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Final push .£50,000 in two years .Can i do it ?
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Fantastic - you certainly show us all how it's done.Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £171.3K Equity 36.55%
2) £2.6K Net savings after CCs 10/10/25
3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £30.9K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.25K) = 35.5/£127.5K target 27.8% 14/11/25
(If took bigger lump sum = 62K or 48.6%)
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 £5.1K updated 14/11/252 -
Thank you savingholmes for your encouragement ,you help to keep me motivated ..Everything is due as always to my wonderful husband who works seven days a week and to the very simple life we are living and to the fact we have taken every part of our budget down to the bone .2
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Hopefully it won't be necessary for him to work so hard for too much longer. You are doing your share with your part time job and ebaxingAchieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £171.3K Equity 36.55%
2) £2.6K Net savings after CCs 10/10/25
3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £30.9K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.25K) = 35.5/£127.5K target 27.8% 14/11/25
(If took bigger lump sum = 62K or 48.6%)
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 £5.1K updated 14/11/252 -
Thank you savingholmes.
Week 3 ..£500 into PBs .Total £1500..Selling numbers not so good this week .I am at just over £60 but i have today ,Sat and Sun to go so three more days ,i am hoping to get to the one hundred pounds mark so i need to think of something .Thinking cap on !!1 -
Good luck with listing the right thingsAchieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £171.3K Equity 36.55%
2) £2.6K Net savings after CCs 10/10/25
3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £30.9K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.25K) = 35.5/£127.5K target 27.8% 14/11/25
(If took bigger lump sum = 62K or 48.6%)
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 £5.1K updated 14/11/252 -
Thank you savingholmes , im just over three pounds away from the one hundred pounds mark2
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Week 3 numbers ..
Money saving in PBs for mortgage £500 ..Total £1500
Other savings £100 ..Total £600..I missed the hundred by three pounds but took it from another pot to make it up to the £100 ..
Very pleased with the first three weeks numbers ,all on target and the extra savings number is brilliant too...I think i will be over on my food budget this week as i had been eating up everything i had in the fridge ,freezer and cupboards so any extra i spend will have to come out of this weeks savings2 -
Great progress 👌Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £171.3K Equity 36.55%
2) £2.6K Net savings after CCs 10/10/25
3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £30.9K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.25K) = 35.5/£127.5K target 27.8% 14/11/25
(If took bigger lump sum = 62K or 48.6%)
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 £5.1K updated 14/11/252 -
Thank you savingholmes
Week 4 £500 in to PBs /Mortgage Total £2000
Other savings had £600 in it and this weeks savings were around £80 but i have paid some directly off the mortgage so now have .Total £400
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Wow, you're making great progress and definitely living up to your name, Try Harder.
What's MC money? Couldn't work that part out 🤔Completed on first home: 30 June 2022% of mortgage paid off: 5.34%
Mortgage outstanding: £68,499 £64,841.60
OPs made or saved (2022-23): £315.52
OPs made or saved (2023-24): £690.24
OPs made or saved (cumulative): £1,005.76 (1.47%)
Interest saved to date: £ *to add*
MF date: June 2056 October 2055
Daily interest costs: £3.10 £2.90 and a half pence (as of 12.02.2024)Emergency fund: £0Debt to DS: £10,000 £7,209.01. 27.91% repaid (DFD: Aug 2027 Nov 2030)
Debt to DP: £1,423.55 (this will increase until DS repaid)
Debt to non-profit: £4,500 £4,239. 5.8% repaidMFW diary: Starting afresh in paradise3
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