Aiming for Mortgage Free!

rugbymadfamily

Finally got new phone and mobile banking sorted. Phew! Did well on holiday and came in just over budget which was good. 

Made another OP on the mortgage today, £1,200 so was pleased with that. It's such a big amount of money...but is only 0.3% of the mortgage balance 😫 but every bit helps that's what I have to keep reminding myself! Be under £310k next month though which is another milestone so still on track to start with a 2 by the 31st Dec!

savingholmes

That's one huge mortgage. You are making great inroads though

rugbymadfamily

Yeah its fairly sizeable (does give me nightmares sometimes lol) given it's a modest 3 bed house....but we live in London so it's expensive. All the more reason to keep the OPs up so we can get it down to a more reasonable size just in case anything goes wrong!

Went to my new office for the first time this week which was very odd...not been in central London in forever. Nice space and well located, far too many tasty food and coffee places around though so am going to need to be disciplined with bringing my lunch!!

savingholmes

Hopefully you are well enough MSE trained now to be let out near the tasty food places. I must admit it is just as well I'm not near them as I would find them hard to resist too.

rugbymadfamily

That is definitely the plan, not to be tempted (well at least not too often!). Think will be in the office 2-3 days a week so think will do one bought yummy lunch a fortnight as my treat.

Am looking forward to the weekend, off to meet a friend who had a baby a few months ago that i havent met yet so picked up a few baby bits in M&S but got thoroughly confused by all the choice 😂 thankfully there was a lady there with her baby so she gave me some good advice on practical present choices!! 

Got some good cycling in this week and a run, got some more planned for the weekend which should be good.

South_coast

Ooh, helpful lady in the baby section sounds good! I'm dreadful with too much choice, you should see me in the wine aisle 🤣! And when looking at holidays 🤯🤯🤯!

savingholmes

Sounds like a positive trip and some things to look forward to

rugbymadfamily

South_coast said:

Ooh, helpful lady in the baby section sounds good! I'm dreadful with too much choice, you should see me in the wine aisle 🤣! And when looking at holidays 🤯🤯🤯!

Glad it's not just me lol, give me 3 options and I can make a decision....30 options and I just flap 😂

Had lovely baby cuddles, she's less than a month old so was very squishy and adorable!

Went out Fri night for my brothers birthday, he has expensive tastes so it was an expensive evening, enjoyable but definitely over priced drinks! Rest of weekend should be cheap so it all balances out I guess.

savingholmes

Babies are adorable... when you get to give them back LOL. 
Ouch to the expensive night out but after the year or so we've all had I suppose it balances out a little.

LadyWithAPlan

rugbymadfamily said:

Went to my new office for the first time this week which was very odd...not been in central London in forever. Nice space and well located, far too many tasty food and coffee places around though so am going to need to be disciplined with bringing my lunch!!

Have a look at TOO GOOD TO GO app when you are central - so many places doing offers on it every day