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Ooh how lovely and spontaneous! Enjoy!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 Hemingway5 -
Thanks madvix - I'm really looking forward to it, anywhere at all different is going to be great!2023: the year I get to buy a car6
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One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.6 -
How lovely. And so nice to just be able to do that!DFW (08/08) £64,346.53 Gone (02/19)
MFW (08/08) £118k Gone (09/23)6 -
Thanks beanie!beanielou said:That's great.
You're right on both counts!debtfreeoneday said:How lovely. And so nice to just be able to do that!
Of course, now everything is focussed on getting ready, though there's a few things here to catch up on. More later.2023: the year I get to buy a car5 -
Even a few days away can be so energising. Enjoy!
NST March lion #8; NSD ; MFW9/3/23 Whoop Whoop!!!5 -
You're so right, apple. Holiday prep here, really: got my case out and laid it on the desk
got the easy stuff in there like the washbag and covid precautions, camera and charger, blah blah. Texted sister re oatcakes and eggs for me, since I don't have a delivery lined up before we go away. Dishwasher. Some research on places to go (there's loads! good grief!). And 45 mins in the garden, digging up weeds, relocating tiny grape hyacinth bulbs - I'm trying to plant the primroses I got from sister, though I've since realised that's not the right place for them. Ah well, it needed doing anyway. Crashed after that, thank heavens for a sparkling episode of HIGNFY. 2023: the year I get to buy a car6 -
Ooh - an impromptu mini-break - how lovely! Enjoy! 🙂 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: £205
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Love the idea of your spontaneous holiday KC!4
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Thank you both! That's very kind - the financial ability to do stuff like this feels like luck - I never planned for my retirement the way people on here do, and though I've always lived frugally, I was also lucky that I fell into self employment that was pretty well paid. The budget I did the other day was well within my state pension, but big expenditures come out of savings, which still stretch, just about tip the scales at £100k. So although I'm annoyed with myself for not focussing on a car, I really feel I have something of the best of both worlds.2023: the year I get to buy a car9
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