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EH - Essex > Hebrides...the next step of the adventure?
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Have a great time - work hard and play hard! 😁I 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: £202
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Have a great time!Mortgage at 12/07/2022 = £175,000
Mortgage today = £161,690.76
300 271 payments to go.House buyout fund £21,000/£40,000
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Great news on that refund @EH. Have a good time at the festival - sounds like you are going to be busy. Have a half of something interesting for me!
F2025's challenges: 1) To fill our 10 Savings Pots to their healthiest level ever
2) To read 100 books (46/100) 3) The Shrinking of Foxgloves 8.1kg/30kg
"Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards" (Soren Kirkegaard 1813-55)2 -
Great news on the refund.
Enjoy your time away. Sure you will!Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £171.3K Equity 36.55%
2) £2.6K Net savings after CCs 10/10/25
3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £30.9K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.25K) = 35.5/£127.5K target 27.8% 14/11/25
(If took bigger lump sum = 62K or 48.6%)
4) FI Age 60 income target £17.1/30K 57% (if mortgage and debts repaid - need more otherwise) (If bigger lump sum £15.8/30K 52.67%)
5) SIPP £5.1K updated 14/11/252 -
Have a fab time!! 😁'Happiness is not a destination but the journey you walk every day'
Jan GC: £42.63/£100
DNF: £510/£6700
Garden sections: 0/21
DNF: 3/45
'It's the small compromises you keep making over time that start to add up and get you to a place you don't want to be'1 -
Enjoy muchly
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***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.2 -
Enjoy EH and Mr EH, hope all goes well.Life is an adventure, never stop exploring.2
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Have an amazing time after all the hard work organising 🍺I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)2
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Hope you have a great time. Good news on the refund.LTotal Debt Dec 07 £59875.83 Overdrafts £2900,New Debt Figure ZERO !!!!!!:j 08/06/2013
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I hope you and Mr EH are having a great time!😃👍Finally Debt Free! - July 2016 🌟
Finished Emergency Fund- £10,000 April 2017
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