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Getting FIREd up 😀

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  • South_coast
    South_coast Posts: 5,897 Forumite
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    Lucky you, I've just had another 3 about it 🤦‍♀️

    I am such a Scrooge!
    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: 5,897 Forumite
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    In other news, I am definitely enjoying the end of stoozing and going back to my previous practice of paying what I've spent off the credit card after each transaction. There is something quite cleansing/calming/cathartic about seeing the money gone from my bank account and knowing "That's it, I've spent it, it's not mine any more so it's gone" (and not having to faff about with a spreadsheet every time) 👍
    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!!!
  • CCW007
    CCW007 Posts: 1,090 Forumite
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    I get this about stoozing.  When we had our offset mortgage and had about 9 card balances between us I was forever convinced I would miss a payment or the end of the 0% period. 

    We're at 5 I think at the moment and that's manageable but it would be a relief not to have to be so vigilant. (Not enough of a relief for me to stop stoozing, mind!)
  • South_coast
    South_coast Posts: 5,897 Forumite
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    Definitely don't stop, you're doing fabulously with it 👍! I'll probably have a look at it again once the tax year resets, but in the meantime I shall savour the simplicity (and bemoan the loss of the delightful monthly interest)!
    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: 5,897 Forumite
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    !!!!!! is a moss bowl 🤷‍♀️???

    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: 5,897 Forumite
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    And why am I not allowed to say !!!!!!???
    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!!!
  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 13,902 Forumite
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    Bowl with moss in it like a wee terrarium? 
  • I Googled it (am I still allowed to say "Google" 🤔?) It's literally a bowl of moss!

    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!!!
  • At those prices, I might pop out to the side garden and fill a few bowls to sell 🤔 
    Mortgage Free November 2018
    Early Retired June 2020
  • themadvix
    themadvix Posts: 8,789 Forumite
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    How bizarre!
    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 Hemingway


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