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Fab. 200gb!!!
Wow
Hope you are ok. You seem a bit quiet at the momentAchieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £174.8K Equity 32.77%
2) £1.6K Net savings after CCs 14/8/25
3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £25.3K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.2K) = 31.1/£127.5K target 24.4% 15/8/25
4) FI Age 60 income target £16.5/30K 55.1%
5) SIPP £4.8K updated 29/7/252 -
thanks SH - my OH and I are both very busy at work, so we barely get any time to chill - which is when I do my MSE mainly. Plus most of my decisions are now made for the year and its just a matter of getting though the rest without tripping up.
Just wait until I go into overdrive with some time off and my new years resolutions and (if I'm lucky) any pay rise to help sort next year out with will hopefully be household and green targets plus revisit my steps and gym - although I may do as you suggested and bin the gym when it gets to spring - I'm not really getting value for itI think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
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sorry and yes 200GB it was a choice of 20GB for £16 or 200 for £22. As DD2 needs a lot as she is out in London it saves having to get her top ups. EEEEEE do this gifting data thing between linked accounts so I have 4 accounts running for £70 a month averaging 50GB eachI think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
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Something wrong with your 'e' key mate?2
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Funny - I do like how there is a general attempt not to use full names when referring to suppliers. I couldn;t think how to muck about with EE so just went with quantity not quality. Maybe I will get away with it, unless L1dl, A$da or the rest are on patrol. Really, it doesn't take much technology to automatically search for that stuff as well so for me its an ironic tilt at how hard it is to keep some stuff private, and also how l1ttle I care sometimes
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That’s a great deal on your data Mark, or at least it is compared to mine. I’m also with EE because of the gifting thing and to stop my daughter getting masses of unnecessary data. I have actually found EE to be terrible and will look to change when the contract ends.
As for the issue with the ‘e’ key @alt80 I wonder if in fact Mark might be from Yorkshire?….. I won’t be giving up the day job for a career in comedy any time soon
27/5/17 Mort 64705 BTs 1904031/12/17 Mort 59815 BT 1673007/04/20 Mort 49208 BT 1572128/07/20 Mort 47387 BT 1263414/11/20 Mort 45905 BT 10134 20/05/21 Mort 42335 BT 686811/08/22 Mort 32050 BT 2915Sealed Pot Challenge 16 Number 52 -
£22 for that many GB is amazing. Sadly - too late for all of us as we are all with different providers.
Glad you are okay Mark. Hope you get to rest soon.Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £174.8K Equity 32.77%
2) £1.6K Net savings after CCs 14/8/25
3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £25.3K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.2K) = 31.1/£127.5K target 24.4% 15/8/25
4) FI Age 60 income target £16.5/30K 55.1%
5) SIPP £4.8K updated 29/7/251 -
Thanks @antomac and may I say what a great job you are doing getting your BT debt cleared - at that rate you must be aiming at end of next year to get to your DFD and then onto to MFW which also seems mostly goneI think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
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interesting with experiences of the mobile company beginning with two E's - I used to be with one beginning with an O and a 2 and found THEM to be dreadful - particularly the fact that the mobile data signal used to crawl into a hoe and hide any time you were in an area with more than about 14 people. The "E" one was without question far better on that score when I first arrived there (4 years ago now maybe?) but I have noticed over the last year that it's becoming more problematic - I do wonder whether it's as simple as devices now just putting so much more demand on the networks, and it's not possible to keep up.
MrEH is also sort of with Eeeeee but via +net so annoyingly the data gifting wouldn't work! (which is a shame as my £8.50 10gb plan often has spare!)🎉 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
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculatorshe/her1 -
@mark55man any reason why not to mention supplier names? Seen it a lot on here and I can't say I get it?0
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