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A brand new chapter
billiepiper14
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Hi
On Friday I’m hoping to complete on my forever home. Not long out of a 20 year marriage & this is the first home I have ever purchased/lived in by myself. The fact that I was able to choose it myself and it ticked all my boxes was absolutely fantastic.
Im 51 & hoping to pay off my 65K mortgage by the time I’m 60. I may be able to draw a small chunk of pension at 55 to help me with this. I want to buy some kind of chart where the bricks on a house represent an amount of money & I colour a brick in every time I overpay on my mortgage. I also want to share with you & read about ways you are saving money, allowing you to over pay your mortgage. I’m hoping this will give me extra inspiration. Hope a few can join me 😊
BP xx
On Friday I’m hoping to complete on my forever home. Not long out of a 20 year marriage & this is the first home I have ever purchased/lived in by myself. The fact that I was able to choose it myself and it ticked all my boxes was absolutely fantastic.
Im 51 & hoping to pay off my 65K mortgage by the time I’m 60. I may be able to draw a small chunk of pension at 55 to help me with this. I want to buy some kind of chart where the bricks on a house represent an amount of money & I colour a brick in every time I overpay on my mortgage. I also want to share with you & read about ways you are saving money, allowing you to over pay your mortgage. I’m hoping this will give me extra inspiration. Hope a few can join me 😊
BP xx
On a mission to be mortgage free asap
Sept 2023 65,000, June 2024 61,992
Sept 2023 65,000, June 2024 61,992
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Good luck in your new home!!
How about using Lego bricks to create a 2D (or 3D if feeling creative) house that you can design with the right amount of bricks
Each brick can represent a sum of money off the mortgage2 -
Fantastic idea thankyoubluelad1927 said:Good luck in your new home!!
How about using Lego bricks to create a 2D (or 3D if feeling creative) house that you can design with the right amount of bricks
Each brick can represent a sum of money off the mortgageOn a mission to be mortgage free asap
Sept 2023 65,000, June 2024 61,9920 -
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One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.1 -
Finally managed to pay my 1st 2.5 bricks off due to having plenty of things that needed buying/doing in the house up to now.However I’ve hopefully done all the big spending so now I just need to get frugal so that I can make the biggest overpayments I can each monthOn a mission to be mortgage free asap
Sept 2023 65,000, June 2024 61,9921 -
Congrats on your new home and good luck on your journey 🙂Mortgage Balance as of September 2025 £11,700
Starting Mortgage Balance (June 2019) £72,000.
Aiming to be mortgage free by my 40th birthday, June 2026!1
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