alternative to the pig (dare I?!)

weezl74

Hi,

We hardly ever use cash, so alas the pig didn't work for us. But I still needed an incentive scheme. So I created a little chart, which we colour in a brick of the house everytime another thousand goes of the mortgage.

In case anyone else finds this useful, I've put it up here:
http://www.liligan.co.uk/mfw/

help yourself! If you've got photoshop, you can use the paint bucket tool to colour a brick each time. You could have bricks that are smaller increments if you wanted, just our debt is big so this looked more manageable.

We reward ourselves after every brick!

L;)

Badger_Lady

Thanks Weezl...

My Granddad always used to say "every time you pay the mortgage, you're buying a brick in your house". Here's a way to see that in action!

~daisy~_2

oh wow love it !!

*claps*

esthomizzy

This is a wonderful idea and I'm going to action it right now. I don't use much cash either. Thank you

catshark88

Fab, fab idea! :T I would love to use this but there are not enough bricks for my silly sized SE England mortgage (at £1k each which seems such a nice per brick amount). :mad:

Maybe I could build a garage next door and use that too!

Would be really good to have this on a wall at home and see the affect of one's savings.

elantan

this is a great idea if you dont deal in cash i like it thanks

esthomizzy

I'm going to do a variation on this since I have a flat so the mortgage doesn't quite represent a house shaped thing. I've got 2 copies of the same picture of the front of my flat one in colour and one in black and white. I'm going divide the picture up and turn a square to colour (plain old cut and paste) every time I pay off an agreed portion (I might make the squares £500 quid each so that I can regularly feel I'm making some progress). This was a brilliant idea Weezl

weezl74

I love it! What a good way to personalise it. I guess the peeps on the DFW board paying off a car loan could to a similar thing with a photo of the car....? Your idea has wings!


I'm working on a chocolate advent calendar style one for us, so we've got pockets with treats for each brick... I'll post a picture if I manage it.

Thanks for all the thankings, it makes me look quite the star on my first day here!!;)

L

co123456

Some clever so and so will design a web based calcultor that will allow you to choose a type of home that is similar to yours, enter the value of your house, then add the outstanding balance, then display a picture of how much of your house you own. Similar to the graphical display used on the TV series, POYMITY

MissKJ

Fabulous idea! i am unfortunately still a DFW with a long way to go, but I aspire to be a MFW. This would still work though as the roof could be the debts and symbolise net worth not just mortgages.

I sooooo look up to you guys ands gals!

barnaby-bear

Your window box is stunning, one of the nicest frontages I've seen.