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Escape to the country & living off savings

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  • Skint_yet_Again
    Skint_yet_Again Posts: 8,649 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Hung up my suit! Mortgage-free Glee!
    Thanks Suze ❤️

    Manic organising this afternoon to arrange cousin with his van & trailer to remove last furniture from dads house at the weekend. Then I will ring council tax on Monday to advise them probate granted & house empty of furniture & up for sale. We get another 6 months exemption from paying after probate. If the house hasn’t sold by then we may be charged but I think at normal rate for 6 months while house being sold. Hopefully we will have an offer & all be done by then ! Otherwise I think it then goes to 200% 😰

    I will arrange a bulky item collection for 8 items £42. Bed (now in my kitchen) = 3 items, sofa & 2 chairs = 3 items, mattress in my shed = 1 and one half bed base =1. The other half bed base (in shed) can go in my skip when I get one after Christmas. 

    Feel exhausted 🥱 🫩😴


    0% credit card £1360 & 0% Car Loan £7500 ~ paid in full JAN 2020 = NOW DEBT FREE 🤗
    House sale OCT 2022 = NOW MORTGAGE FREE 🤗
    House purchase completed FEB 2023 🥳🍾 Left work. 🤗

    Retired at 55 & now living off the equity £10k a year (until pensions start at 60 & 67).

    Previous Savings diary https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5597938/get-a-grip/p1

    Living off savings diary
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6429003/escape-to-the-country-living-off-savings/p1
  • Tresinia511
    Tresinia511 Posts: 271 Forumite
    100 Posts First Anniversary Name Dropper
    Wow it never ends does it! But probate was super, super quick, they must have employed more staff!
  • Skint_yet_Again
    Skint_yet_Again Posts: 8,649 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Hung up my suit! Mortgage-free Glee!
    edited Today at 7:06AM
    I certainly did not expect it to be so quick Tresinia!!

    I am going to aquafit this morning. I did think about cancelling but I think it will do me good physically and mentally even if it is cold. 

    After I am going to meet up with niece and little lad for lunch. He always cheers me up 🥰 Then I’m off to my friends for a cuppa later this afternoon 

    It’s still dark and I’m still in bed but I’ve just heard my neighbour putting his bin out and I forgot to do mine last night. When I hear his car leave shortly I will nip out in my pj’s & dressing gown and wheel mine out. Hopefully no one will see me this early in the dark 🫣🤞😂
    0% credit card £1360 & 0% Car Loan £7500 ~ paid in full JAN 2020 = NOW DEBT FREE 🤗
    House sale OCT 2022 = NOW MORTGAGE FREE 🤗
    House purchase completed FEB 2023 🥳🍾 Left work. 🤗

    Retired at 55 & now living off the equity £10k a year (until pensions start at 60 & 67).

    Previous Savings diary https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5597938/get-a-grip/p1

    Living off savings diary
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6429003/escape-to-the-country-living-off-savings/p1
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