Time to Face The Music

alt80

Wow you're about my wife’s age iirc, its !!!!!! good going to say you'll be debt and mortgage free in the next, what, 8 years or so? 

RelievedSheff

alt80 said:

Wow you're about my wife’s age iirc, its !!!!!! good going to say you'll be debt and mortgage free in the next, what, 8 years or so? 

7 years. Hopefully shorter if we can increase the overpayments. 

alt80

That's amazing mate. I'll be !!!!!! lucky if I own my home outright at 65. We started sorting our personal finances out at about the same time, you've got your head screwed on and smashed it, I got another i/o mortgage lol. Seriously you should be proud of yourselves.

RelievedSheff

alt80 said:

That's amazing mate. I'll be !!!!!! lucky if I own my home outright at 65. We started sorting our personal finances out at about the same time, you've got your head screwed on and smashed it, I got another i/o mortgage lol. Seriously you should be proud of yourselves.

We didn't exactly stretch ourselves buying this house though! 

We did have the discussion the other day about whether we would move and we came to the conclusion that if we did move to a bigger house we wold only end up downsizing again to something similar to what we have now. So we may as well cut the middle house out and just stay where we are.

It is a nice size to look after both now and when we get a bit older.

RelievedSheff

Tuesday already.

The dog is at the vets tonight for his annual check up and vaccinations. He will not be happy about that.

Breakfast and lunch are from stores today. Breakfast was cereals and we have both taken our packed lunches to work, salad boxes for me still. Dinner tonight is a KFC as a treat to the dog if he is a good boy at the vets. Not had a KFC for ages so looking forward to that.

Tonight's jobs are:

• walking the dog
• taking the dog to the vets

alt80

@RelievedSheff I would have never said this a few years ago but even though it's not what I've done and tbf I'd make the same decision again, I see your logic in not stretching for property. Especially as you seem happy where you are - why kill yourself for it iyswiacf? An "upwards" move doesn't necessarily have to be bigger in size, could be location can see how where you are works for the van getaways though tbf, the road network is good there - why there's so many tin sheds in that part of the world. 

Hope the dog survived and is suitably stuffed with chicken ha. Last time I was in Worksop working we had a KFC lunch, newish units serving the sheds.

RelievedSheff

alt80 said:

@RelievedSheff I would have never said this a few years ago but even though it's not what I've done and tbf I'd make the same decision again, I see your logic in not stretching for property. Especially as you seem happy where you are - why kill yourself for it iyswiacf? An "upwards" move doesn't necessarily have to be bigger in size, could be location can see how where you are works for the van getaways though tbf, the road network is good there - why there's so many tin sheds in that part of the world. 

Hope the dog survived and is suitably stuffed with chicken ha. Last time I was in Worksop working we had a KFC lunch, newish units serving the sheds.

I don't think we would move location now unless something drastic changes in the area. We really like it where we are, it's a convenient commuter town with countryside on the doorstep. Suits us just fine. 

Dog survived the vets. He is never keen on going but he was at least a good boy this time.

RelievedSheff

Midweek already. The countdown to the long weekend has started.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are from stores today. Breakfast was toast, we have both taken our packed lunches to work and dinner tonight is hot and spicy sausages from the farm shop with some garlic and herb mash and some greens.

Tonight's jobs are:

• walking the dog
• cleaning the kitchen
• weigh in Wednesday

The weather is a bit grim today. We were both woken up in the early hours by very heavy rain outside. Looks like it is set in for the day today. At least I have an office day today.

RelievedSheff

A half pound loss this week which I'm happy with considering we had a meal out at the weekend and a takeaway yesterday. 

Expect it will be a gain again next week after the long bank holiday weekend!

milann

Glad the dog survived the vet. Funny how they can always tell when they’re going there. We used to park in different places and walk from different directions ut the dogs always knew and put the anchors on 😂😂😂