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Learning to walk before I run
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Good luck!Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway5 -
Good luck today Ed 🤞🏻Emergency Fund goal - £1000/2000
Mortgage OP goal 2026 - £1200/£4500
Read 24 books this year 13/245 -
Good luck from a lurker on your thread.The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. (Abraham Lincoln)5
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Go and smash it, Ed 😀I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soulRepaid mtge early (orig 11/25) 01/09 £124616 01/11 £89873 01/13 £52546 01/15 £12133 07/15 £NILNet sales 2024: £20
2026 Declutter campaign awards 2x star5 -
You've got this!
Sending support across the ether!4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)(With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)Original End Date - Sept 2041 New projection - Dec 2039 (reduced by 21 months)4 -
Sending positive vibes for the interview today Ed x5
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🤞that interview goes well
love 🐞Declutter 984/2026
£62.30 saved by growing and eating my own 2026
books read 5 in 2026
£185 🥳 funpot
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Good luck Ed, you can do it! 💪4
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All good vibes from here too Ed!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Do come back and tell us how it went, even if you don't know the result straight away. We're all rooting for you!4 -
Good luck - it will be over before you know it.
Whatever the outcome, the learning from the preparation is never wasted.
Fingers crossed2017 - mortgage of £140,000 and interest rate of £10 a day
Feb 2021 mortgage of £103000
November 2021 mortgage of £93000
December 2022 mortgage of £79000
December 2023 mortgage of £73000
March 2024 mortgage of £70000
May 2024 mortgage of £68000
October 2024 mortgage of £65000
February 2025 mortgage of £63000
March 2025 mortgage of £45000 and interest of £6.07 per day
November 2025 mortgage of £41000 and interest of £5.62 per day
March 2026 mortgage of £38000 and interest of £5.22 per day6
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