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ATB'S Frugal Foray to Freedom

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  • mirko
    mirko Posts: 268 Forumite
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    Just been reading through your thread. Sorry to hear of your loss ATB x
    As of 24/11/2020
    Mort: - £98,200
    CCds: - £1,568.18
    Loan: - £0
    Savings: - £3,500.00
  • hiddenshadow
    hiddenshadow Posts: 2,525 Forumite
    I'm so sorry for your loss xx
  • Moneyfordreams
    Moneyfordreams Posts: 2,442 Forumite
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    So sorry to hear that ATB, wishing you and your family a peaceful future x
    Mortgage restart June 2018 £119950Re mortgage August 19 £110470, … Mortgage November 22 £85600 final 0% CC 3300Home renovations - £65000, mid 2018 - mid 2022
  • A_Frayed_Knot
    A_Frayed_Knot Posts: 3,308 Forumite
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    ATB Sorry to hear your sudden sad news. I for one will miss your postings.

    Good Luck to you and your family in the future, and if you feel like it, pop in now and again xx
    Always have 00.00 at the end of your mortgage and one day it will all be 0's :dance:
    MF[STRIKE] March 2030[/STRIKE] Yes that does say 2030 :eek: Mortgage Free 21.12.18 _party_
    Now a Part Timer from 27.10.19
  • themadvix
    themadvix Posts: 8,782 Forumite
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    So sorry to hear your sad news ATB. We will miss you here! xx
    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 Hemingway


  • greent
    greent Posts: 10,783 Forumite
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    Sorry to hear your news, atb xx However, please do not feel that being MF means you have to be a stranger to this board :) - there are several MF peeps with diaries :) xx
    I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul
    Repaid mtge early (orig 11/25) 01/09 £124616 01/11 £89873 01/13 £52546 01/15 £12133 07/15 £NIL
    Net sales 2024: £20
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0 Newbie
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    edited 12 July 2019 at 7:14PM
    Well good evening one and all! :)

    This is ATB checking in; for some reason MSE signed me out on the iPad and I couldn't remember my password so here I am under a new username! :)

    It has been an age since I posted on here. As I said in my previous post, we lost a very close family member last year. That has taken an awful lot of sadness, negativity and upset, but (touch wood) things are on the up.

    The estate etc hasn't been finalised, lots of negative stuff going on with that :( people being generally rotten, it's so sad to see when money comes into the picture people are so greedy.

    Anyway, I am not going to dwell on that. We have some money to come in time to come and it will be lovely when it does arrive. Until then, we have decided to resume our overpayment journey and I thought I might resurrect this diary to keep myself on track, hope you don't mind :p

    I am now working full time and love it. It's a very demanding role but rewarding too. The children are growing up quickly. DH still runs his own business, there are some changes afoot in that regard which will increase our income in time to come as well which is exciting.

    Our balance today is £89,984.48 - my mini goal is to be in the 70s by year end.

    I hope you'll have me back :money::beer:
  • A_Frayed_Knot
    A_Frayed_Knot Posts: 3,308 Forumite
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    :wave:Welcome back,

    I actually just came across your name the other night, and wondered if it was you, but was so tired, wondered if I had been dreaming it :rotfl:

    I was usually told when you lose someone close to . . . just watch them all come out of the woodwork now !!! :( sometimes it seems to take forever to finalise things.

    Great mini-goal (actually, fantastic goal to me) but it is nice to have a focus. Hope you are enjoying your job now. (I'm actually thinking of reducing my hours :o) but we'll see.

    Not sure how that "op" got to the heading, and don't know how to get rid of it . . .
    Always have 00.00 at the end of your mortgage and one day it will all be 0's :dance:
    MF[STRIKE] March 2030[/STRIKE] Yes that does say 2030 :eek: Mortgage Free 21.12.18 _party_
    Now a Part Timer from 27.10.19
  • themadvix
    themadvix Posts: 8,782 Forumite
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    Lovely to see you back ATB/ASB! :)
    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 Hemingway


  • Watty1
    Watty1 Posts: 6,860 Forumite
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    Fantastic goal ....raising a glass to cheer you on :)
    Made it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became

    In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!
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