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Getting FIREd up 😀

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  • South_coast
    South_coast Posts: 5,905 Forumite
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    edited 28 June 2023 at 12:37PM
    Yes, I always like to have a cash-out "in hand" as well. Always very annoying when something of a high value gets approved when I'm already close and I get something like £8.50 and am only left with 90p pending 🤣!
    Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
    Cleared 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
    Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed

    Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!
  • South_coast
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    The interest rate on my instant access savings has been increased by 0.5%. That's another 11p per day into the pot 😀🤣!
    Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
    Cleared 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
    Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed

    Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!
  • South_coast
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    Correction - just been paid, so more into savings. 14p per day!
    Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
    Cleared 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
    Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed

    Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!
  • QueenJess
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    Don’t spend it all at once!
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  • South_coast
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    Spend it??? It will be going towards one of my extra £50s 😀😀😀!
    Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
    Cleared 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
    Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed

    Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!
  • South_coast
    South_coast Posts: 5,905 Forumite
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    🤷‍♀️        
    Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
    Cleared 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
    Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed

    Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!
  • QueenJess
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    🤷‍♀️        
    That’s easy… 0 hours!
    2025 decluttering: 4,022 🌟🥉🌟💐🏅🏅🌟🥈🏅🌟🏅💐💎🌟🏅🏆🌟🏅🌟
    2025 use up challenge: 345🥉🥈🥇💎🏆
    Big kitchen declutter challenge 115/150
    2025 decluttering goals I Use up Challenge: 🥉365 🥈750 🥇1,000 💎2,000 🏆 3,000 👑 8,000 I 🥉12 🥈26 🥇52 💎 100 🏆 250 👑 500
  • South_coast
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    Mine was even easier: "I don't use social media" 🤣

    One of the options was 10+ hours - there wouldn't be time for anything else! And I'd be starving hungry 😮!
    Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
    Cleared 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
    Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed

    Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!
  • South_coast
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    edited 1 July 2023 at 9:11AM

    First of the month round-up….

    So I've spent all month jotting down little notes of my financial successes ready for my monthly round-up, only to discover that the draft email I had it typed up in had gone blank overnight 🙁 So it's Google Docs all the way going forward now.

    From memory:

    • Started using the stooze cards

    • Did a £10k money transfer

    • Instant access savings rate went up

    • 3x extra £50s

    • Didn't buy cider

    There, that's much more succint than it would have been 🤣!

    11.79 years to go….

    Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
    Cleared 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
    Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed

    Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!
  • South_coast
    South_coast Posts: 5,905 Forumite
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    It also looks as though I might be on course for a very noteworthy landmark on 01/09 - but more on that closer to the time, before i jinx it 🤣!
    Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
    Cleared 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
    Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed

    Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!
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