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Alchemilla

Hello Redo. Thanks for visiting my diary. 
Is your enormous mortgage bigger than mine, 270k?

redofromstart

Alchemilla said:

Hello Redo. Thanks for visiting my diary. 
Is your enormous mortgage bigger than mine, 270k?

It used to be, but happily it isn't any more.  I am a huge advocate of tiny overpayments that add up, get addicted and lead to bigger overpayments.

moving_forward

Redo and chums I am here as promised.  Page 236 is my last bookmark so I shall read and catch up with me-self asap.

greenbee

redofromstart said:

Alchemilla said:

Hello Redo. Thanks for visiting my diary. 
Is your enormous mortgage bigger than mine, 270k?

It used to be, but happily it isn't any more.  I am a huge advocate of tiny overpayments that add up, get addicted and lead to bigger overpayments.

Mine used to be too. But even the 25p current account interest I transfer each month makes a difference! Obviously the months I have more than that left over to split between savings and mortgage probably has more impact, but I'm definitely winning. 

redofromstart

moving_forward said:

Redo and chums I am here as promised.  Page 236 is my last bookmark so I shall read and catch up with me-self asap.

Honestly, you will not be missing much if you just skipped it.  In the immortal words of Austin 'Danger' Powers, 'nothing happened except a gas shortage and a flock of seagulls'.  

Actually the boys finished education, and Mr Redo took early retirement.  But other than that, mostly seagulls.

moving_forward

Well I'll see how I go and skip any boring parts 🤣

Alchemilla

redofromstart said:

Alchemilla said:

Hello Redo. Thanks for visiting my diary. 
Is your enormous mortgage bigger than mine, 270k?

It used to be, but happily it isn't any more.  I am a huge advocate of tiny overpayments that add up, get addicted and lead to bigger overpayments.

The "Tilly Tidy".
Where IS Tilly?

redofromstart

I don't know much about Tilly, but my Mum taught me to tidy up the odds and sods long before I was on MSE (2004 for my original account I think).  It has saved our sausages a few times over the years.  Secret squirrel odds and sods emergency savings account to the rescue.

Tonight I made a chicken/sweetcorn and fridge scraping soup in the instant pot.  It merited seconds from the critical audience.
Strong stock, chopped up 'stuff' and a sprinkle of herbs/sweetcorn and ten minutes of high pressure/slow release.  A few ladles into the blender, whizz and back in, repeat till you get to your preferred thickness.

redofromstart

Pension.  I logged on to my current work one to check.  Current DC fund total pot is three months pre tax salary which isn't bad considering I have only been direct employed for two years but it could be much better.  In answering a colleagues question about draw down on pensions I checked my dates and am (currently) ok for 55, the change to 57 happens after my 55th birthday.  Given that our aim is to clear the big debt and both stop work as soon as we can then this is good.  I need to up my contributions.  Must email our evil Catbert HRD to arrange.  

moving_forward

Ooh that soup sounds nice redo. I love my instant pot it was a sound investment. 
I cooked rice in ours tonight and turned it into egg fried rice WIth brocolli peppers and salmon.