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Five Year Fix, Five Year Plan

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  • South_coast
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    That's a cracking effort by Tuesday 👍

    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!!!
  • Merlin's_Beard
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    Okay door hooks won't get done because i managed to send them to work, alongside the vitamin D tablets that I remembered I ought to be taking over winter.

    But I have read through the photography lessons, and I have submitted the pitch for the short story anthology, which I'll find out about mid November.

    The outside stuff: it's still raining off and on. my lawn remains unmowed.

    I've started the new progesterone part of this increased dose, and it's giving me horrible insomnia - cannot get to sleep at all, and anxiety is spiking horribly. Apparently it's a paradoxical reaction that happens to 10% of people - will give it until the end of this cycle to see if it settles.

    Start mortgage date: August 2022; Start mortgage amount: £240,999; Original mortgage free date: August 2056
    Current mortgage amount: £224,460.73
    Start student loan 2012: £29,750; current student loan: CLEARED July 2025
    Unread owned books Jan 2026: 256
    Undone crafts 2026: +1
  • beanielou
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    Boo to the anxiety and sleep.

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