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  • You can do this, it’ll make life so much easier
    Mortgage at 01.01.14 £119,481.83:eek: today £0 Emergency fund £5.5/5.5k & £200/200 cash.:jWeight 24/02/19 14st 7lb now 12st determined to stop defining myself by my mistakes. Progress not perfection.:T100%through my 1% mortgage challenge. 100% through my pb challenge.
  • Thinking of you Foxand Flowers, really hoping this move comes off and is everything you need it to be xx
  • Buyer has transferred all the money. His solicitor is saying it is too late to exchange??? So worst comes to worst, it will be simultaneous exchange and completion tomorrow. 
    I just want to cry. 
    Or be sick.
    This time tomorrow it will be a distant memory. I hope. 
    ❀ total debt at LBM 01/2023: £47,178.76  ❀ debt at highest point: £51,062.14  
    ❁ currently - £24,950 ❁ emergency fund - £2,500 ❁ 
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    £1600+ made on vinted since 2023 ⚜
    we could get better, because we're not dead yet - frank turner.  ❧ 
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  • 4pm is the normal cut off.
    exchange and complete on same day will be fine x
    try and rest as you will need all your energy for moving tomorrow 
    x
  • slm6002
    slm6002 Posts: 4,377 Forumite
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    Very happy for you.  New start here you come :)

    Me, DD1 19, DS 17, DD2 14, Debt Free 04/18, Single Mum since 11/19
    Debt £2547.60 / £2547.60
  • Yayyyyyy 
    well done xx
  • foxgloves
    foxgloves Posts: 12,575 Forumite
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    Fab. This is an opportunity for a new start. Seize it with both hands! Wishing you all the very best.
    F x
    2025's challenges: 1) To fill our 10 Savings Pots to their healthiest level ever
    2) To read 100 books (36/100) 3) The Shrinking of Foxgloves 6.5kg/30kg

    "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards" (Soren Kirkegaard 1813-55)
  • SuzeQStan
    SuzeQStan Posts: 1,694 Forumite
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    That is brilliant news Fox - well done to you for sticking to your plan!

    I know it’s all so stressful but it’s also exciting 

    big hugs xx
    Lancashire
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    Mortgage freedom January 2024 - paid off 7 years early by making overpayments where we could.

  • Hi Fox, good luck for tomorrow the start of a new exciting chapter. Please keep in mind what other posters have said re hubby and keeping your money safe. Wishing much happiness for you in your new home x
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