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New year, new goal
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And you're already in 2026, so halfway there 😘!RS89 said:2026 is off to a reasonable startMortgage 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!!!1 -
Hit interesting milestone today. Our mortgage balance is the same today as the first ever mortgage we took out roughly15 years ago. Since then we borrowed (much) more and moved house.At the time the number was very daunting. How time and perspective changes things…
Other updates
- Partners job is safe! 🙂
- council tax up 5% 🤯
- DS2 needs glasses some special kind not NHS 😳
- went for lunch in London and it cost nearly £200 for a few tapas and wine… whhaattttttttt 🫣1
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