Powers’s mortgage free thread

powerspowers

Thanks but buy bit, it’s very  exciting!
some movement on house- finally sussed out the plan with the mortgage and just waiting on the valuation. Have also had a lot to do this week for both the sale and purchase. It definitely feels like progress today. Oh and still not spent anything other than fees for searches which was already set aside. 

powerspowers

Did a lot of house paperwork yesterday and sorted out the loft today so the feeling of house progress continues.  

2 spends this weekend-
£35 on birthday present for my other half. He has a late January birthday and I don’t forget it, I just don’t associate it with the same pay month as Christmas so always get taken by surprise!
Also spent £40 on seeds which seems excessive but I’m going to do the flowers for the wedding with them. We had a quote of £300 for all British flowers so I feel growing our own is MSE! Although fingers crossed we move in time to plant them, if not I will distribute to family to grow for us 😂 
so new balance after bills is £4.83 with 14 days to go 🤨and £38.49 on credit card

Viking_mfw

Good luck!

Mrs_Money_Penny

Good luck on your Mortgage free journey. Hope you have an exchange date soon. Do you have a wedding date or are you waiting for covid to come to an end? Will subscribe and cheer you on xx

powerspowers

Mrs_Money_Penny said:

Good luck on your Mortgage free journey. Hope you have an exchange date soon. Do you have a wedding date or are you waiting for covid to come to an end? Will subscribe and cheer you on xx

Thanks Mrs M!
wedding was supposed to be last September, rebooked for end of July so hope we will be okay. Even if not, I’ll enjoy the flowers 😂. We bought one of the page boys suits at the weekend off eBay, which seemed very money saving but probably not if we delay and he outgrows it! It’ll resell I’m sure. W e’ve been really lucky that we’ve only paid small deposits so can feel fairly philosophical about it x

powerspowers

No spend days continue, not counting the wedding suit as that was already budgeted for and OH has paid it! Still on £4 in the back account and pay day a week away 😬 
going to chase up solicitors, estate agents and mortgage people this week as it seems nothing has moved. Slowly slowly 🙄

powerspowers

Woohoo it’s payday on Monday! Going to carry on being frugal in Feb as know we will be spending a lot when we move. Our sale is going okay but purchase is worrying me, I just have a feeling that the vendor doesn’t really want to sell. There’s nothing else coming on the market either. We are prepared to go into rented rather then lose our buyer, but there isn’t a lot of rented about either and it’s eye watering expensive, much higher than our mortgage and would possibly need a storage unit as well 😱

SpendingPennies

House purchases can be so stressful. Hope it all goes well for you @powerspowers

powerspowers

So I’ve a run of managed 5 no spend days since payday 💪 
YBS have written to us to say they are reducing the mortgage payments cause of the overpayments we’ve made 🤔 I don’t think they get it 😂 The change is in April so hopefully will be in new house by then. 

I’m focussing on topping up our moving/ furniture pot rather than the mortgage at the moment. More so we don’t have to keep getting statements for the settlement amount! 

The sale is still going well but the purchase is so slow, still nothing from the sellers solicitors 😱 

try_harder

Well done on the NSDs ,i am trying to do the same but finding it very difficult