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  • South_coast
    South_coast Posts: 6,467 Forumite
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    Going to the dentist was cheering 🤔?

    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!!!
  • Oh dear 🤣 I’ve got the dentist tomorrow morning and it’s obviously on my mind 😆

    Debt at LBM (Dec 2018): £23,167
    Debt free Feb 2021
  • South_coast
    South_coast Posts: 6,467 Forumite
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    Well hopefully it will be cheering today instead 😀!

    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!!!
  • Dentist wasn’t exactly cheering, but is at least over with now 😅 I never used to mind going, but after a particularly brutal dentist a decade or so ago I get quite anxious about it now. Current dentist is lovely and very gentle (and also liberal with the anaesthetic which helps), but I still need to do a lot of box breathing to get through it all. On the plus side it’s an NHS dentist, which is a bit of a miracle in my area.

    A day after deciding to leave the kitchen till I found a colour I was happy with, I think I’ve found a colour that matches what I’m looking for. Paint testers seem to have rocketed in price since the last time I did this stuff. Probably for the best to make me narrow it down!

    Debt at LBM (Dec 2018): £23,167
    Debt free Feb 2021
  • savingholmes
    savingholmes Posts: 29,208 Forumite
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    Good luck with the paint choices.

    Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
    1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £167.4K Equity 38% 3/4/26
    2) £2.1K Net savings after CCs 14/5/26 (but owed £1.3K) so £3.4K
    3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £42.5K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.7K) = 48.8K of £127.5K target 38.3% 24/5/26 (If took bigger lump sum = 71.K or 55.9%)
    4) FI Age 60 income target min £17.1/30K 57% (may need more) If bigger lump sum £15.8/30K 52.67%
    5) SIPP £5.7K updated 29/5/26
  • greenbee
    greenbee Posts: 19,277 Forumite
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    There are so many colours to choose from… always takes me ages!

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