Pay off mortgage and start having even more fun 😁

skint_spice

So glad you are on the road to recovery! The new MF date sounds tantalisingly close now🎉🎉🎉

themadvix

Make sure you keep the bamboo in a pot! It will run rampant otherwise and can even damage your foundations! Hopefully the ‘sad’ plants will perk up with a bit of tlc (my mum loves a sad plant and will nurture it back to life but is hopeless at keeping healthy ones alive! 😂)

So glad to hear you’re feeling better and staying rehab. Hope specialist can sort out the erratic heartbeat.

Great news on the mortgage - sounds like DH has finally realised it’s close enough to touch and is fully with you on the home stretch 😊

South_coast

£100/month sounds nice and doable as an extra OP to find. Looking forward to hearing all your chopping and changing to find it 😀!

daisy_1571

Wow, what will we do with no ng plans and diary ?  

Daisy xxxx

CathT

You really are on the home stretch with the mortgage now. The rescued plants will be much happier now and the sun has finally decided to make an appearance! 

newgirly

Thanks guys 😊

The bamboo is in a pot as we have a paved garden, we should really build some sort of long trough to go along the fence and let it spread to block out the neighbours 😆

Dh does seem a lot more keen to get rid of the mortgage now it’s getting closer, although I’m a bit nervous that we are going to have different ideas about what to do with the extra, the worst thing is no plan! I certainly won’t be going anywhere or stopping my diary, we may well end up moving anyway or doing the house up so will have after the mortgage plans, you don’t get rid of me that easily 🤣

Well I’m embarrassed to write the next bit considering my frugal stretch until the end of the mortgage but no point in hiding it, I’ve booked another cruise 😬 It’s mine and best friends 50th next Jan/March/June and we have been discussing what mini break we will do for a very long time now, Best friend suggested a mini cruise, she wouldn’t mind trying one and her dh doesn’t fancy it and I think she was trying to be kind as I’m not keen on flying that much anyway let alone with things still up not right in the health department. I did say it’s next year I would hope I’ll be fine 😆

Long shot is, we are going on a cruise line I’ve never been on before whch is a bit more pricey, we have booked a cabin to share between the three of us and the extra drinks package (all have to have the same) so it’s an extortionate £993 each! and that was with voucher codes and discount for third person. The deposit was £75 which has come out of my personal spending pot and to be honest we will be mortgage free fingers crossed by the time I pay the balance, although I was thinking my vinted sales pot would be a good start towards saving for it as there’s £329.50, perhaps after this week I’ll restart selling again, it’s all be paused for a while. I do feel a bit relieved the holiday plans are sorted now as we have really struggled to decide for so long 😁

Dh is at work this morning so I’ll pop and see mum (if they pick me up) the Afib has come back in the last few days quite a bit and I’d not had it for weeks, so I’ve been trying to take it easy but really I’ve still been doing a lot more so today I will do! Next week I’m at hospital/rehab every day but one 😩 I  managed to find a stitch that had been left in a few days ago, though it was just not healed until best friend said don’t be daft that’s a stitch 😆 right on my neck as well (I try to not look closely at anything relating to the op!) low and behold a bit of black string was there, what an idiot….

Off to look at the finances now, will be back later 🙂

South_coast

Cruise sounds fantastic 👍👍👍 You're only 50 once, and your experience this year has shown you've got to enjoy life while you can, as you never know what's going to be around the next corner x

daisy_1571

Something lovely to look forward to and something positive to do with the extra money. 

Maybe for the first few months put the money away as normal, half to you, half to dh and it can sit in your personal spends for exactly this sort of thing.  Each of you can do whatever you want with it.  That way you both get to treat yourselves but within an agreed limit that doesn't affect what you decide to do in the future.   

Dxx

Jessy103

Exciting stuff, NG with the mortgage nearly gone and a cruise booked! Hope you're all recovered ASAP x

LadyWithAPlan

all good news over here - and I LOVE courgettes especially braised Never tried making soup but I do have some in and HM stock in freezer so I might try this week.

The cruise sounds fabulous and exactly what you should be doing for your 50th!