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Nothing to report money wise unfortunately, but was told on the phone by a member of staff that the sant..... bank now allow smaller overpayments from the 1st April as long as they are after the direct debit payment date. It was minimum £500 prior to this
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15 Miss Pinky checking in with this months target of £500 been paid! Made a £350 payment at the start of the month and then topped it up with the other £150 this morning. Rest of the month might be a bit tight but workable!
Miss Pinky xxxMFW #150 -
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#85 total for March ended up as £110.84...every little helps, eh...
April so far £105.05.
Thanks
Mortgage £126746 DEC14 £122423.53 DEC15 £115041.70 DEC16 Remortgaged Sep17 to pay off HtB loan £150000 - £140500 JUL19 Moved house Oct19 £230000 £230400 DEC200 -
no 71 an over payment of £149.47 total for year is £3889.62Initial mortgage £101,700 Jan 2016 initial end date Aug 2038
Current mortgage end of March 2016 £95889.58 Aim to pay mortgage off by 2025
Over payments since Jan 16 £5169.79 :rotfl:0 -
Amazing fantastic news Norfolk dream! Thats just incredible and inspiring!
Jodles
:j:beer: MFW2020 #115 250/3000 J-250
1% challenge- /1525Save 1k in 2020- /3000
Joining in UberFrugalMonthChallenge set up by the Frugalwoods!
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Thanks for the messages, it will probably feel more real next month when I actually have some money left in my bank haha. got my new badge too
MFW 16 No 33
2016 OP Paid/Target 2063/£2063 (100%) COMPLETE
Mortgage Free - Apr 2016 -DONE!:j0 -
Well done Norfolk Dream :T
#61 reporting in with April's payment of £870, total £3,900 for the year to date.Back on the DFW Wagon:
CC - £3,300 on 0% til 04/2020
CC - £4,500 on 0% til 02/2019
Loan - £12,063.84 as at 4/1/180 -
First OP of £255 for the year! :j
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#22 reporting April payment of £610.03.
Cumulative total = £2479.61 / £6000 (41%)know thyselfNid wy'n gofyn bywyd moethus...0 -
Spreadsheet updated, sorry for the lack of update last weekend - i'm afraid that life got in the way. I'm running the Brighton Marathon next weekend too, so I may well be busy pasta-munching rather than spreadsheet-updating - back to normal after that

Great to see so many great updates, I've been going through a bit of a financial low in the last few days as it all seems rather difficult at times, but this thread has picked my up again and I feel like I've got my MFW mojo back. £600 OP'd for me this month and hopefully a bit more to come. And (as I posted on MFiT-T4) this month marks ten years since we moved in, and also £100k paid off the original amount. And almost two thirds of that is in the last three years when we decided to really take mortgage OPs seriously - amazing what difference overpayments can make. So far we've taken six years off the mortgage, and on track now to finish late 2020 which would be eleven years early.
norfolkdream - many congratulations on becoming mortgage free, it's a great inspiration
SavvySaver007 - well done on your April OP, you've well and truly busted your target, do you want to increase it?
rasputin_thorpedo - added you in to the original post list, my apologies, I blame the staff
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