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Getting FIREd up 😀
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Blimey, that looks hardcore 😮! Good luck with it, you'll have to report back!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!!!2 -
Right, time for the final review of the year (I don't seem to be able to quote properly any more 🤷♀️? And don't get me started on the line spacing and why things I want in bold or italics keep going back to normal 😡!)South_coast said:2022 the year of happiness....* Get out and explore somewhere new once a month - Well I didn't manage every month, but I probably saw more new places than I would have done if I hadn't been paying attention to it* Try out a new recipe once a month - Again, I don't think I got to 12 overall (nearly though), but I've found some different things to eat and that was the point of the exercise* Try to be more upbeat and positive - It's been tricky, but I have probably managed a slight improvement overall 🤣!* Try and have a couple of little trips away, one UK, one Europe - I never made it abroad (hopefully early next year), but I did have a UK break and have also got one booked for next yearSundry....* Write a will - I've just been trying to do this and have had to give it up. It turns out the online options are only really good for if you want to leave a fixed proportion of your overall Estate to someone, or a set sum of money, whereas I want to say "That account goes to them" and "That goes to them". It's not straightforward to split the property and the cash. I could have specified an amount of cash, but I'm hoping by the time I go there will be a lot more than there is now! So this one is still ongoing 🤦♀️ I was so determined to get it done by the end of the year!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 -
Grrr, you will have to imagine the bold and italics!!!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!!!2 -
In other news, tonight's Cracker is brought to you by a young John Simm....😀
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 -
I’m impressed you stuck with free Duo for so long - after they made it much slower to regain lives I found it awful. Super is a game changer!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 Hemingway3 -
Wow… he looks so different! Not sure if I would have recognised him.2025 decluttering: 4,019 🌟🥉🌟💐🏅🏅🌟🥈🏅🌟🏅💐💎🌟🏅🏆🌟🏅🌟
2025 use up challenge: 345🥉🥈🥇💎🏆
Big kitchen declutter challenge 114/150
2025 decluttering goals I Use up Challenge: 🥉365 🥈750 🥇1,000 💎2,000 🏆 3,000 👑 8,000 I 🥉12 🥈26 🥇52 💎 100 🏆 250 👑 5002 -
Vix, it was trying to get to Legendary status I was really stuck on. Unless you've got thousands of gems built up, you very quickly run out at a 100 buy-in per attempt, and once you get to that point there's not much else you can do, other than repeated 5 XP practices and waiting for free chests to appear so you can watch an ad for some more gems 🤦♀️I did have to Google him, Jess! I had that nagging "I'm sure he looks familiar 🤔" feeling and then couldn't help myself! Denzil from Only Fools.... was in it as well, recognised him straight away though (plus a man who has been in both Midsomer Murders and Vera 🤣)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 -
You're like the live version of IMDB, SC 😂Mortgage Balance as of July 2025 £14,900.
Starting Mortgage Balance (June 2019) £72,000.
Aiming to be mortgage free by my 40th birthday, June 2026!6 -
Ha ha, I love 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!!!3 -
So, one day in, my Super upgrade is paying off!
(Although being off work also helps considerably 🤣!)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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