
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Thanks for reading, guys!

    Did you finish your latest Cat post, KC?

    I feel some of your sister's pain. I am teaching A level for the first time in over a decade and it is taking as long to plan it as to deliver it.

    I wouldn't trade them though!

    We are going to meet Elephant and one of her ponies tomorrow. Very exciting!
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