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Ding! Ding! All change, please... (now replaced with new diary on MFW)

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  • Happy new home EH, peace and joy to you both there and everywhere. 
    Debt free May 2016... DFW#2 in progress
    Campervan paid off summer '21... MFW progress tbc
  • rtandon27
    rtandon27 Posts: 4,911 Forumite
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    EH - hope you are taking lots of breaks and not drowning in boxes & packing materials :smiley:
    4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)
    (With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)
    ...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)
    16 YEARS 9 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS
    Psst...I may have started a diary!
  • Guessing still no broadband, as predicted (along with better things to do with your time).

    Now you are in, please can I suggest you get a qualified sparks to do a full electricity safety check and give you a ten year certificate. We have to do it for (thatched property) insurance but having lived in a Heath Robinson wired house once, this is a good thing to put on your to-do (or ta-da and KC calls them) list!
    Save £12k in 2024 - #2 target is £5000 £5809.67 so far, just over 116%
    OS Grocery Challenge 2024[/url] 89.02% spent or £2670.67/£3,000 annual
    I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
    My old Debt Free Diary Get a grip Woman
    and my new diary is here
  • lucielle
    lucielle Posts: 11,115 Forumite
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    It sounds wonderful!!
    L
    Total Debt Dec 07 £59875.83 Overdrafts £2900,New Debt Figure ZERO !!!!!!:j 08/06/2013
    Lucielle's Daring Debt Free Journey
    DFD Before we Die!!!! Long Haul Supporter #124
  • Sounds amazing. Will be joining you on the new diary of adventure. 
    Making the debt go down and savings go up

    LBM 2015 - debt £57K / Now £32,190

    Mortgage Dec '24 £800 Officially ends 06/26 but will now be this month. 
    Total OPs 2022 - £240   2023 - £1976
    OPs so far in 2024 £12,093.47


    Challenges

    EF #68  £1035/£2000
    1p a Day '25 #12  £00/£667.  
    Christmas '25
     
    Make £5 a day Dec £0/£155   
    NSDs Dec 1/15

    My debt free diary...https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6396218/we-will-get-this-debt-d£own-the-savings-up


  • Off to join you on your new adventures!😀👍
    Finally Debt Free! - July 2016 🌟
    Finished Emergency Fund- £10,000 April 2017
    🌟
    RETIRED: MAY 2021!!!!😀🎆
    My diary: “Seasidegal's Scrimpy Retirement Diary!”
  • rtandon27
    rtandon27 Posts: 4,911 Forumite
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    oooooo - EH - thank-you for painting such a lovely picture of your new home!!!  Looking forward to your further adventures on whichever part of the forum you decide to "live" on!
    4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)
    (With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)
    ...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)
    16 YEARS 9 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS
    Psst...I may have started a diary!
  • What a gorgeous sounding home @EssexHebridean many congratulations
    Will head over to your shiny new diary now!
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