Skinny Latte's Mortgage Mugging

Pearla*Merle

Yay, congrats! :T

EatingTheElephant

Congratulations

A_Frayed_Knot

Nice to read some lovely news.

Well done :T

dawnybabes

Fantastic news x

greent

Skinnylatte wrote: »

Gosh I'm just reading your footer, what an impressive mortgage journy you must have had!

It was tough at times but am glad it's over - I miss the focus of trying to be MF though!

Skinnylatte wrote: »

Ooooooh my goodness I got the job, I just got a 25% pay increase
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Fantastic news - well done you!!! :beer: Amazing pay rise
xx

Skinnylatte

Thank you all for your warm wishes. It's taken a few days but the news is sinking in. Ive told my boss and my notice is going in tomorrow, I have to give 2 months unfortunately, but never mind. The pension is only half as good, and I have to pay all my expenses up front and then claim them back, but these are small things that are far outweighed by the rise.
The job is homebased, so I need to get in touch with my accountant to see what tax breaks there might be for that, and of course there's no commute :j, there will be a fair bit of travel but that I'm used to.
and I also need to look for a good cash back credit card to use for the expenses.
More later xx

hiddenshadow

Sounds very nice. Perhaps make up the difference in pension from the pay rise?

Cariad71

Hi Skinnylatte,


Just a quickie to say I've read your diary and I'm subscribing

Skinnylatte

Phew, well been bit of whirlwind couple of weeks. I've managed to negotiate a months notice, which means I'm leaving on 30th Sept. I am taking a week off which is not all frugal as I won't get paid for 10 days. However I'm going to make sure that I work on my other businesses for a week and get them into good shape. Because of the pay rise I'm getting I shouldn't be too much worse off.
Life feels very 'out of control' right now. Like I need to rein everything in, write it all down and ground myself.
Financially I'm just treading water
I pledge to redo my soa and write in here more

Skinnylatte

Checked my mortgage numbers today and updated the old signature. Nearly 5% gone, but it needs to be going faster than that :rotfl:

Took DS for his 2nd interview today for the royal marines, he has to go back in 6 weeks when he's bit fitter, they've given him a training plan.

Bought my brothers birthday pressy through TCB today and made a whole 58p, also found 1p in the carpark, I have put it in my offset account, every little helps :T