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Getting FIREd up 😀
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Personally, I think we fall under the 'at home with family'. We're all one big, seen as weird by other people for wanting to pay off our mortgages early, family 😂Mortgage Balance as of September 2025 £11,700
Starting Mortgage Balance (June 2019) £72,000.
Aiming to be mortgage free by my 40th birthday, June 2026!4 -
Oh, I love the idea of the MFW family 🥰🥰🥰!
* Scuttles off to ponder what my role in the family is *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!!!3 -
Crazy aunt, obviously 😛😂South_coast said:Oh, I love the idea of the MFW family 🥰🥰🥰!
* Scuttles off to ponder what my role in the family is *Mortgage Balance as of September 2025 £11,700
Starting Mortgage Balance (June 2019) £72,000.
Aiming to be mortgage free by my 40th birthday, June 2026!4 -
But inspiring aunt 😉Jessy103 said:
Crazy aunt, obviously 😛😂South_coast said:Oh, I love the idea of the MFW family 🥰🥰🥰!
* Scuttles off to ponder what my role in the family is *Fashion on a ration 2025 0/66 coupons spent
79.5 coupons rolled over 4/75.5 coupons spent - using for secondhand purchases
One income, home educating family3 -
I was going for the headstrong toddler that does things their way regardless of what they're told 🤣!
In other news, whhhaaaaaat???
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!!!4 -
Investor in what?5
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Honestly, who thinks these questions up?! Who cares/why would they eat a certain thing/as Greenbee says, what sort of investor?!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 Hemingway4 -
As an investor (shaddup I've got a pension it counts) I'm going with "all of the above, great, what's for pudding?"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 20256 -
I reckon a cryptoboy would eat steak when Bitcoin is up and then not a lot when they've lost everything (again). Don't worry though, they'll still tell you "I'm still early" and " it's going to the moon"3
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There were also questions about what they might wear etc.... It felt like they were trying to structure the questions so that they got the answer that investing is scary and only expert stockbroker types would dare to do it or you'll lose all your money. Whereas actually some better education and understanding around investing would be super useful for the 99% of the population that doesn't hang around on MSE. As MB says, a pension is an investment, so lots of people are already doing it whilst simultaneously not realising that they are doing it and also thinking it's terrifying.
I also think they didn't actually understand what investing is. See Exhibit A:
Er, no, one is investing, the other is a savings account....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!!!5
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