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Hiya Julicorn!!#65 reporting my o/p of £565.64 for AugustWhich is very exciting to about 0.01% of the population, all of whom are on hereMonthly interest was £126.18which is £4.07 daily (going down 5p each month), and my mortgage balance is £81,999.99 as of just now.

4/10/25Three Years Mortgage Free Yay!
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#60 checking in with August’s overpayment of £500.
Thanks!
LWas MFW#60 - mortgage paid off December 20211 -
Sorry to be a pain Julicorn but could you take my July OP of £736.81 out so that the balance for July is 0.00? It’s too confusing for me so only going to include money actually overpaid,not money out it in a pot,in case I need to dip into it and my figures go all out of whack. I’m number #124
thanks so much!Mortgage free wannabe #124
Mortgage due to be cleared January 2036 / goal is 4/5/26 (40th birthday)
Starting balance £117000 November 2010
Balance as of 5/4/21(date decided I wanted to become mortgage free) £89426.62 / current balance £82000
Daily interest at January 2021 £4.76
Current daily interest £4.391 -
Evening
#93 with August overpayment of £100, 2021 total £890
Thank You
MFW2021 #93 - £330/£22001 -
#115 checking in with a £2000 payment, I’ve squirrelled away quite well of late 😺
thanks @julicorn xCurrent mortgage - £12000
aim to pay £6000 this year (mfw #20)
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#124 with £184.08 so far for august.
thanksMortgage free wannabe #124
Mortgage due to be cleared January 2036 / goal is 4/5/26 (40th birthday)
Starting balance £117000 November 2010
Balance as of 5/4/21(date decided I wanted to become mortgage free) £89426.62 / current balance £82000
Daily interest at January 2021 £4.76
Current daily interest £4.391 -
Hi Julicorn,
#19 checking in with a payment of £108 so that should bring me to a total of £2071.56 for the year 😆Mortgage so far: £31,630.01Aiming to be mortgage free by 20241 -
#20 reporting final total for July as £6,957.59
and August OP of last £980.24
Holiday fund went on an OP instead. Sad times… but it ups my OP by £22 a month by keeping my payment the same - every cloud…
total mortgage now sitting at £285k - slowly getting there….Mortgages Oct 2020: £308,283 Jul 2021 £286,600 October 2022 £253,456 MFW-22 #9 MFIT-T6 #351 -
Hi julicorn, #76 with £250 for August pleaseMFW 2021 #76 £5,145
MFW 2022 #27 £5,300
MFW 2023 #27 £2,000
MFW 2024 #27 £6,055
MFW 2025 #27 £3,600/£5,0001
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