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The Mortgage Free in Three - Take 5 challenge (MFiT-T5)
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#59 reporting in. I have posted my update through the official form too.
Mortgage is at £182,814. Future projections take me to £141,495 so at current rate I need to find 1495 (assuming I make my minimum over payments each month. Fingers crossed - I am going to try and smash that target!
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MM
xMortgage 1 - 01/2/2015 - £243,750 ; Mortgage 01/11/2024 - £132,576.55
Mortgage 2 - 2019 - £76,600 ; Mortgage 01/10/2024 - £47,763.29
MFit-T5 - reduce to £140,000 MFiT-T6 - reduce to £110,000
01/10/2024 Daily Interest - M1 = £18.27 (!!); M2 = £7.41
Debt at highest point in 24 -£21,344
Debt 1st November 24 - £16,192.18 24% paid. Focusing on this in earnest!!!0 -
#32 1K down 25K to go. Form update in
T. xMFiT-T6: #38
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Good evening all
#28 with my first update reduce the mortgage from £65000.00 to £45000.00
£2131.00 paid off so far leaving a new balance of £62869.00
This is quite addictive well done everyone.MFWB#2
MFTT5 #28
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#9 reporting in-form just submitted.
Reduction from £129,720 to £126,865.
£2,845 happy with that ��0 -
Thanks all for the updates flooding in, lots of amazing progress. Don't worry if you're waiting for balance details before submitting.
I think I've got form submissions for most who have said but just to refresh memories as this is a fresh challenge and for the newbies who have joined this time around please make sure you submit your update through the MFiT-T5 Form picking the chart update option & appropriate chart number (this being chart 1 coming due), posts in the thread can be edited so are not taken as formal submissions, if you have a problem with the form drop me a pm.- Mortgage: 1st one down, 2nd also busted
- Student Loan gone
Swagbucks, Mingle, GiffGaff, Prolific, Qmee & Quidco; thank you MSE every little bit helps0 -
#18 - just done my update via the form.
Will be behind target on here for years 1 & 2 as priority is saving for 3 week holiday in Florida next summer for 6 of us (and other halves of older 2 children) - so whilst my mtge has only reduced by <£2k we've also saved over £4.6K towards holiday since Dec - this is made up mainly from money which would usually have gone to the mtge (eg: cashback, second job etc) Post holiday will see me then diverting energies (money!) back to the mtgeI 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: £200 -
#23 updated and form sent
I don’t think the next quarter will be as good as this one :j
MFiT-T7 #17 (Jan 2025) £193k (Apr) £177k (July) £
SPC 18 #6 £315.70(04/08/25)
SPC’s (1)£27.19 (2)£728 (3)£1471 (4)£357 (5)£435.18 (6)£1114.92 (7)£1492 (8)£392 (9)£1952 (10)£1866.65 (11)£1177.74 (12)£1445.39 (13)£1608 (14)£603.30 (15)£672 (16)£2563 (17)£1300 (18)£0 -
#26 updated form sent in -hope I've done this right!
Good luck everyoneLBM- June 2009 - 15 year plan started, Dec 2018 - time to review & refocus
SPC12 #33 £210. Xmas 2019 - #15 £365 / £365 ... PAYDBX 2019 #23: £0 / £3,400
MFW2019 #2: £6,999.67 / £8,000 MFiT-T5 start £95,352.52 - target £40k
No matter how far you go, you always take yourself with you0 -
#2 reporting - just submitted my form.
I've just made an OP and was waiting for this before doing my update form. We have made one big lump of progress when I stopped my job and took my pension, using a substantial lump of my TFLS to pay a big lump off the mortgage. We may be able to repeat this in September, when DH also stops work and takes his teachers' pension.
I have been rounding to the nearest £50 on my Tilly Tidies and although this has made us feel "poor" at the end of each month, we are making faster progress than I suspected when we started this challenge.Save £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
My new diary is here0 -
Form completed, happy with the new balance
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