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An in-between phase

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  • lucielle
    lucielle Posts: 11,952 Forumite
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    That was a busy day!!

    L

    Total Debt Dec 07 £59875.83 Overdrafts £2900,New Debt Figure ZERO !!!!!!:j 08/06/2013
    Lucielle's Daring Debt Free Journey
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  • EssexHebridean
    EssexHebridean Posts: 26,219 Forumite
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    It really sounds as though things are ramping up now to finally getting yourselves moved in - and I am VERY excited on your behalf!

    🎉 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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  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 7,038 Forumite
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    Can you also be packing on my behalf @EssexHebridean 😂

  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 7,038 Forumite
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    Survey

    Half wussy situps

    Usuals

    Packing

    Steps dropping off shoes recycling, fabrics recycling, and charity shop bag

    Some COAs

    Steps dropping off another charity shop bag, getting beers with coop member voucher, and getting key cut

    More COAs and packing

    Steps getting a beer for us each using up loyalty points accrued in a local craft beer place

    More packing

    Going over to mum's for a veggie spag bol this evening 😊

  • Wanna_Bee_Free
    Wanna_Bee_Free Posts: 2,864 Forumite
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    I hope the spag bol and beer were nice. What's a COA? Well done on all that hard work. Just keep swimming. I hope you have lots of good news from all that chasing.

  • EssexHebridean
    EssexHebridean Posts: 26,219 Forumite
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    Look, it as less than 3 years ago that we moved and I am still having packing trauma flashbacks, so absolutely, categorically and definitively no! 😂

    Do you actually have to move everything on "moving day" or will you have some crossover?

    🎉 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
    SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculator
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  • lucielle
    lucielle Posts: 11,952 Forumite
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    COA is change of address, I think

    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
  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 7,038 Forumite
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    COA is indeed change of address. Santander absolutely doing my head in insisting I verify my identity before changing my address then their app being utterly unable to scan my passport.

    Every other bank it was a five second job but there always has to be some issue with Santander

    We need to move everything on moving day @EssexHebridean

  • KajiKita
    KajiKita Posts: 10,469 Forumite
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    When exactly is moving day ….??

    KK - holding poms-poms at the ready …

    As at 16.07.26:
    - When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £213,042
    - OPs to mortgage = £19,809 Estd. interest saved = £10,180 to date
    c. 16 months reduction in term
    Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030

    Read 53 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 27th July. 
    Produce tracker: £188 of £400 in 2026

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    Watch your words, they become your actions. 
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  • EssexHebridean
    EssexHebridean Posts: 26,219 Forumite
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    Sant were a PITA - ask whether you can go into a branch with ID docs with the new address and do it that way PiP - that as what I did in the end IIRC.

    🎉 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
    SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculator
    she/her
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