Keep calm and carry on....

Thick_n_Thin

Just caught up with all your news! Congratulations on your new job 👏🏻 Glad you are now on the mend as well! 

Definitely agree with concentrating on the mortgage and then focusing on the refurb  afterwards, I have a list of household jobs that need doing some more urgent than others and we tend to focus on 1 or 2 each year or whenever funds allow, definitely over borrowing money to get things done now as that is how we ended up in over 30k of debt in a previous life! More satisfying to save up for things!

enthusiasticsaver

Great news on the starting work next week.  Easy enough to get quotes for things (even in these strange times) so maybe pick one big job (kitchen, bathroom, windows)and one small (internal doors, redecoration, plastering, new bed/sofa) and cost them up and start gradually like that doing one job at a time and saving for it? 

South_coast

Thanks all, looking forward to getting back into a routine. These last couple of weeks when I've known I've got a job but couldn't do it have been very frustrating!

Moneyfordreams

glad to hear your feeling better. 

South_coast

Thanks MFD's. It's strange to think that two weeks ago today I was sat here in agony, waiting for a call from the GP - the wonders of modern medicine!

Jessy103

Glad you're feeling better SC! Good luck with starting the new job and hope all goes well! x

South_coast

Thank you x

South_coast

First weekly OP made to the mortgage: £8.06 😀

I'll have this last £18k licked in no time 🤣!

coldcazzie

Glad to hear you're feeling better SC! Few days off MSE and your diary has grown by 4 pages! 

Grogged

I bet you can't wait for tomorrow!
I'm 5x SC mortgages away from paying ours off - wonder how long it will be before we're 6x...