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Cheery's country living adventure
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A metre = ROUGHLY one big stride. I used to pace out rough distances on site visits using the "as far as I can step" method and was never far out - I used to add on a bit for luck but your legs are longer than mine!
🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
Balance as at 31/08/25 = £ 95,450.00
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculatorshe/her2 -
Not to worry - I got the tape measure out in the end One advantage of a DIY-riddled building site is you're never too far from a tape measure (although in this case I couldn't actually find the DIY tape measure and had to use my sewing one instead so that's not really a very coherent point I'm making!
:rotfl: )
Anyway, upshot is there is ONE tree within 5 metres of the house (just) but I reckon it's nowhere near 10 metres high so we're all good :j1 -
Again, you have my sympathies with the insurance renewal... we're in the midst of the multicar policy renewal shenanigans and next month is the house insurance - I'm not sure which I hate more anymore! It sounds like you might be nearly there though?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 Hemingway2 -
Not really - only did one comparison for the house insurance and didn't make any decisions, and haven't even started on the car insurance yet :eek:
For the sake of my own sanity I might set a time limit - 'cheapest price I can achieve in less than 2 hours of faffing, including signing up and cancelling the old one' :rotfl: 3 -
Cheery_Daff wrote: »...For the sake of my own sanity I might set a time limit - 'cheapest price I can achieve in less than 2 hours of faffing, including signing up and cancelling the old one' :rotfl:
That sounds like a good plan Cheery - a very balanced approach!4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)(With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)New projection - 14 YEARS 7 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 17 mths)2 -
I like the time limited approach - thing is, it's very easy to fall down a rabbit hole of spending hours to make what is in the end a proportionately small saving - without taking account that your own time also has a value attached.
And yay to the tree thing!🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
Balance as at 31/08/25 = £ 95,450.00
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculatorshe/her4 -
Ooh, finally managed to get into the new forum!
Kept trying to reset my password on the phone at work and it wasn't having it but it's worked fine now I'm at home.
Eek, but what happened to the emojis??
Where's the :eek: and the :wall: and the :tea: ???
Hey ho. Off for a mooch about... Need to figure out how to turn off email notifications - had about 800 emails already from you waffly lot
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Hey Cheery - go to notifications to stop the email s_pam! took me 15 minutes to find it!
I'm having withdrawal without the smiles and font formatting!
Also not so sure I like being part of the furniture! Humph!4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)(With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)New projection - 14 YEARS 7 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 17 mths)6 -
😂😂 I'm part of the furniture too apparently!
Notifications turned off thank goodness, but it took a while to figure out where the bookmarks were... gosh I'll miss those favourite smileys 😭 Do the phone ones work I wonder??7 -
😭😭😭😭😭😭Cheery_Daff said:😭 Do the phone ones work I wonder??
Unfortunately not - can you tell I'm struggling with the change? Hilarious given change management is a huge part of my working days!
4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)(With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)New projection - 14 YEARS 7 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 17 mths)5
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