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  • f0xh0les
    f0xh0les Posts: 7,766 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! Photogenic
    Plans for the rest of the year!  Final Balance of 2025! 
    Finish another 2 books and put them in the pile by the front door to go Back to Charity-Land! 
    Go volunteering one last time, to the unheated warehouse, in 2025.
    Hoover the whole entire house in one go, so that for one last time, the whole house is clean. 
    Bake a cake for NYE - It should use up the last of the many many packets of Self Raising Flour.  New Year, New Flour (probably not a thing, but it probably should be).  It will also get rid of stuff I don't want to have in the house, looking at me, chocolate buttons and stem ginger- I'm talking to you!
    Not going to log on to work fakebook site until next year, I will not be a slave to checking for work. If the last month has taught me anything, it is that 'they' know who I am now,  and can contact me directly if they really want me.  They ALL know who I am now  :D   Gotta love office gossip.  Never ask me 'can I ask you a question?' in public, when I have a captive audience - you deserve whatever you get, even if you weren't about to propose / give away a cash prize /  experience an existential crisis (or likely be by the end of our conversation).  
    Find somewhere to stash 10 (yes TEN) large bars of chocolate, and 2 large boxes of chocolate truffles, 4 bottles and one box-thing of red wine (I don't drink unless I am working!!).
      I....asked.....for.....flippin'......candles...!     Candles, don't contain calories.  Chocolates and wine do.   Why is everyone so helpful???
    4/10/25Three Years Mortgage Free Yay!
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  • KajiKita
    KajiKita Posts: 9,043 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Fourth Anniversary Name Dropper Photogenic
    Put the chocolate in the pantry - the elves will clear that in a night! 😂😉

    How on earth did you answer that question….?? I’m boggling here! 😳🤔😂

    KK
    As at 15.12.25:
    - When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £227,385
    - OPs to mortgage = £12,881 Estd. interest saved = £6,203 to date
    c. 16 months reduction in term
    Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030

    Read 80 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 25th December 
    Produce tracker: £457 of £300 in 2025

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