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  • Runders
    Runders Posts: 292 Forumite
    Sixth Anniversary 100 Posts
    Hello all - I've been AWOL but I have still been making my overpayments.

    #97
    March - £127.61
    April - £127.61
    May - £127.61
    June - £127.61
    July - £127.61

    I hope you are all doing well and thanks Julicorn!
    MFW Start:[STRIKE] Sep 2014 - £110,844[/STRIKE], July 2019 New Home £190,995 :eek:
    Current: £82,999.69, £190,972.18, £188,091.57, £180,026.25
    2021MFW #97 OP Goal £296.36/£3000
    2020MFW #97 OP Goal £3104.09.09/£3000
    2019MFW #109 OP Goal £1024.99/£1000
  • jennystarpepper
    jennystarpepper Posts: 828 Forumite
    Fifth Anniversary 500 Posts Name Dropper
    #16

    Fina ltotal for June £420.57.

    Many thanks Julicorn.
    MFW - 01.10.21 £63761   01.10.22 £50962   01.10.23 £39979   01.10.24 £27815. 01.01.25. £17538
    01.03.25 £14794.    01.04.25 £12888
    01.05.25. £11805. 12.05.25  £9997   05.06.25  £8898. 
     01.07.25. £7975  01.08.25 £6968 01.09.25 £5956. 01.10.25 £4979
    01.12.25 £2899

  • jackieblack
    jackieblack Posts: 10,599 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    #4 
    £120 OP for June please 🙂
    Thanks julicorn 
    Everything will be alright in the end so, if it’s not yet alright, it means it’s not yet the end
    Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur
  • ajmoney
    ajmoney Posts: 6,488 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    No 70 reporting an OP of £430 for July.  Thanks julicorn
    MFW 2025 No. 7 £2731.07/£2700
    MFiT-T7 No. 6 £5515.91/£30,000
  • ruby_eskimo
    ruby_eskimo Posts: 4,829 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Morning all.  New month and OP for July made so #77 reporting in with an OP of £157.61.  
    Emergency Fund - £8572.39 / £10,000 :: Mortgage OP 2025 - £
    LISA 24/25 - £3200 / £4000 :: NSD 2025 - 2 / 150 :: Books Read: 1 / 52 :: Decluttering - 4 / 1000
    Engaged 9th December 2010 :: Married 29th October 2015 :: Bought a House 13th January 2017
  • willowparrett
    willowparrett Posts: 59 Forumite
    Fourth Anniversary 10 Posts Name Dropper
    Morning Julicorn, #92 reporting my July OP of £417. 

    Total should be £2919/£5000

    Thanks as always, WPx
    Mortgage 1 (BTL) Jan '24 £102,500
    Mortgage 1 OP pot (July ‘22 - July ‘27) £7,300/£19,500
    Mortgage 2 (joint forever home) Jan '20 £244,500, Jan '21 £235,000, Jan '24 £202,000


  • Sandyra
    Sandyra Posts: 308 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 100 Posts Name Dropper Cashback Cashier
    #32 here with July OP of £868.40. Thanks julicorn 

    MFW 2026 #32 £XXXX/£6,000; MFW 2025 #32 £8,673.16/£3,000; MFW 2024 #32 £4,217.84/£3,000; MFW 2023 #32 £5,238.84/£4,000; MFW 2022 #32 £8,246.43/£8,000; MFW 2021 #32 £8,982.73/£8,000; MFW 2020 #32 £12,000/£6,000

    Save £12k in 2026 #32 £XXXX/£18,000; Save £12k in 2025 #48 £20,000/£14,000; Save £12k in 2024 #26 £13,055.37/£6,000; Save £12k in 2023 #31 £11,500/£6,000; Save £12k in 2022 #32 £7,180.24/£7,000; Save £12k in 2021 #32 £9,500/£8,000; Save £12k in 2020 #147 £9,370/£8,000

  • f0xh0les
    f0xh0les Posts: 7,768 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! Photogenic
    #65 reporting July o/p of £564.04
    Daily interest of £4.11 (aim to be below £4.00 a day before December)
    Down to £82,999.99  (want to be at £80k before December)
    4/10/25Three Years Mortgage Free Yay!
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    No Turtle gets left behind.[/b]
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  • Lee-10
    Lee-10 Posts: 56 Forumite
    Ninth Anniversary 10 Posts Combo Breaker
    Evening, 

    #93 With July O/P of £100, 2021 Total £790

    Thanks
    MFW2021 #93 - £330/£2200
  • miss_undastood
    miss_undastood Posts: 236 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Hi. #20 here. How are we in July already?

    mortgage payment flew out today with our £957.59 overpayment (we upped it by £200pm last month). 

    Really starting to see the balance dropping down and are comfortably under 300k now. 
    Mortgages Oct 2020: £308,283 Jul 2021 £286,600 October 2022 £253,456 MFW-22 #9 MFIT-T6 #35
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