Mortgage burn parties - rude or fun
pennystretcher
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So if all goes to plan I will be mortgage free in couple of years.
After reading about mortgage burning parties in US (where you burn your mortgage papers - copies mostly) the general consensus is that celebrating paying your mortgage is naff.
For me this will be a huge step in my life and I definitely want to do something special for it. (After years of scrimping I think it will be worth it don't you?)
Looking for people who are going to pay their mortgage off in the next few years and just to ask what you are planning to do in order to celebrate when the big day comes..?
For me, most likely will be buying a magnum bottle of bubbly to celebrate and maybe get cakes at work (without saying why)....and possibly getting £100 premium bonds or something... But any other fab ideas? :beer:
I don't want to have a full blown party as a lot of my friends do not appreciate paying off mortgage as a priority and they see it as "rent", so weirdly enough I'd feel like I'd be rubbing it on their faces although I know that they could have achieved the same if they had not splurged on unnecessary things......... Go figure.
After reading about mortgage burning parties in US (where you burn your mortgage papers - copies mostly) the general consensus is that celebrating paying your mortgage is naff.
For me this will be a huge step in my life and I definitely want to do something special for it. (After years of scrimping I think it will be worth it don't you?)
Looking for people who are going to pay their mortgage off in the next few years and just to ask what you are planning to do in order to celebrate when the big day comes..?
For me, most likely will be buying a magnum bottle of bubbly to celebrate and maybe get cakes at work (without saying why)....and possibly getting £100 premium bonds or something... But any other fab ideas? :beer:
I don't want to have a full blown party as a lot of my friends do not appreciate paying off mortgage as a priority and they see it as "rent", so weirdly enough I'd feel like I'd be rubbing it on their faces although I know that they could have achieved the same if they had not splurged on unnecessary things......... Go figure.
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My plan is to visit London and spend a night at the Ritz, and have a luxury weekend, knowing its fully deserved.
Target - Overpay by £2,500 each month ************** Mortgage free by December 2018!
Absolutely no idea what I will do, probably sell up and move abroad, who knows.
As for yourself wanting to celebrate but not telling your friends why, well why not tell them you "now have enough money" (how you got it - is up to you - inheritance, mature policy, or you could even have had a lotto win:D - that would really give them something to think about:rotfl: - like how much did you win :rotfl:) to pay off your mortgage, that way they know what your celebrating:beer: and why, just don't know how you really done it.:rotfl:
Still thrifty though, after all these years:D
I will tell my closest friends, but I don't tend to talk about my private life at work
Posh afternoon tea in Ritz, maybe something to add on my bucket list...
Good luck
Bexster
You'd depress those who were struggling too, alienating them entirely.
I'd just get a favourite takeaway and some nice chocs and sit on the sofa scoffing and looking at everything and saying "I own you .... and you ... and that .... I own it ALL".
We will tell immediate family and friends agent when the time comes. We're quite fortunate that both my brother and brother in law have the same mortgage free goal as us.
Lewis Carroll
As naff as high school proms and naffer even than trick or treat.
If we go on like this we'll be swapping our enthusiastic clapping and cheering by instead making silly animal whoop whoop noises and getting all OTT about minor would be celebs.....oh wait.
Just enjoy the feeling without the chance you'll be accused of being smug, Gideon Osborne doesn't like the competition.