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Mortgage free in Forever Home :-)
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Oh, the postcards in the job centre! That takes me back. Simpler times!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 -
Doesn't it just. As a student I got my summer jobs off those postcards!South_coast said:Oh, the postcards in the job centre! That takes me back. Simpler times!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 -
Massive congrats on the job front. The whole process of getting work is unnecessarily longwinded. Time to recover from the process and celebrate xMortgage at largest £280050 with MF date 2038 - currently £152700 #40 2026 challenge £600/£3500 paid1
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I too think the current JC system doesn't work. It is purely about checking whether or not you bothered applying for something and signing off interview expenses. I hope you claimed those?Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £167.4K Equity 38% 3/4/26
2) £2.5K Net savings after CCs 14/4/26 (but owed £1.1K) so £3.6K
3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £38.5K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.3K) = 44.4K of £127.5K target 34.8% 17/4/26 (If took bigger lump sum = 66.4K or 52%)
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 £5.3K updated 17/4/262 -
Interview expenses?? Nobody has mentioned those …?? Really?savingholmes said:I too think the current JC system doesn't work. It is purely about checking whether or not you bothered applying for something and signing off interview expenses. I hope you claimed those?
KKAs at 17.04.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £216,847
- OPs to mortgage = £17,793 Estd. interest saved = £9,021 to date
c. 16 months reduction in term
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 28 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 23rd April.
Produce tracker: £78 of £400 in 2026
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.0 -
You used to be able to claim x pence per mile. Worth investigating. I think I last signed on around 2009 though so very out of date.KajiKita said:
Interview expenses?? Nobody has mentioned those …?? Really?savingholmes said:I too think the current JC system doesn't work. It is purely about checking whether or not you bothered applying for something and signing off interview expenses. I hope you claimed those?
KKAchieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £167.4K Equity 38% 3/4/26
2) £2.5K Net savings after CCs 14/4/26 (but owed £1.1K) so £3.6K
3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £38.5K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.3K) = 44.4K of £127.5K target 34.8% 17/4/26 (If took bigger lump sum = 66.4K or 52%)
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 £5.3K updated 17/4/260 -
Just catching up KK 😁 hope you're feeling better now?
I remember the old postcards at the JC. I didn't mind going there back then. The last time I went was with my mum who was just turning 60 and she had just had a hip replacement - like weeks before. They demanded to know what she was doing about getting herself a job! I am glad I was there to put them straight .... She would have just sat and been told off!!
I couldn't actually believe my ears!
Emergency Fund goal - £1000/2000
Mortgage OP goal 2026 - £1200/£4500
Read 24 books this year 14/245 -
Thanks @debtfreewannabe321 😊
I seem to be a bit on edge …. Probably mild anxiety about starting the new job and the run up to Christmas ….
Had the first part of my induction yesterday - 2 hours, very thorough, rather dry …
Received an email from the lady I will be working with to say what I will be doing for the first two days whilst she is off, recovering from three, back to back assessment visits!Last session of cleaning done today - I looked around the house after I’d finished and I could see where I have been over the last three weeks. Hopefully that will set them up well with a ‘proper’ cleaner now 😉😊
Been doing the WFit workouts every day, sometimes two of them. Also been eating rather a lot so not expecting any loss this week, but a maintain would be good as I am feeling a bit fitter and my posture is improving, I think.
£50 win on the PBs - Mr KK has suggested some of it should be spent on a chip shop supper over Christmas! 😂😉❤️
Signed off JSA. Will get my last payment next week I think. That will help offset a small part of no pay over Christmas (no annual leave accrued yet), though they might pay me the BHs? 🤔
Saw my very serious gardening friend for a catch up and a brew this afternoon. She suffered a compressed vertebrae fracture in between her sholuder blades 3 weeks ago and is slowly recovering. I was talking about the Christmas chicken and reiki (dunno why I seem to be telling everyone about this! 😂) and she asked if I still did reiki for people. I said yes, she said would you give me some, I said yes, so I did 😊 It seemed to help the emotional side of things (I think it was pretty shocking and traumatic - she described how when it first happened she was checking whether or not she still had sensation in her arms and legs ….! 😳). She’d also got one of her gardeners to pot up some sections of gorgeous dark pink chrysanthemum and Japanese anemone plants that I’d had admired a few weeks ago 😊❤️🤩
KKAs at 17.04.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £216,847
- OPs to mortgage = £17,793 Estd. interest saved = £9,021 to date
c. 16 months reduction in term
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 28 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 23rd April.
Produce tracker: £78 of £400 in 2026
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.9 -
Aw, glad you could help your friend out.
Well done on all your doings, and hurrah for the PB win! Christmas chippie tea sounds a good idea 👍https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase/p1
'aggressive safety shot' Ken Doherty4 -
My vote is for chip supper also1
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