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An in-between phase

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  • How's the eye PiP? 
    🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
    Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
    Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
    £100k barrier broken 1/4/25
    Balance as at 31/08/25 = £ 95,450.00. Balance as at 31/12/25 = £ 91,100.00
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  • Sun_Addict
    Sun_Addict Posts: 25,678 Forumite
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    I had a really bad dose of eczema a few years ago that started off with me waking up with a random swollen eye. It spread all over my body and became infected so badly it was weeping pus and I ended up on antibiotics and steroids. Hopefully this isn’t the case with you. 
    I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping) -.literally have been run over by a bike, mobility scooter and a car - still here 💪
  • Vinted money, shares to usual pots
    Aim £538.29
    Got £138.29
    & £5

    Two surveys

    Updated vinted listings

    Finished a book, started two more

    Half hour carpet walk

    Er, that's it
  • Thanks for your glad tidings of comfort and joy @Sun_Addict 🤣……. you have me in stitches most of the time with your witty comments PIP 🤣🤣
  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 10,925 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Mortgage-free Glee!
    You are doing well on Minted
    Sorry about the allergic reaction 
    What you are reading two books at once when I am struggling to manage one...!
    If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them

    Emergency fund 1400/1000
    Buffer fund 100/100
    Debt Free (again) 25/07/2025
  • I'm technically reading six books at once @doingitanyway 😁
    But the two I started today were to have some variety, a murder mystery for some relief from economics reform!

    If you're struggling with your one, leave it for another time and pick up something you fancy at the moment 
  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 10,925 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Mortgage-free Glee!
    Six!!!?? 
    I think I will switch to non fiction...next year I want to read much, much more...
    If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them

    Emergency fund 1400/1000
    Buffer fund 100/100
    Debt Free (again) 25/07/2025
  • Thanks for your glad tidings of comfort and joy @Sun_Addict 🤣
    That (you two) made me proper laugh out loud!  :smiley:
    Debts                04/01/25       01/06/26  
    Natwest X2        £14,122.71     - 
    Barclaycard        -                    £9,800
    Lloyds CC          £6,112.60      £3,795
    1st Direct CC     £176.03         £0
    CC total             £20,411.34    £13,595
    OD                     £1100            £0
    Car loan             £4,000          £3,200
    1st Direct Loan  £10,684.44    £6,110
    Total                  £36,195.78    £22,905
    EF £2,100
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