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Mortgage free in Forever Home :-)
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Summer sends lots of love & snuggles. Time to chill & decompress.I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.
Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.5 -
It’s done now, just give yourself time and you will be fine. Glad so many people showed how much you meant to them and that you were valued 🌸Mortgage OP 2025 £6200/7000Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000
Mortgage balance: £36,255
Money making challenge £0/400
”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)2 -
Oh @beanielou 😱 Your Summer is magnificent 😍😍😍😍4/10/22One Year Mortgage Free Yay!
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******PROUD MEMBER OF THE TOFU EATING COALITION OF CHAOS !!!******3 -
How you bring yourself back up is with sleep, sleep, sleep. Let your mind and body, process and recover.
It is proper autumn tomorrow so embrace the hygge and read under a blanket with ample biscuits (in between sleeps).
Bloody well done you gal, you made it through and you made it out!2 -
Big hugs to you, well done for making it through with your head held high xxx1
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Sending more hugs too. What an emotional day. Lovely to read how much your team appreciated you.Now rest and be very kind to yourself. It’s been a traumatic few weeks which in itself is exhausting. This too will pass.2
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beanielou said:Summer sends lots of love & snuggles. Time to chill & decompress.
Time for healing @KajiKita, the next part of your life begins and we will be here to support you (even if it is virtually)"Think of many things, do one"
Mortgage 30 Jul'25 est. £209,749 £309,749 (aiming for sub-£200k next)
Seven Goals; 12.5lbs lost in 4 months (5.5lbs to go); walk/run/exercising/weights/yoga2 -
Hope you have had a nice long sleep?
it took me a few weeks to stop feeling vaguely guilty about the things I hadn't done, and what was happening to my team.My mortgage free diary: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6498069/whoops-here-comes-the-cheese
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Thanks once again all 😊
@f0xh0les, funnily enough I was thinking about my reading target as I was driving home yesterday …. 😉 That, along with shoulder physio and various other things I was doing for myself, have fallen by the wayside in recent months. Time to gradually pick them up again. 😊
@redofromstart, I didn’t sleep that well but that’s to be expected I think. Woke at 5.30am on automatic, used the loo in the dark and snuggled down again to listen to the rain …. Didn’t think I would sleep again but I must have dosed off as my light alarm woke me at 7am (in time to see Mr KK before he went out to work 😊❤️). I’m not feeling guilty interestingly, but my head is still full of work. It will gradually get overwritten … 😊Theoretically there is someone coming today to start the external rendering but the weather is so awful I’m kind of hoping he doesn’t …. It would be lovely to just have some ‘no people’ time!Little cats have burnt themselves out with play fighting etc, so all is quiet here. George has gone out in the rain again and Chloe is curled up in Mr KK’s seat next to me.No great plans for today. I do want to do some (gentle!) yoga and my shoulder physio. I might get some of the lettuces in the ground in the greenhouse and repot the office cacti, but that’s about the limit of my ambitions! 😊
KKAs at 15.07.25:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £233,521
- OPs to mortgage = £11,816 Interest saved £5,28 to date
Fixed rate 3.85% ends January 2030
Read 40 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 29th July
Produce tracker: £243 of £300 in 2025
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.10 -
Hope you slept well. Now is the time for rest, that is all. Rest. Recuperation. The start of Autumn and the start of a new chapter for you.Made it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became
In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!3
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