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  • greent
    greent Posts: 10,808 Forumite
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    Fingers crossed with the job application x
    I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul
    Repaid mtge early (orig 11/25) 01/09 £124616 01/11 £89873 01/13 £52546 01/15 £12133 07/15 £NIL
    Net sales 2024: £20
  • CathT
    CathT Posts: 7,133 Forumite
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    Good luck with job application. Are you back at work today?

    Helen hasn't posted for ages, I miss the diaries of those that have achieved mortgage freedom.
    June 2025 - part 1 - £19,145 part 2 - £21,973 Total - £41,118 29 months to go!
  • Yes, good luck with the application. Hope you get a chance to interview them!
    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
  • Thanks for the good wishes. I won't know until Feb.

    mot today. £519!

    Back at work.
  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 14,016 Forumite
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    Happy 2017 SHS, I have now caught up with your diary from September onward :)

    I have been getting good natured hassle at work after telling a colleague that I couldn't see what the point of horses was unless you were a farmer :rotfl:
  • AlexLK
    AlexLK Posts: 6,125 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    Thanks for the good wishes. I won't know until Feb.

    mot today. £519!

    Back at work.

    Why did your MOT cost so much?

    Hope work went ok, INSET I presume?
    Happy 2017 SHS, I have now caught up with your diary from September onward :)

    I have been getting good natured hassle at work after telling a colleague that I couldn't see what the point of horses was unless you were a farmer :rotfl:

    :rotfl: Farmers don't really have a use for horses these days, Ed.

    I know a six year old who'd look like this :mad: :mad: :mad: if you said that to him. :rotfl:

    Your daughter won't be getting a pony, then? :(
    2018 totals:
    Savings £11,200
    Mortgage Overpayments £5,500
  • Hi Ed. That was kind. A load of boring monosyllabic minutiae!

    Farmers are the least likely to see the point in horses.

    Yes Alex, INSET and front suspension arms?
  • misscousinitt
    misscousinitt Posts: 3,655 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee!
    Hi SHS

    Happy new year!

    Good luck with the job application and all your goals for 2017.

    MCI x
    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)
  • Yo MCI! Great to see you. Happy New Year to you.

    School have asked me to act up FT middle management.

    I am so good at acting up!!
  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 14,016 Forumite
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    AlexLK wrote: »
    I know a six year old who'd look like this :mad: :mad: :mad: if you said that to him. :rotfl:

    Your daughter won't be getting a pony, then? :(

    Like 95% of middle class children, my daughter will not be expecting a pony :p
    Farmers are the least likely to see the point in horses.

    Poor horses. Not even farmers want them.
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