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Getting FIREd up 😀

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  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 14,743 Forumite
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    I dinna have a fire 🤣

  • South_coast
    South_coast Posts: 6,663 Forumite
    Sixth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic

    You mean you're splashing out on central heating??? Now that might be a sackable offence 🤣🤣🤣

    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: 6,663 Forumite
    Sixth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic

    My LISA money is still in two places at once 🤦‍♀️! Why is it taking so long???

    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!!!
  • Merlin's_Beard
    Merlin's_Beard Posts: 1,816 Forumite
    Ninth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper

    Most important question is that two sets of gains for the price of one (I suspect with great sadness not)

    Start mortgage date: August 2022; Start mortgage amount: £240,999; Original mortgage free date: August 2056
    Current mortgage amount: £224,460.73
    Start student loan 2012: £29,750; current student loan: CLEARED July 2025
    Unread owned books Jan 2026: 256
    Undone crafts 2026: +1
  • South_coast
    South_coast Posts: 6,663 Forumite
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    No, sadly! It's one set of money doing absolutely nothing 🙁

    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: 6,663 Forumite
    Sixth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic

    I inadvertently picked up a towel this morning that BF had previously used for the dogs. Nothing like stepping out of the shower and immediately covering yourself in dog hair 🤦‍♀️

    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!!!
  • Jessy103
    Jessy103 Posts: 2,806 Forumite
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    This is my life 🤣🤣🤣

    I must stress we do have our own towels and don't share with the dogs but there's just dog hair everywhere, all of the time 🤣

    I've been mortgage free once, so let's do it again!
    Starting balance March 26 £191,274.53
  • themadvix
    themadvix Posts: 9,757 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! Photogenic

    Ditto, replacing dog with cat (our cats have extremely fine hair too, so it’s impossible to to de-fur things).

    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


  • South_coast
    South_coast Posts: 6,663 Forumite
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    Just been confronted with something I'd forgotten I'd done and actually said out loud "That was a good idea" 🤦‍♀️🤣

    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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