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  • Well done on being booze free! Fantastic.

    Wish I had your self control.

    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)
  • I don't have any! We just stopped buying it.
  • Off to be terrorised by a load of y7s for the rest of term.

    Wish me luck!
  • earthgirl
    earthgirl Posts: 3,762 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    Oh no to d1 cost. Although I thought you meant adding a daughter to the insurance for £88 which would have been a bargain! and a bit odd with the age of your children!!
    15/5/12 Paid off Mortgage 1 (£220k) Bought Dream House:www: Dec 13 - Mortage 2 -£116,508. 15/7/18 Mortgage Free Again :j

    Progress not Perfection
  • newgirly
    newgirly Posts: 9,418 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! Name Dropper
    I read that bit twice too!
    MFW 67 - Finally mortgage free! 💙😁
  • Goodness, well done on the no alcohol. The first one will probably go to your head a little!
    Paid off mortgage nine years early in 2013. Now picking and choosing our work to fit in with the rest of our lives!
    Still thrifty though, after all these years:D
  • Saturday night here I come.
  • newgirly
    newgirly Posts: 9,418 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! Name Dropper
    Don't worry shs , I've been drinking enough wine for both of us lately :D
    MFW 67 - Finally mortgage free! 💙😁
  • Oh dear. We did some decent walking today and I had 3 hours'sleep last night.
  • Watty1
    Watty1 Posts: 7,307 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    ouch. not good.
    Made it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became

    In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!
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