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  • savingholmes
    savingholmes Posts: 29,087 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Glad the garden is still paying dividends. My new apple trees didn't fruit this year. Maybe next year.
    Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
    1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £171.8K Equity 36.37%
    2) £2.6K Net savings after CCs 10/10/25
    3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £27.9K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.25K) = 34/£127.5K target 26.6% 10/10/25
    (If took bigger lump sum = 60.35K or 47.6%)
    4) FI Age 60 income target £17.1/30K 57% (if mortgage and debts repaid - need more otherwise) (If bigger lump sum £15.8/30K 52.67%)
    5) SIPP £5K updated 10/10/25
  • badmemory
    badmemory Posts: 10,058 Forumite
    Ninth Anniversary 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Oh dear oh dear!  I only discovered wordle a week or so ago.  My brain thanks you but my body is saying you still have a couple k steps to do.
  • If you're interested @milann

    https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html

    I scuppered myself and got it on four. Hadn't set it to 'hard setting' so they let me put in a letter where I knew it shouldn't be which baffled my wee brain!
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase

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