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Awesome AWESOME!!! Mortgage free! Well done you!! 👏👏👏👏DFW (08/08) £64,346.53 Gone (02/19)
MFW (08/08) £118k Gone (09/23)3 -
Brilliant news! Congratulations on being mortgage free.
🍾🍾If it's not adding up, compound it!3 -
Congratulations, amazing news and so very well deserved, enjoy the bubbles 🥂3
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Congratulations 🍾 ! Awesome!
I am raising a glass to you now.Aiming to early retire August 31st 2026.2 -
Awww, thanks you lot. You're making me well up again 😳!
Vix, it's £4.99 Moscato from Lidl rather than champers - I'm still a MFW at heart (plus I bought it yesterday when I still had a mortgage, so....🤣)! And before you all start berating me for drinking such terrible wine, I have no shame where white and rosé are concerned - the sweeter the better 😋!
Slightly disappointed not to have any questions about my home-ownership status in tonight's One Poll offerings....until I remembered I've got the rest of my life to answer "Owned - no mortgage" 😀😀😀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!!!9 -
Congratulations!! 🎉🍾🎉🍾 Massive well done to you! 😁MFW -
House purchase £62500
Original mortgage balance 28/08/2014 £52850Original MF date: 2049:eek: Aiming for: 2025
Balance 27/07/2016 £49990
Balance 08/07/2017 £47999
Balance 30/07/2018 £44500
Balance 01/08/2019 £40700
Balance 03/09/2020 £37619
Balance 30/09/2021 £33983
Balance 18/01/2023 £28940
Balance 06/10/2024 £22168
Balance 08/10/2025 £18417
Mortgage free 09/10/2025!! Mortgage paid off in 11 years, 1 month, 11 days 🥳
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Thank you 😀!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!!!2 -
So pleased for you - brilliant news 👏👏👏👏🍾🍾🍾3
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Well done!Mortgage OP 2026 £0/2000Mortgage OP 2025 £7700/7000Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000
Mortgage balance: £33,821
Make £50 a month Jan £0
Boiler fund £925/3000
”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)3 -
Congratulations. Well done 👏MFW 2022 #71 £4400/£44003
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