Learning to walk before I run

edinburgher · 2 August 2025 at 2:50PM

13,500 steps and I'm knackered. Went to the park this morning, cut down a tree, cut 80% of the grass, 4 loads of laundry done. No more good behaviour!

Mrs E took the girls out for a return to school/nursery haircut and while they both look fab (particularly DD1, who had more done and looks like a blimmin' model), £36 was more than I'd expected. Not that it's unreasonable, I'm £17 including a tip at my old man barber 🤷🏻‍♂️

Have a few £ to OP later, no real financial news otherwise, staying off the overtime as promised 😉

edinburgher · 2 August 2025 at 4:37PM

Whoop whoop! Our mortgage now starts with a 1! It's not even £199,000, it's £198,xxx

£6.98 OPed.

£5 sin tax paid into my SIPP (should be IRO £7.50 after tax relief/tax code adjustment next year etc.)

CCW007 · 2 August 2025 at 4:40PM

What a great milestone to pass!

KajiKita · 2 August 2025 at 4:50PM

Oh that’s fabulous 😊👏🎉🥳🎊

KK

greent · 2 August 2025 at 4:56PM

edinburgher said:

Whoop whoop! Our mortgage now starts with a 1! It's not even £199,000, it's £198,xxx

£6.98 OPed.

£5 sin tax paid into my SIPP (should be IRO £7.50 after tax relief/tax code adjustment next year etc.)

That's fantastic! 🥳👏👏👏

South_coast · 2 August 2025 at 5:37PM

Great news on the mortgage, Ed 😀!

P.S. My haircuts have somehow crept up to £58 (every 6 weeks 😳), so it could be worse!

rtandon27 · 2 August 2025 at 6:28PM

Dearest Ed - are you prepared for the cost of make-up and nail-polish? You might do better setting the overpayments aside in a vanity fund 🤣🤣🤣

Well done on bringing that mortgage number down - I love the snowball effect!