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Resourcefulness: The budgeter's friend

foxgloves · 2023-01-01 15:40:48

Happy New Year to readers old & new! Well, it's time for a new chapter. My old diary ("Put away your purse & become debt averse") achieved pretty much what I intended. I shared the story of how I got into debt at the age of 19 & stayed that way until a pretty enormous lightbulb pinged on during my early 40s, I've shared…

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KajiKita Posts: 9,366 Forumite

Today at 4:01PM

Awesome as ever 😊
I agree about the earrings btw. I don't sell stuff online (apart from a few household bits on FBMP- which reminds me, I have a butler's sink to get rid of!) and bronze earrings wouldn't strike me as being worth the hassle either.
KK

As at 15.01.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £222,084
- OPs to mortgage = £12,881 Estd. interest saved = £6,203 to date
c. 16 months reduction in term
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030

Read 9 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 27th January
Produce tracker: £36 of £400 in 2026

Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.
Watch your actions, they become your reality.
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