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  • You complete me is the perfect phrase to describe how I feel about YNAB. 
    Does that count ?? 
    AND I can stare at it for hours 
    DON'T BUY STUFF (from Frugalwoods)
    No seriously, just don’t buy things. 99% of our success with our savings rate is attributed to the fact that we don’t buy things... You can and should take advantage of discounts.... But at the end of the day, the only way to truly save money is to not buy stuff.    Money doesn’t walk out of your wallet on its own accord.
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6289577/future-proofing-my-life-deposit-saving-then-mfw-journey-in-under-13-years#latest
  • South_coast
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    Each to their own, LaPlan. At least it'll never dump you by text 👍😀!
    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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    News report on a sharp increase in gonorrhoea, syphilis and chlamydia while I was eating my dinner - even worse than the grim ways of hearing "I love you" 🤢🤦‍♀️!
    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!!!
  • News report on a sharp increase in gonorrhoea, syphilis and chlamydia while I was eating my dinner - even worse than the grim ways of hearing "I love you" 🤢🤦‍♀️!
    Maybe ILY bae is the done thing to soften the blow?!?!?
    Start mortgage date: August 2022; Start mortgage amount: £240,999; Original mortgage free date: August 2056
    Current mortgage amount: £226,957.97
    Start student loan 2012: £29,750; current student loan: CLEARED July 2025
  • South_coast
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    It would take more than that to distract me from that particular news 😮!
    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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    In other news, twice this weekend I have thought of things I'd like to buy from Wilko 🤦‍♀️ Why didn't I shop there more often when they were still there???

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2595abcvh2M

    More positively, definitely no need for a cooker hood this evening - it's so windy I just opened the windows a tiny bit and all steam was instantly whipped away!
    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!!!
  • I_Love_comps
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    I have enjoyed reading through your diary @South_coast.   I will enjoy reading your journey, as it continues.
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  • Each to their own, LaPlan. At least it'll never dump you by text 👍😀!
    LOL ;))

    Yes!!  and YNAB only costs $100 a year - forget JLo's 'Love dont cost a thing' - all those trains to see him got expensive and the extra food/bubbles  in my kitchen - if I had  ynab in my life last summer  YNAB would have made me dump him first ....
    Lessons learned ;) 
    DON'T BUY STUFF (from Frugalwoods)
    No seriously, just don’t buy things. 99% of our success with our savings rate is attributed to the fact that we don’t buy things... You can and should take advantage of discounts.... But at the end of the day, the only way to truly save money is to not buy stuff.    Money doesn’t walk out of your wallet on its own accord.
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6289577/future-proofing-my-life-deposit-saving-then-mfw-journey-in-under-13-years#latest
  • South_coast
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    Only if I didn't want to be invited to any more dinner parties 🤣!


    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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