Mortgage start: April 2024 - 295k Current £256k
Emergency fund: 13.5k/15k
Current mortgage free year: 2054 2039
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Congratulations 🥳 This is an amazing achievement and so inspiring for the rest of us! 🙌🏼🥂🍾3
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Thanks lovelies 😀 I'm keeping the fizz until 5.00pm, I'm working from home today (didn't want any more calls to the bank whilst in the office after last month 😳) so while I could get away with starting early, if I didn't have the job I couldn't pay off the mortgage - so need to show them a little respect I think by not being sozzled on their time!!! What I really should have done was taken the day off, instead of ploughing straight back into the world of ridiculous customers, but c'est la vie....🤣!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!!!4 -
Congratulations!!!!!!!!! So excited for you and inspired.4
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Wooo hoodoo!!! Gosh I am SO pleased for you! What an utterly fantastic achievement, and an inspiration for the rest of us! Well done!4
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Wonderful news, very inspirational! Congratulations & enjoy your fizz 🥂3
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Yay! Party time! Congrats! 🎉🥂🍾2025 decluttering: 5,654 🌟🥉🌟💐🏅🏅🌟🥈🏅🌟🏅💐💎🌟🏅🏆🌟🏅🌟🌟2025 use up challenge: 537🥉🥈🥇💎🏆 👑Big kitchen declutter challenge 146/1502025 decluttering goals I Use up Challenge: 🥉365 🥈750 🥇1,000 💎2,000 🏆 3,000 👑 8,000 I 🥉12 🥈26 🥇52 💎 100 🏆 250 👑 5002
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Congratulations SC! Fantastic news!! Enjoy that champers later! 🥂🍾Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway2 -
Congratulations on moving from MFW to MF! A monumental achievement - enjoy the fizz later!3
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Yay congratulations!!! That is so amazing, I hope you are celebrating tons, so happy for you.2
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Yes. They answered Mum!! 😂😂South_coast said:I doubt it, they'll just keep making things like that up 🤣!
DFOD, did you pass it to your kids to answer the last question about who in the family they thought would be best placed to cope with zombies? I was intrigued by that one, but no 7-12 year olds!DFW (08/08) £64,346.53 Gone (02/19)
MFW (08/08) £118k Gone (09/23)2
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