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Midlife Musings and Measurable Goals

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  • RosaBernicia
    RosaBernicia Posts: 4,909 Forumite
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    Hurrah for the bursary and for coming to Scotland :D
    Debt free May 2016... DFW#2 in progress
    Campervan paid off summer '21... MFW progress tbc
  • jwil
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    Congrats on the bursary :T
    "If you can dream it, you can do it". Walt Disney
  • Msmoneyspider
    Msmoneyspider Posts: 143 Forumite
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    So pleased about the bursary news, well done and what a great start to the year.
      
  • in_need_of_direction
    in_need_of_direction Posts: 7,713 Forumite
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    Really well done on the bursary. Can you set yourself a work target to be achieved before heading off? It may help carve out work time.
    Mortgage at 01.01.14 £119,481.83:eek: today £0 Emergency fund £5.5/5.5k & £200/200 cash.:jWeight 24/02/19 14st 7lb now 12st determined to stop defining myself by my mistakes. Progress not perfection.:T100%through my 1% mortgage challenge. 100% through my pb challenge.
  • [Deleted User]
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    Fab news on the bursary :D
  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 9,924 Forumite
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    Thank you everyone for your good wishes. I truly appreciate it :D

    @Beanie, yes I wish it was nearer to your part of Scotland too. We could have met for tea and cake or Edinburgh gin :)
    @ INOD, yes great idea to set a target for work done before the trip ;)

    TODAY

    A good GP appointment with better than expected news. (I feel I have had such good luck this week) The surgery encourages us to see any GP and to do so makes it quicker, but I wait longer and see my own GP who is excellent. I have had not good GPs in the past so I am extra appreciative to have a good one now :)

    The window surveyor called to make an appointment and I remembered to ask for an early appointment so I don’t spend all day stressing unnecessarily and use it as an excuse not to work that day. He will be coming next week at 8am.

    Two for sale signs went up this week. I’ve had a nosey at how they are marketing our road and also it was interesting to see the kitchens and bathrooms are quite basic. Interesting...

    Have a good evening everyone :)
    If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them

    Emergency fund 100/1000
    Buffer fund 0/100
    Debt Free (again) 25/072025
  • mark55man
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    you should ask your neighbours (or the estate agent) if you can have a look round. an if they are upset about you wasting their time I've found its always ok to upset people who are going to be gone gone gone very soon

    good idea to check out the EA from a purchase perspective - as that is how they would behave to people trying to buy your house!!
    I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
    Drinking milk shakes, cold and long
    Smiling and waving and looking so fine
  • Msmoneyspider
    Msmoneyspider Posts: 143 Forumite
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    edited 16 January 2020 at 9:18AM
    doingitanyway wrote: »
    (I feel I have had such good luck this week)

    If one beieves and feels they are lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
    - Maya Angelou , :T:T
      
  • savingholmes
    savingholmes Posts: 28,958 Forumite
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    Glad things are picking up for you. Roll on the weekend and some time to chill.
    Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
    1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £174.8K Equity 32.77%
    2) £3K Net savings after CCs 6/7/25
    3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £22.5K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.1K) = 28.2/£127.5K target 22;12% updated 6/7
    4) FI Age 60 income target £16.5/30K 55.1%
    5) SIPP £4.6K updated 6/7/25
  • mark55man
    mark55man Posts: 8,207 Forumite
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    Msmoneyspider wrote: »
    If one beieves and feels they are lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
    - Maya Angelou , :T:T

    Nice quote

    here's one I like from my days of online poker (which wasted time not money) -

    "if it wasn't for bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all"
    I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
    Drinking milk shakes, cold and long
    Smiling and waving and looking so fine
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