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ATB'S Frugal Foray to Freedom
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Happy Anniversary!!! You've done fantastically well and I wish you the best of luck with your target! xMortgage Balance as of July 2025 £14,900.
Starting Mortgage Balance (June 2019) £72,000.
Aiming to be mortgage free by my 40th birthday, June 2026!0 -
Just to add daily interest is now £7.46MFW
[STRIKE]Mortgage 8.2.15 - [/STRIKE][STRIKE]£171,064.64[/STRIKE] Mortgage 1.5.2018 - £99,980.45Aiming to be MF 1.10.20200 -
Hi ATB,
Just found your diary and have been blown away with the success you've had! I have now subscribed for the final few stages of your journey.
I havent started my diary just yet (waiting for remortgage, due in June) but will be in a similar position to yourself at the start of your journey, so it's been great to read how much you have achieved!
I'll keep checking in
RocketMFW - diary has finally arrived!0 -
Happy Diary Anniversary!
xI am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soulRepaid mtge early (orig 11/25) 01/09 £124616 01/11 £89873 01/13 £52546 01/15 £12133 07/15 £NILNet sales 2024: £200 -
Happy anniversary! Well done on the progress you've made...I love looking at the macro level to see how much things add up from the tiny OPs.0
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TT made of £2.57 to start the weekend off
I want to get 10 things listed on eBay this weekend; have quite a few kids clothes to list and I'm going to put them all at reasonable buy it now prices. If we make £50 on eBay this week I would be a very happy bunny.
Our kids are still at school next week, then half term. We have some nice cheapy days out planned and they will also be having a sleepover with the grandparentsthe night before my interview. I haven't had a job interview in over 10 years so feeling a bit nervous even though I know I can do the job no problems! I am prone to waffling a bit (can you tell :rotfl:) so must keep a lid on that.
We are going to visit DH family for dinner today, I already have some wine in that we will take & I'll pick up some flowers too. Just checked online banking, need to find the £4k to get us to £105k by end of March, doable somehow just not sure how yetMFW
[STRIKE]Mortgage 8.2.15 - [/STRIKE][STRIKE]£171,064.64[/STRIKE] Mortgage 1.5.2018 - £99,980.45Aiming to be MF 1.10.20200 -
Good luck with the interview. It sounds like it could be a nice little earner to top up the OP pot. Mortgage freedom isn't too far away now.June 2025 - part 1 - £19,145 part 2 - £21,973 Total - £41,118 29 months to go!0
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Good luck with the job interviewEarly retired - 18th December 2014
If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough0 -
have had a raging eye infection for days now that won’t shift. Been using OTC stuff as cannot get a GP appointment at our surgery for love nor money. So I’m being a grumpy ATB.
It’s bitterly cold here, spring cannot come fast enough for me! Managed a few eBay listings and a couple of 99p bids so far. DH has work for this week and next :T so we can breathe a sigh of relief for now.MFW
[STRIKE]Mortgage 8.2.15 - [/STRIKE][STRIKE]£171,064.64[/STRIKE] Mortgage 1.5.2018 - £99,980.45Aiming to be MF 1.10.20200 -
Oh, hope you're feeling better soon, make sure you see the Dr if you need to!Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway0
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