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  • remote_control
    remote_control Posts: 642 Forumite
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    mmm biscuits
  • South_coast
    South_coast Posts: 6,151 Forumite
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    🤣            
    Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
    Cleared 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
    Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed

    Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!
  • Chiglepig
    Chiglepig Posts: 615 Forumite
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    There have been many occasions where I have forced BF to eat a jaffa cake, so I can then claim I didn't eat the whole pack 🤣

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    2014 starting mortgage £165,000
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  • taka
    taka Posts: 3,483 Forumite
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    Argggghhhhh... now I want biscuits! 😆 Grapes are just not cutting it!
    Mortgage free as of 12/08/20!
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  • South_coast
    South_coast Posts: 6,151 Forumite
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    You lot 🤣! I can't actually remember the last time I had a biscuit 🤔 All part of the joy of avoiding sugar!
    Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
    Cleared 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
    Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed

    Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!
  • ruby_eskimo
    ruby_eskimo Posts: 4,829 Forumite
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    Just catching up and wow that sounds like a stressful time on pay day but glad you managed to get it sorted. 

    As for biscuits, I can eat a whole pack of Rich Tea in one go and not feel sorry about it 🤣  DH and I got into a bad habit of sharing a packet of biscuits a day when we were away for the weekend - went through 4 packets of caramel digestives between us 😲
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