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  • Humboldt
    Humboldt Posts: 419 Forumite
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    Morning @mark55man great to read that you had a good holiday.  I find reporting on my healthier lifestyle choices keeps me accountable. Oh the joy of children, whatever their age!
  • mark55man
    mark55man Posts: 8,209 Forumite
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    Thank you @Humboldt

    Our youngest is trying living with their partner - so its very empty nest at the moment.

    Busy helping with the election and am getting my steps in.  But will be more orderly after the 5th July.

    Thanks everyone for their interest but I know politics isn't everyone's bag so am keeping quiet (MSE Martin likes it that way too) 
    I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
    Drinking milk shakes, cold and long
    Smiling and waving and looking so fine
  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 9,940 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Mortgage-free Glee!
    Politics isn't everyone's bag, but it affects every aspect of our lives. Good luck with your election endeavours and getting your steps in.
    If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them

    Emergency fund 100/1000
    Buffer fund 0/100
    Debt Free (again) 25/072025
  • savingholmes
    savingholmes Posts: 28,971 Forumite
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    Good luck Mark.
    Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
    1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £174.8K Equity 32.77%
    2) £2.6K Net savings after CCs 6/7/25
    3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £24.3K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.2K) = 30.1/£127.5K target 23.6% 29/7/25
    4) FI Age 60 income target £16.5/30K 55.1%
    5) SIPP £4.8K updated 29/7/25
  • mark55man
    mark55man Posts: 8,209 Forumite
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    Thanks both - having a bit of a break this morning, but then doing some more leafletting to cover for someone who is poorly.  not long now!!
    I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
    Drinking milk shakes, cold and long
    Smiling and waving and looking so fine
  • f0xh0les
    f0xh0les Posts: 7,615 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! Photogenic
    Have you got your snacks in for Thursday night/ Friday morning?
    4/10/22One Year Mortgage Free Yay!
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  • mark55man
    mark55man Posts: 8,209 Forumite
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    I'll be at the count (watching not doing) but we have a party room a few minutes from the count location with snacks and company

    So will be watching the results on my phone enjoying schadenfreude 
    I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
    Drinking milk shakes, cold and long
    Smiling and waving and looking so fine
  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 9,940 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Mortgage-free Glee!
    I have watched every election since I was a teenager. I stay up all night watching the results roll in. I told a relative about my election geekiness and they will be staying up with me this year  :)
    If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them

    Emergency fund 100/1000
    Buffer fund 0/100
    Debt Free (again) 25/072025
  • f0xh0les
    f0xh0les Posts: 7,615 Forumite
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     I told a relative about my election geekiness and they will be staying up with me this year  :)
    That is lovely!  I can totally empathise.   We will all be up together, separate, but united in our democracy geekiness.  Mr F-H has his bingo-card of current and former Education Secretaries ready.  I am prepared to be utterly useless on Friday but I am pulling an all-nighter too.  I love a swing-o-meter.  
     It will be interesting to see the actual turnout % though, I already know a couple of people who do not have acceptable ID and are too erratic  in their lifestyles to get their voting ID card sorted in time, despite being offered help, and they do actually want to vote this time.  Our poll cards have arrived in good time, at least.
    4/10/22One Year Mortgage Free Yay!
    NSTurtle # 55 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢🐢🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 No Turtle gets left behind.[/b]
    ******PROUD MEMBER OF THE TOFU EATING COALITION OF CHAOS !!!******
  • savingholmes
    savingholmes Posts: 28,971 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Swingometer it's been  a while 
    Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
    1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £174.8K Equity 32.77%
    2) £2.6K Net savings after CCs 6/7/25
    3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £24.3K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.2K) = 30.1/£127.5K target 23.6% 29/7/25
    4) FI Age 60 income target £16.5/30K 55.1%
    5) SIPP £4.8K updated 29/7/25
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