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  • Chrystal
    Chrystal Posts: 2,005 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Glad you got the tech frog sorted out.  I really, really need one of those kind robots now so if you find one will you send me the direction???   Please! XX
    Hope your break gives you some well needed respite and you come back feeling refreshed. 
    One day you'll look back on all this and think 'how the hell did I get through all that', but the lovely thing is that you will get through it, and things will fall into place.  (((hugs))) XX
    I Believe.....
    That it isn't always enough, to be forgiven by others.
    Sometimes, you have to learn to forgive yourself.

    Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery
    Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.

    happiness isn't achieved by getting extra things,
    but by getting rid of the things that make you unhappy
  • jwil
    jwil Posts: 22,243 Forumite
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    Well done on tackling all those frogs.
    "Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee
  • Eek sounds like a frog massacre in your neck of the woods. 
    Maybe you could try kissing one, see what happens 🤣🤣🤣
  • mark55man
    mark55man Posts: 8,221 Forumite
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    *like magic*  - nothing happened - sorry DIA, maybe just find a frog you can live with
    I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
    Drinking milk shakes, cold and long
    Smiling and waving and looking so fine
  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 10,183 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Mortgage-free Glee!
    edited 23 September 2023 at 10:08AM
    Thanks @savingholmes @jwil @WelshmansDaughter @mark55man :)

    Chrystal said:
    Glad you got the tech frog sorted out.  I really, really need one of those kind robots now so if you find one will you send me the direction???   Please! XX
    Hope your break gives you some well needed respite and you come back feeling refreshed. 
    One day you'll look back on all this and think 'how the hell did I get through all that', but the lovely thing is that you will get through it, and things will fall into place.  (((hugs))) XX
    And thank you  @Chrystal for your especially comforting post X
    If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them

    Emergency fund 800/1000
    Buffer fund 0/100
    Debt Free (again) 25/072025
  • savingholmes
    savingholmes Posts: 29,049 Forumite
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    Good luck with the frogs. 
    Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
    1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £172.5K Equity 36.11%
    2) £1.8K Net savings after CCs 13/9/25
    3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £26.8K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.2K) = 32.6/£127.5K target 25.6% 13/9/25
    (If took bigger lump sum = 54.5K or 42.7%)
    4) FI Age 60 income target £17.1/30K 57% (if mortgage and debts repaid - need more otherwise)
    (If bigger lump sum £15.8/30K 52.67%)
    5) SIPP £4.8K updated 13/9/25
  • Glad to hear that opportunities are arising and creativity is flowing. We also added to pb on Friday to be entered into November.
    Mortgage at 01.01.14 £119,481.83:eek: today £0 Emergency fund £5.5/5.5k & £200/200 cash.:jWeight 24/02/19 14st 7lb now 12st determined to stop defining myself by my mistakes. Progress not perfection.:T100%through my 1% mortgage challenge. 100% through my pb challenge.
  • badmemory
    badmemory Posts: 9,872 Forumite
    Ninth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    I hate it when the 1st falls on a weekend.  Of to check when the results are out.  That's on the site where you don't need to log in just put in your holder number.
  • I use the prize checker app. Next results are 3rd Oct.  I normally check just after midnight ! 
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