The Final Countdown

beanielou

Great sale

tootallulah

Stuck at home but warm and safe so I am one of the fortunate ones. Just made a very satisfying large payment in the £30ks now. About to do a day of EBay listing as I am planning on using EBay income to live on in March so that I can make another big payment in April, things will slow down for a while then but hopefully I can stay on track for my audacious year end goal.

greent

Brilliant progress - totally smashing it!

Happy ebaying!

gallygirl

:j:j:jToots!!!!!:wave::wave::wave:

Great progress

tootallulah

I have managed 3 no spending days (unique achievement) as I am stuck at home and there is no point doing any ordering as the parcels can't be delivered. I have 9 EBay items completing on Sunday so the promised thaw is much hoped for.

Thanks GreenT and GG, six months rent in a lump sum really upped the ante, I will get 3 months on 1 April and then it gets quieter again. But it is really great, I have been paying off for so long, and at one point I was £310k in mortgage debt on one salary. This feels very this feels doable. For anyone with an apparently insurmountable mortgage debt I cannot emphasise enough that those small, often tiny payments in the early days make a huge difference later on.

tootallulah

And if you can hang onto the first property and rent it out that can be a game changer, it certainly was for me.

beanielou

All sounding good

museumworker

What an immense OP, well done Toots!

pennystretcher

It sounds like you have your head firmly screwed on your shoulders, so well done. And I am sure you can make it within your target. (If you slip by a month of two, that's ok too, with rentals, there can be unexpected expenses, so set your ideals with some leeway...)

tootallulah

I haven't spent any money on food for 6 days as I have largely been snowed in, shamingly the freezers still look, and are, full to the gunnells. I have plenty of milk so need to practice shop avoidance for as long as possible, my food budget is £8 per day, if I can only spend on milk until all other food runs out that would be an extra £200 to the mortgage. The challenge is on, my food budget for March is £48.00, I will record any spends on here. Fantastic news of my day is that the crane that has been o/s my house for weeks has been packed up and moved away this morning - I am hoping this means the sewer works must be coming to an end after 9 months of disruption, closed roads etc.